Hayden: ‘Getting close’ to intelligence community revolt over Trump’s declassification order

Published September 19, 2018 5:02pm ET



Former CIA Director Michael Hayden said “it’s getting close” to the time President Trump’s intelligence agency leaders stand up to their boss about his declassification order and quit if he doesn’t back down.

“Sooner or later, we will come to a point for what the president demands is so egregious … that the right thing for them to do, to signal the alarm, to send up the flare is to say if you want this done, Mr. President, it will have to be done by somebody else,” Hayden said Wednesday morning on CNN.

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