Former US ambassador to Netherlands says intelligence community must be 'depoliticized' under Trump

"We have to de-politicize it and get them focused on their mission which is to keep America safe," Pete Hoekstra said.

Published: November 8, 2024 6:15pm

Former U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands Pete Hoekstra says that under the new Trump administration, the intelligence community needs to be nonpolitical.

"We got to depoliticize it and get them focused on their mission which is to keep America safe," Hoekstra said on the Friday edition of the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show.

During the Biden administration, many federal agencies such as the FBI and CIA have come under scrutiny for allegations of political bias.

"They never fully covered COVID and talked about how this probably came out of the Chinese lab," Hoekstra said. "They actually covered for the Chinese Communist Party. The Hunter Biden laptop, it was just one example after another."

He proceeded to call out the agencies for participating in censorship and working with Big Tech companies to target conservative voices.

"They were censoring and telling social media what was real news and fake news during the 2020 election," Hoekstra said. "That is not a responsibility of a foreign intelligence organization."