Remember Fusion GPS, massive leaks, fake dossiers, and rogue FBI counterintelligence agents? Oh, and how about the 51 ex-intel officials who smeared the New York Post’s report on Hunter Biden’s laptop as “Russian disinformation?”

President-elect Donald Trump has more than good reason to distrust the intelligence community and ensure that we have real reforms within the IC, as well as have true American patriots in leadership positions.

However, Trump is not the first president to have real concerns about the American Intelligence Community. President Dwight Eisenhower, in the 1950s, also had good reason to distrust the IC, much of it stemming from the fact that the CIA and the National Security Agency (NSA) couldn’t get along, and were constantly trying to sabotage the other.

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