What did Chuck know way back when?
“”Harder to address, though, is the other half of the storysomething Democrat Sen. Chuck Schumer spoke of in glee, in response to then-president-elect Trumps criticism of U.S. intelligence agencies. Let me tell you: You take on the intelligence community they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you, Schumer told MSNBCs host Rachel Maddow.
Schumer wasnt alone in warning of U.S. intelligence agencies penchant for politicized revenge. A little over a week later, Daniel Benjamin, who had served as the principal counterterrorism advisor for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, scripted the scenario for Politico Magazine, writing:
Leakers and whistleblowers wont hesitate. What [former Deputy CIA Director] Morell and other intelligence veterans are too decorous to mention is that Trumps treatment of his spies will also come back to bite him in the form of leaking and whistleblowing. The intelligence community doesnt leak as much as the Pentagon or Congress, but when its reputation is at stake, it can do so to devastating effect.””
Exactly so.