OPINION — If intelligence officers wanted one person to model themselves after, from the perspective of the Intelligence Community’s commitment to objectivity, they could find no one better than Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease.
A leading principle, if not “the” leading principle, by which the Intelligence Community has long operated is objectivity – working through issues and writing and speaking about them without consideration to policy, political, bureaucratic, or personal factors.
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