Thursday, January 12, 2017

Intelligence Leaders Express Concern At Becoming Trump's Political Targets

Matt Shuham · Thursday, January 05, 2017, 2:24 pm

A Senate Armed Services Committee hearing held Thursday on cyber threats to the United States provided an opportunity for leaders in the U.S. intelligence community to express some anxiety about how their agencies will fare in the incoming Trump administration.

Early in the hearing, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said in response to a question from Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) that he had not been consulted by Trump's transition team on the reported effort they were planning to restructure the DNI and the CIA, said to be because Trump believed the organizations had become politicized.

Source
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/intelligence-leaders-concern-trump-political-targets

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