{"id":25797,"date":"2017-01-07T14:51:10","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T22:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=25797"},"modified":"2017-01-07T14:51:10","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T22:51:10","slug":"the-how-the-why-and-the-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/07\/the-how-the-why-and-the-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"The How, the Why, and the Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve been waiting for some time for the report on Vladimir Putin’s (R-RU) interference in the US election to harm Hillary Clinton and assist Trump.  We may never find out "how" the intelligence community knows what it does, largely because Putin would kill our HUMINT assets, if he knew who they were.  The "why" is actually fascinating, but I think they missed an angle.  And the lies coming from the Tangerine Traitor are deplorable.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Russian president Vladimir Putin interfered in the US presidential election to aid Donald Trump, according to a declassified assessment by the NSA, CIA and FBI.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe assess Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the US presidential election<\/strong>. Russia\u2019s goals were to undermine public faith in the US democratic process, denigrate Secretary [Hillary] Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency. We further assess Putin and the Russian Government developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump<\/strong>,\u201d the agencies found in a long-awaited report that stands to hang over the head of the incoming Trump administration.<\/p>\n

The report<\/a> (pdf), for weeks the subject of leaks that have incensed and vexed Trump, contradicts the contention from his transition team that Russia did not prefer him in the 2016 election, as well as Trump\u2019s insistence that the culprits behind the hacks of Democratic political figures are fundamentally unknowable.<\/p>\n

The report keeps classified any crucial technical data demonstrating Russian culpability, which means its release is unlikely to persuade skeptics that the intelligence agencies have definitively proven their case. Nor does the intelligence assessment claim that Russian interference was decisive in the election.<\/p>\n

Though the report lacks detail, never before has the US intelligence apparatus publicly assessed a foreign power to have interfered in an election for the benefit of an incoming president<\/strong>… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

From <The Guardian<\/a>><\/font><\/p>\n

Photo Credit: Daily Kos<\/a>:<\/font><\/p>\n

I have read the report<\/a>.  You can too.<\/font><\/p>\n

The best explanation as to why Putin did what he did. comes from Rachel Maddow<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n

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