DOGE Births a Counterintelligence Disaster

Trump 2.0’s first security debacle is a real doozy for the Intelligence Community

There’s no chance that the Intelligence Community can avoid the federal government purge that’s shaping up to be a hallmark of President Donald Trump’s nonconsecutive second administration. Dismantling the “administrative state” is a high MAGA priority and, while there’s ample skepticism about how easy or even possible this task will be, there can be no doubting Team Trump’s sincerity about wanting to shake up our nation’s capital.

Indeed, the Deep State is a high-priority target for the White House. From the MAGA viewpoint, the first Trump administration made the fatal mistake of not purging America’s intelligence agencies of Obama-Biden loyalists, who then subverted the White House and its agenda, becoming an arm of the Democrats. There can be no doubt that this view contains a good deal of truth, so Team Trump has learned from their mistakes and this time plans to purge the IC of Democrat partisans at the outset.

That the spooks won’t be spared the budget-cutting axe that’s coming for the alphabet soup of federal agencies around the Beltway was made evident by the news this week that the Central Intelligence Agency has offered buyouts to the entire workforce. It’s doubtful that many CIA staffers will be enticed to walk away in exchange for just eight months of pay and benefits, but perhaps some fed-up spooks close to retirement might.