Since the CIA claims that Putin hacked the US presidential election on behalf of Donald Trump, there have been repeated reports that the CIA’s assessment was not that of the rest of the intelligence community, and in particular the FBI. Today, however, the FBI and the Director of National Intelligence are both insisting they totally agree with the CIA assessment.
According to CIA Director John Brennan, he met separately with both FBI Director James Comey and DNI James Clapper, and that they came to “a strong consensus” that the CIA narrative of what happened is what they’re all going to agree on.
Interesting, despite the FBI disagreement being a major talking point over the week, the FBI insists they never disagreed with the CIA at all, and that there was no change of any sort in their conclusion that Russia hacked the election directly with an eye toward getting Trump elected.
The FBI was the agency charged with investigating the allegations in the first place, and it remains both unclear how the CIA ended up being the ones who get to draw the official conclusion, and whether any evidence actually exists to support these claims. Indeed, the FBI’s inability to come up with evidence backing these allegations was a reason they were said to be refusing to endorse the CIA position, and led to angry condemnation by Congressional Democrats, who accused Comey of being in league with the Republicans.
From an official perspective, the lack of evidence appears very much beside the point, with President Obama promising to carry out revenge attacks on Russia and everyone in the outgoing administration claiming that the Russian plot was “obvious.”
Obama’s final FU to Trump and the nation will be to start a war with Russia before Trump’s inauguration.
I hope that Trump has the cajones to clean out the FBI and the CIA.
JFK thought he might. You see how that turned out.
Yeah! Right you are.
JFK was no Donald Trump.
Can’t make the comparison until we see if Trump, as president, stands up to Israel, which is what cost JFK his life.
Way too soon to tell.
He won’t “stand up” to Israel. He will fake them out. He’s had to deal with their ilk throughout his career and knows what he is doing. They won’t know what he did until they are ruined.
Time will tell.
What do balls have to do with it? And, can we speak English here?
But you seem to understand Spanish just fine–thanks to your criminal leaders of the past few decades.
LOL!
I am sure Russia is aware of that and will prevent it.
I wish Putin would drain that swamp before Trump takes the inaugural oath!
Comey pussies out again.
Where is the proof. We’ve been waiting for sometime now. Confrontation with Russia should not be taken lightly.
There is no proof. It’s a bald-faced lie, just like everything else has been with Barack Obama and Bush II before him.
This would be the same FBI that waded through a mountain of damning evidence against Hillary, laid out all the evidence against her and the likely crimes she committed, then said she didn’t do anything wrong. Boy, they must have Comey on tape sexually assaulting small children or worse. What a useless agency.
Totally useless and in need of budgetary euthanasia.
Fire them all. Then arrest them all and leisurely sort out the crooks.
Well then, a whole lot of FBI people need to be removed as well from their jobs.
And sent to prison for life.
At this point, given that Craig Murray has fessed up to being a Wikileaks operative in the Daily Mail, meeting with an intermediary of Democratic Party whistleblowers, and himself delivering to goods to Wikileaks, this whole episode is possibly nothing about Russia.
The Shadow State has no idea who leaked at the DNC, but would really, really like to know.
This entire histrionic drama appears to be an attempt to smoke out the DNC leakers by creating the panic of an international incident, with the bonus of sabotaging Trump in the process. Craig Murray broke, now they need the next person in the chain.
Strangely missing from all of these allegations of Russian interference in our elections is any mention of the role of Wikileaks, which happens to be the publisher of the hacked information — and which has publicly denied that its source was Russia. Even if the latter denial were not true, unless Wikileaks is really a Russian agent and not the independent organization which it claims to be, it seems obvious that the selection and timing of the damaging leaks about Clinton were decided by Wikileaks and not by Russia. So why is there no inquiry by the press or by our Government into why Wikileaks chose to interfere with our elections by choosing to publish hacked information damaging only to one presidential candidate, at critical times during the election campaign? I recognize the (limited) First Amendment right of Wikileaks to protect its sources, but surely that right does not preclude asking Wikileaks to explain why it selectively published the hacked information as it did.
It was NOT hacked emails that Wikileaks disclosed but LEAKED emails. Both Assange an Craig Murray who claims to know the leaker and any number of others point this out.
“…explain why it selectively published the [leaked] information as it did.”
Publishing information, however obtained, about an opposition candidate in an electoral contest, is called participating in the campaign. It’s called speaking out, speaking freely, promoting one’s point of view concerning the candidate. It’s called political speech, and is the very essence of freedom: exercising the protected right of the people to participate in the political process.
And this right is not restricted to Americans just because it’s an American election. Anyone anywhere on the planet, allies and adversaries alike, partners and competitors, the man/woman on the street, anyone/everyone, to say whatever they damn well want to say. If Putin wants to say Trump’s a great guy, or that Hillary is a death-worshipping, man-hating, bull djke, I say, “Please, speak up! Get a bullhorn. Rent a thousand billboards. Let’s hear from ***EVERYONE***! Let freedom ring!”
Personally, I think Putin bore a Russian national security leadership responsibility to do whatever he could to get Trump elected, and clearly, with or without his “participation”, he got the outcome he favored. He also got the outcome I favored, so I’m fully supportive of whatever contribution he may have made.
The Neocon/Zionist subversion of the US govt has turned the US into a global-death-machine-for-Israel, and I welcome and support ***any*** interference — especially non-violent interference — from anywhere on the planet, that diminishes its savagery.
This formulation, “hacked the election” is so imprecise as to be meaningless. Many will take this to mean that the vote count was altered and no one is even claiming that. The formulation should not be used in careful, critical journalism.
The volte-face by the FBI smells to high heaven of pressure being applied to get the Bureau to change its position.
Finally the Russkies are now turning up under ever more beds. A British Parliamentarian and the UK MSM report the Putin is responsible for the Brexit victory, and Merkel is claiming Putin is trying to bring her down.
Check under your own bed before you go to sleep – just to be safe.
The Director of National Intelligence would never lie under oath to Congress either, right? lol.
This whole thing has turned completely political in order to one sabotage Trump’s legitimacy and two sabotage any possibility of establishing any type of good relations with Russia.
These people are all patently guilty of sedition.
If it were true the NSA would have known about it in the first place. Apparently hey are not!
Yes, the NSA is the proper agency to deal with this, not the CIA or FBI.
Comey, Clapper and Brennan are three national security criminals who belong in prison for life. They are all three now guilty of sedition, treason, lying under color of authority, and conspiracy.
When enough might is finally brought to bear on the extra-national criminal organization of which these three ‘men’ are part and parcel of, the world will finally see a great step forward.