Our Biggest Intelligence Problem is the President's Intelligence

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Chris Cotnoir

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🗓️ 23 August 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

While the intelligence and law enforcement communities reel from the president's attacks, Donald Trump has sent further signals that he expects personal loyalty above loyalty to the nation from all of his team across the whole of government. He has even go so far as to trash the once hallowed concept of independence of the Fed. But it may be that the biggest problem affecting the government is not the president's impulse to suppress dissenting views but rather is his lack of intellectual curiosity and his professed skepticism of expertise. It's not that he wants political loyal intelligence analysts, for example, it is that he wouldn't read what they wrote no matter what their political views were. On this episode, veteran CIA analyst Nada Bakos, Georgetown's Rosa Brooks and the Financial Times Ed Luce, discuss--and Rosa follow's in the footsteps of a giant pre-historic chicken!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/deepstateradio. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of Deep State Radio. This is David Rothkoff, your host and I am here in the third sub-basement of the Ministry of Snark, somewhere not too far, I might add, from where Paul Manafort and Maria Bhutina and others are being kept behind bars.
1:10.4	We are not behind bars, however it's really, really hot where we are.
1:15.0	We are joined across America on the farthest coast of the United States by
1:20.0	Neda-Bakos of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a 20-year veteran of the
1:25.6	Intelligence Community, welcome NADA for the first time to the podcast. And not too far from there in Wyoming, wandering around adding to her sagebrush collection,
1:39.1	which is her pride and joy, Rosa Brooks.
1:43.0	I understand the weather's blowing up there a bit on the prairie.
1:47.0	It is.
1:48.0	It's a little windy here, David.
1:50.0	I'm not collecting sagebrush, but I saw dinosaur tracks and I learned that dinosaurs had feet like giant chickens.
1:57.0	Wow, that's really interesting and where did you learn that Rosa? I learned that at a place
2:04.5	called Red Gulch Dinosaur track site where I followed in their little chicken-like
2:09.6	footsteps. Wow, hey you know Neda this is your first time on, but one of the things we know about Rosa when
2:15.8	she's out in a place like Wyoming is it means she's coming up with things to do to avoid
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