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
