Is President-elect Trump’s critique of intel community misplaced?

President-elect Donald Trump has openly questioned and mocked the U.S. intelligence community’s assessment that Russia was behind cyberattacks during the 2016 campaign.
Before his Friday briefing on the hacking with leaders of the CIA, FBI, NSA and the Director of National Intelligence, Mr. Trump told the New York Times he thought the focus on Russia was “a political witch hunt.” Earlier this week, he tweeted: “The ‘Intelligence’ briefing on so-called ‘R