WSJ: Trump Set To Restructure Intel Agencies, Which He Thinks Are Biased

President-elect Donald Trump, center, accompanied by Trump Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, right, and retired Gen. Michael Flynn, a senior adviser to Trump, left, speaks to members of the media at Mar-a-Lago, in Palm ... President-elect Donald Trump, center, accompanied by Trump Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, right, and retired Gen. Michael Flynn, a senior adviser to Trump, left, speaks to members of the media at Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla., Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) MORE LESS
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Donald Trump and his transition team are working on a plan to revamp and reduce the size of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the CIA because the President-elect believes that the U.S. intelligence community is biased against him and has tried to undermine his election, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday evening.

Trump’s national security adviser, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, and his nominee to lead the CIA, Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS) also believe that the DNI and CIA are biased, and the two are helping devise the plan to restructure the agencies, according to the Journal.

Per the Wall Street Journal:

President-elect Donald Trump, a harsh critic of U.S. intelligence agencies, is working with top advisers on a plan that would restructure and pare back the nation’s top spy agency, people familiar with the planning said.

The move is prompted by his belief that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has become bloated and politicized, these people said.

One of the people familiar with Mr. Trump’s planning said advisers also are working on a plan to restructure the Central Intelligence Agency, cutting back on staffing at its Virginia headquarters and pushing more people out into field posts around the world. The CIA declined to comment.

Trump has repeatedly dismissed the intelligence community’s conclusion that Russian hackers were behind leaked emails from Democratic operatives and that the cyber attacks were an attempt to sway the 2016 election. Just this week, Trump tried to cast doubt on the conclusion that Russia was behind the hacks and cited Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s claim that he did not receive leaked emails from Russia.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Trump and some of his advisers believe that “the intelligence community’s position—that Russia tried to help his campaign—is an attempt to undermine his victory or say he didn’t win.”

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  1. Politicizing Intel agencies.
    What could go wrong?
    Did you get the suggestion from yer pal Vlad ?

    Just ignore the the breath on your neck as you drink your morning coffee.

  2. Trump doesn’t have to do this; he can just ignore inconvenient facts, and start a pointless war like the Bush Crime family.

  3. No, they’re ALREADY politicized. Trump is going to unpoliticize them. Now we will be able to get to the Bottom of where ObaMa was born and Flynn will get the goods on #pizzagate.

  4. This pointless swipe that everything Trump does is directed by Russia is puerile.

    You think it’s “insight” but it’s inane.

  5. If nothing else, this will be his complete undoing. And toot sweet.

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