U.S. Intelligence Community Unsettled By President Trump's Appointment Of Rep. John Ratcliffe To The Office Of The Director Of National Intelligence

Politico: Trump's intel power play spooks the spooks

The CIA never welcomed its overlords in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. But now, the agency confronts its worst nightmare.

President Donald Trump’s nomination of Texas Rep. John Ratcliffe to serve as the nation’s intel chief has led to some apprehension within the intelligence community, which has only grudgingly come to accept the Office of the Director of National Intelligence as a force for good.

The office, established in 2004 to better coordinate the flow of information between agencies after the intelligence failures that led up to 9/11, has been most effective as a day-to-day manager focusing on bureaucratic and budgeting issues, intel veterans said — giving the agencies political top cover and more freedom to focus on their core missions.

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WNU Editor: Intelligence officials running to the Politico to whine that the White House is putting them under the microscope have no one else but themselves to blame. The article's praise of former DNI Director James Clapper is particularly glaring in view of how Clapper used his office to undermine President Trump before he was inaugurated by coordinating with former FBI Director Comey and former CIA Director Brennan on getting the Steele dossier story into the media.

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