Intel officials altered finding Russia wants Trump to win in 2020 to spare themselves...

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Intel officials altered finding Russia wants Trump to win in 2020 to spare themselves from the president’s anger: report

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/intel-officials-altered-finding-russia-wants-trump-to-win-in-2020-to-spare-themselves-from-the-presidents-anger-report/


According to an extensive investigation into a National Intelligence Estimate complied by various U.S. intelligence agencies last July, the New York Times is reporting that a key “finding” indicating that Russian President Vladimir Putin is highly interested in keeping Donald Trump in the Oval Office past 2020 was omitted by officials fearing the president’s wrath.

Under a headline, “Unwanted Truths: Inside Trump’s Battles with U.S. Intelligences Agencies,” the Times notes that the N.I.E. report was intended to document Russia’s efforts to meddle in both the 2020 presidential election as well as the one slated for 2024.

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However one of the key findings, under the category of “key judgments,” listed “Key Judgment 2 was that in the 2020 election, Russia favored the current president: Donald Trump.”

That particular conclusion was subsequently altered over fears of how the president would receive it.

“The intelligence provided to the N.I.E.’s authors indicated that in the lead-up to 2020, Russia worked in support of the Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders as well,” the Times reports. “To allay any speculation that Putin’s interest in Trump had cooled, Key Judgment 2 was substantiated by current information from a highly sensitive foreign source described by someone who read the N.I.E. as ‘100 percent reliable.'”

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[chia]

1. So tired of cowardly gov't. officials sparing themselves Trump's wrath at our expense

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The NIE in question was from July, 2019.

The intelligence provided to the N.I.E.’s authors indicated that in the lead-up to 2020, Russia worked in support of the Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders as well. But Bort explained to his colleagues, according to notes taken by one participant in the process, that this reflected not a genuine preference for Sanders but rather an effort “to weaken that party and ultimately help the current U.S. president.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/08/magazine/us-russia-intelligence.html

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3. K&R!