National Review
Victor Davis Hanson
Jan. 19, 2017
Trump is acknowledging a fact that recent history has repeatedly demonstrated.Furor has arisen over President-elect Donald Trump’s charges that our intelligence agencies are politicized.
Spare us the outrage. For decades, directors of intelligence agencies have often quite inappropriately massaged their assessments to fit administration agendas.
Careerists at these agencies naturally want to continue working from one administration to the next in “the king is dead; long live the king!” style. So they make the necessary political adjustments, which are sometimes quite at odds with their own agency’s findings and to the detriment of national security. The result is often confusion — and misinformation passed off as authoritative intelligence.
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http://www.nationalreview.com/article/443978/donald-trump-intelligence-community-comments-recognize-agencies-politicization
