These are critical posts in one of our most important intelligence organizations, vacated not because of misconduct or failure, but because of the whims of a political provocateur whose public record is filled with hate and conspiracies.
Warner discusses the impact of political pressures on intelligence positions.
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For him to be threatened, and literally, there was indication that they received the letter that if he didn't resign on a day last week, by five o'clock, all these cuts would take place.
This is just another example of the DNI trying to cook the books, rewrite history, and erode trust in the intelligence agencies she’s supposed to be leading.
When we start purging agents for doing their jobs, instead of toeing a partisan line, we weaken our defense against everything from violent crime to foreign threats, and that makes us all less safe.
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