Former CIA analyst Edward Price condemned President Donald Trump’s decision last month to add chief strategist Steve Bannon, right, to the National Security Council.
Edward Price said the “final straw” was Trump’s decision to add Steve Bannon to the National Security Council.
The spokesman for the National Security Council says President Donald Trump’s “disturbing” and repeated attempts to undermine the U.S. intelligence community prompted him to resign last week.
In a scorching Washington Post column published Monday, Edward Price, who joined the CIA in 2006 and has been serving as the NSC spokesman, revealed the reasons he “cannot in good faith serve this administration as an intelligence professional.”
Price pointed to several instances in which he said Trump had questioned the integrity of U.S. intelligence agencies, including the president’s tepid response to reports that Russia hacked U.S. officials in an attempt to influence the 2016 presidential election.
But the “final straw,” he said, was Trump’s decision last month to make chief strategist Steve Bannon― whom Price calls “a media champion of white nationalism”― a member of the National Security Council.
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Good for Mr. Price. He sounds like a man of honor and integrity.
