WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The team of US President-elect Donald Trump is developing a plan to restructure ‘politicized’ US intelligence agencies, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, citing a person close to the Trump transition.
"The view from the Trump team is the intelligence world has become completely politicized … They all need to be slimmed down. The focus will be on restructuring the agencies and how they interact," the individual familiar with the matter was quoted as saying by WSJ.
On Wednesday, Trump expressed "healthy" and "sincere" skepticism about the US intelligence community’s claims Russia interfered with the 2016 US election, US Vice President-elect Mike Pence said.
Trump also sided with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange against the claims of the US Intelligence Community on the issue of the alleged Russian hacks. Trump repeated Assange's assertion that Russia did not give WikiLeaks information on the Democratic Party and its members.
The CIA has claimed that Russia was engaged in the hacking of US political institutions and individuals to help Trump win the US presidency.
Russian officials have repeatedly denied involvement in the US election, calling the hacking allegations absurd and noting that they are intended to distract the US public from revelation of corruption and other pressing domestic issues.
