Highlights
- Abusing declassification to prove Trump’s conspiracies. Like clipping sentences from a report saying there is no Chinese election interference in order to support Trump.
- Using the CIA to tell Americans their votes were stolen
- He used the CIA on Ecuadorian fishing boats near the Galapagos islands.
- Authors argue that he is not actually an “adult in the room”, and is politicizing the CIA
The second part will never be abolished. Presidents need a way to advance national objectives while having deniability within and without.
Congress is of course failing to fucking check them on this. At best the Democrats can only send public letters expressing “severe concerns” about what they know.