How Gen. Michael Flynn Became A Central Figure In The Russia Hacking Scandal
GROSS: Can we just add that he also asked Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence…
ROSENBERG: Of course.
GROSS: …And Mike Rogers, the director of the National Security Agency, to publicly deny any – that there was any collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign?
ROSENBERG: Yeah. And I think that’s – you know, that also brings us to an issue that I think we see here, which is that it’s not clear the White House understands where politics is supposed to end, that in these jobs when it’s the director of the CIA, the director of national intelligence, they are appointed by the president. So there’s obviously politics in their appointment, but they’re not political jobs.