Trump WH has a "17 intelligence agencies" fake narrative going Former DNI Clapper shut it down.

[riversedge]

Planting the seeds of doubt is Trumps speciality.




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Trump WH has a "17 intelligence agencies" fake narrative going

Former DNI Clapper shut it down.

http://shareblue.com/former-intel-chief-clapper-definitively-smacks-down-trumps-lies-about-russia-hacking/ …
By @EricBoehlert

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Former intel chief Clapper definitively smacks down Trump’s lies about Russia hacking
By Eric Boehlert | July 7, 2017

Trump keeps claiming the question of Russia's election interference is unknowable. The U.S. intelligence community disagrees.
CNN

Every time Donald Trump tries to obfuscate and misdirect about Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, representatives from the U.S. intelligence community collectively knock down the misinformation.

Trump keeps trying to suggest there’s dissension or disagreement within the intelligence agencies about Russia’s role, and that the whole question of foreign interference remains unknowable.

“Well I think it was Russia, and I think it could have been other people and other countries,” Trump said at a news conference in Poland on Thursday. “It could have been a lot of people interfered.”

Trump also seemed to write off the intelligence community’s ability to make assessments, stressing that “mistakes have been made” in the past, noting the US intelligence community’s mistake in claiming Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction prior to the Iraq War.

Speaking with CNN’s Jim Sciutto, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper once again dismantled the White House spin, stating definitively that all of the evidence points to Russian involvement, that there’s no indication any other foreign player was involved, and that there’s no disagreement across the U.S. intelligence community about those findings.

Just before President Barack Obama left office in January, the DNI issued a declassified version of the intelligence community assessment, which concluded Russia had been behind the hacking of Democratic Party emails and had also pushed propaganda online aimed at harming Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

That DNI assessment was presented by the CIA, the FBI, the NSA, and Clapper’s DNI, but Trump has tried to undermine those assessments as well.

“Let me just start off by saying I heard it was 17 agencies,” Trump said Thursday. “I said, ‘Boy that’s a lot.’ Do we even have that many intelligence agencies? Right? Let’s check it. And we did some very heavy research. It turned out to be three or four. It wasn’t 17.”..............

[Leghorn21]

1. You just SHUT YOUR FUCKIN MOUTH, LOSER 45 - oh, I feel so so bad for Mr. Clapper. After all he has

done for this country, most of which we'll never know about - and now, day after day, he has to put up with this pack of drooling mobsters -

Bless you, Mr. Clapper. I'm so awfully sorry you are having to repeatedly butt heads with these bastards, and I hope all your efforts to save this country will come to fruition sooner rather than later.

[leftstreet]

2. On an international stage, Loser 45 said US intel is unreliable

I still can't get my brain around it

Jane Fonda must be shaking her head

[YCHDT]

3. 17 agencies ...AGREE ... 17 agencies didn't ... INDEPENDENTLY ... verify. The Russians are using the

... latter to discredit the whole claim via strawman.

They're that stupid and desperate by now