All of these people have to go through the Senate Intel Committee before they get to the full Senate vote. Look at the Republicucks on the Senate Intel Committee and there is your problem. All of them, including the Republicans, were actively involved in the coup to remove Trump from power.
POTUS has to put someone in place, and sadly that has meant far too many times that Burr, Rubio, Cotton, and Cornyn are the ones calling the shot - deep states, all of them.
The only reason we got Ratcliffe as ODNI was because they had no choice: Grenell as acting ODNI was eating their lunch, and they had to move fast before he did something that would expose them all. They moved hella fast
All of these people have to go through the Senate Intel Committee before they get to the full Senate vote. Look at the Republicucks on the Senate Intel Committee and there is your problem. All of them, including the Republicans, were actively involved in the coup to remove Trump from power.
POTUS has to put someone in place, and sadly that has meant far too many times that Burr, Rubio, Cotton, and Cornyn are the ones calling the shot - deep states, all of them.
The only reason we got Ratcliffe as ODNI was because they had no choice: Grenell as acting ODNI was eating their lunch, and they had to move fast before he did something that would expose them all. They moved hella fast