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Originally Posted by uDevil
There's a lot of talk on the shows about the nonanswers given by the intelligence people this morning, mostly about how it's not justified and so on. Not much speculation on why they would resort to mealy mouthed bs about their feelings and vague crap about it being inappropriate, though. The uniformity of the answers suggests the possibility they were coached or discussed their answers amoung themselves prior to the hearing. I didn't watch the whole thing, but did anyone ask them "Are you refusing to answer out of a sense of personal loyalty to Donald Trump? Were you asked to pledge loyalty?"
I tend to agree that this was a coordinated effort and that they were NOT working out of loyalty to Trump.
IMO, they all understand that it's best to keep it a mystery (in public) that they are or aren't Trump loyalists. Trump is the other person aware of whether he said these things. What Trump doesn't know is who to trust and who to put on the enemies list.
By keeping information private that could possibly be construed as obstruction, that Mueller is aware of, and that GOP in Congress will shrug off all of the time, they all get to keep their jobs. Not for selfish reasons, but because it's so much better for the country to have career individuals who are already working on a case, with ties to each other and the workers in their departments, than it is to have them fired and replaced by rubber stamping Trump loyalists.