Don’t Aggravate The Dear Leader

Experts Knew a Pandemic Was Coming. Here’s What They’re Worried About Next.:

Every year, the intelligence community releases the Worldwide Threat Assessment—a distillation of worrisome global trends, risks, problem spots and emerging perils. But this year, the public hearing on the assessment, usually held in January or February, was canceled, evidently because intelligence leaders, who usually testify in a rare open hearing together, were worried their comments would aggravate President Donald Trump. And the government has not yet publicly released a 2020 threat report.

Must not aggravate Dear Leader.


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