Fox News Analyst Warns Trump Is 'Locking Down The Intelligence Community for His Purposes'

Newsweek ^ | July 29, 2019 | Jason Lemon

[2ndDivisionVet]

Mary Anne Marsh, a political analyst for Fox News, raised concerns on Monday that President Donald Trump appeared to be consolidating his control over the U.S. intelligence community with the nomination of GOP Representative John Ratcliffe to replace Dan Coats as director of national intelligence.

"It's more about protecting Trump than America," Marsh, who previously served as a senior adviser to Democratic Senator John Kerry, warned during a segment of Fox News' America's Newsroom on Monday. "John Ratcliffe has been all over the investigate the investigators [probe], who's doing that right now? [Attorney General] Bill Barr, so Donald Trump has consolidated his control over the intelligence committees at a time when he's given Barr unprecedented access and control over all the intelligence information, which we've never seen by an attorney general before," she said.

"Now he adds Ratcliffe," the analyst asserted. "So this is Trump locking down the intelligence community for his purposes, not national security purposes."

[liberalh8ter]

This is insulting. The Swamp has spent years looking for SOMETHING, anything, they could use against him. I think it’s safe to say he’s a law-abiding citizen. That’s a lot more than could be said about his predecessor.... on both counts.

[Dr.Deth]

I take this as good news, they’re having to rouse more and more of the sleepers.

[ManHunter]

I have no idea who this broad is, but she’s as full of $hit as a Christmas goose! “...Donald Trump has consolidated his control over the intelligence committees at a time when he’s given Barr unprecedented access and control over all the intelligence information, which we’ve never seen by an attorney general before.”

Just how has Trump consolidated control over the intelligence committees? The HPSCI is led by Adam Schiff, who is obviously a Trump sycophant - NOT! Richard Burr, a Republican and Chairman of the SSCI, is a fervent Never-Trumper, although he’s moderated his opposition of late - at least publicly.

Just for your information, you dumbass broad, the DOJ is a member of the IC - look it up - and the person who granted unprecedented access to ALL members of the IC was Barack friggin’ Obama, not Donald Trump!

And, as for the claim of this being unprecedented, the United States of America has never experienced a coup before either. Where the hell do the media find these morons anyway?