Cybersecurity

Trump Asks If Outgoing CIA Chief Was Leaker of ‘Fake News’

  • President-elect responds to criticism from CIA’s John Brennan
  • Tension between Trump, U.S. intelligence agencies on the rise

Trump: Intelligence Leak Something Nazi Germany Would Do

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President-elect Donald Trump appeared to suggest that outgoing CIA Director John Brennan may have been behind the publication last week of unverified and salacious intelligence connecting the president-elect to Russia.

The comments on Twitter came hours after Brennan, in an interview on “Fox News Sunday,” called the Republican’s recent remarks about the U.S. intelligence community “outrageous,” and suggested that Trump’s overtures to improve relations with Russia are naïve.