Glenn Greenwald says there's an 'obvious open warfare' between the intelligence community and president-elect Donald Trump that's becoming 'quite dangerous.'

The award-winning journalist and author who co-founded The Intercept told Fox News' Tucker Carlson there's 'clearly extreme conflict' between career intelligence agents and Trump, who insisted their intelligence on Russian hacking was wrong, 'and a lot of subversion taking place.'

And Democrats are cheering it on, Greenwald said, because they're 'hoping' the CIA will 'undermine and subvert and destroy the legitimacy of Donald Trump’s presidency before he’s even inaugurated.'

'I think what you’re seeing is actually quite dangerous.'

Glenn Greenwald says there's an 'obvious open warfare' between the intelligence community and president-elect Donald Trump that's becoming 'quite dangerous'

Trump initially rejected the intelligence community's assessment that Russia had meddled in the election, hacking Democrats' emails and giving the contents to anti-secrecy websites to publish.

It is now his belief that the Russians were involved, but it took three months for him to arrive at that conclusion, and he still says 'it could have been others also.'

Earlier this week a dossier containing gossip about Trump that was allegedly compiled for one of his primary opponents, and later, Clinton, was released online, setting off a days-long, international conversation about the president-elect's sex life.

The document claimed Trump engaged in 'perverted sexual acts' with prostitutes in a Moscow hotel room. Not only did the Russian government know about his dirty deeds, they allegedly had a tape of Trump getting a golden shower from a hooker.

Trump says the 'facts' in the book are 'totally made up' - and Russian government has denied that it has the videotape.

He's accused the intelligence community of passing the dossier to the media to hamstring his administration. Greenwald said this week in an Intercept article that he thinks it was the Clinton-supporting CIA.

'The Deep State unleashed its tawdriest and most aggressive assault yet on Trump: vesting credibility in and then causing the public disclosure of a completely unvetted and unverified document,' he said in a piece that denounced the tactics.

The CIA wanted Hillary Clinton to win the presidential election because Trump 'was a threat' to the institution's priorities and 'preeminence' in Washington, he told Carlson.

Now Democrats are 'hoping that, because they failed to do so, that this unelected faction in Washington will undermine and subvert and destroy the legitimacy of Donald Trump’s presidency before he’s even inaugurated,' Greenwald contended.

Greenwald said the CIA's 'number one foreign policy priority' in President Barack Obama's second term was the removal of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.

Clinton was 'quite critical of Obama for constraining them,' he said. She wanted to 'unleash' CIA. 'Whereas Trump an exact opposite position.'

'He was a threat to the CIA's primary institutional priority of regime change in Syria.' Greenwald said.

Democrats are cheering it on, Greenwald said, because they're 'hoping' the CIA will 'undermine and subvert and destroy the legitimacy of Donald Trump’s presidency before he’s even inaugurated'

'Beyond that, Clinton wanted a much more confrontational and belligerent posture toward Moscow, which the CIA has been acrimonious with for decades, whereas Trump wanted better relations,' he said. 'I think they viewed Trump as a threat to their institutional preeminence, to their ability to get their agenda imposed on Washington.'

Greenwald said the 'proxy war' between Trump-supporting factions within FBI and the CIA was on full display during the election.

FBI factions were 'undermining Hillary Clinton's candidacy in several different way' and the CIA was 'very strongly behind Hillary Clinton.'

Media outlets piled on, printing information provided to them by them by the CIA because they're ;aligned against Trump and will side with anybody who wants to subvert him,' Greenwald charged.

'I think it is quite dangerous if we start thinking about submitting to rule by these unelected, dark deep state overlords,' he told Carlson. 'I think it's the antithesis of democracy.'

Earlier this week a dossier containing gossip about Trump was released online. He's accused the intelligence community of passing the dossier to the media to hamstring his administration. Greenwald said he thinks it was the CIA

Greenwald is not a Trump supporter. He writes in The Intercept that there there are 'serious dangers posed by a Trump presidency' that 'are numerous and manifest.'

'Democrats, still reeling from their unexpected and traumatic election loss, as well a systemic collapse of their party, seemingly divorced further and further from reason with each passing day, are willing —eager— to embrace any claim, cheer any tactic, align with any villain, regardless of how unsupported, tawdry, and damaging those behaviors might be.'

They should focus on legitimate tactics to combat Trump, like civil disobedience and legal challenges, he said.

'Cheering for the CIA and its shadowy allies to unilaterally subvert the U.S. election and impose its own policy dictates on the elected president is both warped and self-destructive,' Greenwald wrote.

'There is no bigger favor that Trump opponents can do for him than attacking him with such lowly, shabby, obvious shams,' he said. 'When it comes time to expose actual Trump corruption and criminality, who is going to believe the people and institutions who have demonstrated they are willing to endorse any assertions no matter how factually baseless.'

Greenwald subsequently told Carlson he wants Democrats to oppose Trump in a 'cogent reasoned way and not cheer and root for the CIA to use their dirty tactics to undermine the president who just got elected.'