barbos
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Exactly, they admit that 17 agencies meme was nothing but a lame attempt to inflate significance of their claim, which had no facts or evidence just a proclamation that large number of agencies agrees with conclusion. Basically they bullshitted the public, we now know that. The question is, can we trust these people after that? The people who signed on Alpha bank conspiracy? Can we trust these liars?barbos said:Well, 17 agencies meme existence is a fact, Steven Colbert have mentioned it many times. It' not foggy on russian side, they simply deny any involvement on any hacking without any fog. On your side it's very foggy that's why many people had thought that clinton's servers were hacked and then this 17 agencies meme which turned out to be only 2.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/jul/06/17-intelligence-organizations-or-four-either-way-r/
"So their endorsement or non-endorsement basically means nothing in this case," Aftergood said, adding, "In this context, the assessments that count the most are those of CIA, NSA, FBI and ODNI."
The intelligence community likely limited the Russia assessment to those four agencies because they have the most to contribute on this topic, and because they wanted to contain the highly sensitive intelligence as much as possible, said Paul Pillar, senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for Security Studies who served in the intelligence community for 28 years.
"The ones that participated are the ones you’d expect on this," Pillar said. "It’s hard to see any of the others having something to contribute."