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We'll Know Soon Whether U.S. Spies Are Bluffing on Russia
Bloomberg View ^ | January 9, 2017 | Eli Lake

Posted on 01/10/2017 7:30:37 AM PST by PJ-Comix

If you're one of those people who don't trust the intelligence community when it says Russia ran an influence campaign against Hillary Clinton, I have some good news. We will soon know whether the spies are being straight with us.

In less than two weeks, Donald Trump is to become president and his nominee for CIA director is Republican Representative Mike Pompeo. Former Republican senator Dan Coats is Trump's choice to be the next director of national intelligence. If the evidence supporting the unclassified report released Friday on the Russian hacking is flimsy, these three will know soon enough.

That report asserts that Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized a cyber-espionage and propaganda campaign to discredit the Democratic presidential nominee -- an explosive claim. But the report is silent on how the government knows all of this.

(Excerpt) Read more at bloomberg.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: russianhacking
Nunes has said he is puzzled by the speed with which the government produced this intelligence product on the Russian operation against the 2016 elections, given that the Obama administration has not previously released unclassified reports on Russia's hacking and dirty tricks. Russia is alleged to have hacked the State Department's unclassified e-mail system in 2014. The GRU was linked to a bomb placed outside the U.S. Embassy in Tblisi, Georgia, in 2011. U.S. intelligence assessments of these claims have not been made public.

Yeah, I'm puzzled too.

1 posted on 01/10/2017 7:30:38 AM PST by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix

Simple logic tells us that our spy agencies would not be rushing to release public reports two weeks before a new president takes over unless it’s politics.


2 posted on 01/10/2017 7:32:35 AM PST by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Indeed Obama’s propaganda campaign smells more like it.


3 posted on 01/10/2017 7:33:03 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: PJ-Comix

...If the LEAKED evidence supporting the unclassified report...

I’m puzzled? What evidence?


4 posted on 01/10/2017 7:45:00 AM PST by Harpotoo
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To: Vaduz

Obummer started this crap about a month ago, plenty of time to make enough credible “evidence” to justify the accusations. Won’t take much, just enough to move into the gray area. Which will enough to keep control of the story.


5 posted on 01/10/2017 7:47:09 AM PST by gibsonguy (W)
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To: gibsonguy

Trump needs to do a major housecleaning of the politicized CIA. Their current director is a political hack so far left that he even voted COMMUNIST once.


6 posted on 01/10/2017 7:55:12 AM PST by PJ-Comix (Glenn Beck is one Blood Bucket shy of the Funny Farm)
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To: PJ-Comix

IOW: NO PROOF!


7 posted on 01/10/2017 7:55:27 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Higher Taxes, Less Freedom, More Bureaucracy! What could possibly go wrong?)
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To: PJ-Comix; All

I know...lets plug all these a-holes up to a poly...And then get them to swear under oath that the testimony is the truth punishable by a $100K fine and 25 years imprisonment...How many of these “smart guys” would sign up for that...


8 posted on 01/10/2017 8:09:50 AM PST by areukiddingme1 (areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.))
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To: Williams

That former Booz Allen VP, James Clapper, submitted his resignation over a month ago.


9 posted on 01/10/2017 8:10:17 AM PST by AC Beach Patrol
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To: PJ-Comix

Let’s make it a trifecta, and bounce Comely off as well, and replace with Rudy.


10 posted on 01/10/2017 8:13:37 AM PST by nikos1121 (I would love to see Rudy in charge of the FBI)
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To: PJ-Comix

dont paint the CIA “spies” along with the political motivated hack report promulgated by MEATHEAD ...BRENNAN
he sucked ass to get where he is
never did any real operation work and was an analyst desk jockey...
his biggest risk was gretting a paper cut while signing the visas for the 19 saudi hijackers....
morell is the same.... a desk jockey asscsucker
TRUMP WOULD BE SMART TO START BY FIRING THE ENTIRE 7TH FLOOR.... AND ROUT OUT THE REST OF LIKE THINKING LIBTARDS THAT PERMEATE THE AGENCY....
HE SHOULD ALSO SHITCAN THE ENTRE DNI.... 30000 USELESS DO NOTHING EXPENSIVE PAPER SHUFFLERS AND A LAYER THAT DISTORTS INTEL...

the real spooks dont go anywhere near langley and do the real intel work that brennan and crew f**k up for political points...

the stars on the wall ... two from benghazi ... represent the real spooks taking the risk and are true patriots..... dont confuse them with the likes of brennan


11 posted on 01/10/2017 8:33:22 AM PST by zzwhale
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To: zzwhale

Brennan and Clapper have both lied under oath to congress. That is a felony that our present justice department will not prosecute due to political expediency. They are both liars and political whores. See two links below concerning their lying under oath.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/31/cia-director-john-brennan-lied-senate

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/01/27/darrell-issa-james-clapper-lied-to-congress-about-nsa-and-should-be-fired/?utm_term=.3a6c175571b9

Their word in print and voice is not to be trusted. They are both perjurers of the highest order.


12 posted on 01/10/2017 8:59:32 AM PST by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud Man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist, THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR.)
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To: zzwhale

Brennan and Clapper have both lied under oath to congress. That is a felon that our present justice department will not prosecute due to political expediency. They are both liars and political whores. See two links below concerning their lying under oath.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/31/cia-director-john-brennan-lied-senate

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/01/27/darrell-issa-james-clapper-lied-to-congress-about-nsa-and-should-be-fired/?utm_term=.3a6c175571b9

Their word in print and voice is not to be trusted. They are both perjurers of the highest order.


13 posted on 01/10/2017 9:01:29 AM PST by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud Man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist, THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR.)
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To: Williams

They are attempting to protect themselves from Trump making major changes in their fiefdoms. They see the Russia hacking BS that the Democrats cooked up as a way of stopping Trump from gutting or firing a bunch of useless politicized bureaucrats.

If Trump goes in now and fires a bunch of these self-serving turds he looks like he is seeking revenge and doing Putin’s bidding and gutting these All-America loving intelligence people we just can’t live without despite the fact they have continuously screwed up without repercussions of any sort for 30 years and there have been plenty costing lots of lives.

Trump needs to fire every politically appointed position day one in every agency as well as US Attorneys in every district. Then he needs to seek a two or three person committee with no skin in the game to conduct reviews of these agencies, top to bottom and then make serious recommendations and follow through on them.


14 posted on 01/10/2017 12:07:09 PM PST by sarge83
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