Is the CIA really the "invisible government" that the so-called "conspiracy theorists" have warned about? Is there a "deep state" that tries to run the government behind-the-scenes?
Echoing New York Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer's warning that the intelligence community is out to "get" President-elect Trump, a Brookings Institution expert who served in the Clinton administration says that Trump's treatment of his spies will "come back to bite him" in the form of "devastating" leaks to the media that will make him look foolish or incompetent.
Leaking by intelligence officials and analysts is, of course, illegal.