What is ill-considered and unprecedented is a pensioned official who, not content to follow the norm of most spooks - that is, relishing retirement, writing a book or two, giving the occasional interview from his garden, or West Point lecture, is more motivated to mount the public platform as a paid talking head. While waving his rather tarnished credentials card to demand access to ‘inside information’ he can further twist, as he did before Congress on more than one occasion, to cloak, excuse and obscure his own deceitful role in what has become a rather sordid affair.
What is ill-considered and unfortunate is that 12-ex intel officials can't spot the signs of subversive behavior over the last 4 years that jeopardized the entire electoral process of America. That they, too, are exes, is somehow reassuring to the American people.
Upon taking office, Bill Clinton fired all US attorneys, who serve at the pleasure of the president, and replaced them with his people. Not a peep from the press, and rightly so, it was all constitutional.
GWB did not follow suit upon taking office in 2001. And, yes, that was very stupid! But he was, after all, of the stupid party.
In 2006, he did fire some, but only 7 of the 93. And it became a HUGE scandal drummed up by the press.
So double standards are nothing new.
What is new is that GWB had only the Democrat Party and MSM working against him.
President Trump has that *plus* most of the stupid party establishment (GOPe) actively undermining him.
And so far, he's doing pretty damned well!
Very good posting! You nailed it about Obama firing so many military officers, revoking their SCs and replacing them with lots of pansies who support leftist and LGBT views.