They are wrong.
Permission from 'the intelligence community' and/or 'the press boys they leak' to is NOT required.
(What are the intelligence boys and MSM afraid of? Does Putin have something juicy on one of their 'pets' or on them? Maybe stuff on Clinton or Bernie that will blow them out of the water? Maybe major betrayals of the United States by the people who are suppose to protect us? There's reason liberal elite globalists are scared to our President talking to Putin...)