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Trump Dismissal of CIA Digs Rift with Key Intel Supplier
Local Editor
President-elect Donald Trump's brusque dismissal of the CIA's conclusion that Russia meddled in the US election has created an unparalleled rift between the incoming leader and his vital source of global intelligence.
Former top officials of the Central Intelligence Agency said Trump's rejection of its assessment that Moscow hacked US political party computers and released data to tilt the vote in Trump's favor could ultimately damage crucial US policy-making -- unless relations between Trump and the agency can be smoothed over.
Trump added insult to injury, they said, by both ridiculing the CIA and dismissing the need for the traditional daily presidential briefing from his top security advisors.
"I think the president-elect is the only prominent American that has not yet conceded that the Russians conducted a massive covert influence campaign against the United States," former CIA director Michael Hayden told CNN Wednesday.
Hayden, along with fellow US spy chief Leon Panetta, both have warned that Trump's dismissal of the agency portends a rocky start to a crucial relationship.
"Intelligence should be called on to create the basis and set the boundaries for rational policy choices," Hayden said.
"The odds that it will happen, though, seem bleaker after this past week, and we are moving in the wrong direction."
Hayden added that by rejecting the CIA's view, Trump has effectively chosen to agree with Russian President Vladimir Putin, viewed by most of Washington as a dangerous rival.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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