Such public protestation takes its toll on an intelligence community that historically has endeavored to produce data-driven and apolitical judgments, said Frank Montoya Jr., a former FBI supervisor who served as director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center.
Donald Trump's latest rejection of intelligence assessments reflects a long distrust of spy agencies
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But he noted the many workers in other realms of government who could be targeted by Russia or China,
As Donald Trump, Elon Musk fire thousands of federal workers, concerns about espionage rise
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