The Senate Intelligence Committee Refutes Trump...As Quietly As Possible

[Miles Archer]

The Senate Intelligence Committee Refutes Trump—As Quietly As Possible



https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/07/senate-intelligence-july-fourth-russian-interference/

The Republican-run Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday repudiated President Donald Trump’s denials that Russia interfered to help his 2016 campaign. But the release of the report—at around 3pm, just before the July 4 holiday—suggests that the Senate Republicans are eager to keep their differences with Trump out of the sunlight.

The report comes five days after Trump seemed to endorse Russian President Vladimir Putin’s denial, in the face of US intelligence agencies’ conclusions, that Russian interfered in the 2016 election: “Russia continues to say they had nothing to do with Meddling in our Election!” Trump tweeted on Thursday.

While Republicans in the House have openly aimed to discredit the Justice Department’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s Russian ties, Tuesday’s seven-page report saw the Senate committee’s Republicans siding with US intelligence and law enforcement, including the FBI.

The report endorses the January 6, 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment, or ICA, finding Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 with the goals of undermining Americans’ faith in the democratic process and denigrating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The assessment also concludes that Russia “developed a clear preference for” Trump.

[NewJeffCT]

1. let me guess

his flight to Mar-A-Lago was scheduled to take off a little before 3pm on Friday...

[Achilleaze]

2. k and r

[Achilleaze]

3. Mass Media (R): "The ongoing Acts of War on America by russia are unimportant"

"We are too busy covering the golf games of the republican draft-dodger-in-chief, and have no time to cover the Senate Intelligence Committee report. So, bugger off American citizens." - corporate media (R)