Trump's Affinity for Putin, Russia Will Test His Top Security Officials
An Attorney General Bondi, FBI Director Patel and DNI Gabbard will have access to the most sensitive intelligence information, including Moscow's influence ops in the U.S.
Amid worries that incoming Attorney General Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, Donald Trump’s pick to run the FBI, will carry out the president-elect’s wishes to “prosecute the prosecutors” who pursued him in multiple criminal and congressional investigations over the years, there’s another another factor to be concerned about, some longtime counterintelligence exerts and observers say: their access to the family jewels of U.S. intelligence: the names and locations of secret agents and foreign defectors.
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