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Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Unprecedented

Today, former CIA Director John Brennan called the public policy disagreements of three Trump Administration security officials with Mr. Trump unprecedented.

That display of what Mr. Trump almost certainly considers disloyalty took place during a hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.  All of Dan Coats, Christopher Wray, and Gina Haspel took positions in clear contrast to Trumpian statements.  Those positions include:
  1. Coats warning that the United States should keep our eyes on ISIS, since that group is re-surging
  2. Wray pointing out that, because of the risk of cyber-attacks by foreign nationals, the FBI and its counter-terrorism arm now have difficulty identifying and recruiting informants
  3. Haspel confirming that, despite Mr. Trump's statements to the contrary, Iran appeared to be in full compliance with the agreement it had reached regarding refraining from developing a nuclear weapons .capability
The first thing that comes to mind is to wonder which of these three will be the first to be the target of a jeering, sneering Trump Tweet ...

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