Nunes & King: CIA may be manipulating intelligence for political purposes, creating "house of cards"

Political Ref ^ | 12/14/16

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Nunes & King: CIA may be manipulating intelligence for political purposes, creating "house of cards"

Aaron Rossiter | 12/14/16 | 10:54 PM Fox News reported earlier that the CIA refused to provide a briefer to the House Intelligence Committee, the highest ranking committee in government with jurisdiction over the CIA. House Intelligence Committee chairmen Nunes had requested the briefing in light of the fact that current news reports regarding Russia's alleged political intervention conflict with information the committee had received from intelligence agencies previously. According to Fox News, Nunes said that the refusal by the CIA was "unacceptable" because "intransigence in sharing intelligence with Congress can enable the manipulation of intelligence for political purposes." The conflict Nunes is referring to became apparent when the Washington Post reported last Friday, based on ANONYMOUS SOURCES, that the CIA had concluded that Russia intended to help Trump when it interfered in the election. Congressman Peter King agreed with Nunes's condemnation of the CIA on the Kelly File Wednesday night but went a bit further. He suggested that the CIA could be erecting a political "House of Cards," or complex straw man, Follow me on Twitter

Like our coverage? Like us on Facebook.   with which to cast doubt on the legitimacy of Trump's election. He said that the CIA has an "obligation" to come before Congress, presumably at the now canceled briefing that was set for tomorrow, and tell them about any new information it has found to support such the politically charged anonymously sourced, Washington Post allegation. CIA director has been According to the Daily Caller, retired Army intelligence officer Tony Shaffer said that he has heard directly from former CIA officials that "Brennan is doing this out of loyalty to President Obama." Shaffer continued, "It's called information operations, information warfare, and that's what I believe is going on."

[mac_truck]

So there is an intelligence agency trying to influence the outcome of the election...it just isn’t the Russians.

[ckilmer]

Should be obvious to anyone that the reckless disregard for American norms coming from the spooks is caused by the Moslems in the spook agencies who understand that Trump will take down the arabists in general and the muslim brotherhood supporters in particular.

The Obama administration is currently stacked with muslims. That’s why US foreign policy is generally pro muslim and anti russian.

[Bullish]

This entire mess comes from the Kenyan. He should never have been allowed to step one single foot in the white house and now look what its caused us. Those in govt who have looked the other way for 8 years need to wake up and smell the sedition.

Now is the time for all good patriots to come to the aid of their country.... Before it’s too late.

[realcleanguy]

The Coup is in progress. Yahoo is running a story that claims that Putin was personally involved in hacking the DNC and swaying our elections. This is CIA disinformation. The CIA and the WH are staging the Coup right now. I would suggest stocking food and cash. I think its going to get ugly by the weekend. Fake news, fake accusations, fake fake fake. This is the most bizarre thing ever!
https://www.yahoo.com/news/putin-himself-involved-us-election-hack-report-022916287.html#mycomments

[catnipman]

obama doesn’t want the fake news about russians debunked!

[Lady Heron]

This is really a much bigger deal than people have figured out yet. The CIA has openly stuck its nose in US politics to delegitimize a newly elected president. Heads are going to roll in the agency or they will start a civil war if they succeed, either way this is a huge game changer with massive implications.

It also openly shows we have a war going on between the intelligence agencies with the other agencies not backing up the CIA's claims, oh, lets not forget about Homeland Security and the state of Georgia. We have a real mess on our hands in Washington and it is dangerous.

[ari-freedom]

Trump wouldn’t have picked Tillerson unless he knew exactly what was going on

[Jacquerie]

From the time Lois Lerner and her underlings avoided felony charges, its been clear that every agency of the government no longer works for congress and We the People, but rather for the democrat party.

Trump has little time to drain the swamp. I suspect congress will soon figure out that its in their reelection interests to assist him.

[Travis McGee]

Meddling in foreign elections and creating fake news with fake journalists has been a CIA specialty since 1947.

Obama politicized and weaponized the DOJ, IRS, EPA, FBI etc. Why would the CIA be sacrosanct?