FBI AGAIN INTERFERING IN USA PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

[Spacetime Inhabitant]

Back in 2016 the FBI through Director Comey made a political announcement about an email investigation that it shouldn't have done, and that biased the electoral result in Trump's favour.
Now the FBI's Intelligence Director has done a similar politically biased act - not with what he released but with the manner he did so. It announced Iran and Russia were threatening people, obviously a pro-Trump action, and yet the Director said that "it was meant to damage President Trump", a politically biased interpretation, and also FBI should not have endorsed Trump in any way.
LINK:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-22/fbi-russia-iran-influence-2020-election/12801440

QUOTE from Analysis article accompanying the video page:

We have already seen Iran sending spoofed emails designed to intimidate voters incite social unrest and damage President Trump," John Ratcliffe told a press conference.

It's unclear what the Director meant by this, given the details of the operation which have been reported in the media.

The misinformation emails attributed to Iran explicitly tell recipients to vote for President Trump.

"You will vote for Trump on Election Day or we will come after you," the emails read.

They appeared to have been sent from the far-right Trump supporting militant group, the Proud Boys, and were targeted at Democratic voters in at least four swing states.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

With Trump being rather unfriendly to Iran, it is obvious why Iranian hackers were trying to stir up anti-Trump feelings with such a stunt. That the Russian are doing other nefarious things is not surprising. Months ago, when we needed to be tightening up security for our elections systems, Moscow Mitch refused to act and obstructed action on this problem. Naturally we should expect more of the same from Russia.

 

[scombrid]

Iran probably didn't do shit. This is too on the nose. Especially with Ratcliffe coming out with ZOMG the Russians and Iranians have voter registration information. No shit Ratcliffe. You are either grossly incompetent for not already knowing that or you are a lying sack of shit counting on the gross incompetence of the voting public to make your charade successful.

 

[ZiprHead]

Ratcliffe is a ratfucker.

Trump's spy chief just released 'Russian disinformation' against Hillary Clinton that he acknowledged may be fabricated

Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe declassified a dubious claim from Russian intelligence sources alleging that former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton "approved a campaign plan to stir up a scandal" against then-Republican candidate Donald Trump and his ties to Russia.

Ratcliffe said in a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham that the US intelligence community "does not know the accuracy" of the allegation "or the extent to which the Russian intelligence analysis may reflect exaggeration or fabrication."

The DNI's move raised questions about why the nation's spy chief declassified information that had not been corroborated and which he himself admitted may be false or exaggerated.

Ratcliffe's decision to release disparaging information about Clinton also mirrors Moscow's ongoing disinformation campaign against the former secretary of state.

 

[Trausti]

Ratcliffe is a ratfucker.

Trump's spy chief just released 'Russian disinformation' against Hillary Clinton that he acknowledged may be fabricated

Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe declassified a dubious claim from Russian intelligence sources alleging that former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton "approved a campaign plan to stir up a scandal" against then-Republican candidate Donald Trump and his ties to Russia.

Ratcliffe said in a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham that the US intelligence community "does not know the accuracy" of the allegation "or the extent to which the Russian intelligence analysis may reflect exaggeration or fabrication."

The DNI's move raised questions about why the nation's spy chief declassified information that had not been corroborated and which he himself admitted may be false or exaggerated.

Ratcliffe's decision to release disparaging information about Clinton also mirrors Moscow's ongoing disinformation campaign against the former secretary of state.

Didn’t Trump order that everything related to the Russia probe be declassified? Not really Ratcliffe’s decision.

 

[ZiprHead]

Ratcliffe is a ratfucker.

Trump's spy chief just released 'Russian disinformation' against Hillary Clinton that he acknowledged may be fabricated

Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe declassified a dubious claim from Russian intelligence sources alleging that former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton "approved a campaign plan to stir up a scandal" against then-Republican candidate Donald Trump and his ties to Russia.

Ratcliffe said in a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham that the US intelligence community "does not know the accuracy" of the allegation "or the extent to which the Russian intelligence analysis may reflect exaggeration or fabrication."

The DNI's move raised questions about why the nation's spy chief declassified information that had not been corroborated and which he himself admitted may be false or exaggerated.

Ratcliffe's decision to release disparaging information about Clinton also mirrors Moscow's ongoing disinformation campaign against the former secretary of state.

Didn’t Trump order that everything related to the Russia probe be declassified? Not really Ratcliffe’s decision.

That's not part of the trump/russia probe which hasn't been released yet anyway.

 

[Lumpenproletariat]

Good going, Iranians! A little comic relief -- why not?

With Trump being rather unfriendly to Iran, it is obvious why Iranian hackers were trying to stir up anti-Trump feelings with such a stunt. That the Russians are doing other nefarious things is not surprising.

The Iranians should just admit outright that they did this as a practical joke. EVEN IF THEY DID NOT do it, they should just say, "Yes, we did it for fun. Can't you take a joke?"

And we should just chuckle at it, and not get bent out of shape over other countries making fun of our circus elections.

As long as they don't hack the computers and change the vote count and the outcome, who cares what they do?

We should allow foreigners to spend money in our election campaigns, for the sake of the business, the $$$$ they would spend, and allow them to influence voters or do any stunt other than tampering with the vote count in the machines.

 

[Elixir]

Didn’t Trump order that everything related to the Russia probe be declassified?

No, he just tweeted that, then sent his toadies out to tell the court that his tweets are bullshit. Breaking news to the twits who follow him...

 

[Lumpenproletariat]

This provides another good idea for a Halloween costume this year:

In addition to a Corona Virus costume and a Screaming-Karen costume, how about a Muslim jihadi terrorist-with-a-knife costume with a voice yelling "You have to vote for Trump or I'll cut your head off!"