President Trump has gotten off to a rough start with the intelligence community.
The day after being sworn in, Trump spoke at CIA headquarters in an apparent attempt to mend his relationship with the agency. The relationship was frayed in large part due to Trump’s skepticism about an intelligence assessment that suggested Russia had hacked into the emails of the Democratic National Committee and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
Where did this skepticism come from? Trump – along with some security experts – has expressed doubt about the complexity of cyber attack attribution and the reliability of the intelligence sources. …read more
Source: The Conversation
