In a statement to The Washington Post, House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Jim Himes (D-Conn.) said that he was “concerned about the apparent removal of senior leadership at the National Intelligence Council without any explanation except vague accusations made in the media.”
“Absent evidence to justify the firings, the workforce can only conclude that their jobs are contingent on producing analysis that is aligned with the president’s agenda, rather than truthful and apolitical,” he said.
The two intelligence officers fired have a long and stellar record of providing accurate, critical intelligence information for both Democrat and Republican administrations. That they were fired for telling a truth Trump didn't like is appalling! And I'm sure that they are not the first people Trump fired for telling truth that Trump didn't like! This sends a terrible message to all Trump appointees and officials that they dare not tell Trump any truth that he doesn't want to hear. This underscores both the corruption and stupidity of Trump, and poses a great danger to both the security and trustworthiness of our country and its government.
No precept or claim is more suspect or more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.
"I have learned with what evils tyranny infects a state. For it frustrates all the virtues, robs freedom of its lofty mood, and opens a school of fawning and terror, inasmuch as it leaves matters not to the wisdom of the laws, but to the angry whim of those who are in authority.”
And quite likely a Russian asset, in my opinion, which is arguably even worse.
No precept or claim is more suspect or more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.
And quite likely a Russian asset, in my opinion, which is arguably even worse.
Probably!
"I have learned with what evils tyranny infects a state. For it frustrates all the virtues, robs freedom of its lofty mood, and opens a school of fawning and terror, inasmuch as it leaves matters not to the wisdom of the laws, but to the angry whim of those who are in authority.”
