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2017-01-09 Government

Missing from the Intelligence Report: The Word ‘Podesta'

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-01-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 Key takeaway:

The report concludes that while Putin appears to have been rooting for Trump, the Russians assumed [like many of us] Clinton was going to win and were mainly trying to undermine the effectiveness of her anticipated presidency, not swing the election to Trump.
Emphasis added.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-01-09 04:37|| 2017-01-09 04:37|| Front Page Top

#2 What about "intelligence" - how dumb do they think we are?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-01-09 05:06|| 2017-01-09 05:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Missing from the Intelligence Report: The Word ‘Podesta'

I didn't read the whole thing. Didn't the word 'moron' or 'chump' show up somewhere?

Posted by gorb 2017-01-09 12:30|| 2017-01-09 12:30|| Front Page Top

#4 There's a difference, gorb? They could be synonyms, ya know.

Posted by Raj 2017-01-09 12:57|| 2017-01-09 12:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Also missing is the sick content, of the email, that the leaks disclosed.

Posted by 3dc 2017-01-09 13:26|| 2017-01-09 13:26|| Front Page Top

#6 No mention of Podesta's password which was "PASSWORD." No mention of all the shenanigans of Hillary with her home brew server? I started tuning out much of this as so much political noise at some point--particularly when no one really seemed very concerned about all the intelligence and pay-for-play transgressions of Hillary and Bill. It seemed like a case of "No need to look here, look over there "Unhingement Syndrome." When the MSM, the politicians and many of the Obama appointees to the intelligence agencies are all lined up pointing fingers at Russia, I begin to get suspicious--particularly in the absence of any proof that anyone can cite. I suspect that many in the outgoing government are connected in some way to the Clinton Foundation and that many are just trying to shush it up. Write it off to JohnQC's paranoia if you like, but much of this smells odiferous to me.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-01-09 14:17|| 2017-01-09 14:17|| Front Page Top

#7 JohnQC - Absolutely!

Posted by 3dc 2017-01-09 14:31|| 2017-01-09 14:31|| Front Page Top

#8 First off, National Review, from its actions during the election year can... well, Raj can fill that in.

Second, judging by my research, it's likely that the Russian government or its authorized agents did whatever the IC said it did, for whatever reason it did.

Lastly, it's also interesting that the same USG non-IC entities and, more importantly, the media are not discussing the validity of any of the purloined information presented. Funny how that was done on the Wikileaks' Iraq or Snowden releases.

Posted by Pappy 2017-01-09 14:42|| 2017-01-09 14:42|| Front Page Top

#9 Would that be 'fuck off and eat the corn out of my shit', Pappy?

Posted by Raj 2017-01-09 15:46|| 2017-01-09 15:46|| Front Page Top

#10 Close enough, Raj.

Posted by Pappy 2017-01-09 17:53|| 2017-01-09 17:53|| Front Page Top

#11 Raj, are you part Russian? That was too good.

Posted by gorb 2017-01-09 20:50|| 2017-01-09 20:50|| Front Page Top

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