The back and forth of the NSA Director’s unauthorized meeting with Donald Trump, and the deceptive intelligence dossier on Trump’s supposed romp in a Moscow hotel room has spawned the notion at The Conservative Treehouse of a closing act of a shadow war within the intelligence community led by the “white hats” in the DoD intel apparatus.  There are certainly white hats in every government agency, and the intel community is no exception.  But Sundance wildly overestimates the white hats’ effect outside of a few select leaders.  He even goes so far as to promote a thesis that the DoD itself has seceded from the political elites.  Yes, a shadow war is ongoing, but we are in no way near to the closing act, and Sundance’s conclusions do not reflect the reality of the depth of elite power broker penetration in our agencies, even DoD. As Bill Gertz notes, leftist academics in the intelligence agencies at the national level are a...(Read Full Article)