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> the DNI is saying

While some early Senate-confirmed Trump appointees, including his first DNI Dan Coats, were not transparent bootlicking shills in all their public comments, that's certainly not the case for any appointed as recently as this spring, like Ratcliffe.

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Even if we take this accusation at face value, that still doesn’t explain the congresspersons assertion attributed to the intelligence community.

I'm saying that, whatever he and his subordinates do in classified briefings, his public statements may as well be from the White House Press Office, and are useful only as to what the Administration wants the public to perceive.

The DNI is a political appointee and this one in particular is highly politicized, his statements are partisan political statements intended to support the President and the GOP and are not necessarily representative of the views and analyses of career intelligence officers.

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