US Intelligence agencies have lost their professional discipline?

[laughing dog]

If we are talking about releasing hacks versus fake news, clearly, the leaked hacks had more effect on the vote than did Russian fake news.

While that may be true, I don't see how one could substantiate that theory.

 

[Will Wiley]

My impression is that he really referred to hackers in context of recent events. Trolls of course are even more commonplace (I think).

Your impression is mistaken. Russia employs people (e.g. trolls) to spout disinformation throughout the internet.

 

[whichphilosophy]

Your impression is mistaken. Russia employs people (e.g. trolls) to spout disinformation throughout the internet.

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Maybe it does but other trolls do this. Did this make prove Russia hacked the elections when the latest report from the CIA shows no evidence to this effect.

 

[laughing dog]

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Maybe it does but other trolls do this. Did this make prove Russia hacked the elections when the latest report from the CIA shows no evidence to this effect.

I am sorry, but I fail to see how this is at all pertinent to anything I wrote.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Obama expelled Russians from the US and Putin has done nothing. Nothing more needs to be said.


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[whichphilosophy]

Obama expelled Russians from the US and Putin has done nothing. Nothing more needs to be said.


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He decided not to enter into a tit for tat despite advice from his foreign minister. He didn't take the hook.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Obama expelled Russians from the US and Putin has done nothing. Nothing more needs to be said.


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He decided not to enter into a tit for tat despite advice from his foreign minister. He didn't take the hook.

I have this bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.

 

[whichphilosophy]

Obama expelled Russians from the US and Putin has done nothing. Nothing more needs to be said.


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He decided not to enter into a tit for tat despite advice from his foreign minister. He didn't take the hook.

He's waiting for Trump. There may be a French kiss in it for him.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

He decided not to enter into a tit for tat despite advice from his foreign minister. He didn't take the hook.

He's waiting for Trump. There may be a French kiss in it for him.

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Golly Russia, America's most chummy pal. How blind are you?!

 

[barbos]

Obama expelled Russians from the US and Putin has done nothing. Nothing more needs to be said.

I am not sure what you are trying to say here.

 

[Will Wiley]

The Real Purpose of the U.S. Government’s Report on Alleged Hacking by Russia

1. The primary purpose of the declassified report, which offers no evidence to support its assertions that Russia hacked the U.S. presidential election campaign, is to discredit Donald Trump. I am not saying there was no Russian hack of John Podesta’s emails. I am saying we have yet to see any tangible proof to back up the accusation. This charge—Sen. John McCain has likened the alleged effort by Russia to an act of war—is the first salvo in what will be a relentless campaign by the Republican and Democratic establishment, along with its corporatist allies and the mass media, to destroy the credibility of the president-elect and prepare the way for impeachment.

The allegations in the report, amplified in breathtaking pronouncements by a compliant corporate media that operates in a non-fact-based universe every bit as pernicious as that inhabited by Trump, are designed to make Trump look like Vladimir Putin’s useful idiot. An orchestrated and sustained campaign of innuendo and character assassination will be directed against Trump. When impeachment is finally proposed, Trump will have little public support and few allies and will have become a figure of open ridicule in the corporate media.

The intelligence officials must think the American public are idiots.

The report vastly inflated the cable network’s reach and influence. It also included a few glaring errors, including the statement that “RT introduced two new shows—‘Breaking the Set’ on 4 September and ‘Truthseeker’ on 2 November—both overwhelmingly focused on criticism of the US and Western governments as well as the promotion of radical discontent.” “Breaking the Set,” with Abby Martin, was taken off the air two years ago. It could hardly be tarred with costing Hillary Clinton the election.

 

[whichphilosophy]

The Real Purpose of the U.S. Government’s Report on Alleged Hacking by Russia



The intelligence officials must think the American public are idiots.

The report vastly inflated the cable network’s reach and influence. It also included a few glaring errors, including the statement that “RT introduced two new shows—‘Breaking the Set’ on 4 September and ‘Truthseeker’ on 2 November—both overwhelmingly focused on criticism of the US and Western governments as well as the promotion of radical discontent.” “Breaking the Set,” with Abby Martin, was taken off the air two years ago. It could hardly be tarred with costing Hillary Clinton the election.

Alternatively the persons who compiled and checked this must be prize buffoons or was it under the assumption that the American public will believe anything they are told.
Don't these people realise that the public have reasonable access to google to cross check such things. Also the station itself could rebut/refute these.
Clearly the accusations have been made and there's been a scramble for proof.
This could backfire on the Democrats for the next election if they are not careful.

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