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James Clapper to @ErinBurnett: "Our intelligence community assessment [about Russia] did cast doubt on the legitimacy of the election."
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Holy cow! We've come a long way, even this week.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Not that I don't appreciate this coming out, but it's a little late in the day.
Botany
(70,518 posts)Do I need to add this?
spanone
(135,844 posts)Purveyor
(29,876 posts)Just saying...
radical noodle
(8,003 posts)Purveyor
(29,876 posts)radical noodle
(8,003 posts)unless you believe that everything that he says is a lie, and unless we're talking about trump that's unlikely.
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)something.
So this is not news to me. I figured if I thought it, since it seemed obvious that it was a possibility, then others had thought it.
BadgerMom
(2,771 posts)thesquanderer
(11,990 posts)And the meanings are subtly different.
SunSeeker
(51,574 posts)The evidence, just what we are privy to, is overwhelming.
Stryst
(714 posts)But even if the investigation proves it beyond a shadow of a doubt, does that role back Gorsuch's nomination? Does that undo the brain drain from our administrative agencies?
There was a time to drop your evidence that the election was illegitimate, and it was before a bunch of damage was done.
oasis
(49,390 posts)PDittie
(8,322 posts)a political and foreign policy journalist for Business Insider.
Clapper's quote from the social media director at Shareblue, Leah McElrath:
"did I think serve to cast doubt"
There is a tremendous distinction between those two statements.
Which doesn't even address whether the journalist, who appears to have edited the quote to change its meaning, might have some agenda that the social media director at Shareblue does not. And then it's Clapper talking, who's got a history of lying under oath.
Understanding this topic of Russian meddling in the election is fraught with difficulty.
kpete's post has a Tweet with an embedded quote from Clapper that indicates more surety on his part.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029623224