The whistle blower (leakers) should be put on hold until AG Barr’s investigation is complete and see where the chips fall with the Obama/Brennan coup.

This all started in the Obama administration and then CIA John Brennan/Comey/Hillary Clinton/Democratic Party and their coup.

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Washington Examiner

by Rob Crilly

October 07, 2019 12:00 AM

Trump relationship with CIA sinks to new low after whistleblower allegation

(The whistle blowers are both leakers – still working with the Democrats to take over the government.)

This all started in the Obama administration and then CIA John Brennan/Comey/Hillary Clinton/Democratic Party and their coup.

This leaves Haspel, a career CIA officer and former London station chief, to rebuild relationships damaged on both sides, according to Fred Fleitz, former National Security Council chief of staff.

“I don’t know whether she’ll be speaking out, but I think she’ll be doing her best to reassure the president about the intelligence that he gets and to reassure the professionals at Langley that the president appreciates what they are doing and we can move past this incident,” he said.

Both sides blame the other for the dysfunction. Trump allies say the trouble began with the intelligence community’s distrust of the Republican nominee in 2016. Harry Reid, the then-minority Senate leader, implored officials delivering classified briefings not to divulge secrets after Trump encouraged Russian hackers to hunt down Hillary Clinton’s missing emails.

Then days before his inauguration, intelligence agencies revealed they believed that Russia ran an influence campaign to help Trump triumph over Clinton — a conclusion interpreted by the president as an attempt to undermine his victory.

Kevin Carroll, a former CIA case officer, said, “It’s a very troubled relationship. Trump got it off to a terrible start with comments during the transition, comparing the intelligence community to the Nazis, and then his buffoonery in front of the memorial wall the day after he was inaugurated.”

On his first full day in office, Trump gave a speech at CIA headquarters. He stood on what CIA officers view as hallowed ground in front of a memorial to fallen agents where he launched an angry attack on the media and boasted about the size of his inaugural crowd.

It set the stage for a series of bitter public clashes, including an ongoing feud with President Barack Obama’s CIA director, John Brennan, who, like Haspel, was a career CIA officer.

In Helsinki last year, Trump seemingly sided with Russian President Vladimir Putin and contradicted his intelligence agencies’ view on the election hacking, saying, “I don’t see any reason why” Russia would have been involved.

This year, he contradicted evidence given by his intelligence chiefs that North Korea was unlikely to give up its nuclear weapons and that Iran was continuing to comply with the 2015 nuclear deal. “The intelligence people seem to be extremely passive and naive when it comes to the dangers of Iran,” he tweeted.

Glenn Carle, who spent 23 years with the CIA, said tensions were nothing new but had been taken to another level by a president who struggled to accept criticism. “The intel community — and the CIA in particular — is designed to be separate from the political process, with the mission of speaking truth to power, even if that is unpleasant,” he said. “So frequently, the chief executive will dislike the intelligence community. Who wants to have someone raining on your parade?”

Both Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter had difficult relationships with the CIA. Subsequent chiefs worked to take their agencies out of the headlines and rebuild relations, according to Fleitz.

“Mike Pompeo and Gina Haspel, I think, really repaired the relationship and showed the president how incredibly valuable intelligence is and how they are really patriots working for him,” he said.

Haspel is not only well-liked in the agency but has developed a good working relationship with Trump, he added, based in part on Pompeo’s endorsement.

But members of the intelligence world now fear the fallout from the president’s violent reaction to the complaint about his phone call with the president of Ukraine. Carroll said members of the intelligence community took such language very personally.

“It’s the sort of language that is thrown around on the far-right websites about the swamp, the elites, and the deep state, and now the most dangerous language which has been used now of treason and sabotage and coup d’état,” he said.

Haspel was unlikely to push back in support of her officer in public, he added. “I don’t know, and I shouldn’t know, and no one else should know what she may have said to him in private, but I would hope that she is sticking up for her officer,” he said.

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