Trump, CIA on Collision Course: Washington Post

US President-elect Donald Trump and his supporters, intent on overturning some longstanding policies, have shown a penchant for not trusting scientific, government or intelligence experts. The CIA is responsible for providing national-security intelligence to the president and policymakers – and in a report suggests that Russian operatives intervened in the election by releasing hacked US political party motives. The motive may have been to help Trump win, but the president-elect dismisses those claims. “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,” report David Nakamura and Greg Miller for the Washington Post. Those threats include cyber spying and the potential for cyber warfare, Russian interventions in Syria and Ukraine, Iranian compliance with the nuclear deal, North Korea’s testing of nuclear weapons and Chinese aggression in the South China Sea. “U.S. intelligence officials described mounting concern and confusion about how to proceed in an administration so openly hostile to their function and role.” US President Barack Obama has ordered a comprehensive review to be completed before January 20. – YaleGlobal

Trump, CIA on Collision Course: Washington Post

President-elect Trump criticizes top US intelligence officials after CIA report suggests that Russia intervened in US election by hacking and releasing select emails
David Nakamura and Greg Miller
Monday, December 12, 2016

David Nakamura and Greg Miller are reporters for the Washington Post in Washington, DC.

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