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Home Front: Politix
‘Tradecraft failings': CIA's conclusion that Putin interfered in election to help Trump was flawed
2018-05-08
[Wash Times] U.S. intelligence agencies’ far-reaching conclusion that Vladimir Putin interfered in the 2016 presidential election to specifically help Donald Trump was flawed by "tradecraft failings," says a House report.

The conclusion was written by the CIA then under the direction of Obama loyalist John O. Brennan.

The report said the CIA’s Putin-Trump analysis violated standards for analyzing intelligence products and noted that one guideline is to "be independent of political considerations."

It said the CIA’s draft section on Mr. Putin’s intentions lacked vigorous internal debate because it was restricted to an "unusually constrained review" by other agencies.

The findings are contained in the Republican majority report of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence investigation into 2016 Russian election meddling.

The intelligence agencies’ January 2017 Putin-Trump conclusion produced wide-ranging political ramifications.
Posted by:Besoeker

#9  Flynn was on to them, he'd been on to them for quite a wile. That's why he was taken out of the picture.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-05-08 15:10  

#8  Anyone actually think the CIA is there to protect Americans anymore?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2018-05-08 15:04  

#7  How else could you explain the dirty trick Tenet played on Bush and Powell about WMD and the contorted follow up that called stockpiles of nerve agent "insecticide"? Or the convoys of trucks going to Syria?

The confident puppet master looks on (left in the foto), occasionally glancing at his copy of Powell's notes, an approving smile.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-05-08 11:28  

#6  When the CIA sold their souls to technology and said field work was a thing of the past and they could do everything they needed with a spy satellite and computers...that's when they went to hell in a hand basket.

I think the CIA has been driven by a paradigm for a long time. How else can you explain the failure to see the festering failure of the USSR?

How else could you explain the dirty trick Tenet played on Bush and Powell about WMD and the contorted follow up that called stockpiles of nerve agent "insecticide"? Or the convoys of trucks going to Syria?

The CIA has screwed the pooch almost every where they've gone.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2018-05-08 11:15  

#5  "Looks like rain this afternoon, Bob." -- had to have happened at some point in CIA history.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2018-05-08 07:13  

#4  ^Give us one example of CIA correctly predicting anything important.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-05-08 02:40  

#3  The largest and most sophisticated intelligence gathering apparatus on the planet

A shithead with a Cray computer is still a shithead.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-05-08 02:39  

#2  I'm happy to entertain both hypotheses simultaneously. After all, one must account for a bombed-out Chinese embassy and overlooking the fall of the fUSSR as well as this current attempt to overthrow America.
Posted by: SteveS   2018-05-08 00:55  

#1  The largest and most sophisticated intelligence gathering apparatus on the planet is suffering from "tradecraft failings?" I think not.

A high-level political disinformation campaign gone bad? Now that I would believe.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-05-08 00:38  

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