342 | Trump's Last Defense Secretary on Cutting the Pentagon Budget, Base Closures, Forever War Accountability, and New Threats with Christopher C. Miller
The Realignment
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Is There a Need for More Political Appointees in the Intelligence Community?
"I have a lot of qualms with how certain former generals have used their military experience to serve as pundits and kind of engage in the political system," he says. "If you want to become a political actor, it's free country, you can do that, but I don't think you should benefit from your prior service in the armed forces." He adds: "This really needs to go up the flagpole and doesn't need to get put in this bucket of secret compartmentalized people only you know about ... You're going to find out when we look at these Chinese spy balloons, we're going to found out that they are bureaucrats"
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