FBI backs CIA view that Russia intervened to help Trump win election

[Justice]

Source: Washington Post

BI Director James B. Comey and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper have backed a CIA assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election in part to help Donald Trump win the presidency, according to U.S. officials.

...."A separate House intelligence briefing by a senior FBI counter-intelligence official last week left some Republican and Democratic lawmakers with the impression that the bureau wasn’t on the same page as the CIA, according to officials present.

The truth is they were never all that different in the first place,” an official said of the FBI and CIA positions.


In his message to the CIA’s workforce, Brennan said the administration has provided detailed briefings to lawmakers and their aides since the summer.

“In recent days, I have had several conversations with members of Congress, providing an update on the status of the review as well as the considerations that need to be taken into account as we proceed,” Brennan wrote. “Many – but unfortunately not all – members understand and appreciate the importance and the gravity of the issue, and they are very supportive of the process that is underway.”....



Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-backs-cia-view-that-russia-intervened-to-help-trump-win-election/2016/12/16/05b42c0e-c3bf-11e6-9a51-cd56ea1c2bb7_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_usrussia-224pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_ter

[Kingofalldems]

1. Arrest the traitor!! Do it now.

[Blue Shoes]

2. It's too late. The cancer has metastasized. nt

[hughee99]

30. They can arrest Putin? n/t

[Kingofalldems]

32. Putin is not a citizen of the US.

[hughee99]

33. That's why I was confused.

I have yet to see a story that says the CIA or FBI has proof that Trump was involved in the hacking, but since you're suggesting "arrest him now" I figured you must be talking about someone else.

[Kingofalldems]

34. Go away.

[hughee99]

36. in the spirit of the season, I apologize for pointing

Out that your post doesn't make sense.

[Kingofalldems]

37. I assumed DUers had enough intelligence

to compare the Tumpies at his rallies and their calling for Hillary to be sent to prison. Guess I missed one.

[hughee99]

38. I assumed DUers had enough intelligence to

Not act like trump supporters and not call for someone to be locked up for something there's no available proof they actually did. Guess I missed one too.

[Kingofalldems]

39. Good for you. Will continue to fight.

Too fucking bad you don't like it.

[hughee99]

41. You know how sometimes some passionate

Republican supporter thinks they're "fighting the good fight" but they put forward some argument that doesn't make any sense or makes him look like a hypocrite, then some DUer posts it, we all laugh, and paint all republican supporters in the same light?

[complain jane]

44. So what do YOU think happened?

Why do you think only DNC info was leaked?

[hughee99]

49. I think regardless of what the Russians may have done,

If you can't prove Trump was personally involved, there's nothing to arrest him for... And I have yet to see one of these reports from official or even anonymous sources in the CIA or FBI suggest that they have such information.

[Sunlei]

3. A bit late to WARN American voters, 'you've been scammed & spammed with lies by Republicans'

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. given this - how can the election outcome be considered legitimate?

[ananda]

5. My question exactly!

It can't ... but my fear is that it will.

[Justice]

8. Given this, the election outcome can never be considered legitimate.

No matter what happens from this moment on.

[NRaleighLiberal]

10. this is how I felt during Bush's 8 years...but on steroids.

Bush was never my president. I don't consider Trump to be anything but malevolent. He represents everything that I find loathsome.

[xor]

13. I'm far more troubled and worried by Trump than I was of Bush...

Which says a lot.

[NRaleighLiberal]

14. Exactly. Not even close. And Trump isn't even president yet (fingers crossed SOMETHING happens

- some miracle - to prevent that from happening)

[wordpix]

17. miracle would be if EC gets the hacking info and delays the vote

And what's happening with the recount?
:shurg:

[briv1016]

25. The recounts are dead in the water.

Our last two chances are a flip in the EC that likely cause a civil war, or to start one ourselves.

"May you live in interesting times."

[LiberalLovinLug]

22. Bush was a goofy puppet beholden to the GOP leadership

Trump is a Putin puppet beholden to no one but his own ego.

[killbotfactory]

50. Did they hack the election results?

Or just hack emails and expose us to information that should have remained private?

If it's the former, yes the election results are not legitimate.

If it's the latter, then there's nothing we can do about it. Leaks happen in all campaigns. Like the Romney 47% incident. It's troubling that they came about from a foreign power, but I don't see how it would make the election results illegitimate. They weren't using top secret spycraft malware, like stuxnet. It was a run of the mill phishing email attack from hackers associated with the Russian government. It's such a low tech hack that it could have been any domestic hacker group.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. Just heard that

Waiting for Drumpf's reaction.

[keithbvadu2]

7. Even the republican FBI agrees with the CIA.

[Captain1way]

9. Now the butt covering starts

They can't cover up fast Enough

[Maven]

11. Well I'm glad Comey intervened in the election about Hillary's emails then

obviously that was a much more critical matter of national security than Russian interference in our election.

[world wide wally]

16. No SHIT!

We almost had a mad emailer in the White House………. or something

[wordpix]

18. she had her own server! What a breach of security that is compared to Pooty

hacking our election so Trump would be elected.

[Dawson Leery]

12. Trump is another fraud, just like Dubya.

[malthaussen]

15. That's nice. What do you intend to do about it, Mr President?

More to the point, what do you have the leverage to do about it, Mr President?

Frankly, I am less concerned with the need to crack Russia's knuckles for being naughty boys than with the domestic consequences of an invalid election.

-- Mal

[yardwork]

19. I can't type what I'm thinking right now!

[MontanaMama]

20. President Obama is speaking right now

and telling us all that the vote was counted correctly. WTF?

[still_one]

21. The FBI was a willing participant in helping trump win the election also. Don't give all the credit

to Russia

[Raster]

23. Comey: I don't know nothing about influencing elections...

...it was the Russians...yeah, that's the ticket, the Russians!

[ffr]

24. What now? So we know they & Comey influence the election

What is anybody going to do about the affect it had on the idiot undecideds who got played for fools, buying what the Russians and Comey were spoon feeding, without any skepticism?



WHAT THE FUCK, COMEY! You claimed earlier it wasn't important enough to bring up. Coward!

MAKE THIS WRONG, RIGHT!

[apcalc]

26. Covering Comey's ass

[ZoomBubba]

27. Well ...

... this is big. Behind the scenes, there must have been a deal reached with the GOP and Democrats where both are going to feel they don't have any choice but to move on this.

We might see a deal where he is going to be replaced with Pence. Not the best outcome, but probably politically the one that will not result in an outright insurrection. Pence is at least predictable domestically and status quo as far as foreign policy.

[jalan48]

28. This is beginning to feel scripted.

It happened, it was bad, and now at the last minute we are all in agreement. Oh, and it's a real bummer that it's too late to do anything about it.

[Justice]

29. Exactly.

[triron]

43. Media is in the same boat

[complain jane]

45. Agreed.

This is too blatant.

[triron]

31. So now Russia gets to decide

who will be POTUS. Sad.
News media just rolls over. So does Obama and Congress.

[Blue Idaho]

35. The entire agency is beyond corrupt...

Ready willing and able to back Putin's puppet - Comrade Trump. The Agency should be disbanded and its leader jailed. This latest move is simply a CYA operation.

[Kingofalldems]

40. Lock Trump up!

Suspicion of treason.

[FairWinds]

42. wouldn't it be nice if the USeans hands were clean . .

about messing around with other counties' elections?

How does it feel to be on the receiving end for a change?

This is what nauseating Merrikan Exceptionalism looks like.

Veterans For Peace

[rgbecker]

47. This!

[FairWinds]

48. Ariel Dorfman had an Op-ed in today's

New York Times on this very subject - No freebie link up yet.

He and I must be channeling each other.

Hey wait, . . Here it is.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/16/opinion/now-america-you-know-how-chileans-felt.html?_r=0