US presidential candidate Donald Trump says he does not trust the intelligence produced by the American spy agencies, citing the situation in the Middle East.
In response to a question on whether he “trust[s] intelligence,” the Republican nominee replied “Not so much from the people that have been doing it for our country.”
He made the comments in an interview aired on “Fox and Friends” Wednesday morning, hours before he was set to receive his first classified intelligence briefing.
“I mean, look what’s happened over the last 10 years. … It’s been catastrophic,” he said. “Very easy to use them, but I won’t use them, because they’ve made such bad decisions.”
The real estate mogul was apparently referring to apparent intelligence failures preceding the 2001 war on Afghanistan and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
His comments undermine the American spy network, consisting of 16 federal intelligence agencies and tens of thousands of…