Posted on 01/12/2017 10:47:34 AM PST by LouisianaJoanof Arc
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday that top intelligence leaders told him and President Barack Obama they felt obligated to inform them about uncorroborated allegations about President-elect Donald Trump out of concern the information would become public and catch them off-guard.
In an interview with The Associated Press and other news outlets, Biden said neither he nor Obama asked U.S. intelligence agencies to try to corroborate the unverified claims that Russia had obtained compromising sexual and financial allegations about Trump.
"I think it's something that obviously the agency thinks they have to track down," Biden said. He added later, "It surprised me in that it made it to the point where the agency, the FBI thought they had to pursue it."
Biden said that in the briefing he and Obama received from Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and others, there were "no conclusions drawn" from the uncorroborated dossier, produced in August and then released publicly this week by the media. Biden said it was "totally ancillary" to the purpose of the meeting, which was to brief Obama on a report he ordered documenting Russian interference in the U.S. campaign.
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By the shadowy cabal of globalists for which he is the spokes-person.
Obama himself is a dunce
If they really had it in August why didn’t they leak it to media before the election?
Wait until the photos surface that show Biden in bed with a French poodle.
OO la la
What a vicious pack of liars.
Hey does anyone have a confirmed copy or link to a copy the 35-page document actually published?
I want to read it over because ive seen things that we’re supposed to be in the document that are so over-the-top no one should have believed them .... so it could be someone’s actually making a joke or whatever vs the actual document
Want to see if there’s really things that are just so goofy they are demonstrable untrue
“If they really had it in August why didn’t they leak it to media before the election?”
Because Obama was sure he could win it for her......no need to...
He’s not that smart.................
When DJT assumes office he needs to put Julian Assange on speed dial.
LOL....some FBI we have. No doubt they had to warn their drinking buddies, the cleaning crew, and the landscaping help that they may hear this fake news story. No wonder everyone on the east coast seems to have heard it since last summer. If you need to spread a rumor fast and cheap, call the crack spooks in our Factless Bureau of Investigation.
Sounds like pre-meditation
Stop saying “leak” in connection with this story. : )
I say VJ ordered it.
Who is VJ
They didn’t want Obama and Biden to be taken by surprise, what about Trump?
Well, Biden would know something about leaking.
The IC added this uncorroborated “dossier” to their report, so that they could add an air of legitimacy to dossier, so that CNN could then report on this now “legitimate” dossier.
I would say Valery Jarrett.
BS!
Several news outlets have reported that this stuff was being shopped around for at least 4 months. It couldn’t ‘leak’...everybody in the media had already seen it.
Anyone who believes anything coming from the mouth of any one associated with the Obamanation is a damned fool.
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