Intel world struggles to crack the code of an untrusting Trump
How do you brief a president who refuses to believe what you tell him?
By Nahal Toosi and Darren Samuelsohn
12/10/16 02:06 PM EST
Donald Trump's insult-laced dismissal of reports that the CIA believes Russia hacked the 2016 election to help him is rattling a spy community already puzzled over how to gain the ear and trust of the incoming president.
Some fear that Trump's highly public rebukes of the U.S. intelligence apparatus will undermine morale in the spy agencies, politicize their work, and damage their standing in a world filled with adversaries. After all, if the U.S. president doesn't believe his own intelligence officials, why should anyone else?
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