The United States intelligence community is hardly perfect, but it is an important tool for our government. It is populated by professionals who do a critically important job that is vital to the security of our country. Those professionals need to be allowed to provide the best possible intelligence to our political leaders. Information untainted by politics and uninhibited by political pressure. That's not the way things work in the "age of Trump's ignorance." Trump wants the intelligence to support his limited and horribly biased worldview. He had done huge damage to our country's ability to see the world and understand global events.
Trump’s actions, and the endless partisan battles over the Russia probe and impeachment, have left the intelligence community bruised and battered. Former Vice President Joe Biden’s advisers and allies in Congress are already thinking about what a heavy lift it will be to restore morale inside the agencies, legitimacy on Capitol Hill and public trust in the intelligence community’s leadership should Biden defeat Trump in November, according to more than a dozen people close to the candidate.
“This will be among the most important things a President Biden would need to do—and that he’ll want to do—immediately,” said Tony Blinken, who served as deputy secretary of state and deputy national security adviser under Barack Obama and is a top adviser to the Biden campaign. “I know from several conversations with him about this that he has deep concern about what has been done to the IC these last several years in terms of the politicization, and repairing that starts at the top with the president.”
Trump demands that the intelligence community validate his prejudices and ignorance. That's not the way things should work.
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