https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/08/16/comey-hayden-clapper-witch-hunters/
Trump may be paranoid, but he has real enemies among the emeriti of the intelligence establishment, and among them are the authors of three new books that collectively have sold up to a million copies: James Clapper, the overseer of American espionage from 2010 to 2017 as Obama’s director of national intelligence, Michael Hayden, who directed the NSA from 1999 to 2005 and the CIA from 2006 to 2009, and James Comey, whom Trump fired as the head of the FBI last year, and who may yet have his revenge. In the weird world that is Washington today, these politically conservative national security stalwarts—reviled by liberals, with reason, for their actions in office—have emerged as members of the opposition to Trump and as the focus of extreme ire from the right. By virtue of their high rank in the Deep State as Trump defines it, they are in his eyes among the most dangerous men in America. They by turns call Trump a liar and a fantasist, a threat to American national security, and a danger to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies
by Michael V. Hayden
Penguin, 292 pp., $28.00
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership
by James Comey
Flatiron, 290 pp., $29.99
Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence
by James R. Clapper, with Trey Brown
Viking, 424 pp., $30.00
Trump may be paranoid, but he has real enemies among the emeriti of the intelligence establishment, and among them are the authors of three new books that collectively have sold up to a million copies: James Clapper, the overseer of American espionage from 2010 to 2017 as Obama’s director of national intelligence, Michael Hayden, who directed the NSA from 1999 to 2005 and the CIA from 2006 to 2009, and James Comey, whom Trump fired as the head of the FBI last year, and who may yet have his revenge. In the weird world that is Washington today, these politically conservative national security stalwarts—reviled by liberals, with reason, for their actions in office—have emerged as members of the opposition to Trump and as the focus of extreme ire from the right. By virtue of their high rank in the Deep State as Trump defines it, they are in his eyes among the most dangerous men in America. They by turns call Trump a liar and a fantasist, a threat to American national security, and a danger to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies
by Michael V. Hayden
Penguin, 292 pp., $28.00
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership
by James Comey
Flatiron, 290 pp., $29.99
Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence
by James R. Clapper, with Trey Brown
Viking, 424 pp., $30.00
