Trump’s battle with intelligence

Trump's election has been an unmitigated success for Putin's Russia

Donald Trump

It’s Friday morning. You’re the president elect of the United States, with less than two weeks to go before your feet are under the Oval Office desk. Even your Republican counterparts on Capitol Hill concede that when it comes to foreign policy, intelligence gathering and espionage ‘you don’t know what you don’t know.’

A meeting with four angry but extremely knowledgeable intelligence bosses is imminent. James Clapper, the director of National Intelligence; John ...