In an interview with CNN's Fareed Zakaria, former CIA Director James Woolsey argues that former FBI director James Comey's admission that he was the source of a leaked memo documenting a private conversation with President Trump is symbolic of increasing disarray within the executive branch, of a sort the U.S. has never seen before.



Woolsey spoke more in depth about Comey in the full interview.



He says that many people in the intelligence community don't oppose President Trump's policies as much as they oppose his personality, and their blind hate towards him is leading them to tear down the fabric of the federal government's normal division of power. He also said certain agencies, without naming examples, were no longer serving the interests of the U.S. government, but were now serving their own goals and agendas.



"It is certainly something that we have to get our hands on, and we have to do it now. Because the next time the Russians try to interfere with our elections is a year and a half from now. We are going to lose our ability to choose our leaders if we don't understand and deal with it," Woolsey said about the threat from Russia, which most intelligence agencies are hopelessly distracted from.



"We have to get the executive branch, in particular the intelligence agencies and the law enforcement community, pulled together, working together, and behind the president in pulling things into a working order. We don't have that now. And I think some elements of both the intelligence community and the law enforcement community have veered off looking for the own interests, and not looking for the interests of the country. This has to get repaired, and it has to get repaired quickly," he explained.