Trump's troubled relationship with spy agencies takes dive with whistleblower
by Rob Crilly
| October 07, 2019 12:00 AM
The rift between President Trump and the nation’s spy agencies opened before he took office, when he compared the intelligence community with Nazis. Since then, he has clashed publicly with his own spy chiefs, shared classified material with Russian visitors to the Oval Office, and tweeted out a surveillance photograph from his security briefing.
That strained relationship faces its biggest test now, according to insiders, after a whistleblower accused the president of abusing his position to ask a foreign leader to help with his reelection.
And it leaves Gina Haspel, the director of the CIA, to rebuild relationships damaged on both sides, according to Fred Fleitz, former National Security Council chief of staff.
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