Intel Official: "It is a sad day"

BAK · 2017-01-05T01:25:01+00:00

Trump attacks set intelligence community on edge By Pamela Brown, Shimon Prokupecz and Jim Acosta, CNN Updated 5:14 PM ET, Wed January 4, 2017 JUST WATCHED Trump escalates battle with intel community Conway: Trump won't interfere in hacking probe Story highlights Officials say Trump behaves differently in private They are trying to understand why he doubts the intel (CNN)Intelligence officials are increasingly dismayed about President-elect Donald Trump's tweets and continued public attacks against them, describing his conduct as distressing, officials told CNN Wednesday. "Nobody wants to get off on the wrong foot with the new boss. We're heading into this different era where it's hostile," one official said. Another official added, "It's a sad day when politicians place more stock in (Russian President Vladimir Putin and (WikiLeaks founder) Julian Assange than in the Americans who risk their lives daily to provide objective, non-partisan intelligence analysis." That was a reference to Trump's tweet on Wednesday noting that Assange said he didn't get hacked Democratic Party emails from the Russians, who have also denied being the hacking allegations. Adding to the concern, officials said there is a disconnect between Trump's public pronouncements about the intelligence community and his behind-the-scenes behavior when he's sitting across the table at closed-door intel briefings. US officials familiar with the briefings said Trump is for the most part professional, deferential and polite. He listens but does not engage frequently during the briefings, other officials said, although at times he has challenged and questioned information. A senior transition source told CNN that Trump does ask questions, adding, "Questions are good." The transition official said the President-elect does not question the data presented to him but he does question some of the conclusions drawn from the data. US officials said the election hacks and Russia have come up in briefings with Trump, but the full picture of what all the different intelligence threads mean has not been presented to him yet. That will happen during a briefing that is scheduled Friday with leaders of the intelligence community. As officials try to make sense of Trump's skepticism, one theory is that the President-elect is acting out because he believes that the intelligence community is trying to undermine his victory with information that Russia tried to affect the 2016 vote. Trump attacks set intelligence community on edge - CNNPolitics.com

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Start date Jan 5, 2017

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