CIA says Russia intervened to help Trump win White House: Washington Post

[misskit]

The CIA has 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, the Washington Post reported on Friday.

Citing U.S. officials briefed on the matter, the Post said 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.

The officials described the individuals as people known to the intelligence community who were part of a wider Russian operation to boost Trump and reduce Clinton's chances of winning the election.

"It is the assessment of the intelligence community that Russia’s goal here was to favor one candidate over the other, to help Trump get elected," the Post quoted a senior U.S. official as saying. "That's the consensus view."

The Post said the official had been briefed on an intelligence presentation made by the Central Intelligence Agency to key U.S. senators behind closed-doors last week.

The CIA, in what the Post said was a secret assessment, cited a growing body of evidence from multiple sources. Briefers told the senators it was now "quite clear" that electing Trump was Russia's goal, the Post quoted officials as saying on condition of anonymity.

In October, the U.S. government formally accused Russia of a campaign of cyber attacks against Democratic Party organizations ahead of the Nov. 8 presidential election.

President Barack Obama has said he warned Russian President Vladimir Putin about consequences for the attacks. But Russian officials have denied all accusations of interference in the U.S. election.

A CIA spokeswoman said the agency had no comment on the report.

Trump has said he is not convinced Russia was behind the cyber attacks. His transition team issued a statement on "claims of foreign interference in U.S. elections" on Friday but did not directly address the issue.

The hacked emails passed to WikiLeaks were a regular source of embarrassment to the Clinton campaign during the race for the presidency.

The CIA presentation fell short of a formal U.S. assessment by all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies, the Post said. A senior U.S. official said there remained minor disagreements among intelligence officials about the assessment because some questions are unanswered, it said.

Intelligence agencies did not have specific intelligence showing the Kremlin directed the individuals to pass the hacked emails to WikiLeaks, another senior official told the Post. The actors were "one step" removed from the Russian government rather than government employees, the official said.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has said in a television interview that the Russian government was not the source of the emails, the Post said

CIA says Russia intervened to help Trump win White House: Washington Post | Reuters

[david44]

Not like USSA has ever promoted regime change

[Humbert]

Not like USSA has ever promoted regime change

Well, there you have it. The perfect rationale that is swallowed by numpties with an axe to grind.

[BaitongBoy]

US Ski and Snowboard Association?...

[Dragonfly]

is that the same CIA that claimed that Iraq had WMDs ?

or that Kaddaf wasi bombarding his own people in Bengazi ?

I mean what kind of idiot would listen to the CIA propaganda machine these days ? after all the Snowden files and wiki leaks

[Dragonfly]

Briefers told the senators it was now "quite clear" that electing Trump was Russia's goal, the Post quoted officials as saying on condition of anonymity.

indeed, they put some Chinese made implants into the head of every American redneck living in the rust belt

Burger King and all US fast food chains were infiltrated by Russian agents to deliver those implants

"It is the assessment of the intelligence community that Russia’s goal here was to favor one candidate over the other, to help Trump get elected," the Post quoted a senior U.S. official as saying. "That's the consensus view."

holly shit, this is like reading the Pravda in 1970s, when the USSR would accuse everyone outside for their own failures

[Dragonfly]

Not like USSA has ever promoted regime change

poetic justice indeed

[Humbert]

is that the same CIA that claimed that Iraq had WMDs ?

No, totally new group.

or that Kaddaf wasi bombarding his own people in Bengazi ?

That was the French and Brit intell people and the UN.

[Dragonfly]

That was the French and Brit intell people and the UN

probably too lazy to do their own research, and did a simple copy/paste of a CIA report

[david44]

Fortunately Trump has many great folks , I mean many many , really really great folks in his
Central UNiteligence Transition Service

It won't be the swan song of a failed slave state that threatened the planet as others can deliver dirty bombs with a garage built drone.

No the whole world will rally behind Trump, it's going to be a wonderful 50s world of white men bashing metal and lil woman at home and black people knowing their place, less social mobility and education based on the resounding success of the local model

[sabang]

Intelligence agencies did not have specific intelligence showing the Kremlin directed the individuals to pass the hacked emails to WikiLeaks, another senior official told the Post. The actors were "one step" removed from the Russian government rather than government employees

There you have it.

[Humbert]

Seriously, his team is pushing back against this CIA intell. Of course it makes him look like he did not win fair and square and that grates against his ego. If he has no confidence in the US intelligence agencies he is going to have a very rough time. It's not likely that he replace them all with political loyalists.

[Dragonfly]

Intelligence agencies did not have specific intelligence showing the Kremlin directed the individuals to pass the hacked emails to WikiLeaks, another senior official told the Post. The actors were "one step" removed from the Russian government rather than government employees

There you have it.

indeed, pure bullshit story

basically doing the work of tabloids and conspiracy nutters

what's next ? Aliens are going to infiltrate Trump administration ?

probably already done

[wasabi]

It's about time these Cretans just got used to the fact that ordinary decent American voters actually voted for Trump.
These everyday folks of America knew what they where doing. Got it Cretans.
It was not outside alien ET telepathy sent subliminal signals that got inside folks minds ensuring that they obeyed their ET masters and became Trump supporters.

So take your spastic propaganda bullshit stories and shove them up your spastic anal rectum.
Get over it spastic, Trump won.

[birding]

That cant be right it was the FBI that helped Trump get elected, Hillary said so.

Hillary Clinton tells donors FBI email inquiry helped Donald Trump win election, sources say

Unless they are working for the Russians as well.

Just another pack of anti Russian crap to keep the hate going.

[Looper]

The CIA has 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, the Washington Post reported on Friday.

"It is the assessment of the intelligence community that Russia’s goal here was to favor one candidate over the other, to help Trump get elected," the Post quoted a senior U.S. official as saying. "That's the consensus view."

Interfering in the political processes of other countries is sneaky but it is in the game. Just as it was in the game when the US interfered with the political processes in Ukraine.

Annexing Crimea was not in the game and rightly condemned by the international community but Russia may get away with it yet if Trump relaxes the sanctions as he sound inclined to do.

[Dragonfly]

Interfering in the political processes of other countries is sneaky but it is in the game. Just as it was in the game when the US interfered with the political processes in Ukraine.

I think that's the message that Putin was to trying to send when his team hacked into the US election

[buriramboy]

So Putin appointed Trump as America's next president. This is going to be a fun 4 years watching America being Putin's bitch.

[wasabi]

So Putin appointed Trump as America's next president.

Only believed by Hillary losers

[Humbert]

Geez, the Trumpites are out in force denying the CIA report that the Russians may have tried to influence the election. These are the same idiots who believed Hillary was on her death bed with multiple terminal illnesses and that she was getting secret audio transmissions during the debates.
They won but you can't sanitize stupid.

[Norton]

Russki bastards! Nuke em!
For good measure, drop a big one on Townsville the birth place of the evil anti Christ, email leaking Assange.
Invade Ecuador! Aiding and abetting fuckers.
Immediate ban on all immigration of Russians, Ecuadorians, and Aussies. Make all US citizens from those countries register as well.
Build a cyber wall around the US and make Putin pay for it.

[misskit]

Obama Orders Investigation Into Election-Related Hacking

President Obama asked intelligence officials to perform a “full review” of election-related hacking this week, and plans will share a report of its findings with lawmakers before he leaves office on January 20, 2017.

Deputy White House Press Secretary Eric Schultz said Friday that the investigation will reach all the way back to 2008, and will examine patterns of “malicious cyber-activity timed to election cycles.” He emphasized that the White House is not questioning the results of the November election.

More https://www.theatlantic.com/technolo...acking/510149/

[blue]

Barack obama, the man who tried to derail Brexit with his big mouth and fear mongering, now cying about foriegn interference.....

thank goodness we have regime change in usa
fuck off democrats
fuck off globalist republicans

long live king Trump

[Humbert]

Trump, CIA on collision course over Russia?s role in U.S. election

Trump, CIA on collision course over Russia’s role in U.S. election

“Given his proclivity for revenge combined with his notorious thin skin, this threatens to result in a lasting relationship of distrust and ill-will between the president and the intelligence community,” said Paul Pillar, former deputy director of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center.

U.S. intelligence officials described mounting concern and confusion about how to proceed in an administration so openly hostile to their function and role. “I don’t know what the end game is here,” a senior U.S. intelligence official said. “After Jan. 20,” the official said, referring to Inauguration Day, “we’re in uncharted territory.”

Pillar added: “Everything Trump has indicated with regard to his character and tendencies for vindictiveness might be worse” than former president Richard Nixon, who also had a dysfunctional relationship with the intelligence community.

The tensions between Trump and spy agencies could escalate even further as dozens of analysts begin work on a project, ordered by President Obama, to deliver a comprehensive report on Russian intervention in the election before Trump’s inauguration in January...

Led by Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr., the investigation is aimed at reaching a definitive judgment about the Russian role in the election. Obama aides have pledged to make as much of the report public as possible once it is completed.

Instead of showing concern about a foreign govenment possibly meddling in a US election Trump is treating this as a personal affront to his ego. What a buffoon, what a disgrace to office he is already.

[terry57]

It's about time these Cretans just got used to the fact that ordinary decent American voters actually voted for Trump.
These everyday folks of America knew what they where doing. Got it Cretans.
It was not outside alien ET telepathy sent subliminal signals that got inside folks minds ensuring that they obeyed their ET masters and became Trump supporters.

So take your spastic propaganda bullshit stories and shove them up your spastic anal rectum.
Get over it spastic, Trump won.

Oh don't say that mate, That is way to easy innit.

It's much better to say, ....

All the smart Americans did not vote so after Trump was elected they could come out and say they have all been fuked over and now it's Russia's Fault because they rigged the Election.

Fukin Snubby Eh, what a total disgrace the Septicville fuker is.

He keeps on with his agenda and just cannot get over the fact that Trump won fair and square.

God bless The Donald.