When candidate Donald Trump vowed to wage war on official Washington, his expected targets were EPA scientists, Civil Rights Division attorneys, and career diplomats. There were few signs that Trump, a devotee of waterboarding, watch lists, and surveilling mosques, would also declare war on the U.S. intelligence community (IC)—that is, until he decided the IC had declared war on him with its findings that Russia interfered in the 2016 election.After the Department of Homeland Security and the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) warned, in October 2016, that “Russia’s senior-most officials” were behind the DNC hack, Trump scoffed, “they always blame …read more
Source: The American Interest
