Posted on 01/08/2017 10:59:09 PM PST by detective
Heres the real problem with the joint intelligence report on alleged Russian hacking: without the classified details, we ordinary citizens are supposed to take the breathless allegations, presented as high confidence intelligence judgments, on faith.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and CIA Director John Brennan are crossing their fingers and saying, Trust us.
Since both are political appointees Brennan in particular came directly out of the Obama White House, where he is believed to have orchestrated secret arms smuggling through Libya to Syrian rebels that led directly to the Benghazi disaster excuse me if I remain skeptical.
Has Russia been engaged in sophisticated disinformation operations in the United States? Well, duh. Thats been going on for decades. During the Cold War, as General Clapper reminded the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday, we had a separate United States Information Agency (USIA) at the State Department to combat Soviet intelligence desinformatziya and, to a lesser degree, maskirovka.
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In Intel Agencies we trust? The current crop of criminals have set their [Intel Agencies] credibility back a ways. Executive branch partisan politicos.
Germans are still mad about the American hacking of Merkel.
But yeah,all the hackers did was expose the political truth, in this case.
What about Hillary’s EMAILS
If they hacked the DNC then they sure as hell hacked hers
That's the 800 pound gorilla in the room.
If I leave my front door open at night, it’s on ME when someone breaks into my house.
Bingo! And she was Secretary of State without a secure computer.
For these US government agencies to be interfering in domestic politics is a major abuse that must be stopped via replacement of corrupt leadership and anyone they have tainted. I urge caution before any blanket assumption of innocence for the rank and file; how far down the rot goes is yet to be discovered.
I have to ask: why would anyone have a problem with the exposure of the gross corruption and incompetence of a presidential candidate and her campaign, through any method available? The “hacking” if any occurred, seems to be of the sort a child or a journalist could carry out (give me your password! D’oh, OK); the situation only illustrates the incompetence of those Hillary Clinton installed as trusted advisors. Alternatively, the DNC must be riddled with Russian agents who passed along the emails to WikiLeaks as an inside job. Nothing new there.
There is a published list of these government employees who went on record to stop Trump before this election. They make a great start for the investigation.
The better question is why hasn't NBC released the top secret report to the public?
It's not like they're going to get in trouble for doing so.
Concurring bump...if the Russians really wanted to torpedo Mrs Clinton, all they had to do was leak some of those "deleted" emails.
Nope. A war with Russia is the 'remedy' for the 'Russians' assassinating Trump on January 19th.
Pray for our country and world.
You mean the ice sheet that covered the land that I am now typing this reply from?
I would gladly have explored the main trunk of this beautiful basin, from the highest snows upon the divide of the Tuolumne, to its mouth in the Merced Cañon below Yosemite, but alas! I had not sufficient bread, besides I felt sure that I should also have to explore the Tamarac basin, and, following westward among the fainter, most changed, and covered glacier pathways, I might probably be called as far as the end of the Pilot Peak Ridge. Therefore, I concluded to leave those lower chapters for future lessons, and go on with the easier Yosemite pages which I had already begun.
But before taking leave of those lower streams let me distinctly state, that in my opinion future investigation will uncover proofs of the existence in the earlier ages of Sierra Nevada ice, of vast glaciers which flowed to the very foot of the range. Already it is clear that all of the upper basins were filled with ice so deep and universal that but few of the highest crests and ridges were sufficiently great to separate it into individual glaciers, many of the highest mountains having been flowed over and rounded like the boulders in a river. Glaciers poured into Yosemite by every one of its cañons, and at a comparatively recent period of its history its northern wall, with perhaps the single exception of the crest of Eagle Cliff, was covered by one unbroken flow of ice, the several glaciers having united before they reached the wall.
September 30thLast evening I was camped in a small round glacier meadow, at the head of the easternmost tributary of the cascade. The meadow was velvet with grass, and circled with the most beautiful of all the coniferae, the Williamson spruce. I built a great fire, and the daisies of the sod rayed as if conscious of a sun. As I lay on my back, feeling the presence of the trees-gleaming upon the dark, and gushing with lifecoming closer and closer about me, and saw the small round sky coming down with its stars to dome my trees, I said, Never was mountain mansion more beautiful, more spiritual; never was moral wanderer more blessedly homed.' When the sun rose, my charmed walls were taken down, the trees returned to the common fund of the forest, and my little sky fused back into the measureless blue. I was left upon common ground to follow my glacial labor.
http://www.yosemite.ca.us/john_muir_writings/yosemite_glaciers.html
YES!
That “evidence” better be there for the Trump team in a few days. But if lost, I wonder if the excuse will be, “the dog ate my evidence!”
Start a war? Nah, don’t believe it. Once that occurs, all control is lost, and the outcome is mere speculation.
[[Where did it go?]]
On vacation?
It’s nagging ‘significant other’?
Not really. A nuclear war WILL take out Russia and The US.
That pretty much clears the playing field for islam.
EVERYTHING obama does either:
a) Weakens America/AmericansThere are NO counter examples.
b) Distances America's allies
c) Strengthens America's enemies
d) Attacks Christianity
e) Serves islam
f) Harms Israel
Or some combination of the above.
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