James Bamford | Trump's War on the US Intelligence Community




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James Bamford, The New Republic
Bamford writes: "Trump’s campaign to discredit his own intelligence agencies highlights how drastically the president has shattered many of the spy world’s long-held norms. Under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, the intelligence community and the White House generally formed a united front, supporting each other in public if not always agreeing in private."
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