FBI Disagrees With CIA’s Bogus “Russian Hacker” Report
While the mainstream media and the left desperately try to spin a bogus/no evidence CIA report on so-called “Russian hacking” that changed the election outcome, the FBI says, not so fast…..
From Washington Post:
In a secure meeting room under the Capitol last week, lawmakers held in their hands a classified letter written by colleagues in the Senate summing up a secret, new CIA assessment of Russia’s role in the 2016 presidential election.
Sitting before the House Intelligence Committee was a senior FBI counterintelligence official. The question the Republicans and Democrats in attendance wanted answered was whether the bureau concurred with the conclusions the CIA had just shared with senators that Russia “quite” clearly intended to help Republican Donald Trump defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton and clinch the White House.
For the Democrats in the room, the FBI’s response was frustrating — even shocking.
During a similar Senate Intelligence Committee briefing held the previous week, the CIA’s statements, as reflected in the letter the lawmakers now held in their hands, were “direct and bald and unqualified” about Russia’s intentions to help Trump, according to one of the officials who attended the House briefing.
The FBI official’s remarks to the lawmakers on the House Intelligence Committee were, in comparison, “fuzzy” and “ambiguous,” suggesting to those in the room that the bureau and the agency weren’t on the same page, the official said.
The divergent messages from the CIA and the FBI put a spotlight on the difficulty faced by intelligence and law enforcement officials as they try to draw conclusions about the Kremlin’s motives for hacking Democratic Party emails during the 2016 race. Officials are frequently looking at information that is fragmentary. They also face issues assessing the intentions of a country expert at conducting sophisticated “influence” operations that made it hard — if not impossible — to conclusively detect the Kremlin’s elusive fingerprints.
The competing messages, according to officials in attendance, also reflect cultural differences between the FBI and the CIA. The bureau, true to its law enforcement roots, wants facts and tangible evidence to prove something beyond all reasonable doubt. The CIA is more comfortable drawing inferences from behavior.
“The FBI briefers think in terms of criminal standards — can we prove this in court,” one of the officials said. “The CIA briefers weigh the preponderance of intelligence and then make judgment calls to help policymakers make informed decisions. High confidence for them means ‘we’re pretty damn sure.’ It doesn’t mean they can prove it in court.”
The FBI is not sold on the idea that Russia had a particular aim in its meddling. “There’s no question that [the Russians’] efforts went one way, but it’s not clear that they have a specific goal or mix of related goals,” said one U.S. official.
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All you need is a Radiation Detector to find out about HRC’s sale of US Uranium assets to Russia-that and a bill counter for the millions made on the deal. HRC’s hands are radioactive and colored with bank note antitheft ink!
Amy liberals are trying to ramp up attacks on Russia knowing Trump and Putin will soon expose OBama for all the funding he gave Muslims in the Middle East who by the way are about to lose Aleppo. Saudi Arabia is our real enemy not Russia
This is all baffoon crap from liberials. Anything to try and derail Trump!
Remember when jill started her whole bs on fraud cyber fraud on the voting machines so wanted a hand count?
They spoke to a computer cyber professional and he said it was NOT POSSIBLE to hack the voting machines through the internet! He said those machines had to each be opened by someone and reprogramed to change the votes. Which he said only a few had access to them. So the fraud we saw with them changing republican to democrat votes was done by soros or one of his assoc or puppets.
So this is yet another scam by our lovely government,obummer,killary and soros. Except we also have the scumbags mccain and lindsey involved now too. Along with the left bought media! May GOD HAVE MERCY ON ALL YOUR SOULS!!
It takes exactly 7 minutes to hack a machine and you are correct that it can’t be done over the internet. It must be opened by hand. However, if it is done, it takes exactly one line of code to accomplish and it’s nearly freakin’ impossible to find.