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Jon Ossoff: “Leaked the alleged justification for the firing to Fox News…”

Featuring: Jon Ossoff, Democratic | U.S. Senate Georgia

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Senator Jon Ossoff Discusses Trump Administration's Transparency Issues and 2026 Reelection Campaign

Published | Video Starts at 04:42

And then today we learn that Trump's DNI chief fired the leaders of the intelligence group that wrote that assessment. What do you make of punishing officials like that and all of that behavior? And, by the way, Leaked the alleged justification for the firing to Fox News, but did not notify the intelligence committees in the House or Senate. not at all, where they have a statutory obligation to notify us. You know, and this raises the obvious concern that senior intelligence analysts may face retaliation for issuing good faith analysis. (04:42–04:50)

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