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...If you want a good precis read an opinion article by Michael Morell, a former deputy head of the CIA, and Mike Vickers, a former under-secretary of defence for intelligence, in The Washington Post....
...Morell was in England on something of a photographic pilgrimage. He had come to visit the places where, 200 years ago, John Constable painted some of his most famous pictures....
...“The ‘deep state’ is a pejorative term,” says Michael Morell, former deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency....
...Michael Morell, former deputy director of the CIA who endorsed Hillary Clinton for president, said that Russia’s reported interference was “the political equivalent of 9/11”....
...On Friday, Michael Morell, former acting CIA director, wrote in The New York Times that Mr Trump had allowed Mr Putin to exploit his thirst for respect....
...Michael Morell, the former number two at the CIA who supported the Clinton campaign, has called Mr Trump “an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation”....
...The younger group were joined by John Brennan, a veteran intelligence official who now runs the CIA and who argued that Mr Mubarak’s time had run out....
...Ms Monaco will be followed in the region by John Kerry, the secretary of state, who is leaving on Tuesday for Jordan and Saudi Arabia “to discuss regional issues and the current situation in Iraq”....
...(Ms Feinstein had a different style of rebuke for the current CIA director John Brennan....
...Nothing symbolises an intelligence colossus on autopilot, to use secretary of state John Kerry’s words, like the bugging of Angela Merkel’s mobile phone from the time she was a rising party leader in Germany...
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