Is it any wonder that Trump is suspicious of the intel agencies?

Byron York:
Former top spy rethinks: Maybe we shouldn't have attacked a new president

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"Let's put ourselves in Donald Trump's shoes," Morell said to Glasser. "So what does he see? Right? He sees a former director of CIA and a former director of NSA, Mike Hayden … criticizing him and his policies. Right? And he would rightfully have said, 'Huh, what's going on with the intelligence guys?'"

"And then he sees a former acting director and deputy director of CIA criticizing him and endorsing his opponent," Morell continued. "And then he gets his first intelligence briefing, after becoming the Republican nominee, and within 24 to 48 hours, there are leaks out of that that are critical of him and his then-national security adviser Mike Flynn."

"And so, this stuff starts to build, right? And he must have said to himself, 'What is it with these intelligence guys? Are they political?'"

The answer to that was simple: Yes, they were political. But the astonishing part of the Morell interview is his admission that at the time he did not stop to consider what was happening from Trump's perspective, even as the leaks continued when Trump took office. "He must have thought, 'Who are these guys?'" Morell said. "Are these guys out to get me? Is this a political organization?"

The first time Trump met the FBI's then-director, James Comey, was when the intelligence chiefs chose Comey to tell Trump, then the president-elect, about a collection of "salacious and unverified" (Comey's words) allegations about Trump, compiled by operatives working for the Clinton campaign, that has since become known as the Trump dossier. That surely got Trump off to a good start with the FBI's intelligence-gathering operation. It was also a clever way for the intel chiefs to push the previously-secret dossier into the public conversation, when news leaked that Comey had briefed the president on it.
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It looks like the intel agencies got scammed by the Democrats and the dirty dossier the Democrats used Fusion GPS to get a Brit spy to collude with Russia on.  Or were they willing participants in teh scam?

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