The occam’s razor answer is, he wasn’t looking.
Ratcliffe is part of the IC apparatus that structurally retains the guardrails allowing the IC to exist as the strongest, non statutory, part of our government.
Ratcliffe like Devin Nunes believes in the system. They see the world threat through the prism of the IC system that tells them where, when and why to be fearful. They are not bad men, they just believe the worldview presented because it has always been thus.
But now is not then. Our ‘this’ is no longer ‘thus’. Now we have President Trump, the embodiment of kryptonite to the superstate.
Now it the era when great boldness is needed. Brutal honesty is required. A combination of humility and arrogance is needed. Totally different skillsets.
Ratcliffe (Boomer) believes in the system, but he is simultaneously open to allowing Tulsi (GenX) to do her thing and show him the dangers he doesn’t see.
EXAMPLE: Tulsi took the national intelligence council (NIC) out of the CIA. Tulsi could not do that without Ratcliffe agreement. Now, Ratcliffe is watching her work, seeing what it brings to the surface, seeing a DNI -funnily an office he held- through an entirely new prism.
Ratcliffe operated the DNI in the same way that all prior DNI’s operated it. Tulsi is operating the DNI in a completely different way. I have written about the possibilities of the DNI office, the unknown power when the office was created.
Now I am watching Tulsi Gabbard test my theories in real time, and it is beyond cool.
Again, this response may not make sense to most. You really have to spend too much time understanding the IC system and the silos they operate to ‘get it.’
Ratcliffe did what he thought was possible within the confines of the DNI position. Tulsi is changing the definition of the DNI position, expanding the wings of power it holds, and doing what is possible.
This expanded power was legislatively authorized in the Patriot Act and subsequent creation of the DNI. Her use of it is why the SSCI now want to change the legislation that created the DNI.
Keep watching.
This sounds about right to me. ABN
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