Our new Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, has been rattling a few cages in our national intelligence apparatus. A bunch of apparatchiks have been busted for totally inappropriate use of their agencies’ email systems and servers — we’re talking wildly, gobsmackingly inappropriate — and DNI Gabbard responded correctly by firing them.
Now, there are indications that Russia and China are seeking to recruit those now unemployed assets.
Foreign adversaries including Russia and China have recently directed their intelligence services to ramp up recruiting of US federal employees working in national security, targeting those who have been fired or feel they could be soon, according to four people familiar with recent US intelligence on the issue.
The intelligence indicates that foreign adversaries are eager to exploit the Trump administration’s…
