So the CIA is pretty sure the Russians wanted Trump to win

Based on the assumption that Russians did the hacking, the left prefers to concentrate on who may have hacked the information rather that the actual DAMAGE was caused by the CONTENT of the emails… not the hackers.

To the surprise of, I suppose, someone somewhere, the hacked emails exposed Democrats as manipulative racists that regard their supporters as malleable idiots, useful for votes and not much else. It was revealed that a self-designated elite makes the choices for the voters to “choose” and will not leave their destiny to the whims and votes of the public.

When a president sends Hillary Clinton and John Kerry to represent the US as Sec of State, what country wouldn’t want a competent president to whom they can discuss real issues of the world? They were the laughing stock of the world.

Kellyanne Conway calls CIA report on Russian election meddling ‘laughable and ridiculous’

Actually, it’s entirely plausible. Want to demonstrate this is not the case? Declassify the intelligence community’s evidence and analysis. Because I see absolutley no reason to believe Kellyanne Conway. She doesn’t have a security clearance. She hasn’t seen what was presented to Congress. And she is by no stretch of the imagination an objective commentator. Her opinion on this matter is utterly worthless.

“He thinks that people are trying to re-litigate the election,” Conway said of Trump, reiterating that the real estate mogul had won “a significant victory.”

Possibly with the active assistance of a hostile foreign power. Are we forbidden to ask about such a possibility when our own intelligence services say that appears to be the case?

Perhaps you failed to notice, but our intelligence services were not exactly in the tank for Hillary Clinton. If they say they think our system has been purposefully compromised, they’ve got their reasons for saying so. Anyone who doesn’t want to investigate further needs to sort out their priorities.

@Greg: “Trump recently claimed we invaded Iraq because of faulty WMD intelligence, when the frickin’ Bush administration cherry-picked the information they were given to rationalize an unnecessary war that our intelligence services had clearly warned them would likely destabilize the entire region.” You should not wonder why no one regards you as credible; you still base your faulty arguments on lies.

We have seen the intelligence agencies and upper military leadership become political tools under Obama. Currently, we cannot tell one way or the other if we can trust their assessments.

By the way, Obama ditched intel briefings AS President, which is how he could make such profoundly stupid decisions.

@Randy, #6:

Believe it or not, successful business men have their own intel .

Believe it or not, the CEO of Walmart does have access to an intelligence-gathering and analyzing apparatus that is superior to the collective powers of the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency.

That Trump would skip their briefings and offhandedly dismiss their conclusions is just plain nuts. That trusted advisers such as Kellyanne Conway would actually condone and encourage this sort of dangerous attitude and irresponsible behavior is equally crazy. Vladimir Putin sure as hell isn’t ignoring intelligence that the massive Russian security apparatus gathers for him. As President of Russia, Putin is actually the head of the SCRF. He’s not a business man. He’s a former KGB operative. He’s a professional player on the geopolitical chess board in every sense of the word. This is what he’s done his entire life. He’s going to run rings around our new amateur president.

Which was, in all probability, the entire point of the Russian incursion into our nation’s election and internal politics in the first place. Team Trump hasn’t yet read the rules that govern the game, let alone a book on geopolitical chess strategy. Team Trump doesn’t even seem to recognize the fact that Team Putin has made a carefully calculated, highly unorthodox pre-game move: they helped decide who they would be playing against. They helped to choose their opponent.

Do you imagine they lack the skills and abilities required to make such a calculated effort? Having those skills and abilities, do you imagine they wouldn’t use them? Team Trump, however, has decided to ignore the warning. And it’s not enough for them just to ignore it; the messengers that brought the warning must be fully discredited. Our own intelligence community must be put in its place.

@Greg: You make an awful lot of assumptions about Trump. You write a lot of words, but you have not been right about Trump yet as proven by his actions. Who did you pick to win the election? Seems like you always miss the point of the discussions and fail to evaluate past performances due to your biases. If you would read Trump’s book and review his actions and their ultimate results, you would be much more accurate in your comments.

@Randy: Yeah, people like Greg love to run with propaganda-driven accusations against Trump while blindly ignoring factual accusations against the liars they support.

@Greg:

The New York Times and Washington Post “Intelligence Sources” Under Inspector General Investigation…

The Sunday Talk Shows are filled with various left-wing punditry using two media reports from the Washington Post and New York Times claiming anonymous, albeit transparently political, “intelligence officials” who state: the Russian government “hacked the U.S. election“.

First, the media’s choice of wording is critical within both reports.

It is impossible to “hack an election“. What was hacked was the DNC email system, and John Podesta’s email. WikiLeaks published the content of both “hacks”.

Additionally, WikiLeaks has denied the source of the information was a foreign government.

Both The Washington Post and New York Times, simultaneously, published articles on Friday claiming anonymous sources within the CIA (note: intensely political CIA Chief John Brennan in charge) point to the Russian government as the originators of the hacking. However, both articles are written with very obtuse and non specific language intended to cover over the fact these reports are not actually stating the official intelligence community are making these specific claims.

All other media outlets subsequently take this illogically based presentation and spin their coverage whereby the “DNC hacked” becomes “the election hacked“.

The Media Is Not a Reflection of RealityIn essence, the MSM takes a politically manipulated original intelligence claim and pushes a political media angle within a manufactured story of their own creation.

When the media reports on their own media reports the concentric circle of a self fulfilling narrative expands toward the infinite horizon of nothingness.

Various Trump administration officials are then commanded to show up for interviews where they are asked to respond to the content of media reports which are based entirely on other manipulated media reports….. And that’s where we are today.

However, if anyone could actually pause and call out this nonsense they might find it useful to reference the already well known politicization of the entire intelligence community apparatus. The politicization was/is so severe it led to an inspector general investigation:

More than 50 intelligence analysts working out of the U.S. military’s Central Command have formally complained that their reports on ISIS and al Qaeda’s branch in Syria were being inappropriately altered by senior officials.

The complaints spurred the Pentagon’s inspector general to open an investigation into the alleged manipulation of intelligence. The fact that so many people complained suggests there are deep-rooted, systemic problems in how the U.S. military command charged with the war against the self-proclaimed Islamic State assesses intelligence.

“The cancer was within the senior level of the intelligence command,” one defense official said. (link)

If, and that’s a big IF, there is any substantive truthfulness behind the politicized CIA accusation obtusely outlined within the Washington Post report, there is every reason to believe the anonymous sources are the same manipulative “senior intelligence command” already under inspector general investigation.

It is transparent to everyone the net intention of this ‘hacked election narrative’ is to provide the professional political UniParty class in Washington DC with a fortified defense mechanism to thwart off the incoming swamp draining.

The use of corporate media to protect the corporate legislative body is as familiar, and predictable, as Senators John McCain (see: Keating Five), and Lindsey Graham, fighting against term limits and finance reform on behalf of their corporate interests/benefactors, Wall Street and global interests.

However, moving forward there is considerable room for previously outlined optimism. The corruption within the intelligence community officials appears so severe, the White Hats are rising up from within the Defense Department to tackle it head-on.

With General Mattis as Secretary of Defense, Michael Flynn as National Security Advisor, General John Kelly as Secretary of Homeland Security, a top-of-class West Point graduate in Mike Pompeo brought in to take over and undoubtedly purge the CIA, and a lame duck struggle breaking out over the NSA with Admiral Mike Rogers, the implications are pretty obvious.

The white hats we have needed within the national security and intelligence departments are responding from a select group within the Defense Department. This DoD surge appears to be why corporate interests are railing against “too many generals”. The DoD generals also appears to be why all of those interests -within all of those corrupted political intel institutions- are going nuts thinking about what lays ahead.

Mounting evidence supports the ongoing thesis the Department of Defense has actually seceded from the political elites. A wonderfully patriotic soft coup has taken place; and with the election of President Donald Trump, the white hats are poised on the horizon to reconstruct a nationalist-minded defense, security and intelligence apparatus.