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Trump puts DOJ on crash course with intelligence agencies
National security veterans fear a declassification order could trigger resignations and threaten the CIAs ability to conduct its core business managing secret intelligence and sources.
By NATASHA BERTRAND at Politico
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/24/trump-justice-department-intelligence-1344958
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President Donald Trumps declassification order Thursday night has set up a showdown between his own Justice Department and the intelligence community that could trigger resignations and threaten the CIAs ability to conduct its core business managing secret intelligence and sources.
Trumps order directed intelligence agencies to fully comply with Attorney General William Barrs look at surveillance activities during the 2016 election a probe that Trumps allies see as a necessary check on government overreach but that critics lambaste as an attempt to create the impression of scandal. Numerous former intelligence officials called the move unprecedented, saying it grants the attorney general sweeping powers over the nations secrets, subverts the intelligence community and raises troubling legal questions.
Theres nothing CIA or NSA, for example, guards more jealously than sources and methods, said Larry Pfeiffer, a 32-year intelligence veteran who served as the chief of staff to CIA Director Michael Hayden. It is not hyperbole to say that lives are at stake.
I doubt any of the [CIA directors] or [directors of national intelligence] that I worked with would have sat by silently if their president contemplated or made such a decision, added Pfeiffer, who also served as senior director of the White House Situation Room.
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Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Barr and t-rump on the other hand, no.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,096 posts)Response to applegrove (Original post)
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Phoenix61
(16,950 posts)and stay the course. The absolute worst thing would for any of them to resign. They are who is going to keep the rest of us safe.
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)He is a horrible disgusting semi human being who is trying his best to turn us into an Autocracy.
We mean, investigating the investigators? Buddying Up with dictators. And virtually all republicans in Congress follow him like meek sheep. Republicans who used to loath dictators.
Our long National Nightmare continues.