CIA plotting revenge on Trump
High-profile critic of spies says there's 'open warfare' between the intelligence community and president-elect
Glenn Greenwald says there's an 'obvious open warfare' between the intelligence community and president- elect Donald Trump that's becoming 'quite dangerous.'
The award- winning journalist and author who co- founded The Intercept told Fox News' Tucker Carlson there's 'clearly extreme conflict' between career intelligence agents and Trump, who insisted their intelligence on Russian hacking was wrong, 'and a lot of subversion taking place.'
And Democrats are cheering it on, Greenwald said, because they're ' hoping' the CIA will ' undermine and subvert and destroy the legitimacy of Donald Trump’s presidency before he’s even inaugurated.'
' I think what you’re seeing is actually quite dangerous.'
Trump initially rejected the intelligence community's assessment that Russia had meddled in the election, hacking Democrats' emails and giving the contents to anti-secrecy websites to publish.
It is now his belief that the Russians were involved, but it took three months for him to arrive at that conclusion, and he still says 'it could have been others also.'
Earlier this week a dossier containing gossip about Trump that was allegedly compiled for one of his primary opponents, and later, Clinton, was released online, setting off a days-long, international conversation about the president-elect's sex life.
The document claimed Trump engaged in ' perverted sexual acts' with prostitutes in a Moscow hotel room. Not only did the Russian government know about his dirty deeds, they allegedly had a tape of Trump getting a golden shower from a hooker.
Trump says the ' facts' in the book are ' totally made up' - and Russian government has denied that it has the videotape.
He's accused the intelligence community of passing the dossier to the media to hamstring his administration. Greenwald said this week in an Intercept article that he thinks it was the Clintonsupporting CIA.
' The Deep State unleashed its tawdriest and most aggressive assault yet on Trump: vesting credibility in and then causing the public disclosure of a completely unvetted and unverified document,' he said in a piece that denounced the tactics.