And the idea is the whole role of intelligence is to speak truth to power. And we have seen since the beginning of this administration a complete undermining. If people are not willing to kind of cook the books, you get fired. Early on, there's these national intelligence estimates. It's kind of a formal opinion. The top professionals were asked early on the very bad guy gang trend, Al Agua, I think I'm mispronouncing a little bit, but, you know, aren't they just an arm of Maduro? (04:13–04:18)
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