“I suspect that this is something that Director Pompeo never wanted to do,” Hayden said. “He had to have been pushed” by Trump to have this meeting.

Clapper agreed. “I would imagine, given the length of time the President bugged Pompeo, that he saw him reluctantly.”

The reluctance would have been understandable, Hayden added, speculating that Pompeo “understood how it would be viewed by intelligence professionals. All bad. At least the agency restated its commitment to the standing intel community judgement.”

Hayden added that the CIA director had to have known that “there would be an internal price and Binney would never keep it quiet.”