Citing the 'Deep State,' Trump overhauls the intelligence community

Revealed: The shocking reason Trump is dismantling America’s spy agencies

As the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks approaches, President Donald Trump has decided to overhaul the post-9/11 overhaul of the intelligence community, which he has seen as his enemy for so long. Trump has held a notable hostility toward the intel community since his first term, when he learned that he was included in investigations around 2016 Russian meddling in the election. Trump has a belief that officials investigated him, specifi…

Citing the 'Deep State,' Trump overhauls the intelligence community

The catastrophic 9/11 attacks forced the intelligence community to radically revamp its ways of doing business. Now, critics say, President Trump is dismantling much of what was built since then.

Citing the ‘Deep State,’ Trump overhauls the intelligence community

John Sipher spent nearly three decades at the CIA focused on the Russians, a core part of the agency's mission. That changed dramatically after the al-Qaida attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. "Frankly, tracking and hunting terrorists, finding people, finding a needle in a haystack was not something that we … Source

Citing the ‘Deep State,’ Trump overhauls the intelligence community : NPR

President Trump monitors U.S. military operations in Venezuela with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (left) and CIA Director John Ratcliffe (center) at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., on Jan. 3. U.S. forces captured Venezuela’s leader Nicolas Maduro and brought him to New York where he faces criminal charges. Molly Riley/AP via The White House hide caption […]