Political interference, mind control, domestic spying, and generally speaking, making America worse (again).
Everyone just wants to be left alone to keep running their operations without interference, one intelligence officer said.
One way or another, interference looms on the horizon.
President-elect Donald Trump and former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard in La Crosse, Wisconsin, on Aug. 29, 2024.KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP/Getty Images
But the Project 2025 plan is not focused on personnel alone.
By both Carmack and Trumps account, this would result in a major shift from counterterrorism to China.
Gabbards unpredictable foreign policy commitments and outright hostility to the intelligence community is hard to overstate.
People on both sides of the political fence hate ODNI, says a former high ranking CIA chief.
Do I really think that another 9/11 would be stopped thanks to ODNI?
Now if ODNI was really directing national intelligence by controlling the budget, thats a different story.
Meanwhile, Gabbard hasopposedthe mass surveillance programs that Ratcliffe says are essential to national defense.
As a former intelligence officer tellsRolling Stone, If theres one place the CIA thrives, its in chaos.
