The New Top-Down Mandat Within the Intelligence Agency

The intelligence agencies, which are led by political figures, John Brennan is effectively, who heads the CIA under the Obama administration, is effectively a political appointee. They begin now to interpret domestic, political movements that are pro-Trump or critical of what you might call sort of establishment politics or neoliberal politics. These actors can be understood to be in league with the Russian disinformation campaign that is aimed at destabilizing and undermining the American political process.