CIA Reportedly Concludes Russian Interference Aimed To Elect Trump

NPR ^ | 12/10/2016 | Emma Bowman

[SeekAndFind]

U.S. intelligence officials have determined that Russia interfered with the 2016 election, specifically to help Donald Trump win the presidency, The Washington Post first reported on Friday.

In addition to hacking into Democratic organizations, Russians hacked the Republican National Committee's computer systems, according to the Post — but they did not release any information that might have been retrieved from Republican networks.

"Intelligence agencies have identified individuals with connections to the Russian government who provided WikiLeaks with thousands of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and others, including Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, according to U.S. officials," the Post reports. "Those officials described the individuals as actors known to the intelligence community and part of a wider Russian operation to boost Trump and hurt Clinton's chances."

Citing anonymous officials briefed on the issue, the Post says the CIA shared its findings with senators in a closed-door briefing last week, saying it was now "quite clear" that Russia's goal was to tip the presidency in Trump's favor:

" 'It is the assessment of the intelligence community that Russia's goal here was to favor one candidate over the other, to help Trump get elected,' said a senior U.S. official briefed on an intelligence presentation made to U.S. senators. 'That's the consensus view.' "

In a previous assessment, CIA officials had thought Russians intervened with the intention of undermining Americans' electoral system, Adam Entous, one of the Post story's reporters, tells NPR's Scott Simon.

[WildHighlander57]

Yep, check out graphic here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3503386/posts?page=52#52

H/t rayofhope.

[ez]

Obama is going to complain that the Russians “meddled” in our elections?

That’s rich...

http://www.politico.eu/article/barack-obama-to-visit-uk-to-argue-against-brexit/

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/obama-israel-election-benjamin-netanyahu/2016/07/12/id/738318/

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/dec/16/tory-co-chairman-claimed-obama-sent-pollster-to-uk-to-stop-miliband-book-says

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/obama-angela-merkel-reelection_us_582de179e4b099512f814823

[ALASKA]

The sudden fear of “fake news” when they have been the main source of it for years, and especially this story makes me think a justification may be being propositioned for for shenanigans on Dec. 19.

[Grampa Dave]

How the mediots manipulate what Trump does and says to meet their agendas!

The following is from Snopes about the above. Draw your own conclusions, why the difference in WSJ’s headlines:

This image was passed around on the Internet accompanied by the claim that the Wall Street Journal had deliberately published one headline, "Trump Softens His Tone," in a pro-Trump market area in an attempt to sway readers away from the the GOP nominee, and the other headline, "Trump Talks Tough on Wall," in a non-Trump market area to bolster support for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

However, these opposing headline editions were not distributed to different political or geographic markets, nor were they intended to influence voters.

This picture shows two editions of the Wall Street Journal published at different times of the day. The paper on the left came off the press early in the day, while the paper on the right was produced later in the day. Print newspapers sometimes undergo revisions throughout their daily runs and typically employ marks to distinguish the various editions — in this case the differing WSJ editions are distinguishable by the number of stars displayed in the masthead:

[Reily]

This all BS, this is the left trying to re-construct the “Selected not elected!” argument they used in the 2000 election of Bush over Gore. It’s to set the meme that they didn’t actually lose the election it was “taken” to de-legitimize the Trump presidency. It’s to motivate their “herd” & influence unaffiliated “lo-infos”.
Pay no attention to it!

If you think this is bad, wait until we have a presidential election that actually goes to the House for the final decision!

Or even better a situation occurs where a state legislature actually exercises for whatever reason its constitutional prerogative to select the electors. Try explaining that to leftist and/or lo-info!

[Salvavida]

Since when has our clandestine HUMINT been that good to determine what would have been a guarded state secret?

WHEN????

Answer: Never.

How convenient CIA shits a definitive answer right before the electoral college elects.

[kabar]

First the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy and now the Vast Russian Conspiracy.

One day after the DNC hack, Robbie Mook was on the Sunday shows blaming the Russians. This has been the narrative from the very beginning.

[fortes fortuna juvat]

Yeah, right! My sources say Obama’s CIA is no more credible than his FBI.

[RightInTheMain]

I agree. They have been dropping this foreign hacking line for about 3 weeks now.

This is a scripted attempt to flip the electors or bring about a federal case in which attempts to unbound all electors prior to the 19th.

Obama, Hillary, McCain, Graham, the CIA / FBI and Stein have concocted some grand complicated plan of multiple recounts, lawsuits, a CIA investigation, Hamilton electors, elector lawsuits, bribery and extortion, and a Congressional investigation in the GOP Senate all 1-2 week before the electors vote.

They see no downside - they are out of power for 16 years or go this route and at worst de-legitimize Trump’s win at best they steal the election.

Trump had better get serious about this, they will be dropping all kind of stuff this week.

Hillary’s Dec 15th thank you party for donors is not what it seems. I believe they will drop all kind of manf evidence each day this week and Hillary will announce she is retracting her concession on Thursday and file a lawsuit in federal court, perhaps stipulating electors vote their conscience under the extenuating circumstances.

[Eric Pode of Croydon]

Name the senators. Have the CIA hold a press conference. Release the full report.

Until then, I'm not interested.

[Bon mots]

NPR is FAKE NEWS.

Where is the proof?

[jetson]

Before the traitors get the libtards all worked up, someone high up with the GOP should publicly denounce this BS sooner than later.

[WildHighlander57]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3503413/posts?page=54#54

ReaganGeneration2 wrote:

Reddit Centipedes show how fake this is...

https://reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5hjyp8/so_the_russian_hacker_used_their_real_ip_address/

Many thanks !

Ping, to Reddit guys exposing “Russia hacked “ story as false.

[Squantos]

Damn .....

[Enchante]

Evidence??? Do they have actual hard evidence??? Or is this just the usual liberal #FakeNews ???

Anyway, the info revealed by Wikileaks was REAL. What happened to the infamous “public right to know” we hear whenever libs are leaking or revealing confidential info that serves their purposes?

Wherever the stuff came from, the Wikileaks info was real and factual, period.

[Squantos]

A little yellow cake.....

[Enchante]

They are doing this now to (1) de-legitimize President-Elect Trump, and (2) try to interfere with the upcoming Electoral College.

This is very serious stuff, even if they don’t succeed. The CIA working against our own govt, again.

[Let's Roll]

Tired of hearing “Russian interference to elect Trump.”

It was more likely “Russian interference to defeat Hillary” or at least just as likely.

No conservative women I know liked Trump but we were committed to voting for Trump once he secured the nomination because we DETESTED killary.

But of course this way, the dims can undermine the Trump presidency and refuse to recognize the MANY things they are still doing wrong that brought about the Clinton defeat.

[bobsunshine]

What a joke; Wikileaks has already said it “wasn’t the Russians”, but that aside, the left is so upset that hackers targeted DNC and Clinton. Well, if there wasn’t anything to hide or dishonest or corrupt about Clinton, they would have nothing. The Left is upset because they were DISCOVERED and couldn’t hide it anymore.

I read once that Wikileaks didn’t expose any RNC or Trump emails because there was nothing hidden from the public. In fact, they indicated that Trump was open about his plans at every rally - nothing to hide.

So again, as Trump tweeted, these are the same CIA analysis who was head faked by Hussein into thinking that he “had WMD’s” when in fact he was lying to portray strength to the other countries in the area.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Fake news.