In the na?ve 70's I saw FBI and CIA documents that were shocking.
Today I realize the outrageous statements were from ass hole analysts who believed their job was to write things their boss wanted to hear.
While attitudes influence policy it is not actual policy. They sweat the small stuff but missed the fall of the USSR.

Today's Presidential policy of internal destruction is unhelpful and dangerous.

Next week Trump goes to S.Korea and will not meet our ambassador because we do not have one. He never appointed one, but fired the existing ambassador appointed by Obama.