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Bombshell Report: US Spies Keeping Secrets from Trump

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The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that intelligence agencies are withholding sensitive information from President Donald Trump for fear that secrets could be leaked or compromised.

Citing current and former intelligence officials familiar with the matter, the newspaper said the decision underscores a deep mistrust between the president and the intelligence community.

President Trump has been dogged in recent days by revelations that his campaign had regular contact with the Russian government, and his national security adviser resigned Monday after admitting to discussion sanctions with the Russian ambassador before the inauguration and misleading Vice President Mike Pence about the conversations.

On Wednesday, Trump took to Twitter to criticize the intelligence community, accusing agencies of leaking information illegally to undermine him.

The report says that current and former officials said that some information was withheld from previous presidents, including the identity of sources who might need to be protected, since the president would only need to know the content of the intelligence, not the manner in which it was obtained or its source. But in these previous cases in which information was withheld, the decision wasn’t motivated by a concern about a president’s trustworthiness, as it is now, the current and former officials said.