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Former CIA spokesman George Little is blasting Donald Trump
Donald TrumpFocus on communications, not policy, sets Trump transition apart Foster Campbell's Senate defeat a wake-up call to passive Democrats Report: Russian attacks on Clinton camp continued until election day MORE for the president-elect's dismissal of the secret CIA assessment that concluded Russia intervened in the U.S. presidential election to help Trump win.
Donald TrumpFocus on communications, not policy, sets Trump transition apart Foster Campbell's Senate defeat a wake-up call to passive Democrats Report: Russian attacks on Clinton camp continued until election day MORE for the president-elect's dismissal of the secret CIA assessment that concluded Russia intervened in the U.S. presidential election to help Trump win.ADVERTISEMENT
"What we are seeing today, however, is unprecedented."
Little referenced comments Trump made on Sunday, when the president-elect called it "ridiculous" to think Russia intervened in the election to help him win.
"I think it's just another excuse. I don't believe it," Trump said in an interview on "Fox News Sunday."
"I don't know why and I think it's just — you know, they talked about all sorts of things. Every week it's another excuse."
Little called the president-elect's disrespect for the CIA and the wider intelligence community "noting short of shameful."
"It also disrupts one of the bedrocks of our strength: the application of foreign intelligence, often collected at great peril by the men and women of the CIA, to the development of policies that keep us safe," he wrote.
"We have never been here before. I hope we make a U-turn.”
