{"id":50072,"date":"2016-12-10T17:39:48","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T01:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/?p=50072"},"modified":"2016-12-12T19:13:29","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T03:13:29","slug":"fake-news-russia-intervened-to-help-trump-win-election-intelligence-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/?p=50072","title":{"rendered":"Fake News: ‘Russia Intervened to Help Trump Win Election: Intelligence Officials’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update: Top U.S. Spy Agency: No Evidence Russia Involved<\/strong><\/p>\n

Via: Reuters<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The overseers of the U.S. intelligence community have not embraced a CIA assessment that Russian cyber attacks were aimed at helping Republican President-elect Donald Trump win the 2016 election, three American officials said on Monday.<\/p>\n

While the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) does not dispute the CIA’s analysis of Russian hacking operations, it has not endorsed their assessment because of a lack of conclusive evidence that Moscow intended to boost Trump over Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton, said the officials, who declined to be named.<\/p>\n

The position of the ODNI, which oversees the 17 agency-strong U.S. intelligence community, could give Trump fresh ammunition to dispute the CIA assessment, which he rejected as “ridiculous” in weekend remarks, and press his assertion that no evidence implicates Russia in the cyber attacks.<\/p>\n

Trump’s rejection of the CIA’s judgment marks the latest in a string of disputes over Russia’s international conduct that have erupted between the president-elect and the intelligence community he will soon command.<\/p>\n

An ODNI spokesman declined to comment on the issue.<\/p>\n

“ODNI is not arguing that the agency (CIA) is wrong, only that they can’t prove intent,” said one of the three U.S. officials. “Of course they can’t, absent agents in on the decision-making in Moscow.”<\/p>\n

The Federal Bureau of Investigation, whose evidentiary standards require it to make cases that can stand up in court, declined to accept the CIA’s analysis – a deductive assessment of the available intelligence – for the same reason, the three officials said.<\/em><\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Open thread, if you can be bothered.<\/p>\n

My guess is that there are warring Deep State factions, and Clinton’s puppet masters lost. It might be that the side that didn’t want nuclear war with Russia backed Trump, and maybe they stole the “election,” but I don’t know.<\/p>\n

No U.S. national election result is valid.<\/a><\/p>\n

What I do know is that The Onion<\/em> is a more credible source than the Washington Post<\/em> at this point.<\/p>\n

Via: Reuters<\/a>:<\/p>\n

U.S. intelligence analysts have concluded that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help President-elect Donald Trump win the White House, and not just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system, a senior U.S. official said on Friday.<\/p>\n

U.S. intelligence agencies have assessed that as the 2016 presidential campaign progressed, Russian government officials devoted increasing attention to assisting Trump’s effort to win the election, the U.S. official familiar with the finding told Reuters on Friday night, speaking on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n

The president-elect’s transition office released a statement that exaggerated his margin of victory and attacked the U.S. intelligence community that Trump will soon command, but did not address the analysts’ conclusion.<\/p>\n

“These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction,” the statement said. “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.'”<\/p>\n

Democrats and some Republicans in Congress are calling for a full investigation into Russia’s election year activities.<\/p>\n

“Protecting the integrity of our elections is hindered when President-elect Trump and his transition team minimize or dismiss the intelligence assessments themselves,” Representative Adam Schiff of California, the ranking Democrat on the House intelligence committee, said in a statement issued on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Citing U.S. officials briefed on the matter, the Washington Post<\/strong> reported on Friday that intelligence agencies had identified individuals with connections to the Russian government who provided thousands of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and others, including the chairman of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, to WikiLeaks.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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