Posted on 12/14/2016 5:45:00 PM PST by drewh
U.S. intelligence officials now believe with "a high level of confidence" that Russian President Vladimir Putin became personally involved in the covert Russian campaign to interfere in the U.S. presidential election, senior U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News.
Two senior officials with direct access to the information say new intelligence shows that Putin personally directed how hacked material from Democrats was leaked and otherwise used. The intelligence came from diplomatic sources and spies working for U.S. allies, the officials said.
Putin's objectives were multifaceted, a high-level intelligence source told NBC News. What began as a "vendetta" against Hillary Clinton morphed into an effort to show corruption in American politics and to "split off key American allies by creating the image that [other countries] couldn't depend on the U.S. to be a credible global leader anymore," the official said.
Ultimately, the CIA has assessed, the Russian government wanted to elect Donald Trump. The FBI and other agencies don't fully endorse that view, but few officials would dispute that the Russian operation was intended to harm Clinton's candidacy by leaking embarrassing emails about Democrats.
The latest intelligence said to show Putin's involvement goes much further than the information the U.S. was relying on in October, when all 17 intelligence agencies signed onto a statement attributing the Democratic National Committee hack to Russia.
The statement said officials believed that "only Russia's senior-most officials could have authorized these activities." That was an intelligence judgment based on an understanding of the Russian system of government, which Putin controls with absolute authority.
Now the U.S has solid information tying Putin to the operation, the intelligence officials say. Their use of the term "high confidence" implies that the intelligence is nearly incontrovertible.
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Put up or shut up.
Fake news
More fake news.
The Democrats are ‘pot committed.’ Do they have any idea how stupid they look?
Stop the inauguration. I knew Obama would come up with a way to stay in power. Permanently.
Not according to this guy.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/14/craig-murray-says-source-of-hillary-clinton-campai/
I call “DIM Lunatic BS”. Show the proof, you asshats.
The last eight years have shown that clearly. No extra effort needed on Russia's part.
By next week, somebody on MSNBC will say “Several sources report seeing Vladimir Putin himself at their poling site on Election Day. He was shredding paper ballots and laughing as he tossed the contents up in the air!!”
Where’s the damned proof?
#redsunderthebed
nbc - news bullsh#! corportion
i now believe obama wants to start an international incident with russia to attempt to keep trump out of the white house. wont work but its what i believe’because there is no other explanation.
WELL THAT’S GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME!
DO OVER!! :)
GTF OUT OF HERE.
Lies.
Someone ask if these reports are as credible as the Killian documents.
Not very credible.
Putin didn’t write those EMAILS now did he
Then show the evidence.
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