Statecraft

UPDATED: CIA officers complained that Obama White House was ‘nonstop PC’

Top CIA employees reportedly disliked the Obama administration's micromanaging of intelligence matters.

According to a new book by conservative commentator Doug Wead, titled Inside Trump's White House: The Real Story of His Presidency, CIA officials complained about President Barack Obama's level of involvement during a meeting with then-CIA Director Mike Pompeo.

"They met with the agency’s top five staff members. Someone from the White House asked about the major differences between the Trump administration and that of its predecessor," Wead wrote, citing an unnamed White House source. "Was there something the Trump folks could be doing better? One answer given was that in the last administration, everything was being run from the White House."

President Trump, on the other hand, was viewed more favorably for decentralizing control and giving more freedom to federal agencies, according to Wead's source.

"The new Trump theory was to let them make choices. If they’re not making those decisions themselves, then we can always pull it back up. So that was the first thing," Wead wrote.