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Fifth Column
Report: Obama did not release Russian hacking info. as he bet on Clinton win
2017-06-25
Come, dear Reader, let us together watch Barack Obama's legacy disappear in a puff of magic blue smoke released by the Washington Post.
[Ynet] Then-US pres. Obama knew Russia was tampering with US elections to assist Trump but chose not to go public, according to Washington Post; Obama's decision relied on Clinton's expected win and fear he would seen as influencing elections himself.
How can the Washington Post possibly imagine this helps their cause?
The CIA had top-level intelligence last August that Russian President Vladimir Putin
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
personally ordered an operation to help Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
Posted by:trailing wife

#15   Dems behind fake dossier?
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-06-25 20:22  

#14  Seriously the only thing we have is the dossier.

Other than that what hacking info do they have? Except some DHS IP address hacks of the Georgia election machines.

The only real hack was the dems trying to tweak results
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2017-06-25 19:12  

#13  Obama did not release Russian hacking info...

Professional courtesy btwn like-minded comrades. Besides, he told Romney in the debates that Russia was not the problem. The Syria, Iran, Russian troika could not be disrupted. There were dividends to be harvested down the road.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-06-25 17:31  

#12  My theory: Obama, Lord Narcissist the First, just did not care. The despised White Business Man (Hiss! capitalist! Hiss!) versus the despised White corrupt female politico that he was forced to offer a cabinet post. Like a Pharaoh he was busy planning his Library and NGO to preserve his Undying Legacy©.
Posted by: magpie   2017-06-25 16:13  

#11  It's not at all certain to me that Obama and others in the know believed Hillary had the election in the bag. I'm more inclined to believe they knew how fake the polls were, how slanted the news was and how many Americans were rejecting them. Biden once admitted thinking Trump could win after watching a Trump rally where the attendance and enthusiasm were far greater than at any of Hillary's rallies. That's why it's hard for me to believe WAPO's assertion about Putin ordering the hacking to help Trump and Obama's knowledge of the so-called plot.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2017-06-25 15:56  

#10  Russian stories....fat fingers. Small keyboard ...
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2017-06-25 13:55  

#9  As the rush of stories slowly on revels in the truth behind it points more to Obama and his creatures more and more will emerge to show how corrupted the government tools of power have become. I await with great interest the slow emergence of ValJar and her tendrils. I can only hope there is still enough courage to show we still are a nation of laws, not slogans for the peasants....
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2017-06-25 13:53  

#8  Russia didn't try to influence the election, they tried to degrade its legitimacy, regardless of the winner.
Posted by: Glenmore   2017-06-25 13:43  

#7  It seems there are two systems of justice; the one for the elites and the one for the rest of us.

One set of laws for the Nobility.
Another set of laws for the Common Man.

I am beginning to think the French Revolution had the right idea in dealing with the nobility.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2017-06-25 13:03  

#6  Hillary's dirty laundry (and Bills) has been hanging on the line for some time. No one has done much about it. It seems there are two systems of justice; the one for the elites and the one for the rest of us.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-06-25 12:34  

#5  ...Somewhere, William of Ockham smiles. This makes sense, and doesn't require some fiendishly clever conspiracy.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2017-06-25 11:42  

#4  Still, what I'm seeing is that the Russian 'hack' amounted to letting us see Hillary's dirty laundry.
Posted by: ed in texas   2017-06-25 10:36  

#3  Yes, to both.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-06-25 10:24  

#2  More like worrying about the Russians shifting focus to Barry and his people instead?
Posted by: Pappy   2017-06-25 08:30  

#1  Bath House Barry was already thinking about all the quality free time he was about to have and he took his eye off the, uh, ball...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2017-06-25 06:58  

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