Posted on 12/09/2016 8:29:07 PM PST by usafa92
WASHINGTON — American intelligence agencies have concluded with “high confidence” that Russia acted covertly in the latter stages of the presidential campaign to harm Hillary Clinton’s chances and promote Donald J. Trump, according to senior administration officials.
They based that conclusion, in part, on another finding — which they say was also reached with high confidence — that the Russians hacked the Republican National Committee’s computer systems in addition to their attacks on Democratic organizations, but did not release whatever information they gleaned from the Republican networks.
In the months before the election, it was largely documents from Democratic Party systems that were leaked to the public. Intelligence agencies have concluded that the Russians gave the Democrats’ documents to WikiLeaks.
Republicans have a different explanation for why no documents from their networks were ever released. Over the past several months, officials from the Republican committee have consistently said that their networks were not compromised, asserting that only the accounts of individual Republicans were attacked. On Friday, a senior committee official said he had no comment.
Mr. Trump’s transition office issued a statement Friday evening reflecting the deep divisions that emerged between his campaign and the intelligence agencies over Russian meddling in the election. “These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction,” the statement said. “The election ended a long time ago in one of the biggest Electoral College victories in history. It’s now time to move on and ‘Make America Great Again.’”
One senior government official, who had been briefed on an F.B.I. investigation into the matter, said that while there were attempts to penetrate the Republican committee’s systems, they were not successful.
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But wait, Mrs. Bill Clinton assured us that the Russians weren’t capable of hacking her Top Secret emails.
[American intelligence agencies have concluded with “high confidence”]]
First of all this was a majority democrats- so the word intelligence can’t be in the same sentence- secondly, whenever you hear the words ‘with high confidence’ you know they are about to scam you- (”We know with a ‘very high degree of certainty’ than man is causing climate change’)
Another explanation:
In light of Hillary’s server in a bathroom which Russia, the PRC, the DPRK, Iran and any fat 14 year old geek sitting his bedroom could have hacked into at the deepest levels; perhaps the RNC simply had better computer security!
But they have ZERO evidence. This is the CIA whores that predicted ISIS? NOT!! I really don’t give a crap.
Is this the same intelligence who said Iraq had weapons of mass destruction?
Liars...hacks...incompetents...losers.
John Podesta’s Podesta Group lobbies for the largest bank in Russia.
Hillary sold them uranium.
But now they’re the bad guys?
Leftists are just mad they aren’t the Soviet Union any more.
How can that happen? She gave them a reset button, didn’t she? Surely she’s the one who is ultimately diplomatic and well respected around the world...? Why would a country act against her?
Good to see the CIA verifying all the e-mails though.
“according to senior administration officials.”
LOL
I think it was axel rod that clicked on a email link requesting him to reset his email password.
Obama political appointees are leaking all over now. Disgracing the IC.
So does this mean Hillary actually won? /s
It’ll be fun when Obama declares the election null and void.
The Democrats want World War IV with Russia now that Hillary lost, despite the MSM covering her crimes and $150 million dollars in corrupt business, foreign investments in pay for play, etc.
Unbelievable. Hey, high-schoolers and college folks, here is something REAL scary. Better wake up - FAST.
[It’ll be fun when Obama declares the election null and void.]
Wouldn’t surprise me one bit but then, I wear a tinfoil hat a lot of the time, these past 8 years.
Democrats have no one to blame but themselves. They ran the country for the last 8 years, and it was on their watch that massive hacks like the OPM hack took place.
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