Okeefenokee wrote:Smitty-48 wrote:Okeefenokee wrote:Doesn't matter who it was. The CIA, FBI, et al have no credibility.
It's not "et al", only CIA, with FBI and NSA endorsing the CIA report, none of the fourteen other Intel agencies have endorsed the report, and the ODNI has stated there's "no conclusive evidence" therein.
To me, this is a classic cooked report, the CIA cooked it up, FBI and NSA are just going along with it, but the rest of the IC is steering clear, and so is the ODNI, and that's usually a sign, that they know it's ginned up, and so they don't want any part of it.
Good point,
Office Of The Director Of National Intelligence: We're Not Sure About The CIA's Assessment On Russia
At the time of the DNC hack, outgoing DNI Director James Clapper downplayed the cyber attack, adding that this is just another aspect of the geopolitical world, and that Americans should calm down about the hacking.
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/ ... a-n2259121
Oh you are so desperate!!!
Yeah, at the time of the DNC hack James Clapper was indeed calming people before jumping to conclusions. I remember that, I was then also sceptical of it being some Clinton spin then. Now the election is over, time to stop the campaign mudslinging. Well, NOW HE IS MAKING THOSE CONCLUSIONS.
The head of U.S. intelligence told a Senate committee Thursday that Russia poses "an existential threat to the United States." James Clapper made the comment while testifying about Russian hacking during the presidential campaign. "I don't think that we have ever encountered a more aggressive or direct campaign to interfere in our election process," the director of national intelligence told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
See CNBC Thursday, 5 Jan 2017
here
And do notice this part too:
But Clapper also said the Russian hacking efforts "did not change the vote tallies" in the election, which ended with Donald Trump's victory. Clapper was referring specifically to the question of whether voting machines could have been manipulated to affect the outcome.
It's really funny how still people are here in a denial of this, perhaps simply because some annoying democrats try to make the most of it (and exaggerate it, of course). Yet the denial that it wasn't the Russians, that we cannot be sure, that it might have been the Chinese, or it might have been a 400 pound guy on a bed.... that's the annoying part. Because just what the fuck do you lose by admitting the Russians did it? Heck, they do similar things for example in the UK. And the hacking is JUST A PART of the campaign. They have done these kind of things in a spectacular fashion in my country, of course, but that Putin has the balls to do it to you is the thing here.
Smitty-48 wrote:That's ODNI, going out of their way, to not endorse the report, which is classic cooked report dodging; CIA is out on a limb, ODNI says; "it's not us, it's just them"
Oh for fucks sake...
Just fucking READ which Department this report comes from:
Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections Hint: It is the Office of the Director of the National Intelligence.
kybkh wrote:So, if we all agree Russia did this, you have to agree that the US does the exact same shit.
I don't see everybody agreeing here it was Russia. For people here it wasn't the Russians, but a just a DNC hoax that for some reason the intelligence services are doing for an administration that is only for a few weeks in power. And no, it's not an act of war. Information warfare goes on all the time. And Russia is winning it.
The US surely makes it effort to use espionage on everybody, that's for sure. Yet the US hasn't have the balls or simply the chance to do something like this to China or Russia. And trying to push a favorite in the Kremlin or in Beijing would be hard. You see these kind of operations the US does occasionally, while Russia does all the time continuously, even if on a slow burner at times.