The “politicization” of intelligence—both with the assessments of foreign interference in the U.S. election and of the wider allegations of voter fraud—is damaging to the country’s democracy and has negative long-term implications, former officials in the government and intelligence community (IC) told The Epoch Times. John Ratcliffe, the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), was notified by “career intelligence officials” on Dec. 16 that the IC was unable to meet the Dec. 18 deadline set by an executive order to report on foreign threats to this year’s election. The delay was due to the IC receiving relevant, new information since the election and the fact that a “number of agencies have not finished coordinating on the product.” “I think that’s dishonesty on the part of the bureaucrats inside the intelligence community,” Bart Marcois, former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy for Policy and International Affairs under the Bush administration, told The Epoch Times. “I’ve …