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Upheaval and purge planned for intelligence community after huge Donald Trump victory

US President-elect Donald Trump.
US President-elect Donald Trump. © Reuters
The intelligence services were a major Trump obsession during his first term and will again be at the heart of his new agenda. The political realignment brought about by his victory has given him the means to radically transform a bureaucracy he has perceived as hostile. [...]
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