Tuesday, May 14, 2019
INVESTIGATIVE CONCLUSIONS MANAGEENT
AG Barr, possibly responding to pressure from Trump, is opening a third investigation into alleged, by Trump, malevolent origins of the F.B.I. an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. If past is prologue, I expect that the report will go only to AG Barr who will issue a summary of the report but the report itself will never see the light of day unless the conclusions are those of Mr. Trump.
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This is a power grab war ... on a domestic level. And the demagogue-in-chief will not stop until he gets the desired opinion. There are advisory elements in our executive branch who are well-experienced in these maneuvers, delighted to manipulate/play the narcissist as ... sport?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/iraq/2006-03-01/intelligence-policy-and-war-iraq
ESSAYMarch/April 2006 Issue
“DYSFUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP
The most serious problem with U.S. intelligence today is that its relationship with the policymaking process is broken and badly needs repair. In the wake of the Iraq war, it has become clear that official intelligence analysis was not relied on in making even the most significant national security decisions, that intelligence was misused publicly to justify decisions already made, that damaging ill will developed between policymakers and intelligence officers, and that the intelligence community's own work was politicized. As the national intelligence officer responsible for the Middle East from 2000 to 2005, I witnessed all of these disturbing developments. ... The Bush administration deviated from the professional standard not only in using policy to drive intelligence, but also in aggressively using intelligence to win public support for its decision to go to war. This meant selectively adducing data -- ‘cherry-picking’ -- rather than using the intelligence community's own analytic judgments.”
Sound familiar?