The three most important things about the @nytimes article by @DraperRobert on Trump's complete degradation of the IC:

1. The basic story isn't the least bit surprising or newsworthy. It's what we've all known for years. /1

@just_security https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/08/magazine/us-russia-intelligence.html

2. In any other administration in the past, if a President had done just a tiny fraction of what's described here it would've been politically catastrophic: The IC would have been quick to tell Congress and there would've been hell to pay.

Which leads to ... /2

3. the most important actors of all in this story, who aren't ever mentioned in it: The 53 GOP Senators, who've known all of this all along--have known how unfit & dangerous this POTUS is--& have done *nothing* to put a stop to it, or even to offer an accurate public account. 3/