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push through a foreign policy 'wish list' he hopes could appeal to voters, current and former officials say." The President's announcement "caught the National Security Council, State Department and Pentagon by surprise, according to three US officials, and they fear that it could reduce the limited leverage the Afghan gov

has long accused the intelligence agencies of conspiring against him, the current and former intelligence officials said." Former CIA Officer Marc Polymeropoulos said Ratcliffe "is cherry-picking intelligence, and seriously risks exposing sources and methods for absolutely no reason other than to promote and

undoing many restrictions that had been in place under prior administrations." Unlike previous limited presidential findings, this one, "driven by the National Security Council and crafted by the CIA, focuses more broadly on a capability: covert action in cyberspace." Zack Dorfman of the Aspen Institute (and an author of t

ed satellites." Op-Ed: Trump's Call For CIA To Cooperate With Russia Was A Disaster. In an op-ed in the Washington Post (7/15, Sipher, Hall, Wise, Polymeropoulos, 14.2M), former CIA station chief John Sipher, retired CIA officer Steven L. Hall, former DIA deputy director Douglas H. Wise, and retired CIA offi

n." He continued, "I think it should be effective if implemented properly, which I have confidence in the team, both at my old agency as well as in the National Security Council and elsewhere." CBS News (5/14, Segers, 5.39M) reports that Krebs "praised Mr. Biden for 'jettisoning the traditional approach' to addressing cyber

Opinion: Immigrants "Critical" To Intelligence Community's Success. In an op-ed for The Washington Examiner (5/15, 888K), former CIA officer Marc Polymeropoulos writes that although politics is "once again subsumed by the immigration debate," those such as his former colleagues "who immigrated from all over