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babylonsister

(171,066 posts)
Wed Feb 14, 2018, 06:06 PM Feb 2018

Pence says intel community concluded Russia did not affect election

What planet is this asshat living on?


Pence says intel community concluded Russia did not affect election
By Morgan Chalfant - 02/14/18 02:01 PM EST


Vice President Pence on Wednesday said the U.S. intelligence community universally concluded that Russia did not have an effect on the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, despite the fact that officials have made no such judgment.

“Irrespective of efforts that were made in 2016 by foreign powers, it is the universal conclusion of our intelligence communities that none of those efforts had any impact on the outcome of the 2016 election,” Pence said at an event hosted by Axios, a claim he later repeated.


Pence went on to acknowledge that Russia did attempt to meddle in the election and said that the administration is taking steps to counter the threat.

“It doesn’t mean there weren’t efforts, and we do know there were,” Pence said. “There were efforts by Russia, and likely by other countries, to involve or influence American elections and we take that very seriously.”

The U.S. intelligence community has not reached a conclusion on whether Russian meddling actually had any bearing on the election's outcome.

“We did not make an assessment of the impact that Russia activities had on the outcome of the 2016 election,” an unclassified assessment released last January states. “The US Intelligence Community is charged with monitoring and assessing the intentions, capabilities, and actions of foreign actors; it does not analyze US political processes or US public opinion.”


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Pence says intel community concluded Russia did not affect election (Original Post) babylonsister Feb 2018 OP
Pence, Dotard #2. n/t RKP5637 Feb 2018 #1
I want pence in prison. Eliot Rosewater Feb 2018 #2
None Of These Guys Is Going To Go To Prison SoCalMusicLover Feb 2018 #3
He's full of shit. lpbk2713 Feb 2018 #4
 

SoCalMusicLover

(3,194 posts)
3. None Of These Guys Is Going To Go To Prison
Wed Feb 14, 2018, 06:17 PM
Feb 2018

I'll believe it when I see it. My guess is that most of these crimes will go unpunished.

Donald, Mike, Jared, Ivanka, Sessions, they're all untouchable. They know they're going to skate, which is why they're not worried at all.

lpbk2713

(42,757 posts)
4. He's full of shit.
Wed Feb 14, 2018, 06:18 PM
Feb 2018


He spoke with a couple of stooges who are on the Trump team and settled for that as a consensus.

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