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Here Is The Intel Report Accusing Putin Of Helping Trump Win By "Discrediting" Hillary Clinton
Zero Hedge ^ | 01/07/2017

Posted on 01/06/2017 1:20:53 PM PST by SeekAndFind

The farce is complete.

One week after a joint FBI/DHS report was released, supposedly meant to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Russia intervened in the US presidential election, and thus served as a diplomatic basis for Obama's expulsion of 35 diplomats, yet which merely confirmed that a Ukrainian piece of malware which could be purchased by anyone, was responsible for spoofing various email accounts including that of the DNC and John Podesta, moments ago US intelligence agencies released a more "authoritative", 25-page report, titled "Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections", and which not surprisingly only serves to validate the media narrative, by concluding that Russian President Vladimir Putin 'ordered' an effort to influence U.S. presidential election.

Specifically, the report concludes the following:

We assess Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the US presidential election. Russia’s goals were to undermine public faith in the US democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency. We further assess Putin and the Russian Government developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump.

What proof is there? Sadly, again, none. However, as the intelligence agencies state, "We have high confidence in these judgments"... just like they had high confidence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

And while the report is severely lacking in any evidence, it is rich in judgments, such as the following:

Or, as some have stated, just a regurgitation of already existing opinions and absolutely zero facts.

Some more highlights:

Meanwhile, in Russia:

 

There is much more in the full report below, although unfortunately, no actual proof (link).



TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Politics/Elections; Russia
KEYWORDS: dnc; election; elections; fakeintelligence; fakenews; fakereport; hacking; hillary; podesta; putin; russia; trump
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To: John S Mosby

...this regurgitation of opinion ...


141 posted on 01/07/2017 5:06:04 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: SeekAndFind
Here Is The Intel Report Accusing Putin Of Helping Trump Win By "Discrediting" Hillary Clinton

It's been 'reported' for over a year; factually PROVING; how our media has been trying to help Hillary Clinton Win By "Discrediting" Trump!

This whole plot is a MASSIVE; Look Over There!!!; attempt to sully (sorry Tom Hanks) the yet to be started Presidency of Trump.


Payback is NOT gonna be pretty!!!

142 posted on 01/07/2017 5:09:56 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: SeekAndFind

It boils down to this...... what specifically did Russia do to influence the election?

Is the claim that the Wikileaks dump of clinton and podesta and DNC email was provided by Russia?

If not that, What?

Who died for providing he e mails? Was he working for the Russians?


143 posted on 01/07/2017 5:10:05 AM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Macroagression melts snowflakes)
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To: Cold War Veteran - Submarines
RT America TV, a Kremlin-financed channel operated from within the United States...

I'm contacting my information provider TODAY!!!

Why don't I receive this channel NOW???!!!


https://www.bing.com/search?q=voting+results+for+hancock+county+indiana&form=EDGEAR&qs=PF&cvid=fac21fda7c5140288f5235b362bf6ec2&pq=voting+results+for+hancock+county+indiana

144 posted on 01/07/2017 5:19:55 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

——Payback is NOT gonna be pretty!!!-—

Someone last evening said it boils down to faith. The Intel guys are pitted against the Wikileaks guy. Who ya gonna believe?

There are “secret” reports we will never see describing the sources. Faith is required to believe that.

Assange claims the Russians didn’t do it. He has put out a reward for the killer of Seth Richards the murdered DNC apparatchik many think is the actual source. That is, the hack is really a pretty much ordinary leak

Being a long time FReeper conspiracy believer, I go with Wikileaks and dead Seth Richards. It is Occam’s Razor, the most simple likely hood.

You are right about the distraction. To have betrayal from within that cost untold years of lost power is a terrible catastrophe. The source had to be a terrible enemy. A friendly source is simply intolerable to consider.

Regarding payback. The Fox Panel was almost in agreement...... move on.

Since we routinely read Putin’s mail, what form can the payback take. If Putin actually did it, it was in effect payback for American cyber espionage.

The key is solving the murder of Seth Richards


145 posted on 01/07/2017 5:27:04 AM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Macroagression melts snowflakes)
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To: Elsie

This channel is on KlowdTv. You will need a streaming device and the service is $6.99 a month. As a bonus you will get OAN and other channels.


146 posted on 01/07/2017 5:42:09 AM PST by ez ("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton)
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To: SeekAndFind

That’s all they got? them whining about the “paid trolls” hired by Russia to harm Hillary make me laugh.


147 posted on 01/07/2017 6:47:46 AM PST by matt04
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To: ez

I can see how this managed to persuade vast numbers of voters......


148 posted on 01/07/2017 10:15:11 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Kozy

...Yup, I saw Putin do that too. He also made her call half the country deplorable, and stopped her from seriously campaigning during the final month.


149 posted on 01/07/2017 11:01:44 AM PST by jimjohn (This battle is over, but the war to rebuild the America has just begun.)
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To: SeekAndFind

RT America TV, a Kremlin-financed channel operated from within the United States, has substantially expanded its repertoire of programming that highlights criticism of alleged US shortcomings in democracy and civil liberties.

https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICA_2017_01.pdf

So? 

Admit, address, and correct the "alleged US shortcomings in democracy and civil liberties." then, instead of trying to assume further dominion by taking advantage of  those shortcoming.
 
RTFM, LIFERs:


"...who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world, and through all time;
 
...
 
 that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order; and finally, that truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them. "
 
"I HAVE SWORN UPON THE ALTAR OF GOD ETERNAL HOSTILITY TO EVERY FORM OF TYRANNY OVER THE MIND OF MAN"
--The Virginia Act For Establishing Religious Freedom
--Thomas Jefferson, 1786
 

150 posted on 01/07/2017 11:38:53 AM PST by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: arthurus

I concur completely, nooby that I am, :)


151 posted on 01/07/2017 1:11:36 PM PST by ExidorsGhost (Hooray, our 1st capitalist in the WH!!)
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To: Cold War Veteran - Submarines
Gee whiz.... I feel like I am on-staff at the NY Times or at Wikileaks.....better yet, I could be on McCain's staff and be the designated courier to the Control-Left media.
152 posted on 01/07/2017 3:14:13 PM PST by ptsal
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To: SeekAndFind

Do you suspect the libs and media (but I repeat myself) ever “think” through on their Russians hacked the election claim?

So the end of it is that Hillary could be deluded enough to deny that she lost the election so she can still run for the Dem nomination in four years?

Let her run.


153 posted on 01/07/2017 4:10:56 PM PST by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
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To: Robert357

Correct. The report deals with assessment of the leaks and attempts to influence the election. The damage that was done that everyone is complaining about was that the truth came out. The DNC and media are and have been colluding against primary challengers and against the RNC in the general elections to win. It was (still is) a rigged system.

Sounds like politics to me.... meh...


154 posted on 01/07/2017 5:02:07 PM PST by Sodbuster
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To: odawg

Excellent Summation:

I have not read it yet. I assume if they had a smoking gun, it would have been emblazoned in every headline in the country.

Therefore, I assess, and I agree with myself completely, that this whole thing is BS.

I also assess that these people will be out of their jobs in two weeks. I would say 14 days, but someone would call me a neo-nazi!

by odawg


155 posted on 01/07/2017 5:19:08 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Challenge Freepers, who post a bs article from the left and don't challenge it!)
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To: SeekAndFind

The combined intell report is all over the place.

Why would Putin and company want to hurt Hillary’s presidential campaign since she has always been so incompetent that she would be the Kremlin’s best ally because of self-inflicted damage (Libya, Syria, Arab Spring, etc)?

I would go along with a finding that the Russians hacked or tried to Hack the DNC and other governmental and private organizations and agencies. They have been doing it since at least the 1930’s, if not earlier. Read about the Venona Papers if you want to learn more (Haynes, Klehr & Vassilliev and and Romerstein & Breindel plus Romerstein & Evans, for a starter).

The Kremlin has had its agents and sympathizers inside the White House, Congress, the media and academia since the 1920s so why upset the information-gathering and disinformation dissemination programs already in place by doing something stupid such as helping Trump, to win?

Trump is feisty, a counterpuncher and his own man (for good or bad), but he’s much stronger as an American than is Hillary, Kerry and esp. Comrade President Obama (who never met a red he didn’t like or learn from).

If I were “KGB” Putin, I would do everything to stop Trump, not help him.

Now, taking the other view, Putin and the Boys in the Kremlin may have thought that since Hillary was so unstable that it would be better to try and work with/against Trump by having him “closer” rather than “farther” away from the diplomatic table.

The Soviets often played both sides of the street at the same time with plans that either strategy would be a “winner” for them. They are not dumb, these Boycheks. I have a great deal of respect for their abilities to make trouble and undermine our society.

We should all assume that with our national lack of awareness, esp. among the political organizations and some branches of government (remember the OPM hacking?) of cybersecurity, and the incompetence of the Dept. of Homeland Security (they fired people who raised alarms about our weaknesses), that our enemies have been and are going to attack us in every way possible.

The Intell community could be right on their assessments of what supposedly happened (it is rightfully classified for security reasons but their PR program has been a total failure). They could be wrong, or they could be in the middle somewhere.

First you have to acknowledge who the “enemy/enemies” are before you can formulate counterplans and strategies. Under Obama, who liked to surrender or retreat as much as he liked to play golf, the US was thrust backwards in terms of proactive intelligence planning and ops, with the greatest setbacks being in Iraq and Iran, Libya, now Syria, No. Korea, Red China, and the Russian Empire.

I hope that Trump’s team will reverse Obama’s surrender policies and get back in the game of games, again, with a vengeance and “smarts”.


156 posted on 01/07/2017 7:27:45 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Sir Napsalot
Let her run.

The Dem's have about 3 years to get a LIKEABLE candidate in position to run for POTUS.

Think they'll be able to do it or spend that time whining about losing?

157 posted on 01/07/2017 8:04:43 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
(Just my personal opinion)

Hillary will try if her health permits it. Rest of the Dem party will move on to somebody else, most likely Liz Warren (less plausible Michelle O), can't think of any 'completely fresh face' that will burst onto the national stage like another Obama comet.

They don't concern about the LIKEABLITY, they have THE MACHINE to run rough shot over us. I don't think they learned (or wish to learn) anything from the Trump victory. How they oppose Trump will tell us everything.

158 posted on 01/07/2017 8:16:06 PM PST by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
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To: Sir Napsalot

The MACHINE is likely to find that some sand has been tossed into it’s crankcase...


159 posted on 01/08/2017 2:34:02 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: SeekAndFind

This “report” is as believable as the CIA report describing TWA 800 747 airliner gaining altitude after the fuel tank “explosion”.


160 posted on 01/08/2017 5:12:47 AM PST by exinnj
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