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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Regarding the DNI, you are right in the beginning it was supposed to be a small clearing house for “finished (meaning ‘authorized’!) intelligence reports coming from the respective agencies. It, (as all bureaucracies do!) has grown into a massive new layer of USG bureaucracy. Something that was proposed to solve the “Gorelock (a Hellary Yale law school classmate & pal!) Memo” problem is now potentially a bigger problem then the problem it was intended to solve!
You don’t solve a “bureaucracy problem” with more bureaucracy!
Fun fact.....ONI is the OLDEST US intelligence agency established in 1882.
Ways around that. The movie “Sicario” is an example of one.
He was a weird guy with ego and ethics problems, but he was astute enough to spot some of the problems in the CIA (and by extension, the old OSS).
Mr. niteowl77
Another damn lie by Hillary
We’re these the same 17 honest intelligence agencies who said Iraq had WMD?
every American should read this book
Or just watch the lies as we eventually go to war with Russia.
Did Hillaryous Rotten Criminal deleted their email FYIs? Not even Wikileaks picked up the evidence. /s DISMANTLE 17 intelligence agencies. WHY are we paying these plundering progressives?
TREASON - continuous, in-your-face, agenda-driven, AGENCY-abetted, representative-enabled, media-complicit, court-sanctioned, NGO-administered, ongoing...
Zero representation. Zero protection from domestic enemies destabilizing the republic. Zero prosecutions.
I am convinced that the reason she turned to Trump and so strongly emphasized it was to sell it.
Army, Navy, and AF all have Intel agencies - or did - unless they’ve been combined under some DOD/NSA command.
Neither the FBI nor the US AG is interested in looking at let alone pursuing the Fire bombing of a GOP office nor into the videoed revelations of deliberate provocations and attacks at DJT rallies orchestrated by 0bama and financed and the Clintons.
Unsure whether living in a banana republic is better government-wise than the current US regime.
- Steal an election
- Start a war with Russia
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I seem to recall Chris Wallace repeating the lie, or reinforcing it.
Another Candy Crawley moment, or faulty memory on my part?
This is the quote from Chris Wallace I found:
“The top national security officials of this country do believe that Russia has been behind these hacks.”
Not that I start conspiracy theories but what are the odds that the KGB and Russians have already accomplished this in 2008, and arranged for Obama to become President and ensure that neither McCain and Romney could win?
But it is a fine quote.
After all the stuff I read in WikiLeaks, anything is possible.
Obama and Hillary need a war with Russia to cover for their lies, the gross unemployment, her illegal server, the ballooning federal deficit, the eventual huge correction to the stock market and the housing values that will plummet (except for apartments where people who can no longer afford a house will have to go).
They can’t keep this illusion of prosperity going much longer.
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