CIA Veterans Wary Over “Russian Hacking Hysteria” Saying it Appears “Politicized”
CIA veterans, none of which are “Trump fans,” are urging caution and restraint over a leaked CIA report that claims Russia interfered in the election to help Trump win.
The report is conjecture, and provides no evidence of so-called “hacking to help Trump.”
CIA Veterans are urging caution on the matter.if Russian hacking occurred, they still wonder how anyone can presume to know Putin’s “motives.”
Let’s agree, hypothetically-speaking, that Russian hacking occurred – how does the CIA know Putin’s “motives?”
From Newsweek:
CIA veterans—none of them fans of Donald Trump–are urging caution about leaked allegations that Russia waged a secret campaign to put the New York Republican into the White House.
“I am not saying that I don’t think Russia did this,” Nada Bakos, a top former CIA counterterrorism officer tells Newsweek, in a typical comment. “My main concern is that we will rush to judgment. The analysis needs to be cohesive and done the right way.”
Reports on the alleged Russian effort have been anything but cohesive, or complete. During a closed-door briefing to the House Intelligence Committee last week, a senior FBI counterintelligence official reportedly scoffed at the CIA’s conclusion that Russia had plotted to put Trump in office, calling the evidence “fuzzy” and “ambiguous.” Details of the meeting were leaked to The Washington Post.
Another former senior official, who said he was reluctant to go on the record on “something that has obviously been politicized,” tells Newsweek that he, too, is wary of reports that CIA knows for certain that the Kremlin designed a hacking campaign with the specific goal of electing Trump, as opposed to just damaging Hillary Clinton, a hawk on Russia. In order to know Moscow’s intentions, he said, U.S. intelligence would have to have more than cyber-tracks showing Russia’s spy services transferred emails it stole from the Democratic National Committee to WikiLeaks, the whistleblower group led by Julian Assange.
It would need, he said, a mole in the bowels of the Russian spy services or ruling circles. “Let’s assume the agency was able to pinpoint Russian hackers as those responsible for stealing the emails, and also let’s assume those Russian hackers were working for Russian intelligence,” said the former CIA official, a top intelligence analyst. “OK, then let’s assume there is solid proof that Russian intelligence directed hackers passed the information to WikiLeaks/Assange. Even if all that is true, how would the CIA determine the Russian motivation for passing the information? That would presumably require a human agent behind the curtain with certain knowledge of Putin’s thinking and intentions.”
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Because it’s FAKE NEWS pushed by Soros puppets, left, and Globalists.
I’m tired of the bull crap lies.
It’s pitiful that the CIA has been brought to this level of the politically corrupt state. The flaming ignorance of the “college” kids in the CIA today is dangerous to our national security. We have been losing the human intel battle for a long time, and now it’s really showing up. For the CIA to label Russia as the hackers with the intent of getting Donald Trump elected is beyond stupid. It’ can be deadly, or, if we go to retaliating against Russia and they are innocent, then Putin might decide to have that war that everyone thinks America would win. He may decide to SEE if there is anything left of the United States once the missiles quit flying. It’s a dangerous game Obama and Soros and the democrats are playing, along with fools like John McCain, Linseed Graham, UpChuck Schumer and many others. What do they hope to gain? That is my question. What is the payback? Is McCain et. al. going to receive YUUGGGG Paychecks from Soros, or the Clinton Foundation? Maybe Jill Stein is offering them huge sums of money. The CIA has lost all credibility it may have had left.
You said it, this is not only politically stupid beyond belief, but it is potentially dangerous. I cannot believe that elected officials and the CIA, which we know would never lie, are pushing such nonsense in such a politically charged atmosphere. This needs to stop. There was no hacking, and all the Assange leaks reported did not come from Russia, they came from other sources[Per Assange].
So are we to assume these CIA Veterans are ‘hillary/obama’ fans? That part of the article smells VERY strong of BS!
CIA in bed with the Democrat Party? I think so!
Our leaders should stop letting themselves be drawn into these distractions. We have many REAL problems to solve and much energy and time is being wasted dealing with the 2-YEAR olds on the other side. The other side are all busy projecting their own emotions and fears onto us because they have lost any common sense they ever had. Nothing will change until these immature generations and their sins to the 3rd or 4th generation are bred out of future generations. God help us till then!
Julian Assange himself said it wasn’t Russia that gave him the emails it was a former DNC member. I’ll believe Assange, John Brennan head of CIA was appointed by Obama so he’s just a democratic puppet