I guess someone is going to have to hack the CIA to find out who these “secret” assessors are, huh?
Why is this assessment not on the record?
Is this #FakeNews?
Trump has consistently dismissed the intelligence community’s findings about Russian hacking. “I don’t believe they interfered” in the election, he told Time magazine this week. The hacking, he said, “could be Russia. And it could be China. And it could be some guy in his home in New Jersey.”
The CIA shared its latest assessment with key senators in a closed-door briefing on Capitol Hill last week, in which agency officials cited a growing body of intelligence from multiple sources. Agency briefers told the senators it was now “quite clear” that electing Trump was Russia’s goal, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters.
The CIA presentation to senators about Russia’s intentions fell short of a formal U.S. assessment produced by all 17 intelligence agencies. A senior U.S. official said there were minor disagreements among intelligence officials about the agency’s assessment, in part because some questions remain unanswered.
For example, intelligence agencies do not have specific intelligence showing officials in the Kremlin “directing” the identified individuals to pass the Democratic emails to WikiLeaks, a second senior U.S. official said. Those actors, according to the official, were “one step” removed from the Russian government, rather than government employees. Moscow has in the past used middlemen to participate in sensitive intelligence operations so it has plausible deniability.
Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has said in a television interview that the “Russian government is not the source.”
Does the Central INTELLIGENCE Agency really think that the public needed the Russians to tell them that Hillary was a corrupt, cold as ice, crooked, good-for-nothing liar?
Please.
ht/ all too much
The article says they did it by doing the MSMs job of exposing the truth.
Welp, it’s in the WAPO, so the science is settled.
Alright, I’ll admit it-I’m the Russki spy who feeds info to all the news outlets,WikiLeaks, the CIA & those shitty right wing blogs. *phew*
Glad it’s all out in the open. Back to my cold med induced napping.
While I believe Russia probably hacked DNC emails (Hell with their arrogant, complete lack of security who didn’t?) I refuse to believe the Ruskies interviened with or swayed the election. That bitter, old Bitch couldn’t even fill a gym at her rallys, let alone anything close to the turn-outs and enthusiasm behind Trump! She got a lot of votes from bussing paid-deadbeats around, pushing illegals into the voting booths and getting people like my old man who’s been dead for twenty years to vote for her! If anything they are simply once again pointing the finger of blame at something they themselves would do… and I’m betting that’s how it all got dreamed up!
That all bullshit! There WAS NO HACK. It was a classic phasing scam and the morons at the DNC were too stupid to recognize it. These ARE NOT the people we want is charge of national security much less the nuclear codes. Besides, everything that was released was the truth. They did the American people a favor and exposed HilLIARy and her motions as the horrible., lying, racist, narcissistic douchebags they really are are behind closed doors.
So Russia wanted Trump instead of Hillary and assisted in his election because he will MAGA, rebuild the military and confront them and China on the world stage – LOL
Wouldn’t it have been easier to elect her and simply pay her off to achieve their global goals?
P.S. – If this inaccurate BS is representative of the current quality of CIA work, it is no wonder we got our asses handed to us the last 8 years
I love the Russians. Better class of people than the fuckin’ arabs.
And yes I’m a fucki8n’ racist. Have been for eight years.
OK. This is downright embarrassing now.
CIA? Really? Not really “secret” now, huh? What’s the NSA do these days?
This is deflexion. The problem is not the hacker (it wasn’t a hack).
It’s that they have systems made of swiss cheese and stupid old crooked farts like Hillary playing with technology, making herself rich. Stupid old fart Podesta loses his iPhone in August of 2015. Wanna bet his password was “pizza”? With this bunch, who needs a hacker?
Gotta blame the boogeymen, Russia and Assange.
Who believes this crap, besides liberals?
I don’t believe a damn word of it. Isn’t John Brennan, the MUSLIM COVERT still stilling at the helm of the CIA? The CIA is just another government agency that needs to be thoroughly PURGED.
It was an inside job. Which organizations within the government has access to EVERYONES emails? DHS. They HATE Hillary. Seriously.