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Former CIA officials worry Trump could politicize and weaponize intelligence agencies
NBC News ^ | Nov 8, 2024 | Dan De Luce

Posted on 11/08/2024 3:02:02 AM PST by McGruff

At the end of his first term in office, then-President Donald Trump sought to install Kash Patel, a hard-line MAGA loyalist, as deputy CIA director. But the head of the agency at the time, Gina Haspel, a career intelligence officer, threatened to resign in protest, and the appointment was scuttled.

Now, four years later, Patel is considered a possible pick for CIA director or another high-level national security post in a second Trump administration. And there likely will be no one to stand in his way this time.

Patel is one of several fiercely loyal political allies who President-elect Trump is considering to oversee the country’s national security. In his first term in office, Trump frequently clashed with his deputies and top officials, who he came to view as insufficiently loyal to his agenda.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cia; ciasedition; cnbc; dandeluce; enemieslist; enemyjournalist; ginahaspel; kashpatel; mediawingofthednc; msnbc; nbc; nobrainscollectively; notthebee; panicporn; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills
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1 posted on 11/08/2024 3:02:02 AM PST by McGruff
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To: McGruff

Do I laugh now or later?

Not the Bee...


2 posted on 11/08/2024 3:03:36 AM PST by EBH (America Blackmailed, The True Story of the World War...Coming Soon (1/21-))
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To: McGruff

The CIA is the deepest part of The Swamp.


3 posted on 11/08/2024 3:07:07 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money)
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To: McGruff

Project Projection proceeds apace.


4 posted on 11/08/2024 3:08:15 AM PST by FlipWilson
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To: McGruff

He should have let her resign.


5 posted on 11/08/2024 3:08:48 AM PST by RummyChick
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To: McGruff

Did they get 51 of their ilk to sign a statement to that effect?


6 posted on 11/08/2024 3:10:48 AM PST by Stosh
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To: McGruff

Perhaps they are really worried about the facts being unsealed on their book “How We Got Rid of Jack and Bobby”.


7 posted on 11/08/2024 3:13:23 AM PST by 230FMJ (From my cold, dead hands.)
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To: McGruff

Oh F them.


8 posted on 11/08/2024 3:15:35 AM PST by Williams (Let's Focus On Electing President Trump )
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To: McGruff

Do they mean to say they’re afraid they’ll be brought to justice? Filthy, lying, hypocrite, scumbags should be deported to Iran or North Korea or hell. I think hell would be appropriate.


9 posted on 11/08/2024 3:15:46 AM PST by Omnivore-Dan
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To: McGruff

You are worried because you have already done that and fear life imprisonment and possibly charges of treason!


10 posted on 11/08/2024 3:22:18 AM PST by Skwor
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To: McGruff

Talk about PROJECTION!


11 posted on 11/08/2024 3:23:16 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: RummyChick

GINA HASPEL SHOULD be in PRISON!


12 posted on 11/08/2024 3:24:37 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
Y'know, because Carter, Clinton, Obama, and Biden would never do that. /s
Kash Patel, a hard-line MAGA loyalist
vs
Gina Haspel, a career intelligence officer
NBC partisan media shills are scumbags.

13 posted on 11/08/2024 3:24:39 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: EBH

Foxes Worry New Administration May Secure Henhouse!


14 posted on 11/08/2024 3:25:39 AM PST by MMusson ( )
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To: Stosh

Vance said in his Rogan interview that those guys are losing their clearances. It should happen the afternoon of 1/20/25 to set the tone.


15 posted on 11/08/2024 3:26:26 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FlipWilson

Translation: don’t let Orange Man make us do our jobs!


16 posted on 11/08/2024 3:27:04 AM PST by rarestia (“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” -Hamilton)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

CIA, FBI, DOJ all need new leaders and frankly all new agents


17 posted on 11/08/2024 3:27:30 AM PST by albie (U)
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To: everyone
I wonder how many of them voted for Kamala.
18 posted on 11/08/2024 3:27:47 AM PST by McGruff (Making America Great Again)
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To: FreedomPoster
Vance said in his Rogan interview that those guys are losing their clearances. It should happen the afternoon of 1/20/25 to set the tone.

Sweet.

19 posted on 11/08/2024 3:31:14 AM PST by Lazamataz (The BEST birthday present I ever got WAS DONALD TRUMP WINNING IN 2024!!!)
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To: McGruff

The CIA is already ‘politically active extension of democrats’ how could Trump politicize what is already been political? The statement is absurd, and demonstrates complete ignorance of recent history and facts since at least 2015. If this is sincere, I feel the individuals are too misguided to work for government. If it’s deflection, or further political posturing, again to misguided to work for government.

Therefore, anyone working for the CIA and especially the FBI, that expresses these emotions should be immediately dismissed. It’s should be a litmus test.


20 posted on 11/08/2024 3:32:27 AM PST by Pete Dovgan
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