Trump’s tweet crystallized how his obsessions, and the chaos of the transition in the first six weeks of the new presidency, had prevented the new administration from focusing on what Obama had warned was the central national-security threat the nation faced. They had been left hundreds of pages of briefing materials about North Korea, but it appears little of it was absorbed. The questions swirling around the success or failure of the primary covert program to thwart the missile launches had not been fully engaged by McFarland, who was ousted in a few weeks, and they were entirely new to
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