Pure. Bullshit.
I did a speed read of the report. It was pretty much content-free in terms of providing any evidence.
The only thing that I saw of note was this:
“Disclosures through WikiLeaks did not contain any evident forgeries.”
A preference for Trump injures Trump so the intent would then be to prevent his election or to discredit his presidency....a twofer. Hurts Trump whether he wins or loses.
Why on earth would the Russians prefer a strong-on-defense team like Trump-Pence in power at a time when Putin is seeking to basically bring back the Soviet Union. A strong American military is the last thing Putin wants now. On the other hand, the Obama-Hillary admin decimated our military. This while they handed Putin everything he could ever hope for on all-important missile defense and nukes, including the Iran nuke deal.
Did they plagiarize a report about the last Israeli elections and replace Obama/US with Putin/Russia?
I’m against this happening to the US, but it sounds like what I’d expect every major government does to every other country to try to get the best outcome for them. And we know Obama hasn’t even tried to be covert in his election influence.
And the social media “trolls” and news media propaganda parts sound like Hillary’s main campaign operations.
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“We assess with high confidence,” in other words here is the proof even though we can’t prove it!
We could really drive the Democrats/CNN crazy by giving Putin some sort of recognition for helping to save America from a total Hillary/Obama/China and global new world order collapse.
You can’t change their mind, they are now programmed to think they hacked it, just feed into them say thanks Putin for exposing the TRUTH about the DNC/DEMS
On top of that thank the Whistle Blowers too, he that will really get them.
This is a 13 page report.
The first five pages are generalizations and assumption with references to Soviet activities during the cold war.
The report said that Putin considered Trump to be a more effective leader against terrorists and ISIS.
Therefore, the report says, Putin wanted Trump to win. The report references a few other Russians who supposedly said they wanted Trump to win.
The next 7 pages discusses the Russian media company RT. They reference articles in RT about Clinton's corruption, Clinton's health and the Clinton foundation.
Then there is one page titled “Estimative Language” which talks about terms such as probable and likely etc.
The report proves absolutely nothing. It provides no useful information.
Pure Liberal reasoning by the Intelligence Establishment. We imagine it is so therefore it is so: QED.
The Report demonstrates why the entire intelligence establishment should be totally cleaned out at the management level and restaffed with rational people.
Contacted narrative if there ever was one. Only the Kool-Aid drinkers are buying this one.
We assess that the GRU operations resulted in the compromise of the personal e-mail accounts of Democratic Party officials and political figures. By May, the GRU had exfiltrated large volumes of data from the DNC.Circumstantial at best.We assess with high confidence that the GRU used the Guccifer 2.0 persona, DCLeaks.com, and WikiLeaks to release US victim data obtained in cyber operations publicly and in exclusives to media outlets.
- Guccifer 2.0, who claimed to be an independent Romanian hacker, made multiple contradictory statements and false claims about his likely Russian identity throughout the election. Press reporting suggests more than one person claiming to be Guccifer 2.0 interacted with journalists.
- Content that we assess was taken from e-mail accounts targeted by the GRU in March 2016 appeared on DCLeaks.com starting in June.
"e-mail accounts targeted by the GRU in March 2016 appeared on DCLeaks.com" is an allegation, yet it is positioned as evidence that GRU used Guccifer 2.0.
"In July 2015, Russian intelligence gained access to Democratic National Committee (DNC) networks and maintained that access until at least June 2016." There is no explanation of how DNC e-mail was compromised. Was it improperly secured? Was it due to careless users with "password" for a password? Spam? Or more technical, specially crafted packets, and so forth? Explaining how the DNC e-mail was compromised would not reveal U.S. intelligence sources or methods. There is no explanation of why they assess that it was Russian intelligence which accessed DNC networks.
This is a more intense version of previous reports, and just as lacking.
RT reports news. Unlike the hoaxing US media. Hence, it must be attacked by the corrupt US Govt.
As a former worker in the intel salt mines, I find one item very interesting: NSA has only moderate confidence in the assessment that Russia mounted an info ops effort to help Trump and undermine Clinton—when much of the “evidence” was (supposedly) derived through SIGINT.
NSA has been very late to the party on this one. Part of it is the nature of the agency and its culture. They leak when it suits their purpose, but they’re not a politically-fueled sieve like Langley. And you may recall that the FBI was slow to come around as well. Looks like the outgoing POTUS set the marching orders, and his cabana boy at the CIA, John Brennan, was only too happy to comply. Eventually, everyone was strong-armed into agreement (future budgets and new programs to worry about), but NSA’s “moderate” vote is telling.
Putting it mildly, moderate in the intel assessment game is not exactly a ringing vote of confidence. And trust me, there was a lot of pressure on DIRNSA to completely concur with Brennan and Comey.
Russia takes Crimea - Obama: “Oh Well”
Russian Shoots down an airliner - Obama: “Mistakes Happen”
John Podesta falls for phishing scam: Obama: “RESTART THE COLD WAR”
God I love Trump he said he’s going to revamp the intelligence agency rather than buckle down on the Russian hacking claims which is obviously something that can’t be proven or disproven but the idea that Putin wants Trump was totally against covert intelligence exploitation for the last 2000 years or so.
I know they have communication intercepts that say they can back up their claims but they had Clapper and Brennan who are noted serial Liars saying it. And that stuff is super easy to fake.
Brought to you by the same party whose leader launched cruise missiles against a Sudanese aspirin Factory to change the news narrative.
Trump should should have refused to even look at that report until they replaced the “we” with actual names of the roomful of hacks who fabricated this farce.
so Putin committed this big crime by showing us evidence that the press was throwing the election, and the DNC was throwing the election, and the debates were rigged, and the polls were rigged, and Hillary and Obama lied to us over and over again about very important international events. And to back up their lie, they threw an innocent man in jail.
wow are we mad at Putin.
“Assess”? “Guess without factual basis”?