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US President Donald Trump's standoff with the intelligence community leadership formed under the previous Obama, Bush and Clinton administrations continues, Israeli analyst Avigdor Eskin told Sputnik, stressing that Trump is the first president to have risen up against the US establishment.
Ex-CIA and ex-NSA chief Michael Vincent Hayden has written nothing short of a manifesto,
calling upon his former colleagues, including John Brennan, James Clapper, Jim Comey and Robert Mueller, to oppose US President Donald Trump, says Israeli political analyst Avigdor Eskin, commenting on Hayden's book "
The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies."
In his opus the retired Air Force general and former intelligence chief has raised the alarm over Donald Trump's new approach and new foreign strategy, which differ a lot from those of his predecessors.
"We in the intelligence world have dealt with obstinate and argumentative presidents through the years," Hayden wrote in his
op-ed for
The New York Times. "But we have never served a president for whom ground truth really doesn't matter."
Furthermore, Hayden hinted that the US president is up in arms about the American intelligence community: "[Trump] humiliated the attorney general, undercut his national security adviser and engaged in
personal vendettas against senior FBI officials."
Likewise, the former intelligence chief is discontent with Trump's attitude
towards Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe. Speaking at ABC's "This Week" in late May, Hayden said that the US president "is simply trying to delegitimatize the Mueller investigation, the FBI, the Department of Justice" presuming that Trump "is willing to throw almost anything against the wall."
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