Mark Warner

I’ve been very amazed at the comments I’ve got from federal workers who are saying they’ve been terrorized enough, they want us to push back.

If analysts believe their careers will be destroyed for offering inconvenient assessments, then we will only get the intelligence the White House wants.

The safeguards we put in place, the oversight this body provides, only work if intelligence officers know that they can tell the truth without losing their jobs.

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.

If we let politics dictate what intelligence is acceptable, we are effectively flying blind.

For months now, we’ve watched President Trump’s administration, led in this arena by his hand-picked Director of National Intelligence, Ms. Gabbard, systematically undermine the men and women whose only mission is to keep this country safe.

This is the kind of thing that happens in authoritarian regimes.

No briefing on this?

My fear is, there are still international laws of the sea about how the process of interdicting these kind of boats.

I'm going to get those meetings held.

I have done these visits to our intel facilities for the 10 plus years I've either been Chair or Vice Chair of the Intelligence Committee.

No, I think that the BLS has been the gold standard for years, viewed not only in this country, but around the world.

Do you accept the fact that a million Americans died from COVID?

How the hell did this happen?

You purge your independent intelligence community and make them loyal not to a constitution but something else.

Is congressional oversight dead?

A nakedly political decision that undermines the dedicated, nonpartisan staff at NGA and threatens the principle of civilian oversight that protects our national security.

Blocking and setting arbitrary conditions on these sessions sets a dangerous precedent, calling into question whether oversight is now allowed only when it pleases the far-right fringe.

Let me be clear: I will never be deterred from carrying out my constitutional responsibilities.

When expertise is cast aside and intelligence is distorted or silenced, our adversaries gain the upper hand and America is left less safe.

That kind of honest, fact-based analysis is exactly what we should want from our intelligence agencies, regardless of whether it flatters the White House narrative.

General Kruse is a career military officer with decades of distinguished, non-partisan service to our nation, making this ouster all the more troubling.

That kind of honest, fact-based analysis is exactly what we should want from our intelligence agencies, regardless of whether it flatters the White House narrative.

General Kruse is a career military officer with decades of distinguished, non-partisan service to our nation, making this ouster all the more troubling.

The firing of yet another senior national security official underscores the Trump administration’s dangerous habit of treating intelligence as a loyalty test rather than a safeguard for our country.