heavyblinker -> FBI agrees with CIA: Russia helped Trump take White House (12/16/2016 9:13:17 PM)
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clinton-blames-putins-personal-grudge-against-her-for-election-interference/2016/12/16/12f36250-c3be-11e6-8422-eac61c0ef74d_story.html?tid=pm_politics_pop&utm_term=.14513cc54d04 quote:
“Earlier this week, I met separately with FBI [Director] James Comey and DNI Jim Clapper, and there is strong consensus among us on the scope, nature, and intent of Russian interference in our presidential election,” Brennan said, according to U.S. officials who have seen the message. CIA and FBI officials do not think Russia had a “single purpose” by intervening during the presidential campaign, officials said. In addition to the goal of helping elect Trump, Putin aimed to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system, intelligence officials have told lawmakers. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/12/16/another-jim-comey-wildcard-just-got-dropped-on-the-2016-election/?tid=pm_politics_pop&utm_term=.1263668f8f36 quote:
Previously, the FBI's apparently noncommittal stance on Russia's motives provided skeptical Republicans with some valuable plausible deniability that Russia actually intended to help Trump. Part of the apparent disharmony seemed to stem from the differences in the two organizations' mission statements and cultures, with the FBI more interested in what it could prove and the CIA more comfortable drawing inferences based on the evidence at hand. An official now tells The Post that the FBI's and CIA's positions were “never all that different in the first place.” What better way to undermine the US electoral system than to help a totally incompetent buffoon into the White House? You get to make America look stupid, disrupt the government as a whole and spend the next 4 years exploiting an easily manipulated president. Putin must have been laughing his ass off throughout the whole campaign.
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