Posted on 12/12/2016 6:30:32 AM PST by NYer
Now that the 2016 election is long over and online hackers have had ample time to cover their e-tracks, a bold President Obama has decisively ordered a “full review” of Russian and other interference in the United States electoral process.
We should probably say alleged Russian interference since no one has offered any proof, just reasonable suspicions of who might benefit from the release of documents that Democrats wanted to keep hidden. The Trump campaign criticized the move.
A government spokeswoman in Moscow claims numerous requests for evidence to back up the U.S. charges have gone unanswered.
On Oct. 7 the office of James Clapper, Obama’s director of National Intelligence, released a statement: “The U.S. Intelligence Community is confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of e-mails from U.S. persons and institutions, including from U.S. political organizations.”
Again, no evidence. Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, who was suggesting Russia and Donald Trump were in league to deny her rightful political inheritance, grasped the line. In fact, she often claimed that 17 U.S. intelligence agencies were certain it was the Russkies.
Was the president not listening during his daily intelligence briefings?
Clinton’s convenient charge raises a serious question: Why in the world does one nation need 17 intelligence agencies? Seriously, especially since 9/11’s failures to connect the dots demonstrated those agencies’ instinctive bureaucratic preference for disaster over sharing intel.
Although, honestly, young male Saudis taking passenger-jet flight lessons with no employer and no interest in landing procedures could raise suspicions among even unintelligent intelligence agents.
Speaking of intelligence failures, we’ve experienced Obama’s notably false claims that al-Qaida was on the run, weeks before the 2012 Benghazi attack killed four Americans.
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Just an example of his flexibility with regards to Russia.
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Why are Democrats saying Russia interferred with the presidential election?
They are concerned with the integrity of the system
They are trying to delegitimize Trump’s presidency
The left counts on the Democrat voters to either a) have short [very short] memories or b) revel in falsehoods.
if they knew they would use the words, "determined" or "concluded"
Clearly China was interfering in our election on behalf of Hillary.
So the two cancelled each other out.
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The legacy media gets paid for this?
-PJ
It wasn’t the Russians but even if it was, Hillary’s negligence is what got her hacked and she should have NEVER used a personal server to store America’s classified information.
Yeah, apparently Russia hacked into voting machines so they would register the votes intended by the voters. Then they interfered with the votes of dead people, if they were dead, no vote. There needs to be further investigation, some are even saying that Russians hacked into Hillary’s brain and made her say basket of deplorables.
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