Trump's Rocky Relationship With Intelligence Community Worsened With Whistleblower Complaint
The schism between President Trump and the U.S. intelligence community widened this week after a whistleblower accused the president of using the power of his office to solicit help from a foreign government for his re-election effort.
Mr. Trump has clashed with members of the intelligence community over a number of issues including the pursuit of nuclear weapons by Iran and North Korea, the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. He has often accused them of leaking information to undermine his presidency.
Now, a complaint by a whistleblower, who according to a person familiar with the matter works for the Central Intelligence Agency, has piled on the strain between the president and intelligence community upon which he relies to inform his foreign-policy and national-security decisions.
Some in Washington had expected the relationship to improve after Mr. Trump named a new director of national intelligence to replace Dan Coats, with whom he had clashed over how to deal with the threat posed by Russia. Mr. Coats and other intelligence chiefs faced criticism this year from the president over their views on the seriousness of the threat presented by Iran and the challenges facing any deal with North Korea on nuclear weapons.
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That's because righties consider intelligence elitist.
All sarcasm aside this seems nothing new. The recent death of Joe Wilson reminds us of that. The Bush II administration outed Valerie Plame because Wilson was contradicting their lies about Iraq pursuing yellow cake uranium.