A former president Trump won’t ‘need to know.’ Cut off his intelligence. By Susan M. Gordon, who was the principal deputy director of national intelligence from 2017 to 2019.

My recommendation, as a 30-plus-year veteran of the intelligence community, is not to provide him any briefings after Jan. 20. With this simple act — which is solely the new president’s prerogative — Joe Biden can mitigate one aspect of the potential national security risk posed by Donald Trump, private citizen.