From left: FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testify on Capitol Hill in February, 2014. (Gary Cameron/Reuters)
Victor Davis Hanson, NRO: The Police Were Not Policed
How can Americans now trust the intelligence agencies shown to be corrupt in the very recent past?
No doubt Russia must be watched for its chronic efforts to sow more chaos in American elections — despite Barack Obama’s naïve assertion in 2016 that no entity could possibly ever rig a U.S. election, given the decentralization of state voting.
Lately the heads of four U.S. intelligence and security agencies — Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, FBI Director Chris Wray, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, National Security Agency Director Paul Nakasone, and National Security Adviser John Bolton — held coordinated White House press conferences to remind America of the dangers of Russian chicanery. Trump, who is prone to conflate documented Russian efforts to meddle and cause chaos with unproven accusations of Trump-Russia collusion, should heed their warnings and beef up U.S. counter-espionage efforts and cyber deterrence.
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WNU Editor: A good summary on the actions and unethical behavior of those who ran America's law enforcement and intelligence agencies during 2016 and at the start of the Trump administration. The sad part is that I cannot help but believe that this list compiled by Victor Davis Hanson is just the tip of the iceberg.
