Tower Chair Josh Rovner, author of Fixing the Facts: National Security and the Politics of Intelligence, wrote an editorial for War on the Rocks on President-elect Donald Trump and the CIA Dec. 15.
Trump told Fox News that he doesn’t need the daily presidential intelligence briefings presidents have been receiving for the past 40 years. “You know, I’m, like, a smart person,” he said. “I don’t have to be told the same thing in the same words every single day for the next eight years.”
Rovner argues that Trump’s plan to rely on his advisers, such as Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, to keep him in the loop could easily result in politicizing intelligence.
“One lesson of the Iraq War is that intelligence should be handled with care,” Rovner wrote.
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