As I recall, the job of the “deep state” is to deal with Russian assets like Trump. I don’t think there are a whole lot of spy types in that community. All the secrecy about “ops” personnel and their assets is to keep them from getting discovered and knocked off by the bad guys. A lot of the rest is to hide how badly screwed up the budget of the NSA and CIA are, but there is also the issue of “what do we know” and “what are our sources and methods” and that our humint capabilities are totally compromised. (“Happy birthday, Vlad! I don’t know what all these funny “Nato intelligence assets in Eastern Europe” spreadsheets do, given that I can’t open Excel. I figured you’d like it. Enjoy.”)
