10-02-2019, 10:19 AM
It was absolutely Russia.
The intelligence community lives and dies with the Hatch Act. Every individual has personal beliefs, that can't be denied, but the intelligence professionals go into work to protect the interests of the United States. They don't get political on the job. They care about the law and national security and that required putting aside the partisanship that surrounds them in NoVA/DC/Maryland. It disheartens me, but does not surprise me, that we have reached the point where such a large number of people view our own government in this way. The political cultures in this country have been shifting in such a way that they view engagement in government as either a tool for self-interest or an arena for the elite to establish their powers. Gone are the days when there is respect for the men and women that work in public service in areas other than the military or law enforcement (which is ironic given that these are the groups that would be the ones called upon to carry out the most harsh directives were a government to make authoritarian moves).
The intelligence community lives and dies with the Hatch Act. Every individual has personal beliefs, that can't be denied, but the intelligence professionals go into work to protect the interests of the United States. They don't get political on the job. They care about the law and national security and that required putting aside the partisanship that surrounds them in NoVA/DC/Maryland. It disheartens me, but does not surprise me, that we have reached the point where such a large number of people view our own government in this way. The political cultures in this country have been shifting in such a way that they view engagement in government as either a tool for self-interest or an arena for the elite to establish their powers. Gone are the days when there is respect for the men and women that work in public service in areas other than the military or law enforcement (which is ironic given that these are the groups that would be the ones called upon to carry out the most harsh directives were a government to make authoritarian moves).
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
