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mn9driver

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1. This is the Trump administration trying to take control of our intelligence services.
Fri Dec 8, 2017, 09:21 AM
Dec 2017

At the end of the article:

“If this executive order is implemented as written, or worse if it’s written into law, it is not only an infringement on the political independence of the intelligence community, but it will endanger our ability to work with our allies, who may fear we’ve been drafted into a political party,” said one U.S. official familiar with the issue, speaking on condition of anonymity.”

In simple terms, this implies that,as written, this modification will allow the President to decide whether to unmask conversations collected without a warrant SPECIFICALLY if they involve members of a transition team for a president-elect that he just lost to.

What could possibly go wrong?

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