Intelligence operatives across the america who do most of their work in private, in secret, and are not recognized for it. is there some sense of what the president attacking them results in? it s never good when there s daylight between the intelligence community and the president. it is not good for our national security. it undermines it. i would say my former colleagues are deeply concerned. clapper was talking the president s stability and tempment among other things. but when you get down to what s happening on the street, you try to recruit people to provide critical intelligence to senior policymakers. right now the united states is its leadership is seen as so inconsistent and chaotic, it is that much harder to try to recruit someone to say, okay, i believe in your formful government and how you re doing it. we have managed to lose the moral and political and economic