A number of long-time FBI officials were ousted on Friday as part of their ongoing purge of anyone who touched investigations into President Donald Trump or his MAGA supporters.
Speaking to MSNBC on Friday, longtime author and researcher of the FBI and CIA, Tim Weiner, compared Trump to Pol Pot, the Cambodian dictator who led the communist Khmer Rouge regime that ruled from 1975-1979. He imposed radical policies that resulted in genocide, with approximately 2 million people dying due to executions, forced labor, starvation, and disease.
"The best and the brightest are being purged in an ideological cleansing in the name of Donald Trump," Weiner said. "I mean, [in the] despotic regime of Pol Pot in Cambodia, people were arrested and executed because they wore glasses, because they could read. This is not quite the reign of terror of Pol Pot's Cambodia, but intelligence services in the hands of an autocratic despot are a dangerous thing."
He also pointed to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who he said isn't merely putting out classified information, she is "twisting its contents and meanings, and using it as a weapon in political warfare. What U.S. intelligence agencies are supposed to do is wage political warfare against foreign enemies. And Gabbard and John Ratcliffe at CIA and Kash Patel at FBI are using it to wage political warfare against American citizens, not just the most prominent politicians of the Democratic Party, but the men and women who are the best CIA officers and FBI agents this country has."
He went on to say that Gabbard, Ratcliffe and Patel are destroying the institutions that they lead at the instruction of Trump, who is "chasing a white whale" in some kind of "classified file cabinet is a silver bullet that will absolve him."
Weiner noted that Trump will never find it, because the facts simply aren't on his side.
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