Posted on 12/11/2016 8:28:54 AM PST by TigerClaws
The CIA and the FBI appear to be divided in their assessment of whether Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Republican Donald Trump clinch the White House, according to a report. The Central Intelligence Agency has concluded that Russia was actively trying to help elect Trump as opposed to just “meddling with” the election process, according to The Washington Post.
During a closed-door briefing at the Senate Intelligence Committee early this month, the spy agency presented its assessment of Russia’s role in the election. Citing unnamed US officials briefed on the matter, The Post said individuals connected to Moscow had provided thousands of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and others to WikiLeaks.
The hacked emails were a regular source of embarrassment to the campaign of Democrat Hillary Clinton during the presidential race.
“Russia’s goal here was to favor one candidate over the other, to help Trump get elected,” said a senior US official briefed on the intelligence presentation made to key senators. “That’s the consensus view.” In a secure meeting room under the Capitol last week, however, a senior FBI counterintelligence official told lawmakers that the agency and the bureau were not on the same page regarding Russia’s alleged intervention. The FBI official’s remarks to the lawmakers in the House Intelligence Committee, who had a classified letter written by the senators summing up the secret CIA assessment, were “fuzzy” and “ambiguous,” The Post said. The divergent messages from the CIA and the FBI have angered many lawmakers who are demanding answers about the Kremlin’s alleged role in the presidential race and its possible motives.
FBI Director James Comey (AFP file photo)
The clamor from Congress prompted the White House to announce Friday that President Barack Obama had ordered a full review of Russia’s cyber attacks during the presidential campaign. Obama wants the review to be completed before he leaves office in January. Meanwhile, Trump’s transition team slammed the CIA on Friday over its assessment of Russian espionage operations targeting the 2016 race.
"These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction," the transition said in a statement on Friday. "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.'"
The Clinton campaign has blamed FBI Director James Comey for the candidate’s bruising loss to Trump as the bureau dropped a bombshell letter days before the election on the discovery of new emails potentially related to an investigation into Clinton’s email practices.
As dispassionately as I can surmise, either the CIA or the FBI is politicized beyond their capacity to present factual descriptions of real events. Perhaps both are. Regardless, it doesn’t speak well for our national security.
The “media” bobbleheads are really cracking me up this morning. They do a big story, blah, blah, blah, about the evil “right wing” spreading #fakenews and then they move on to the Russkis getting President-elect Trump elected. The largest #fakenews story of the century. Wake up America!
When can the Clinton campaign admit the possibility that they got leaked from within her own staff?
Voting machines are not networked and can't be hacked except by someone physically tampering with each machine.
This entire story is bogus.
All that and the agencies claim not to be politicized and worry about the next President making it so?
IMO more like the Justice Department, FBI, CIA, and IRS are worried about being outed for who they probably are, enforcement arms for the Democrat Party which they were never meant to be.
Which agency has been going after those soldiers for the DNC and Obama on tape who were professional agitators causing riots and closing down Republican rallies? I hear total silence on that.
What’s the big deal, anyway? Like illegal immigrants, the Russians have a vested interest in who the American president might be. /s
Russia is opportunistic like any other major power. Hillary’s leaking-sieve email system was a soft target for exploitation,they simply went after the easiest opportunity. Wikileaks consistently denies that they did not get their trove of emails from Russia. Hacking was so easy against Hillary that the easier question to ask is “who didn’t” rather than “who did” exploit this major vulnerablity.
Brennan is an Obama Muslim PIG, doing what he is told, he should be packing his bags.
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-PJ
Can we talk about Victoria Nuland and Ukraine?
Caught the morning Sunday political shows ....MAN CBS and NBC were badgering Kelly Ann and Pflaf about what was Trump gonna do about Russia!!!!
ABC with G.Steffie...was ask McCaski of Miss our also about the Democratic party was gonna do about their wipeout in the rural area....
Todd at NBC was ridiculous!
Will some human being from either agency please go on the record on this story?
I am sick and tired of hearing about secret briefings and “reliable sources”.
Who is saying this stuff—and what is their evidence?
They need to either prove it or shut the f___ up!
Yet another soebarkah lie.
Revealing Hillary’s CRIMINAL activity is NOT subversive!
Suggesting that she should have got away with it is mindless.
YES Obammie certainly did Interfere in Isreal’s election, I had forgotten all about this, YEP it’s OK for Obammie BUT not for ANY OTHER country, this is NOTHING but these BASTARDS trying to make the people THINK Trump really did NOT win this election on his own!!! These BASTARDS still don’t get it!!!! They DON’T HEAR THE PEOPLE SING!!!
YES Obammie certainly did Interfere in Isreal’s election, I had forgotten all about this, YEP it’s OK for Obammie BUT not for ANY OTHER country, this is NOTHING but these BASTARDS trying to make the people THINK Trump really did NOT win this election on his own!!! These BASTARDS still don’t get it!!!! They DON’T HEAR THE PEOPLE SING!!!
Name them! There is no "speaking anonymously" boilerplate.
Democrats and liberals hate Russia because it is largely a white Nation with a judeo-christian foundation.
This constant effort to try to paint Russia as a communist nation which it has not been for 25 to 30 years is ridiculous.
The Democrat Party is not just guilty of playing racial politics they are the anti-white, anti-christian, and anti-God party.
The party of murder, crime and ethnic race based cleansing.
They need to be wiped out.
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