Posted on 05/14/2017 6:11:13 AM PDT by onyx
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On January 6, 2017, the U.S. Intelligence Community issued an “Intelligence Community Assessment” (ICA) that found Russia deliberately interfered in the 2016 presidential election to benefit Trump’s candidacy. The news media and Trump critics have claimed this assessment ended the debate on this issue because it was the unanimous and objective conclusion of “all 17” U.S. Intelligence Agencies.
I also contended in my January article that the January 6 ICA was suspicious because it reached unusually clear judgments on a politically explosive issue with no dissenting views.
I previously thought the ICA’s unambiguous, dissent-free judgments were the result of limiting the number of intelligence agencies which could participate. But based on Clapper’s testimony, it appears that politicization of this assessment was much more serious.
Clapper explained in his testimony that two dozen or so “seasoned experts” were “handpicked” from the contributing agencies” and drafted the ICA “under the aegis of his former office” (the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.)
While Clapper claimed these analysts were given “complete independence” to reach their findings, he added that their conclusions “were thoroughly vetted and then approved by the directors of the three agencies and me.”
This process drastically differed from the Intelligence Community’s normal procedures.
Hand-picking a handful of analysts from just three intelligence agencies to write such a controversial assessment went against standing rules to vet such analyses throughout the Intelligence Community within its existing structure. The idea of using hand-picked intelligence analysts selected through some unknown process to write an assessment on such a politically sensitive topic carries a strong stench of politicization.
I also note that FBI Director Comey said in testimony
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You guys are leaving out the hoax called “Barack Hussein Obama”. A total fraud from the get-go.
McCain: ‘I Don’t Know’ If Trump-Russia Dossier ‘Credible,’ That’s Why I Gave It to the FBI
the Clapper needs to see jail time.
“McCarthy WAS right you know....commies are everywhere..!”
Take a look at Diana West’s book ‘American Betrayal’. She proves that the Commies stuck into every branch of our government and every university, news organization, political party etc...
‘I’m skeptical that Russia even hacked the election in the first place.’
What was your first clue?
Assessment To These Guys Means No Actual Evidence
This is good. Bump for later reading.
Re Brennan and Waterboading. Try “ironing Boarding”, ‘Surfboarding” and “2 x 4 Ft Boarding” on ex-comrade Brennan and then ring Clapper’s bells with them.
Might knock some sense into their dunder heads. If not, a firing squad always works the first time.
Along with Brennan, don’t forget his co-conspirator Ben Rhodes who’s brother is the President of CBS News.
The investigation needs to be investigated.
Read this the other day, didn’t verify but if true, interesting none the less.........
“Let’s put context in reality,” Gingrich began. “95% of all federal employee donations went to Hillary Clinton. 97% of the donations at the Justice Department went to Hillary Clinton. 99% at the State Department went to Hillary. So when you start talking about leaks from the Justice Department, just remember, there was an amazing number of career bureaucrats who are pro-Hillary and anti-Trump.”
And that’s not a small issue, because when the claim about 17 intel agencies came out, thinking people questioned it. Turns out that Clapper let the media lie over and over and over again without once correcting anybody - until now, after the lie has traveled the world a million times and been believed by a billion fools.
I say that the same thing he did to Trump should be done to him. Today. Then let’s see how the discussion goes...
“Second biggest hoax in history (next to Global Warming”
And a certain someone’s birth certificate.
Thanks... I will take a look at that.....
This was just a few days after Hillary set up her “war room” against Trump.
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