Six months into Joe Biden‘s presidency, the intelligence community still can’t quite escape politics.
Biden made his first formal remarks to staff at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Tuesday, an address that comes at a moment of quiet but profound change for a workforce that was buffeted by the fierce political winds of the Trump era.
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