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    Quote Originally Posted by Azor View Post
    Considering that the current and former CIA Directors going back a number of years endorsed Hillary Clinton, along with various CIA officers and Republican members of the national security community, Trump may well have a point.

    It is clear that people were hoping that Hillary would allow for more CIA intervention in Syria and Ukraine...
    The people who do the work in the CIA/NSA are not political appointees. They are career civil servants, many of whom put their life on the line to do what they do. If they thought it was a problem, it was a problem.
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