i've heard from former colleagues. individuals still on the inside that they bother them too. fact of the matter is, ever since the cia was founded in 1947, there's been an understanding that intelligence and politics don't mix. cia needs space to provide policy makers with unbiased, unvarnished intelligence analysis that they need and deserve. that's why it's been so troubling to see president trump, time and again, put his finger on this scale, on the intelligence scale, whether as republican nominee casting aside the intelligence community's high confidence assessment that russia was actually behind this, or in this case, asking mike pompeo to meet with bill binney at cia headquarters, implicit signal that donald trump himself believes in this crazy theory. to me the most proximate analogy is if george w. bush asked