This week, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard removed the security clearances from 37 former and current intelligence officials, including those with expertise on Russian election interference. Meanwhile, former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s home was raided. Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic joined last night to discuss the potential implications of the Trump administration’s actions on national security, and more.
“Tulsi Gabbard came in early on talking about trying to de-politicize the intelligence community,” Matt Viser, the White House bureau chief at The Washington Post, said last night. But her latest decisions, among others, “gives the sense of political retribution.”
Joining the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, to discuss this and more: Laura Barron-Lopez, a White House correspondent at MSBNC; Jonathan Karl, the chief Washington correspondent at ABC News; Michael Scherer, a staff writer at The Atlantic; and Viser, the White House bureau chief at The Washington Post.
Watch the full episode here.
