Posted on 07/10/2017 12:34:33 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
When Hillary Clinton claimed 17 intelligence agencies agree on Russian meddling in the third presidential debate, a host of media outlets including The New York Times rated the claim as 100 percent true. Nine months later, those same outlets say the stat is obviously false, and theres been a simple explanation as to why all along.
A closer look at how the claim survived and thrived over those nine months reveals a startling lack of skepticism in the press when it comes to the Russia narrative. The truth is the great majority of the 17 agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community had nothing to do with the investigation and made no judgments about the matter.
The reason the views of only those four intelligence agencies, not all 17, were included in the assessment is simple: They were the ones tracking and analyzing the Russian campaign, The New York Times now reports. The rest were doing other work.
Strange admission for the paper, since its star political reporter recently reiterated the false claim as she was in the middle of writing an article characterizing President Trump as stubbornly foolish.
The latest presidential tweets were proof to dismayed members of Mr. Trumps party that he still refuses to acknowledge a basic fact agreed upon by 17 American intelligence agencies that he now oversees: Russia orchestrated the attacks, and did it to help him get elected, Maggie Haberman wrote. Her story was later corrected to reflect the basic fact that only three agencies working under the Director of National Intelligence contributed to the intelligence communitys conclusion.
A few days later, the Associated Press echoed that correction in a clarification bulletin acknowledging theres no truth to the claim the wire service had repeatedly blasted out for publication to news...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
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call me a crazy conspiracy theory nut case, but I have a nagging feeling Comey knows who killed Seth Rich
Yup, like since the scum was gov of Arc-kansas.
Yeah the old propaganda machine just doesn’t run like it used too.
Depending on how you define agency, I think that technically there are only 16, not 17 agencies
.. This might just be semantics but I dont regard the Office of the Director of National Intelligence as an intelligence agency per se
its role is organize, coordinate and manage the efforts of the other agencies, and the person who heads up this office reports directly to the President. Anyway, this is why some reports said 3 while some said 4
. the 4th one being the Office of the DNI.
The lies from the Compost and Ny Slimes seem to be hurting these fishwraps financially. Bad enough their elite owners are begging for help. How about printing the truth.
Bezos, Slim, and Buffett,
Publicly Pleading Poverty,
Ask Congress for Help
With Their Newspapers
By IRA STOLL, Special to the Sun | July 10, 2017
Its the sort of brazen move that might ordinarily trigger a front-page news story or an outraged editorial a bunch of rich individuals asking Congress to write them a law that would give them better negotiating power against other rich individuals.
Yet in this case, the rich individuals wanting special treatment are the newspaper owners themselves. Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos (worth $83.9 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index), New York Times owner Carlos Slim (worth $61.1 billion), and Buffalo News owner Warren Buffett ($76.9 billion), publicly pleading poverty, are asking Congress for a helping hand in their negotiations with Google, controlled by Sergey Brin ($45.6 billion) and Larry Page ($46.8).
Excerpted. For the full sad story about Bezos, Slim and Buffett whining about their fishwraps dying due to lack of readership and unable to compete with Google and Facebook.
http://www.nysun.com/national/bezos-slim-and-buffett-billionaires-pleading/90026/
Thanks Jim Rob for the article. Let’s go back in history to the clinton administration when the Chinese received our missle technology and the mass media protected the then president. We also have, in recent history, the Secretary of State, a clinton, selling one forth of America’s uranium to the Russians, who I’m sure, sold it to Iran. Both illegal
sales have been hushed up by the American media. But they are all over a ruse that the Russians helped elect President Trump, when in fact, it is the American citizens who elected him to represent America and American citizens. Now the likes of the NY sltimes are trying to protect their kiesters.
HRUMPF
"Evil Russians hacked the poor Hildabeast out of the presidency!!!"
How could anybody say that and keep their face straight??
I mean, Donald Trump is trying to establish decent, normal relations with Russia and China and the deep-staters, neotards, and demopoops are trying to move heaven and Earth to blow all of that up and get us into a nuclear war, what could b e worse??
why would the russians want trump to be elected when they already owned hillary?
USA today BS from Oct 2016 https://www.google.com/amp/amp.usatoday.com/story/92514592/
Politifact still lying. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/oct/19/hillary-clinton/hillary-clinton-blames-russia-putin-wikileaks-rele/
http://www.dailywire.com/news/8215/politifact-denies-its-own-left-wing-bias-robert-kraychik
Politifact is a lying left wing site like snopes
And who ordered it. BTW it will be no surprise to us nut cases.
Funny. And true! Thanks.
More proof that the lib media are an enemy of our Republic.
Agency/Office Parent Agency Federal Department Date est.
Defense Intelligence Agency none Defense 1961
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency none Defense 1996
National Reconnaissance Office none Defense 1961
National Security Agency none Defense 1952
Military Intelligence Corps United States Army Defense 1863
Office of Naval Intelligence United States Navy Defense 1882
Twenty-Fifth Air Force United States Air Force Defense 1948
Marine Corps Intelligence United States Marine Corps Defense 1939
Coast Guard Intelligence United States Coast Guard Homeland Security 1915
Office of Intelligence and Analysis none Homeland Security 2007
Central Intelligence Agency none Independent agency 1947
Bureau of Intelligence and Research none State 1945
Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence none Treasury 2004
Office of National Security Intelligence Drug Enforcement Administration Justice 2006
Intelligence Branch Federal Bureau of Investigation Justice 2005
Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence none Energy 1977
This is another example of how a Democrat like Killary Klinton can say something jaw-dropping like this, and each arm of each MSM alphabet repeats the lie over-and-over as gospel.
Once it becomes clear that what she said was false—down the old memory hole with it. It never happened.
And if a Winston brings it up a few months from now, he’s shuttled off to the network affiliate in Dubuque, a non-person.
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