Donald Trump has not been a fan of the intelligence community.

For months, he denied over and over and over and over again the intelligence community's

conclusions that the Russian government actors were behind the WikiLeaks targeting Hillary Clinton.

Now, Trump accuses the intelligence community of leaking information about a confidential briefing.

Trump went on a rampage on Twitter against the intelligence community over the leaks.

He said, quote, intelligence agencies should never have allowed this fake news to leak into the public.

One last shot at me. Are we living in Nazi Germany?

Trump says the briefing did not include information from the now infamous BuzzFeed report that accused Trump of being in bed or peeing on the bed with the Russians.

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper suggests that Trump was informed of such reports

and says the intelligence community was not responsible for the leak. So, is the

intelligence community at war with Trump? If so, that's no real shock. Commentators have said

for months that anyone who attacks the intelligence community will find themselves on the

wrong end of nasty leaks. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer threatened Trump, quote, let me tell

you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday to get back at you.

So even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he is being really dumb to do this.

And the left has accused the intelligence community of tossing the election to Trump as a way of

targeting Hillary Clinton, thanks to FBI director James Comey's announcement a week and a half before the

election that Hillary's emails were still under investigation.

This is actually kind of frightening stuff.

The intelligence community is not its own government.

Independent executive agencies that have access to classified information are inherently

dangerous. They require a high level of trust to classified information are inherently dangerous.

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