Trump appears to offer olive branch to intelligence community

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President-elect Trump suggested Sunday morning he endorses the idea of keeping politics out of intelligence, offering a potential easing of tensions with intelligence agencies.

Amid a burst of tweets on Sunday morning, Trump quoted his counselor Kellyanne Conway saying in a television appearance Sunday that “we certainly don’t want intelligence interfering with politics and we don’t want politics interfering with intelligence.”

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