Ex-intelligence officials say the president-elect calling the CIA "Nazi Germany" is close to a declaration of war.
President Richard Nixon didn’t trust the CIA on the Vietnam War. President George W. Bush didn’t much like what the CIA had to say about the war in Iraq.
But until Donald Trump, no future commander in chief has compared America’s spies to Nazis.
“I think it was disgraceful, disgraceful that the intelligence agencies allowed any information that turned out to be so false and fake out there,” Trump said, implying members of the U.S. intelligence community were behind the leak of a former British spy’s opposition research on Trump.
“That’s something that Nazi Germany would have done,” he said at his first news conference as president elect, just days ahead of his inauguration.
The broadside against the U.S. intelligence community shows Trump’s suspicion that the CIA and other agencies are a tool of the outgoing Obama administration, delivering whatever its political masters want to hear—and leaking material damaging to his future presidency.
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WNU Editor: Kmberly Dozier is making the assertion in her post that the President-elect is attacking the U.S. intel community .... but from my vantage point it looks like some in the intel community are actually the ones who are attacking President-elect Trump. I know that the rift will be healed with time .... especially when President-elect Trump's people have been appointed to the various intel agencies. But this entire episode has given the public a peak into what the intel community is capable of doing on the political level .... and in turn the intel community has also received a lesson on the dangers of confronting a future Commander in Chief, and (again from my vantage point) they are not as omnipotent as their reputation says they are (at least for now).
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