Posted on 01/13/2017 2:37:52 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The scandal surrounding Russia’s intervention in the U.S. presidential election has, broadly speaking, come in three phases.
The first broke during the campaign itself. Around the time Donald Trump publicly urged Russia to commit illegal acts of cyber-espionage to help his candidacy, multiple reports came to light suggesting Russian officials were, in fact, trying to boost the Republican. Trump, when he wasn’t praising Putin, dismissed the allegations, and much of the political world focused instead on Hillary Clinton’s email server protocols.
The second phase unfolded soon after Election Day, when 17 U.S. intelligence agencies reached a consensus: Russia did launch an espionage operation; officials working at Putin’s behest did subvert our democracy; and Russia was motivated in part by a desire to help put Trump in the White House.
As recently as a month ago, the president elect rejected the findings as “ridiculous.” As recently as a few days ago, however, practically everyone in Trump World now accepts the U.S. intelligence consensus.
If we stopped here and went no further, we’d still have one of the most important campaign stories in American history. It’s an almost unimaginable crime: a foreign adversary provided clandestine assistance to a presidential candidate, creating a dynamic in which the next leader of the free world managed to reach the office thanks in part to foreign espionage.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.com ...
How exactly does one “prove” a negative? Hate to sound Sharia and all, but the penalty for putting the American people, most of whom never studied logic or logical fallacies, through this ought to be death by live incineration in the nearest public square. Anybody got a gas can and a match?
Steve Benen is a pathetic Soros operative.
The rabid lefties love him and his continuous Soros crap.
“... It’s an almost unimaginable crime: a foreign adversary provided clandestine assistance to a presidential candidate...”
Saudia Arabia bankrolling $500 million of the Hillary Clinton campaign also counts as assistance to a presidential candidate. But I don’t see this buffoon complaining about that.
What do you think?
So the first question is what is our appropriate response to that in regards to Russia?
Get better security on their computers, otherwise, nothing!
Nations spy on each other. That is nothing new. You do not go to war because you discover they were spying.
As far as a foreign nation interfering with our elections, they should not, but then neither should we.
“They will be destroyed if they continue down this path.”
This is our century’s Zimmerman telegram. The possibility of breaking the enemy’s power does exist.
But first we are going to have to fight them for the streets. If they are allowed to APPEAR powerful then they will be (classic Alinsky). Either at the inauguration, or shortly after, they are going to have to get a real beat down, I mean blood in the gutters, or things will get out of control.
More fake news.
It’s fun watching the state controlled media twist in the wind.
Next up, Donald Trump is a space alien. Film at 11.
5.56mm
...And frankly why should he. I am sick of the talking heads on fbn and faux news “getting a kick out” of DHT’s tweets on these hacks and fake news. It is insulting beyond, ignorant toward his family and I’d be interested to see first hand how any of these clowns would handle attack after attack after PERSONAL attack on their characters and frankly on the future presidency (if any of these losers ever ran and won)...which of course would NEVER happen. These twits couldn’t run for dog catcher. Keep calling them President elect Trump.
WHO CARES!!!!!?????
He was elected to be PRESIDENT, not Pope!
"But these kinds of fetishes and perversions reflect on his character."
Really? So what did Bill Clinton's dalliances reflect on, his boyish charm? His attention to duty? His love for his [shudder] wife?
We're supposed to believe that all of sudden, LIBERALS care about character???
The ‘fake news’ outlets sure think a lot of themselves, don’t they...
President Trump can and probably will tweet something out, and this ‘fake news’ story will be gone like everything else they ‘thought’ they had on him...
I can’t wait until we get some people in there that start ‘leaking’ just what people did and with who and why and where...now there is the ‘great news’ of a lifetime!!!
Been working on something for 8 years for times such as these. The mob has no chance against it.
The only thing apparent to me among all this fake news is that it does appear, as Trump concedes, that Russia did hack the DNC.
however I would say with this new issue as a guide to the true quality of the intelligence agencies work and motivations for coming to conclusions
He may want to reconsider his acceptance of that assessment from the intelligence agencies...
Remember intelligences is opinion based on evidence...and is subject to change based on new evidence and also on discovery of bias, ulterior motive and hidden agenda of the agents or agencies involved in making the assessment
The NBC that continues creating #FAKENEWS also created the following #FAKENEWS
NBC is #FAKENEWS
“The News vs. The Newsroom: Yes, NBC Did Alter George Zimmerman’s 911 Call”
(Just a reminder of what we are dealing with here.)
A decade ago I worked at one of the “17 Intelligence agencies”, the Marine Corps Intelligence Agency (MCIA). Even after eight years of Obama, I can’t imagine that this is something that they would investigate, let alone offer an assessment.
...days in and major claims in the data dump are still verified false, and no verification has been found for anything else in it.
Trump still can’t outrun it.
Washington Post, day(?)
Washington’s Comedy Central in print
That is a LIE.
Why make it go away? Trump is not hurt by this hit job.
It is those who are responsible for it that will pay the price, not Trump.
Trump’s FBI and CIA must get to the bottom of this despicable act.
Americans must know the true facts about all involved.
And they must be punished. Including any British involvement.
Well, Comcast customers can make their subscriptions go away.
The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat.
We also now know the author of the information in the dossier: Christopher Steele, a former British officer with MI6, prepared the materials. This week, the New York Times reported, Steele went “underground,” effectively disappearing from public view.
Gone underground...
...or doesn't exist?
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