Posted on 06/29/2017 2:44:35 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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In other words, 13 of 17 agencies did not concur.
NYT should have written a new story, apologizing, and so should all other FakeNewsMSM who have continued to push this false narrative since last October:
20 Oct 2016: ZeroHedge: Tyler Durden: The “Fact” That 17 Intelligence Agencies Confirmed Russia is Behind the Email Hacks Isn’t Actually…A “Fact”
In last night’s debate Clinton stated that “17 intelligence agencies have confirmed that Russia is behind the email hacks” which were then turned over to Wikileaks...
The “17 agencies that actually confirmed” it was the Russians? Well it turns out that was one guy, namely DCI James Clapper: the head of US intelligence. The same man who committed perjury before congress after his NSA surveillance program was leaked...
So when HRC stated the “17 intelligence agencies have confirmed” I was anticipating what that would turn up in the “fact checking” apparatus, which allegedly exists to objectively test the assertions of both candidates in real time.
The “fact checking” around this statement would be comical if not infuriatingly Orwellian: ABC called it “a true fact”...ETC
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-20/fact-17-intelligence-agencies-confirmed-russia-behind-email-hacks-isn%E2%80%99t-actually%E2%80%A6a-f
29 Jun: Daily Caller: NYT Issues Correction On Claim That Intel Agencies Agreed Russia Attempted To Help Trump Win Election
by Holmes Lybrand, Fact Check Editor at The Daily Caller News Foundation
Former candidate Hillary Clinton made the claim in late May that all 17 intelligence agencies agreed “that the Russians ran an extensive information war against my campaign to influence voters in the election.”
Former FBI Director James Comey refuted this false claim in a congressional hearing in May, stating that the assessment was only from the NSA, FBI and the CIA...
The Daily Caller News Foundation published a fact-check June 1 that rated Clinton’s claim as “False.”
http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/29/nyt-issues-correction-on-claim-that-intel-agencies-agreed-russia-attempted-to-help-trump-win-election/
I was hoping the President would of pulled a “you show me yours and I’ll show you mine” on HRC during the campaign regarding tax returns.
You are dead on. The Dem’s Grail Quest = Trump’s tax returns. The Special Counsel will lose no time in subpoenaing them and leaking all negative aspects one after another.
They had to back off the claim because Trump’s strategy of blaming Obama was starting to take hold among the liberal base. If in fact 17 intelligence agencies concurred on Russian hacking and all Obama did was tell them to “cut it out” and send a few diplomats home, well...
Oh, Gee... the four intelligence agencies run by purely political appointees!
Bookmark. Pedestal used the LIE of 17 IC agencies claims Russian whatever......
Clinton asserted that repeatedly during the campaign and after. She has never backed down from this canard. Neither have most of her supporters. I see it asserted every day still.
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