Posted on 07/08/2017 1:18:37 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Donald Trump, speaking in Poland July 6, downplayed the strength of the intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia meddled in the election to his benefit.
He justified his doubt by noting that the New York Times and the Associated Press recently corrected stories to clarify that four agencies, rather than 17, were directly involved in the January intelligence assessment about Russia’s interference in the election.
"I heard it was 17 agencies. I said, boy, that’s a lot. Do we even have that many intelligence agencies? Right, let’s check that," Trump told NBC’s Hallie Jackson. "We did some heavy research. It turned out to be three or four. It wasn’t 17. ... I agree, I think it was Russia, but I think it was probably other people and/or countries, and I see nothing wrong with that statement. Nobody really knows. Nobody really knows for sure."
(Excerpt) Read more at politifact.com ...
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2016/12/16/facebook-fact-checker-politifact-funded-by-clinton-foundation-donor/
If it so important then get your Rat party to turn over their servers and let’s find out what really happened.
What if the real number is zero? You’d believe it anyway.
My gosh, John Bolton was almost unwatchable on Lou Dobbs last night.
I could not believe it.
Seemed like he was obsessed with leftist talking points.
Did the pod people snatch his body?
He admitted nothing meaningful happened but that it was still a big deal. Lou Dobbs just kept interrupting him because Lou was so stunned, too. You could read Lou’s face.
[If it so important then get your Rat party to turn over their servers and let’s find out what really happened.]
Stop making sense.
Nonetheless, the DNC has stalled long enough for their lackeys to scrub whatever it was they were trying to hide.
Hrrrmpf. Does the NSA still have Hillary’s emails on the cloud backup in Utah as KimDotCom said? Or have they been scrubbed, too?
Comey’s guys talked with the guys hired by the DNC. Russian hacking. Case closed. Seriously, they are welcome to keep going with this dead idea.
Sometimes these guys have tp spout nonsense (as long as its entertaining nonsense) to keep the “talking head gigs” coming. I know a “talking head” that’s what he says!
again “news shows” are a form of entertainment they only want you to think they are there to inform!
TV, radio even newspaper news is mostly entertainment not information.
Even if all 17 agencies agreed, and even if all of them actually had expertise and responsibility in the relevant areas (which almost none of them did,) they still have no evidence that can’t easily be forged, misinterpreted or otherwise strongly challenged. One such challenge is that they aren’t even willing to show what they claim to have. “No show” means it’s not admissable.
And there is much stronger evidence that the “hacking” was done by DNC insiders and agents of the US deep state.
I couldn’t believe this was the John Bolton I rooted for, for so long.
I mean, seriously, anyone who is surprised that other nations try to influence other nations has not been paying attention, especially since 1932.
Next, they’re gonna be stunned that nations spy on each other; even allies!
Shocking!
Statute? Crickets.
All the “attacks” resulted from Russian phishing emails. I get Russian phishing emails almost every week!
The only example of premeditated cleverness was that one of the phishing emails was falsely “sent” from an executive at a company that sells election software and hardware.
This entire hack could have been pulled off by a group of Russian university students.
Why the Clintonistas push the Russian Election Myth so obsessively: trying to distract from the Clinton Corruption Facts.
Consider that the Patriot Act with Homeland Security resulting in the megalithic Intelligence monster was first staffed by NeoCons and Globalists was part and parcel of the GWB admin. Along with the introduction of CAIR oversight of sorts which included the FBI.
Then add 8 more years of Obamas depredations against the Constitution and we’ve had 16 years of, at best luke warm patriotism, with a globalist New Word Order foundation and Obama’s treasonous termites introduced into the mix, then the current state of affairs was inevitable.
16 years of stacking the deck means damn near everone in the intel community is a fifth columnist, co-opted , or threatened into silence until pension time, if not terminated through “ your desk is now in the hall” edicts.
Just exactly what was the conclusion of the “17 or so” agencies? What exactly did they find??
It wasn’t even three agencies. DNI James Clapper chose a panel of intel operatives from 3 agencies: CIA, NSA and the FBI.
Don’t forget, Clapper is a known perjurer.
Don’t forget also, they relied upon an assessment provided by Crowdstrike - a company which is funded by tens of millions of dollars from Clinton associates and which retracted major parts of its assessment. These intel operatives never did an independent assessment.
i’m reminded about joe macarthy’s 57 communists. why does the left pillory him and not these guys?
The 17 organizations differ on their missions and scope, so they wouldn’t all be expected to contribute to every intelligence assessment, including one of this import.
This is spin. The glass is half-full.
Surely, the point is that 17 agencies didn't say Russia was to blame and that Clinton was wrong when she said it.
If you disagreed with her assessment, you probably pointed out that the Coast Guard, the Energy Department, the DEA, and Geospacial Intelligence probably didn't investigate the matter and conclude that Russia was to blame.
Now Politifact is trying to use the fact that those agencies weren't involved -- something they didn't see fit to mention at the time -- to support their false assessment of the facts.
Shameless.
What people are missing is that this was under Obama. These people are all political in these agencies. The leftovers from the Obama Admin have been leaking under Trump while working under him!
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