4. It's the personal nature of Trump's feud with IC, in keeping with his general resentment of experts, which is troubling.
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5. JKF & Carter both fought CIA with intent to reform. That's different than Trump using twitter to humiliate & subdue IC.
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6. If Trump has a precursor, it's Nixon, who spouted off (in private) about the "clowns over at Langley" & tried to suborn CIA in Watergate
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Nixon didn't think so. He told people he thought Agency worked against him in 1960 election.
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Political boilerplate. Read a good biography of Nixon and see what he said about CIA in private.
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From Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones's "The CIA and American Democracy" (Yale University Press). Widely considered a definitive book.pic.twitter.com/SGzczlkUgO
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