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Former acting Director of National Intelligence<\/a> Richard Grenell told “Tucker Carlson Tonight<\/a>”\u00a0Monday that his time in the Trump administration has shown him that the great political struggle is no longer between Republicans and\u00a0Democrats, but between the District of Columbia and\u00a0the rest of the U.S.<\/strong><\/p>\n The article includes a screenshot of something Ambassador Grenell tweeted:<\/p>\n “The fact of the matter is,” Grenell said, “we have a real problem in Washington, D.C., because it\u2019s a system that it no longer is Republicans and Democrats pushing against each other to create good policy. It\u2019s a fight between Washington and the rest of America.”<\/strong><\/p>\n “What we have [is] a system in Washington where people get jobs if you’re there, if you know someone and you work your way up, and it\u2019s like musical chairs from one agency to another,” Grenell added. “There is no outside thought, there’s no outside perspective.”<\/strong><\/p>\n Grenell, who also spent two years as U.S. ambassador to Germany, characterized Trump as a great disruptor of this insular system.<\/strong><\/p>\n “He’s breaking their system,” he said. “He doesn’t play by the rules.<\/strong><\/p>\n The article concludes:<\/p>\n “I saw that at ODNI,” Grenell added. “I saw that by entering the intelligence world, and senators\u00a0from the Democratic Party saying, ‘You have no experience, what are you doing \u2014\u00a0why should you\u00a0be there?””<\/strong><\/p>\n Grenell specifically called out Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the top Democrat on the\u00a0Senate Intelligence Committee, by noting that Grenell had received his first intelligence briefing back in 2001, before Warner was elected to public office.<\/strong><\/p>\n “He\u00a0said\u00a0that I\u00a0wasn\u2019t qualified,” Grennell said of Warner.\u00a0“I actually am a receiver of intelligence, and [I’m] an expert on the\u00a0consumer part of the\u00a0intelligence and how to utilize\u00a0it, but that perspective is never brought to Washington.”<\/strong><\/p>\n Change is hard–particularly if that change means you are losing control of something you have controlled for a very long time. That is the current battle in Washington. Does the bureaucracy want to represent the American people or do they want to represent only their own interests?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rick Grenell definitely left his mark as acting Director of National Intelligence. Things that should never have been classified were unclassified so that the American people could see for themselves what their government had been up to. Hopefully, John Ratcliffe, … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/RichardGrenell.png\")
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