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When director of @CIA @GenMhayden hosted an intelligence director from a developing nation at Colonial Williamsburg. We gave the visitor a guided tour of the colonial capital of Virginia./1
As we toured the Virginia House of Burgesses, colonial seat of government, the guest asked us why the wall around it was so low. How did they protect the government from the people? /2
The tour guide explained that our government even at its earliest was a government of the people—the leadership didn’t need to fear the people. The visitor shook his head in amazement. /3
Not even at the heights of our greatest political unrest, like the Civil War, Bonus Army encampments, the civil rights movement, or Vietnam War protests, has our President retreated behind such barricades. What are you afraid of, @realDonaldTrump? /4
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During my time at the White House Situation Room, it was normal practice for military officers to wear the more formal service uniforms when attending meetings there. They never would wear their less formal combat uniforms. /1
A search for images of Chm of the Joint Chiefs of Staff GEN Milley at the White House would suggest that this tradition continues today. /2
That makes it even more unusual, but more importantly INTENTIONAL, that GEN Milley wore his Army Combat Uniform to the White House today, as seen in pictures of him accompanying @realDonaldTrump on his St John's Church photo-op today. /3
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A few comments: 1) very unusual for a DNI to declassify these names w/o an external request. Despite his being an original classification authority, this declassification doesn’t seem in furtherance of his mission. /1
2) What his action does, and this may be the intent, is discourage officials from making unmasking requests, thus limiting their full understanding of the intelligence they read and negatively impacting their policy judgments. /2
This is what happened in 2005/6 when the first unmasking controversy happened during @AmbJohnBolton’s confirmation as UN Ambassador. /3
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So today we’ve learned it’s ok to conduct foreign policy while not in office, then to lie to the VP and others about that, setting yourself up for Russian blackmail. /1
We’ve learned that, despite a sworn oath to uphold the Constitution, its okay to lie to FBI agents conducting a counterintelligence investigation when questioned about that activity. /2
We’ve also learned that it’s ok to act on behalf of a foreign government without formal declaration while serving as national security advisor. /3
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