Michael Feinberg on DNI Firings: Those People Aren’t Going to Want to Work for a Gov’t That Doesn’t Value Their Input

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FEINBERG: "Well, I don’t think it’s. Going to have an impact on how they disseminate intelligence in terms of day to day operations, because the people we’re talking about are professionals. Quite frankly, nobody I ever dealt with at the FBI or CIA or NSA on an almost daily basis cared one fig for who was in power in terms of political parties. Their job was to inform policymakers about facts on the ground and objective ways of analyzing those facts so that the policymakers can make decisions that would keep the country safe. What is going to happen, though, is a destruction. Maybe that’s not the wrong word. A hollowing out of the workforce in the sense of people who really know what they’re doing, that are going to be willing to stay, people who would otherwise join that have expertise on China or Russia or shiite or Sunni strands of foreign terrorist organizations or domestic terrorist organizations here in the United States. Those people aren’t going to want to work for a government that doesn’t value their input. And in addition to those two categories, I’m going to add one more. When you have an intelligence workforce that is being treated like dirt, living in fear that they are going to get fired every day, and whose contributions to the government are not valued, they are much easier targets for foreign intelligence services to recruit to betray the United States. There is literally not a single lens through which you can view these actions, which would demonstrate they are making our intelligence community more professional, more efficient or better for our country."