Name: 國家安全記者抨擊特朗普的情報團隊：瘋子和傻瓜 (National security journalist slams Trump’s intel team: ‘crackpots and fools’)
Uploaded: 2025-07-19T18:47:20.000Z
Duration: 2 min 37 s

president has wrecked American alliances all over the world, and by the fact that the president has appointed a collection of crackpots and fools to run the instruments of American national security at the Pentagon, at the FBI, at the Directorate of National Intelligence, and, I'm afraid, at the CIA.

總統破壞了美國在全世界的盟友關係，總統任命了一群瘋子和傻瓜來掌管五角大樓、聯邦調查局、國家情報局以及恐怕還有中央情報局的美國國家安全工具。

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Well, you know, a lot of people said that John Ratcliffe, who you're talking about, is, you know, is a pretty decent professional when it comes to this kind of stuff.

很多人都說約翰-拉特克利夫，也就是你說的那個人，在這方面是個相當不錯的專業人士。

He, you know, I guess they're, you know, they have compared him to other members of the Cabinet who you've talked about and come up sort of more thumbs up than thumbs down.

他，你知道，我猜他們，你知道，他們把他和你談到過的其他內閣成員進行了比較，得出的結論是大拇指多於小拇指。

But, you know, he did just make a criminal referral of the former CIA Director Brennan, accusing him of lying to Congress and about Trump and Russia.

但是，你知道，他確實剛剛對前中情局局長布倫南進行了刑事移交，指控他在特朗普和俄羅斯問題上向國會撒謊。

You say, you know, the reveal of the Kremlin war plan to invade Ukraine marks a high point, a return to a high point in espionage, and now it looks like it's heading down to a low point again of mixing politics and ideology with, you know, with the figures who are meant to not do that.

你說，你知道，克里姆林宮入侵烏克蘭的戰爭計劃的曝光標誌著一個高點，一個間諜活動的高點的迴歸，而現在它似乎又走向了一個低點，將政治和意識形態混為一談，你知道，與那些本不應該這樣做的人物混為一談。

So, where do you think that's going to lead?

那麼，你認為這會導致什麼結果？

約翰-拉特克利夫是個政治動物。

He has a track record, going back to the first Trump administration, of twisting and distorting intelligence to please Trump.

從特朗普第一任政府開始，他就有扭曲和歪曲情報以取悅特朗普的前科。

He has asked the most senior and experienced officers and analysts at CIA to find another line of work.

他要求中情局最資深、最有經驗的官員和分析師另謀高就。

He has fired everybody the CIA hired in 2023 and 2024 at the behest of Trump and Elon Musk.

在特朗普和埃隆-馬斯克的授意下，他已經解僱了中情局在 2023 年和 2024 年聘用的所有人。

He has started ideological purity tests for officers seeking promotions, and he has eliminated the CIA's diversity policies.

他開始對尋求晉升的官員進行意識形態純度測試，並取消了中情局的多元化政策。

Diversity is the spy service's superpower.

多樣性是間諜部門的超級能力。

You want people with the cultural background, with the language skills, to blend in to the population.

你需要有文化背景和語言技能的人融入人群。

Terrible decision, all done in the name of political fealty to Donald Trump.

可怕的決定，這一切都是為了對唐納德-特朗普的政治忠誠。

Fealty, blind loyalty to a president, is not part of the job description of the CIA director.

忠心耿耿、盲目效忠總統並不屬於中情局局長的工作範疇。