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Julian Sanchez
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If I understand this correctly, Trump’s defense of his foreign policy is that the US Intelligence Community is wrong about everything, but he knows the real score... somehow? Fox hosts, I guess?
God knows the IC gets it wrong on occasion—but why would anyone think it’s likely that Trump knows any better than they do? The only reason presidents have any special insight into foreign threats is... access to the IC.
Ironically, Trump seems determined to reproduce the conditions that often lead to the IC getting it wrong: extreme pressure to tailor intelligence concusions to match what’s politically expedient.
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This is exactly the argument for Senate confirmation Hamilton makes in the Federalist Papers: that it deters a president from filling important offices with “insignificant” and “pliant” people who will act as “obsequious instruments of his pleasure.”
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