Trump-era politicization: a code of civil-intelligence behavior is needed/
John A. Gentry
- 2021
Current and former U.S. intelligence officers in unprecedentedly large numbers politicized intelligence in their opposition to candidate and then President Donald Trump. The activists consistently refused, and still refuse, to accept responsibility for the politicization or the damage it caused to intelligence and broader national security. They declined to consider whether a well-established field of thought-civil-military relations-contains insights about normatively appropriate behavior by former senior intelligence officers, especially. This article explores lessons for intelligence officers in the civil-military literature and offers suggestions for revised behavioral norms by intelligence officers in the conduct of "civil-intelligence relations."
THE CIVIL-MILITARY LEGACY THE INTELLECTUAL FOUNDATION THE ROLES OF SENIOR MILITARY AND INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS CIVIL-INTELLIGENCE RELATIONS