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In the coming months, as Pete Hegseth and other cabinet members continue their reviews of personnel and policy, it is likely that more names will be added to the list of those stripped of their access. For the Trump administration, this is the necessary work of protecting “America’s Golden Age” from the perceived failures of the past. For Joe Biden and his former allies, it is the final, sharp sting of a political rivalry that has reshaped the American presidency for the twenty-first century. The silence now greeting the former president in matters of national intelligence is perhaps the most profound indicator of just how much the rules of the game have changed.
