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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“The recount isn’t working”
And the vote didn’t go their way. They believed their own press.
Maybe Trump and Hillary can be co-presidents.
It was an equal opportunity attack, not favoring anyone. Democrats are bad on security so they lost out.
Even if true, what difference does it make? So the Russkies, or others, released embarrassing Democratic secrets...which were true. So voters knew more than the Democrats would have wished. That is no basis for challenging their votes.
Let’s assume in Dec. 2008, proof had been produced that Obama was born in Kenya. That would not have changed his 70,000,000 votes or that a majority of Americans wanted him for President. It would not have changed a thing.
Uhh... Don’r we know the DNC and Hillary’s server were hacked?
Anything for these people to obfuscate and distance themselves from an abysmal candidate and her campaign and put blame on Trump and the American people.
I think they are trying to get this into the streets so they can politically nullify the election. Stein is the perfect operative. She has a picture taken, with the hand clench salute the commies use, sometime this week, I think in PA.
they should put james comey on the case- He can’t ever find evidence of wrongdoing
[[Even if true, what difference does it make? So the Russkies, or others, released embarrassing Democratic secrets...which were true.]]
Exactly- if the left had not done anything to be ashamed of in the first place- then nothing would have been found and revealed- They forget that part i guess-
“Stupid is as stupid does”
:)
Great Idea!
He can be President of the United States, and she can be President of Cell Block #9.
Democrats are blaming the Russians for their own incompetence and failure to secure their own e-mail servers.
Its the “dog ate my homework” excuse. Blame it on someone else, that’s the ticket.
The CIA assessment doesn’t show the Democratic Party in the most flattering light possible.
Democrats don’t want to admit the real reason they lost is they had no clue as what they were doing. Period.
Fakest news.
The CIA that did not predict that Pakistan had nuclear weapons.
The CIA which claimed no nuclear tests on the Indian subcontinent were "imminent" literally days before both countries conducted nuclear tests.
The CIA that could not account for what happened to WMD's reported by UNSCOM.
The CIA that said Iran was years away from having a nuclear weapon (which John Kerry now claims that they're only weeks away from, if the Iran deal goes South.)
The CIA which successfully predicted the overnight collapse of the Soviet Union. Oh, wait. They missed that small detail, too.
The CIA which routinely turns up deep-cover moles burrowed into the highest levels of its command structure.
That CIA?
OK. I believe them.
If they did it (which I doubt since the report comes from the agency that told us Iraq had weapons of mass destruction), they didn’t release any Republican docs because there was no dirt to release, unlike with the Democrat docs.
Seems ironic that by asking for a follow up on this Obama may be triggering an investigation that will end up putting Hillary and her co-conspirators in jail.
БОЖЕ ХРАНИ ВЛАДИМИРА ПУТИНА!!!!
What they’re saying is that Hillary’s cheating lying ways were exposed and that’s not fair, it was supposed to be a secret.
The fact that the idiot voters were made privy to this deviate cabal screwed up the election, they were supposed to mindlessly follow their leader.
WARNING:
Do not dismiss this lightly.
The Corruptocrats are literally facing Armageddon and jail terms in 40 days from today. There are BILLIONS of dollars in graft and Democrat Party revenues at stake.
They are not just going to walk away from all of that.
They are trying to establish the STOLEN ELECTION!!: meme that worked so well against Bush, and delegitimize the Trump presidency.
And they are not above using violence to reach their goals. There are always useful liberal idiots out there, willing to be cannon-fodder. The Veritas videos showed this very clearly.
This all Obama BS.
But, if it is true ....Thank You Russia!!
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