Trump's nominee for Director of National Intelligence has a twisted history of dissent from the elite D.C. foreign policy consensus and neocon-style “war on terror” rhetoric.
“Cozying up to Putin as well as to Bashar al-Assad shows she doesn't have the type of perspective needed for someone who is going to head up these 18 intelligence agencies,” said Obama’s CIA director John Brennan
"head up these 18 intelligence agencies" is such a certificed American Empire™ beyond-parody phrase.
18 that they can't deny exist. It's probably twice that.