John Brennan, the former CIA director, said losing Sue Gordon and Dan Coats on the same day is 'basically decapitating the intelligence community.'
Trump also revealed that Joseph Maguire, the current director of the National Counterterrorism Center, will replace Coats as acting DNI. Many had anticipated that Gordon, who had spent years working in the CIA, would step up as acting DNI.
"When you lose the DNI and the principal deputy DNI at the same time, you're basically decapitating the intelligence community," Brennan said, adding that though he knows and respects Maguire, he lacks the breadth and depth of experience that Gordon has. Former CIA director and critic of President Donald Trump John Brennan arrives at a closed hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee May 16, 2018 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.by the president's eldest son Donald Trump Jr., in which he described Gordon as"besties with Brennan," may have played a part in her not getting the acting DNI role.
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