Posted on 07/04/2018 1:10:50 AM PDT by gattaca
That statement doesn’t address the analysts’ own political biases nor the process of selecting the sources of intel and just which intel to evaluate.
GIGO
The Senators on this panel need to check their bias.
From everything i’ve heard this was a low level operation of little significance. I’m sure all enemies and some allies probe our social media. The fantasy is that a Facebook page influenced an election as if it were the only news available. Imagine the enormity of media support for Hillary versus some obscure tweets.
It doesn’t make it a crime to Trump or a reason to remove him.
Alternate theory: They believed our media’s BS about her winning in a landslide and wanted to take her down a peg or two by narrowing the margin of victory.
Unlike the establishment, Trump was not a snobbish politician who was bound to jump on anti-russia bandwagon.
So it was reasonable that Russians had a preference for him.
The swamp is deep here. Needs some serious draining.
We’ve interfered in every election of other nations all during the Obama administration. Obama and his bold hit on Brexit is a good example.
That’s totally plausible but the Senate report is too flatfooted and consensus-seeking to consider something like that.
If we are going to level charges of foreign influence in elections, the Obama should be in prison. His meddling was right out in the open for all to see and didn't require an "Intelligence Committee" to decipher:
"Barack Obama has warned that the UK would be at the “back of the queue” in any trade deal with the US if the country chose to leave the EU, as he made an emotional plea to Britons to vote for staying in." -- April 22, 2016, The Guardian
Are we supposed to believe Russians were more interested in a Trump victory than those foreigners who openly gave MILLIONS to the “Clinton Foundation”? After the election it was reported that contributions to the “foundation” had dried up; they were blatant bribes, then she lost - no more giving.
Now I KNOW at least 5 GOP-e Senators are involved in this Obstruction.
I read the 7 page report. It mentions the DNC server was hacked back in July of 2015, but didn’t give any details. The New York Times wrote in Dec of 2016 that an FBI agent contacted a DNC staffer in September of 2015 the DNC likely had been hacked. The DNC staffer didn’t do anything so the FBI agent contacted him again in January 2016. As a former IT guy, this doesn’t pass the smell test.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/20/insider/how-we-identified-the-dnc-hacks-patient-zero.html
Amen! I was so disappointed to hear this nonsense! I guess, if we look at each individuals votes...we will know who is deep state.
I never realized that Putin ad the best interests of the US at heart. Certainly opposing the one candidate who surrendered much of US autonomy to Russia was an act of patriotism toward the US. Tat e did not want to continue working with the corrupt and criminal Clinton cabal is a substantial breakthrough in US/Russia relations.
So? Chinese interests funded a Clinton campaign during the ‘90s. It was all over the news back then, and no one did anything about it.
It seems the there were reports that Russians posted anti-Trump and/or pro-Clinton rhetoric to Facebook, IIRC.
The deep state is at it again. One can not argue with a person who is not bounded by the truth.
JoMa
The deep state is at it again. One can not argue with a person who is not bounded by the truth.
JoMa
So Joe gets hit by a taxi that jumped the curb and Joe is supposed to go to jail for it?
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