WTF would they?
They got thru four years with a President that OPENLY favoring the Russian President OVER them….
Former top officials from Donald Trump’s administration are warning he is likely to use a second term to overhaul the nation’s spy agencies in a way that could lead to an unprecedented level of politicization of intelligence.
Trump, who already tried to revamp intelligence agencies during his first term, is likely to re-up those plans — and push even harder to replace people perceived as hostile to his political agenda with inexperienced loyalists, according to interviews with more than a dozen people who worked in his administration.
That could empower the former president’s top subordinates to shield him from information that doesn’t conform with his politics and even change the wording of assessments with which he disagrees, many said…
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Trump often publicly and behind the scenes calls into question the integrity of the agencies’ work.
Coats said Americans should look to one of Trump’s first public disavowals of intel findings for a sense of what’s to come.
In July 2018, Trump stood next to Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki and contradicted the U.S. assessment that Russia had interfered in the election, sending a shockwave through the nation’s intelligence agencies. Never before had a commander in chief so publicly delegitimized their work. A day later, Trump walked back his comments, saying he misspoke and that he supported his intelligence agencies….
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After Coats left office, Trump moved to install confidantes with little experience in intelligence work to top positions in the agencies. Former officials worry he will do the same if he wins in November.
“Trump intends to go after the intelligence community,” another former senior intelligence official said. “He started that process before and he’s going to do it again. Part of that process is to root out people and to punish people.”…
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