Posted on 10/21/2016 12:18:42 AM PDT by Ray76
Hillary Clinton in last night’s presidential debate tried to avoid talking about the substance of the damaging WikiLeaks disclosures of DNC and Clinton campaign officials by claiming 17 U.S. intelligence agencies determined that Russia was responsible for this. After Clinton made this claim, she scolded Trump for challenging U.S. intelligence professionals who have taken an oath to help defend this country.
What Clinton said was false and misleading. First of all, only two intelligence entities – the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) – have weighed in on this issue, not 17 intelligence agencies. And what they said was ambiguous about Russian involvement.
Saying we think the hacks “are consistent with the methods and motivations of Russian-directed efforts” is far short of saying we have evidence that Russia has been responsible for the hacks.
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Just out of curiosity....what 17 intelligence agencies exist in the US? The FBI and DEA don’t count because they are law-enforcement....not intelligence collection.
NSA, CIA, ? Who else? Or are there ultra-secret-secret agencies that we just aren’t aware of.
DIA, NRO, the Navy has an intelligence agency although I don’t recall it’s name
...she lies occasionally
According to wikipedia there are 16 members in the “intelligence community”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Intelligence_Community#Organization
FBI is domestic counterintelligence. CIA is not permitted to operate inside the US.
National Review finally coming around? At least they didn’t wait until after she became president.
Hillary knows that if she says a gummint agency says something, tomorrow they will say it.
So... she just revealed there is a 17th?
Hillary won’t even open her mouth unless she has a good lie to tell.
The 17th is. ODNI. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
It consists of the traditional 16 centers listed here :
This quotation has not been found in the writings of Thomas Jefferson.
Thank you.
They are all subsumed under the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. IT calls itself the 17th center.
To my mind it is just a bureaucratic clearing agency for intelligence and the President only has one director to brow beat for what he wants to say. It was one of Bush’s bright ideas (like DHS and TSA) and he decided to give the smaller DNI the authority over all the other 16. Prior to that it wasn’t even included in the 16 centers collection that I can recall.
“Russia has engaged in using espionage against the US”. This is a rather serious, reckless unequivocal statement. Along with this and her leaking of nuclear weaponry procedure, it seems the former SOS has crossed a line, forsaking national security for her campaign for POTUS. That kind of desperation is scary.
Maybe she meant “17 people who are intelligent in government”—still a lie!
“CIA is not permitted to operate inside the US.”
And, when they do operate inside the US they use credentials of a different agency. Occasionally, when they bump into that agency, it kicks up a ruckus. When a company I worked for had a program for the CIA they identified themselves as Defense Intelligence agents.
This began when J. Edgar Hoover refused to cooperate with the CIA and share intelligence.
ONI - Office of Naval Intelligence
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