Secret CIA assessment says Russia was trying to help Trump win White House
So says WAPO. And the Obama Administration. (URR here.) Actually, Drudge beat me to the punch in calling the CIA assessments "fake". As with most of the agitprop produced by the Obama Administration and its minions, including sycophant mainstream media fops, whatever "truth" may be contained in these assertions is both debatable and nearly irrelevant.
The article admits that the alleged Russian "hacking" of the DNC cannot be directly tied to Russia. But, of course, the article states with near certainty that it was agents acting on behalf of Russia who were responsible. While this may (and I emphasize MAY) be empirically true, the untold portion of that story is that many of these "agents" are also in the employ of the US government, covertly, and work for other entities such as Wikileaks, other foreign governments, or business interests. That is, in the Black Hat community, how they make their money. And they make a lot of it.
And much more is left untold. The hue and cry over Russia providing DNC e-mails to Wikileaks for release in order to influence the election neglects to mention that many of the Wikileaks e-mails regarding Hillary Clinton's State Department time show thousands upon thousands of leaks and compromise of classified information, and a trail of influence-peddling via the Clinton Foundation that would put any recorded conviction under RICO to shame. It also fails to mention that Hillary Clinton expunged some thirty thousand such items of correspondence, directing that the unauthorized server on which they were stored be erased with a sophisticated application (Bleachbit) not readily available to you and me. Despite the fact that this deletion was done AFTER that evidence was under active subpoena. And all the while she acted the innocent bumbler whose knowledge of computers was rudimentary at best.
President Obama, for his part, claims that Russian interference, if indeed true, somehow "crosses a new threshold". Either he is startlingly ignorant Soviet Russia's intrusion in virtually every US national and Congressional election from the 1920s to the present, which I doubt in the extreme, or Obama is once again being deliberately misleading to the American people. Such misrepresentation has been a staple of Obama's far-left Alinskyite propaganda campaign, and is indistinguishable from the lies told on his behalf by the beholden media. (See: "If you like your doctor", et. al., under Obamacare affordable, or "Benghazi protesters", or myriad other such subjects.)
In a parting shot as he sees his "legacy" falling apart like wet cardboard, Obama wants to lend his fading influence to the idea that the 2016 Presidential Election wasn't really valid, and seems to intend a "deep dive" into the supposed Russian influence (at taxpayer expense, of course) to prove so. O, but were he so interested in Fast and Furious, the rise of ISIS, Benghazi, the Clinton Foundation, Hillary's classified e-mails, the IRS scandal, the EPA scandal, the DOJ subpoena scandal, San Bernadino, Orlando, Fort Hood, Chattanooga, etc. But alas. On such matters as those, he is conspicuously uncurious, as is the Mainstream Media.
So we will be told by Obama how Russia "stole" the 2016 Presidential Election. Sans anything resembling proof, of course. With CIA Director Brennan's seconding of the motion. Trust anything they say, assert, or point to as salient fact at your own risk. Because, though they and their fellow travelers decry "fake news", they are the very purveyors of the product. And even after the results of the 2016 election show so powerfully that a great deal of the American people are onto them, they seem intent on avoiding reality, and on trying to convince the rest of us to do the same.
Oh, one more thing. I don't believe Benjamin Netanyahu had to dive very deep to find Barack Obama's fingerprints all over US attempts to influence Israel's elections. Seems ol' Bath House Barry and his merry band of Bolsheviks couldn't pick a winner there, either.
A traceback, a REAL one, would find the fingerprints of the BEAST, Soros, the RAT party, and their Propaganda Ministry (formerly known as 'the media') all over this steaming pile. It matters not at all. The only retards licking this up are the ones in the echo chamber.
Posted by: KenH | 12/10/2016 at 01:00 PM
I'm still clueless. My understanding is that, worst case, Russian intelligence hacked the DNC/whoever and released the emails. No one doubts the emails are real. So at worst, Russia is responsible for revealing the truth.
How does that invalidate an election or give cause to electoral reps to repudiate their pledged votes?
And why does the pentagon papers keep popping into my head?
Posted by: Krag | 12/10/2016 at 03:26 PM
CIA has become as politicized as the FBI and the DOJ. Some hard lessons coming soon to those folks.
Posted by: ron snyder | 12/10/2016 at 03:36 PM
This is an amusing situation. Talk about "shooting the messenger". Even if true, what exactly are those nasty Russians guilty of? Why, exposing the truth; educating the American voters about the reality of Democratic politics. The Russians allegedly turned over the rock, that's it. What slithered out, cringing in the sunlight, was not their creation. It is to laugh.
Actually, Bleachbit is a free, open-source disk cleaner available to anyone. It can be used on both Linux and Windows systems.
Oh, she is definitely an "innocent" (syn. ignorant) bumbler. Unfortunately for her, the IT people she used were also "innocent" bumblers, else her emails would never have seen the light of day.
Posted by: timactual | 12/10/2016 at 03:46 PM
@timactual,
Not sure her IT people were bumblers. My guess is that those who watch such things knew she was setting up a private server and account within days of its activation, perhaps hours. As for the Bleachbit version used on Hillary's server, I doubt very much it was the free version.
Posted by: ultimaratioregis | 12/10/2016 at 05:01 PM
"Even if true, what exactly are those nasty Russians guilty of? Why, exposing the truth[.]"
...So you're fine with Eric Snowden not being punished, then? [/sarc]
Posted by: Casey | 12/11/2016 at 10:37 AM
"..So you're fine with Eric Snowden not being punished, then? [/sarc] "
I didn't realize all those DNC, Podesta, etc. files were US gov't. secrets.
Also [/sarc]
Posted by: timactual | 12/12/2016 at 07:19 PM
Only Ted Kennedy can go to Russia for help in an election
Posted by: Jaedo Drax | 12/13/2016 at 05:59 AM
@timactual Those files were somebody's secrets.
Last I heard breaking the law was breaking the law; didn't know it was ok as long as you victimize the right people.
Posted by: Casey | 12/15/2016 at 07:32 AM
Hey xbrad, you notice something funny with the time date stamp on yer comments?
Posted by: terribletroy | 12/22/2016 at 08:36 AM
"didn't know it was ok as long as you victimize the right people."
Nope. It ain't. I am just fed up with all the hypocritical faux outrage. I am also a believer in the theory of contributory negligence.
Posted by: timactual | 12/22/2016 at 10:29 AM
@terribletroy,
URR here. I screwed this up bigtime by trying to correct a spelling error, and then I ended up re-publishing with yesterday's date. And I dunno how to un-ass it.
Posted by: ultimaratioregis | 12/22/2016 at 11:02 AM
Just caught my eye. Figured it was some sort of interwebz anomaly, or a break in the space time continuum.
Posted by: terribletroy | 12/22/2016 at 12:08 PM
@terribletroy.
It were the Russians! Yeah, the Rooskies did it!! And I got proof!
Posted by: ultimaratioregis | 12/22/2016 at 02:32 PM
timactual: fair enough. The hypocrisy does get old.
URR: Hmmm. We may have stumbled upon a new meme: "Ronny, why isn't your homework done? Aww, mom! The Russians hacked into my laptop and deleted it!"
Pity the idea didn't occur sooner. Anthony Wiener would have found the excuse useful.
Posted by: Casey | 12/24/2016 at 06:48 AM
At least the nightmare of Obama is coming to an end.
Posted by: SCOTTtheBADGER | 12/24/2016 at 04:58 PM