Scott MacFarlane: Staffing Shortages at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence Could Create ‘Untold Danger’

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MACFARLANE: “Let’s start with how it’s demoralizing to the people left behind. We’ve seen that inside the Department of Justice, where literally thousands of professionals and attorneys are gone from this time last year, thousands at the FBI were experienced. In some cases, the most experienced agents are gone. Now you’re seeing that same type of turnover purge inside the director of national intelligence office. You have staffing issues. We saw staffing shortages at the U.S. Attorneys offices in Washington, D.C. and Minneapolis and elsewhere. If you have a staffing shortage at the director of national intelligence office, there’s untold danger that comes with it. And, Jen, I was talking to Mark Warner, top Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee, who said not only is he concerned about a turnover of staff at vital agencies, but he says Bill Pulte is not just somebody he fears could mechanize the office with bad intent. He’s somebody who could negligently let something bad happen, and the damage can be done in hours or days, not weeks or months. This is a radically bad situation, and I don’t find any Republican”