John Bolton's New Top Aide Is a Russia Truther

[babylonsister]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/john-boltons-new-top-aide-is-a-russia-truther?ref=home

John Bolton’s New Top Aide Is a Russia Truther
The national security adviser’s new chief of staff said intelligence was ‘rigged’ by Obama and that Trump should ‘pardon everyone’ under investigation.
Justin Glawe
06.08.18 5:09 AM ET


National Security Adviser John Bolton’s top aide hire said last year that U.S. intelligence reports on Russia’s election meddling were “rigged.”

That’s just one of the conspiracies Fred Fleitz espoused before he was hired last week as Bolton’s chief of staff. Fleitz has also said it’s “impossible” to know if Russia was responsible for election-related hacks, and speculated that the Obama administration manipulated intelligence about Russia and that it schemed to “trap” Trump officials by sanctioning Moscow.

Fleitz even said that President Trump should “pardon everyone” under investigation in the Russia matter.

Fleitz’s views on Russia may place him in good company when it comes to the president and Bolton, who has harbored similar theories about Russia’s actions in 2016. But it places him squarely at odds with the intelligence community’s 2017 report that said Russia meddled in the presidential election—and did so to help Trump win.

Faced with the FBI, NSA, and CIA assessment that “Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the US presidential election,” Fleitz argued that the findings weren’t based in intelligence but were pure politics.

“I [...] suspect the entire purpose of this report and its timing was to provide President Obama with a supposedly objective intelligence report on Russian interference in the 2016 election that the president could release before he left office to undermine the legitimacy of Trump’s election,” Fleitz wrote at FoxNews.com on Jan. 7, 2017.

Intelligence agencies were “led astray by the Obama administration’s partisanship and national security incompetence,” he added.

[HopeAgain]

1. A whole government of whackos

[mr_lebowski]

2. This bullsh8t is just getting so f***ing pathetic ...

ARREST TRUMP FOR DOGS SAKE before we all lose our ever-loving MINDS.

The STUPID CANNOT POSSIBLY GO ON like this.

Make it STOP ... for the love of all that's Holy ... spare us ...

[Mc Mike]

3. His CSP was funded by the Bircher Bradley Foundation.

Birchers in bed with the Russkie commies, again.