How's this going to work out? Will Trump try to disband the CIA once president? Will he make it to the presidency if he crosses the CIA?The simmering distrust between Donald Trump and U.S. intelligence agencies escalated into open antagonism Saturday after the president-elect mocked a CIA report that Russian operatives had intervened in the U.S. presidential election to help him win.
The growing tensions set up a potential showdown between Trump and the nation’s top intelligence officials during what some of those officials describe as the most complex threat environment in decades.
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“Given his proclivity for revenge combined with his notorious thin skin, this threatens to result in a lasting relationship of distrust and ill will between the president and the intelligence community,” said Paul Pillar, former deputy director of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center.
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“I don’t believe it. I don’t believe they interfered,” Trump told Time magazine of the Russians in a recent interview during which he suggested the accusations from the United States were politically driven.
Instead, Trump took direct aim at the professional spies.
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“These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction,” he said.
WaPo
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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