Former CIA officials worry Trump could politicize and weaponize intelligence agencies

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-08 11:19:47 | Updated at 2024-11-08 14:56:36 3 hours ago

Former CIA officials worry Trump could politicize and weaponize intelligence agencies
NBC News ^ | Nov 8, 2024 | Dan De Luce

Posted on 11/08/2024 3:02:02 AM PST by McGruff

At the end of his first term in office, then-President Donald Trump sought to install Kash Patel, a hard-line MAGA loyalist, as deputy CIA director. But the head of the agency at the time, Gina Haspel, a career intelligence officer, threatened to resign in protest, and the appointment was scuttled.

Now, four years later, Patel is considered a possible pick for CIA director or another high-level national security post in a second Trump administration. And there likely will be no one to stand in his way this time.

Patel is one of several fiercely loyal political allies who President-elect Trump is considering to oversee the country’s national security. In his first term in office, Trump frequently clashed with his deputies and top officials, who he came to view as insufficiently loyal to his agenda.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cnbc; ginahaspel; kashpatel; mediawingofthednc; msnbc; nbc; nobrainscollectively; panicporn; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills

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1 posted on 11/08/2024 3:02:02 AM PST by McGruff

To: McGruff

Do I laugh now or later?

Not the Bee...

2 posted on 11/08/2024 3:03:36 AM PST by EBH (America Blackmailed, The True Story of the World War...Coming Soon (1/21-))

To: McGruff

The CIA is the deepest part of The Swamp.

3 posted on 11/08/2024 3:07:07 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money)

To: McGruff

Project Projection proceeds apace.

4 posted on 11/08/2024 3:08:15 AM PST by FlipWilson

To: McGruff

He should have let her resign.

5 posted on 11/08/2024 3:08:48 AM PST by RummyChick

To: McGruff

Did they get 51 of their ilk to sign a statement to that effect?

6 posted on 11/08/2024 3:10:48 AM PST by Stosh

To: McGruff

Perhaps they are really worried about the facts being unsealed on their book “How We Got Rid of Jack and Bobby”.

7 posted on 11/08/2024 3:13:23 AM PST by 230FMJ (From my cold, dead hands.)

To: McGruff

8 posted on 11/08/2024 3:15:35 AM PST by Williams (Let's Focus On Electing President Trump )

To: McGruff

Do they mean to say they’re afraid they’ll be brought to justice? Filthy, lying, hypocrite, scumbags should be deported to Iran or North Korea or hell. I think hell would be appropriate.

9 posted on 11/08/2024 3:15:46 AM PST by Omnivore-Dan

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