'He will die in jail': Intelligence community ready to 'go nuclear' on Trump, senior source says

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90. Agree in principle, but context is important

I agree that in general having unelected intelligence agents/agencies sabotage our elected officials is not a good thing and is destructive to the fabric of our country. However... this is a HIGHLY unusual circumstance, in essence the agents and officials leaking information to the press are acting as whistleblowers for the country. Yes they happen to come from intelligence agencies, but that's because of the nature of the activity/crime Trump and his associates are accused of; collusion with intelligence operatives of an adversarial foreign power in a bid to have that foreign enemy aid in their election by using its clandestine services to violate US law and hack into the computer systems of their opponents and weaponize the information they obtain by selectively leaking it at opportune times, among other illicit activity (such as the misinformation campaign), in exchange for adjusting US policy to be more favorable to said adversary in most major areas of concern.

Seeing as the "crime" or activity that's alleged directly relates to the mission of US intelligence agencies, whistleblowing would have to come from these intelligence agencies. If Donald was alleged to be telling the EPA not to enforce the clean air act at all, we'd expect whistleblowers at that agency to step forward and leak to the press what was going on, it's the same thing here, only because it's intel agencies is it that some may feel uncomfortable about it.

So while I agree with you that intelligence agencies trying to bring down elected officials is usually very corrosive and destructive to our country, I think having our country's elected leadership colluding with foreign enemies running a campaign to discredit American democracy is worse.