Cliff Kincaid
Corrupt CIA feeds crooked media
By Cliff Kincaid
Isn't it strange how the left suddenly finds the CIA to be a worthwhile organization now that it has been turned into a weapon against Trump?
We need congressional investigations into the politicization of the CIA under John Brennan, whose claim to fame has been bringing sexual "diversity" to the agency. Perhaps he should have been doing his job, which is to defend the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
Reuters reports, "The overseers of the U.S. intelligence community have not embraced a CIA assessment that Russian cyber attacks were aimed at helping Republican President-elect Donald Trump win the 2016 election, three American officials said on Monday." Reuters reported that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (or ODNI) "does not dispute the CIA's analysis of Russian hacking operations," but "it has not endorsed their assessment because of a lack of conclusive evidence that Moscow intended to boost Trump."
All of this flatly contradicts the fake news story in the New York Times that the CIA judgment on Russia was built on a "swell of evidence." It is evidence not seen by other intelligence agenies and the FBI. Even the CBS Evening News reports that the "FBI has not concluded its investigation into this, but so far it is not siding with the CIA."
Common sense tells you that Moscow was perfectly content to let Hillary win, and probably thought she would win. After all, Hillary sold out America to Moscow's interests with a Russian reset that failed and opened the door to more Russian aggression. Her State Department also sold American uranium assets to Moscow. She was the perfect Russian dupe.
This whole discussion in the media about the Russians backing Trump is fake news.
The obvious conclusion is that Brennan is on a mission to overturn the election through propaganda and disinformation. This is not only the last gasp of sore losers, but represents corruption of the intelligence process.
If the purpose of the Russian hacking was to undermine confidence in the American democratic process, as some "experts" originally thought, Brennan's CIA is doing a good job of that.
House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Devin Nunes has sent a letter to James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence, saying, "On November 17, 2016, you told the Committee during an open hearing that the IC [Intelligence Community] lacked strong evidence connecting Russian govemment cyber-attacks and WikiLeaks disclosures, testifying that 'as far as the WikiLeaks connection, the evidence there is not as strong and we don't have good insight into the sequencing of the releases or when the data may have been provided.' According to new press reports, this is no longer the CIA's position."
The WikiLeaks disclosures, of course, involved hacked emails from the Clinton campaign.
The CIA position "changed" because Brennan saw an opportunity to use the controversy against Trump. Nunes refers to "the CIA's reported revision of information previously conveyed to this Committee." Once again, we see evidence that the CIA is making things up.
There is no doubt that WikiLeaks has worked for the Russians. Julian Assange himself worked for the Russian propaganda channel RT. But that doesn't constitute evidence that the emails were stolen by the Russians and given to WikiLeaks.
It now seems clear that the CIA is going far beyond what the evidence in its possession actually shows. This means that the original story in the Washington Post was based on misleading, if not false, information. That story was headlined "Secret CIA assessment says Russia was trying to help Trump win White House."
In short, the Post was duped by Brennan's CIA. This constitutes a case of the intelligence community using a major media organ to mislead the American people. Since Post owner Jeff Bezos does business with the CIA, this is a matter of utmost concern.
In a statement, Nunes said, "Russia's cyber-attacks are no surprise to the House Intelligence Committee, which has been closely monitoring Russia's belligerence for years – as I've said many times, the Intelligence Community has repeatedly failed to anticipate Putin's hostile actions. Unfortunately the Obama administration, dedicated to delusions of 'resetting' relations with Russia, ignored pleas by numerous Intelligence Committee members to take more forceful action against the Kremlin's aggression. It appears, however, that after eight years the administration has suddenly awoken to the threat."
Obama's CIA director "woke up" because it was politically convenient for him to do so. He's trying to exploit the Russian cyber attacks – which the CIA and other agencies failed to prevent – for political purposes.
Even more sensational than Brennan is former CIA official Michael Morell, who openly backed Hillary. He declared, "A foreign government messing around in our elections is, I think, an existential threat to our way of life. To me, and this is to me not an overstatement, this is the political equivalent of 9/11."
It seems clear at this point that the corruption in the media has spread to the CIA.
An investigation is certainly needed. It should be conducted into the various former and current CIA officials who have been using the agency and their associations with the agency to wage war against the duly-elected president of the United States.
It may turn out to be the case that the real government meddling in our elections has been from the Obama administration and its CIA.
© Cliff Kincaid
December 14, 2016
Isn't it strange how the left suddenly finds the CIA to be a worthwhile organization now that it has been turned into a weapon against Trump?
We need congressional investigations into the politicization of the CIA under John Brennan, whose claim to fame has been bringing sexual "diversity" to the agency. Perhaps he should have been doing his job, which is to defend the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
Reuters reports, "The overseers of the U.S. intelligence community have not embraced a CIA assessment that Russian cyber attacks were aimed at helping Republican President-elect Donald Trump win the 2016 election, three American officials said on Monday." Reuters reported that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (or ODNI) "does not dispute the CIA's analysis of Russian hacking operations," but "it has not endorsed their assessment because of a lack of conclusive evidence that Moscow intended to boost Trump."
All of this flatly contradicts the fake news story in the New York Times that the CIA judgment on Russia was built on a "swell of evidence." It is evidence not seen by other intelligence agenies and the FBI. Even the CBS Evening News reports that the "FBI has not concluded its investigation into this, but so far it is not siding with the CIA."
Common sense tells you that Moscow was perfectly content to let Hillary win, and probably thought she would win. After all, Hillary sold out America to Moscow's interests with a Russian reset that failed and opened the door to more Russian aggression. Her State Department also sold American uranium assets to Moscow. She was the perfect Russian dupe.
This whole discussion in the media about the Russians backing Trump is fake news.
The obvious conclusion is that Brennan is on a mission to overturn the election through propaganda and disinformation. This is not only the last gasp of sore losers, but represents corruption of the intelligence process.
If the purpose of the Russian hacking was to undermine confidence in the American democratic process, as some "experts" originally thought, Brennan's CIA is doing a good job of that.
House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Devin Nunes has sent a letter to James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence, saying, "On November 17, 2016, you told the Committee during an open hearing that the IC [Intelligence Community] lacked strong evidence connecting Russian govemment cyber-attacks and WikiLeaks disclosures, testifying that 'as far as the WikiLeaks connection, the evidence there is not as strong and we don't have good insight into the sequencing of the releases or when the data may have been provided.' According to new press reports, this is no longer the CIA's position."
The WikiLeaks disclosures, of course, involved hacked emails from the Clinton campaign.
The CIA position "changed" because Brennan saw an opportunity to use the controversy against Trump. Nunes refers to "the CIA's reported revision of information previously conveyed to this Committee." Once again, we see evidence that the CIA is making things up.
There is no doubt that WikiLeaks has worked for the Russians. Julian Assange himself worked for the Russian propaganda channel RT. But that doesn't constitute evidence that the emails were stolen by the Russians and given to WikiLeaks.
It now seems clear that the CIA is going far beyond what the evidence in its possession actually shows. This means that the original story in the Washington Post was based on misleading, if not false, information. That story was headlined "Secret CIA assessment says Russia was trying to help Trump win White House."
In short, the Post was duped by Brennan's CIA. This constitutes a case of the intelligence community using a major media organ to mislead the American people. Since Post owner Jeff Bezos does business with the CIA, this is a matter of utmost concern.
In a statement, Nunes said, "Russia's cyber-attacks are no surprise to the House Intelligence Committee, which has been closely monitoring Russia's belligerence for years – as I've said many times, the Intelligence Community has repeatedly failed to anticipate Putin's hostile actions. Unfortunately the Obama administration, dedicated to delusions of 'resetting' relations with Russia, ignored pleas by numerous Intelligence Committee members to take more forceful action against the Kremlin's aggression. It appears, however, that after eight years the administration has suddenly awoken to the threat."
Obama's CIA director "woke up" because it was politically convenient for him to do so. He's trying to exploit the Russian cyber attacks – which the CIA and other agencies failed to prevent – for political purposes.
Even more sensational than Brennan is former CIA official Michael Morell, who openly backed Hillary. He declared, "A foreign government messing around in our elections is, I think, an existential threat to our way of life. To me, and this is to me not an overstatement, this is the political equivalent of 9/11."
It seems clear at this point that the corruption in the media has spread to the CIA.
An investigation is certainly needed. It should be conducted into the various former and current CIA officials who have been using the agency and their associations with the agency to wage war against the duly-elected president of the United States.
It may turn out to be the case that the real government meddling in our elections has been from the Obama administration and its CIA.
© Cliff Kincaid
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