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Jim Hanson: CIA’s ‘Politicized Intelligence’ About Russia Hacking the Election Is ‘Kind of a Joke’
Breitbart ^ | 12 Dec 2016 | John Hayward

Posted on 12/12/2016 12:56:03 PM PST by detective

Center for Security Policy Executive Vice President Jim Hanson discussed with SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Monday’s Breitbart News Daily claims that Russian hackers influenced the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. A deeply skeptical Hanson said there was “not a bit” of evidence Russia had anything to do with the election results. He found it “comical” that “all the news outlets on the Left – which is basically all the news outlets except you guys,” he said, “have been claiming that the CIA is completely averse to the politicization of intelligence.”

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections; Russia
KEYWORDS: cia; clinton; fakenews; trump; wikileaks
From the article:

“Here’s the thing: I think it’s funny that John Podesta, the political tool from Hillary’s campaign, whose emails showed all of this corruption, immediately claimed in internal communications that he had lost his cell phone, and that was the problem,” Hanson said. “It wasn’t until later, when the Hillary campaign needed an issue to rally people around, that they started claiming that ‘Oh, my God, the Russians hacked us, and this is just some nefarious plot to get Trump elected.’

1 posted on 12/12/2016 12:56:03 PM PST by detective
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To: detective

Since the 1990s the CIA has been manufacturing fake intelligence for the Democrat PR machine. From the fake intelligence about Saddam’s WMDs used to justify Clinton bombing Iraq during his Impeachment to the fake claim that the 09-11-2012 Benghazi attack was a response to a video, the CIA has been manufacturing poltical lies for the DNC

Time to drain the swamp at CIA.


2 posted on 12/12/2016 1:00:21 PM PST by MNJohnnie (Trump discriminates against non-successful people.)
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To: detective

The Democrats are so concerned about fake news and here is the lead story in the legacy media, a big fat fake news story.

Extraordinary hypocrisy


3 posted on 12/12/2016 1:09:50 PM PST by joshua c (Cut the cord! Don't pay for the rope they hang you with.)
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To: detective

Democrat beats up innocent bystander.
Democrat screams at Trump: “See what your presidency made me do!!!”
WAPO: “Donald Trump presidency causing wide scale violence across nation”.


4 posted on 12/12/2016 1:14:11 PM PST by No_More_Harkin
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To: detective

Does anybody remember “Bush lied people died”?..... what was Bush’s lie?....

the left mantra was that Bush politicized CIA to give bad information on the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq

....And ironically wasn’t that when Wikileaks started about that


5 posted on 12/12/2016 1:16:48 PM PST by tophat9000 (Tophat9000)
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To: detective
(From the article) :" He found it “comical” that “all the news outlets on the Left – which is basically all the news outlets except you guys,”
he said, “have been claiming that the CIA is completely averse to the politicization of intelligence.”

The same CIA that helped fabricate and facilitate the Benghazi arms exchange, that no one seems to remember ?
The CIA is not politicisized ?
You have to be kidding me !!

Yeah, the Obama administration has politicized the IRS , the FBI, the CIA, the EPA, the NOAA, the NSA, etc., etc...
Tell me another one ! .... ( Do I need a /s ?)

6 posted on 12/12/2016 1:17:12 PM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt (Immigration is a priveledge ,.... not a right ! Tell that to O'Bungler and the U.N.)
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To: MNJohnnie
Time to drain the swamp at CIA.

Not just the CIA but ALL the alphabet agencies in DC have been corrupted by the left.A task akin to the Augean Stable renovation.

7 posted on 12/12/2016 1:18:58 PM PST by Don Corleone (Oil the gun, eat the cannolis, take it to the mattress.)
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To: MNJohnnie

I pray Pompeo knows what he’s in for and is up to it. There are people in that agency with agendas not in the national interest. Politics aside.

I wish Vince Flynn were still alive. He’d be able to make this into a helluva novel. Plus, he was connected.


8 posted on 12/12/2016 1:19:39 PM PST by SE Mom (Screaming Eagle mom)
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To: detective
The CIA is trying to back out of this.

The CIA is now saying:

CIA: Washington Post Report Linking Russian Government to Trump & Election Hacking Is “Outright Lie”

http://truepundit.com/cia-washington-post-report-linking-russian-government-to-trump-election-hacking-is-outright-lie/

So the CIA now says that this nothing more than FAKENEWS created by msm, promoted by msm, Clinton, and Obama.

9 posted on 12/12/2016 1:21:01 PM PST by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: detective

The CIA has been politicizing intelligence reports since Billy “Blow Job” Clinton was in the White House.
The CIA has been an international intelligence joke since the 90’s; Zimbabwe has a better intelligence operation than the USA.


10 posted on 12/12/2016 1:22:32 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: ForYourChildren

Where are you getting this? Is an official statement being released? I think the CIA better release something and fast.


11 posted on 12/12/2016 1:22:43 PM PST by snarkytart
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To: snarkytart
I think the CIA better release something and fast.

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Agreed.

12 posted on 12/12/2016 1:24:26 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: ForYourChildren

Yea that’s just another unnamed source in the CIA.


13 posted on 12/12/2016 1:24:56 PM PST by snarkytart
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To: ForYourChildren

If it’s true, more than one, little-known site should have the story.


14 posted on 12/12/2016 1:25:32 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: snarkytart; trisham

Here is another one.. from The Guardian


A second senior official cited by the Washington Post conceded that intelligence agencies did not have specific proof that the Kremlin was “directing” the hackers.

Craig Murray, the former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, who is a close associate of Assange, called the CIA claims “bullshit”, adding: “They are absolutely making it up.”

“I know who leaked them,” Murray said. “I’ve met the person who leaked them, and they are certainly not Russian and it’s an insider. It’s a leak, not a hack; the two are different things.

“If what the CIA are saying is true, and the CIA’s statement refers to people who are known to be linked to the Russian state, they would have arrested someone if it was someone inside the United States.

“America has not been shy about arresting whistleblowers and it’s not been shy about extraditing hackers. They plainly have no knowledge whatsoever.”

The California Republican congressman Devin Nunes, chair of the House intelligence committee and a member of the Trump transition team, said: “I’ll be the first one to come out and point at Russia if there’s clear evidence, but there is no clear evidence – even now. There’s a lot of innuendo, lots of circumstantial evidence, that’s it.”

CIA concludes Russia interfered to help Trump win election, say reports

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/10/cia-concludes-russia-interfered-to-help-trump-win-election-report


15 posted on 12/12/2016 1:33:46 PM PST by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: detective

The CIA is not the FBI or a grand jury.

Their findings should be treated as conjecture.


16 posted on 12/12/2016 1:54:50 PM PST by cicero2k
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To: detective
I have had FOX on for a couple days and not one single show hasn't ran the Russian Hack story. Even Cavuto, who though a never Trumper is not totally insane, has pimped this story to the max.

Napalitano is even looking for ways to charge someone, guess the new managers told him to shut up and quit telling us that the President is immune from regular corruption charges that would destroy everyone else save the VP.

17 posted on 12/12/2016 2:00:41 PM PST by itsahoot (Three words I don't want to hear, Comprehensive Immigration Reform.)
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To: detective

This whole “CIA” fiasco is just more bull**** from Podesta. That boy needs to be in jail. He is engaging in subversion and treason, IMHO.


18 posted on 12/12/2016 2:12:27 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (As long as tyranny exists, the Constitution and Bill of Right will never be "outdated" or "obsolete")
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To: detective

Fake news amplified by fake news for morons, marxists & ‘rats. DECEIVERS are your overlords. When will you turn on these EVIL, life-wasting, POS punks?

Wake up and smell reality.


19 posted on 12/12/2016 2:22:07 PM PST by PGalt
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