On Jan. 20, President-elect Donald Trump will reenter the White House with a once-in-a-generation mandate to reform our bloated federal bureaucracy. No part of Washington needs reform more urgently than the Intelligence Community (IC). Today, the IC is broken. But if Trump wishes to remake the IC, rendering it more effective while getting it out of partisan politics, there’s a way to do so successfully.
First, Trump should implement payback smartly. Trump, who holds grudges, wants to settle scores with the IC after its mistreatment of him during his last term in office. He’s right to feel as he does. In a manner that was unprecedented in American history, some intelligence bosses colluded with Democrats to smear Trump as a Russian pawn. This culminated in the infamous collaboration between IC bigwigs (mostly retired), Democrats, and tech moguls, to suppress discussion of…
