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Tulsi Gabbard’s tenure as director of national intelligence in the Trump administration may be facing a potential shake-up. Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic joined to discuss the future of the administration’s national-security complex.
Gabbard joined the Trump administration in a “MAGA wing of no war, no foreign intervention,” staff writer for The Atlantic Shane Harris said last night. But following the U.S. air strikes on Iran, Gabbard is trying very quickly “to get the intelligence in her statements” to “line up with the president’s political preferences,” Harris explained. “That is dangerous in the conduct of intelligence. That is what intelligence professionals try to avoid.” This is also the “politicization of intelligence,” he continued, “which is precisely what [Gabbard] said she was going to root out in the intelligence community.”
Joining the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, to discuss this and more: Shane Harris, a staff writer at The Atlantic; David Ignatius, a columnist for The Washington Post; Andrea Mitchell, the chief Washington and foreign-affairs correspondent at NBC News; and Ashley Parker, a staff writer at The Atlantic.
Watch the full episode here.
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