Philip Giraldi — Revolving Door: How Safety Clearances Perpetuate Top-Level Corruption Inward The United States

The employment arises when old officials piece of work their clearances equally bona fides to get upward their marketability for non-clearance jobs inwards the media or corporate world, peculiarly when those individuals are criticizing electrical flow authorities policies too behaving inwards a partisan mode regarding specific candidates for office. Donald Trump was especially assailed past times old officials John Brennan, James Clapper, Michael Hayden too Michael Morell earlier the 2016 election, all of whom expire along to onslaught him currently, most peculiarly for the recent coming together alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin. During the 2016 campaign, Morell, who openly supported Hillary Clinton too is the designated intelligence on-air contributor for CBS news, deliberately linked the fact that he was ex-CIA Acting Director to his assertion that Trump was somehow an “unwitting agent of the Russian Federation” to constitute his credibility. That type of action should live considered abusive too an exploitation of one’s old office.

Agree. It's a conflict of interest, unprofessional too unethical. Intelligence should never live politicized too at i time intelligence politicization is beingness normalized inwards the US.

And the revolving door is a cast of corruption. It needs to live locked near past times law.

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Revolving Door: How Security Clearances Perpetuate Top-Level Corruption inwards the United States

Philip Giraldi, old CIA counter-terrorism specialist too military machine intelligence officer, at i time Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest too founding fellow member of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity

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Kissinger was talking with Edward Luce of the Financial Times well-nigh the electrical flow US President: “I mean value Trump may live i of those figures inwards history who appears from fourth dimension to time, to grade the terminate of an era, too to strength it to compass upward its old pretences”. Later inwards the conversation, he qualifies this assessment past times adding, however: “It doesn’t necessarily hateful that he knows this, or that he is considering whatever peachy alternative. It could simply live an accident.”

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But Kissinger, who briefs both Trump too Putin, acre refuses to live drawn - to accept Luce’s bait. Rather, he says, matter-of-factly, that the Trump peak had to happen: “It was a coming together that had to accept place. I gain got advocated it for several years. It has been submerged past times American domestic issues. It is surely a missed opportunity. But I mean value i has to come upward dorsum to something.”

Why was the coming together too thence crucial? And what is ‘that something’, to which nosotros must “come back”? Luce dwells on Kissinger’s opaqueness of messaging too complains that it is difficult to discern the direction of his economical discourse. But inwards fact, Kissinger lays it all out clearly, too inwards acre catch – too that to which he is leading – is indeed, crucially important.…

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