Posted on 06/30/2017 7:40:38 AM PDT by mandaladon
The New York Times issued a correction Thursday on an article that incorrectly claimed all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies agreed that “Russia orchestrated the attacks, and did it to help get [Trump] elected.”
The original article, published June 25, covered certain reactions that President Donald Trump gave in response to Russian cyber attacks and interactions with the 2016 presidential election.
TheNYT’s correction notes that: “The assessment was made by four intelligence agencies — the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Security Agency. The assessment was not approved by all 17 organizations in the American intelligence community.”
Former candidate Hillary Clinton made the claim in late May that all 17 intelligence agencies agreed “that the Russians ran an extensive information war against my campaign to influence voters in the election.”
Former FBI Director James Comey refuted this false claim in a congressional hearing in May, stating that the assessment was only from the NSA, FBI and the CIA.
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NYSlimes is the home of fake news, 24/7 everyday of the year.
Pretty soon it’ll be reduced to “we heard it on Harriet the spy”.
Obama, Hillary, many Dems, and the MSM all repeated this narrative several times over.
NPR spent some time on it, even identifying all 17 agencies.
The Russians didn’t of course. This was just an explanation for why the batty old grandma lost yet another election.
But if Russia did hello stop hillary,that clearly makes them an ally of America.
Retractions are like "I'm Sorry" after doing something wrong deliberately and with malice....means nothing.
I would bet that 99% of all Freepers understood well that the 17 agencies story was a phony that has knowingly been repeated endlessly by the MSM. And they have known it for at least 6 months.
The MSM has become synonymous with Fake News.
NYT FN DAILY
Blatantly missing is an explanation of WHY the other 13 agencies did NOT agree, and what their assessment was.
Inquiring minds want to know!
WHY the HELL are there 17.....SEVENTEEN...Spy agencies in this country????? No wonder they are so inept.
First, DNI is not a producer of intelligence work-product, so whatever the DNI came up with is irrelevant, and is probably nothing more than a summary/concurrence of materials produced by other agencies.
Second, although the FBI is a producer of domestic intelligence products, it did not produce any in this case because the FBI was never permitted to do a forensic examination of the servers, nor did it ever really interview anyone connected with the alleged "incidents" in a serious way. Since the FBI does not do overseas work, that means the entirety of this story came from the CIA and/or the NSA.
That's it.
No other US intel agency produced any intelligence, did any analysis, or came to any conclusions with respect to this alleged "hacking."
Just two.
And we know from WikiLeaks that the CIA can and routinely does plant materials camouflaged as "Russian."
None of the other agencies tasked with various extremely specific types of intel gathering ever found, analyzed, or reviewed the work of the the Big Two. That was a lie from the very beginning.
I question that there are even three. The FBI's assessment with "high confidence" is pure BS; the FBI could not have honestly made such an assessment given that they were never permitted to do forensic examination of the server(s).
So in what did they have "high confidence?" Nothing more than that the assessment of the CIA and NSA was probably correct.
Why do we have 17 Intel agencies?
Seem double redundant.
“Editors — and yes, that especially means copy editors — save reporters and the Times every day from countless errors, large and small,” (NYT editors) say in the letter.
Ha!
I heard that the Coast Guard dissented so it’s only 16 intelligence agencies involved. /sarc
It's really a scary interesting read. https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICA_2017_01.pdf
By 17, they meant 3 agencies. And by 3, they meant they took the word of the DNC funded CrowdStrike.
I want to know who is covering up for pappy Francis.... IF anyone messed with our elections it was the daddy in Rome, performing a fake mass on our Southern border.
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