Truth-seeking at the CIA

Elder had a funny response to the intel community's outrage over Trump's taking Brennan's security clearance away. It isn't quite on point but it is close:

"The next day, 60 former lower-level CIA officials signed an open letter condemning the act. Their letter read, in part: "All of us believe it is critical to protect classified information from unauthorized disclosure. But we believe equally strongly that former government officials have the right to express their unclassified views on what they see as critical national security issues without fear of being punished for doing so." About a hundred other former officials have since added their names to this letter.

Where were all these officials, so concerned about "critical national security issues," when much of the country — then and now — believed President George W. Bush misled the nation about the Iraq war and the assumption that Saddam Hussein possessed stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction? Ron Fournier, then the Associated Press Washington, D.C. bureau chief, publicly said, "George W. Bush lied us into war in Iraq." To this day, a majority of Democrats, according to several polls, still believe that the entry into the Iraq war was based upon a lie.

Where was the intelligence community's joint letter reminding the country that Bush relied on the unanimous opinion of all 16 of our intelligence agencies? Why didn't the intelligence community publish a joint letter defending the integrity of the intelligence community and remind the nation that Bush retained the same CIA director, George Tenet, who served under President Bill Clinton, and said that the assumption that Saddam possessed stockpiles of WMD was a "slam dunk"? But President Trump yanks the security clearance of an ex-CIA director who calls Trump "treasonous'' — ie. eligible for the death penalty — and much of the intelligence community throws a hissy fit."

(from a Larry Elders article)