Trump camp denies ‘100 per cent false’ report president-elect plans to cut CIA staff and ‘restructure’ agency amid fears of ‘politicized’ agency following Russian hacking saga
Wall Street Journal report on Thursday said Trump would be downsizing CIA’s headquarters and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence
An insider told the paper that Trump says ‘the intelligence world [is] completely politicized’
Purported plan included downsizing the CIA
Trump spokesman now says that Wall Street Journal story is ‘100 per cent false’
‘There is no truth to this idea of restructuring the intelligence community infrastructure,’ Sean Spicer told reporters
By DAVID MARTOSKO, US POLITICAL EDITOR
DailyMail.com
5 January 2017
Donald Trump’s chief spokesman said Thursday that there’s ‘no truth’ to a news report describing a plan by the president-elect to downsize the CIA’s headquarters and ‘restructure’ America’s intelligence agencies in order to de-politicize them.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump and his national security team were set to move more CIA agents to foreign posts along with ‘streamlining’ the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
But in a conference call with reporters, Trump’s incoming press secretary Sean Spicer completely denied the story, which was based on anonymous sources who claimed to have inside knowledge of the transition team’s intentions.
‘These reports are false. All transition activities are for information gathering purposes and all discussions are tentative,’ Spicer said.
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