Short Thread: Most people are looking at this from the outside But I was actually in the intelligence community 2010-2017
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Through Benghazi, Arab Spring, ISIS, Ukraine, Crimea, North Korea nukes, and finally the Trump campaign I’ve never really spoken about my personal experiences
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But maybe it’s time for that to change The IC has many good people in it who want to do the right thing
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But it is also a hornet’s nest of backstabbing, government waste, and deep confirmation biases Particularly in its leadership, and those seeking to BECOME leadership
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It doesn’t surprise me at all that many in the IC were “convinced” Trump was a Russian asset The IC talks about ‘analysis of competing hypotheses’
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But that’s a fairy tale It’s now the biggest groupthink echo chamber in the world They get their opinions and worldview from CNN and WaPo And everything else must be made to “fit the frame”
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If something doesn’t fit, it’s discarded, or in some cases, accused With Trump and Trump supporters, we became easy targets for senior IC leadership that put politics over country "Co-conspirators"
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And used disinfo to attack and investigate patriotic Americans who simply wanted to do the right thing and make our country great again
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It’s all coming out I haven’t even begun to tell this story
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