‘In recent generations, U.S. allies abroad didn’t feel much of a need to curtail intelligence sharing with American officials. But as 2025 gets underway and Trump prepares to return to the White House, it’s a qualitatively different landscape. If all goes according to the president-elect’s plans, the U.S. will soon have:
an erratic president with a track record for allegedly mishandling classified information and blurting out sensitive intelligence secrets for reasons that have never been fully explained;
a director of national intelligence who repeatedly defended Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian regime and has been accused of “repeatedly echoing propaganda spread by Russia”;
and a CIA director with a reputation as a knee-jerk partisan operative, who was accused by a former CIA station chief of being “among the most destructive intelligence officials in U.S. history.”’
New reporting suggests foreign intelligence officials are taking steps to “limit how much sensitive intelligence they share with the Trump administration.”
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The US will also have a Secretary of Defense unwilling to oppose Trump when Trump issues unlawful orders as he did in his first term.