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US ex-spies warn of danger in 'warfare' between Trump, intel chiefs
i24NEWS
Jim WATSON (AFP)
'Biggest concern seems to be Trump's overall resistance to ingesting new information,' ex-CIA employee says
The critical relationship between President Donald Trump and the US intelligence community is irreparably broken, with high risks for the country in a crisis, former senior CIA officers said Wednesday.
One week after Trump blasted his spy chiefs as "naive" and told them to "go back to school" for challenging his views on Iran and North Korea, the CIA officers said the rift between the two sides had become extremely dangerous.
"When you have that open warfare, it can affect intelligence judgments and it can affect policy judgments," said George Beebe, former director of Russia analysis at the CIA.
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