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The CIA’s Trump Challenge

Posted January 11th, 2017 at 1:17 pm (UTC-5)
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If the intelligence is sound, then everyone is entitled to articulate their own interpretation of the data. They are not, however, entitled to their own facts — even as they reserve the right to question the sources from which said facts are derived.

President-elect Trump, Trust Your Spies

Posted December 27th, 2016 at 11:47 am (UTC-5)
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The CIA and the myriad other agencies that should make the American President the world’s best-informed head of state cannot become scapegoats for any bad decisions or ill-conceived instincts. The consequences would be altogether catastrophic for his presidency and for the very security of the United States.