{"id":26371,"date":"2016-12-12T05:45:37","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T10:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/?p=26371"},"modified":"2016-12-10T11:46:03","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T16:46:03","slug":"cia-says-russia-helped-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2016\/12\/cia-says-russia-helped-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"CIA says Russia helped Trump\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"41d3e943e7f3eb460e44\"<\/a> The CIA says that Russia deliberately interfered in the American election in order to help elect DonalTrump. \u00a0Russian hackers broke into e-mails of both the Democratic and the Republican national committees, but turned over only the Democratic batch to Wikileaks. \u00a0The correspondence between Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign chairman John Podesta and various Democratic operatives proved highly embarrassing to her campaign and likely cost her some votes.<\/p>\n

Trump and his people are denying the Russian involvement\u2013but how do they know? \u00a0The CIA report doesn\u2019t accuse the Trump campaign of collusion with the Russians. \u00a0And there is nothing to deny the legitimacy of Trump\u2019s election. \u00a0I suspect the CIA has tried to help one candidate or the other in various foreign elections. \u00a0But still. . . .<\/p>\n

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This casts a cloud on any attempts by the new administration to improve relations with Russia, which Trump has said he wants to do. \u00a0Which is why, of course, the Putin regime wanted him to win. \u00a0For other problems it creates, see this<\/a>. \u00a0The biggest issue, though, is that if a hostile foreign power can manipulate America\u2019s democracy, we\u00a0have a national security problem that the military can\u2019t protect us from.
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From\u00a0<\/span>Secret CIA assessment says Russia was trying to help Trump win White House \u2013 The Washington Post<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

The CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency, rather than just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system<\/a>, according to officials briefed on the matter.<\/p>\n

Intelligence agencies have identified individuals with connections to the Russian government who provided WikiLeaks with thousands of hacked emails<\/a> from the Democratic National Committee and others, including Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign chairman, according to U.S. officials. Those officials described the individuals as actors known to the intelligence community and part of a wider Russian operation to boost Trump and hurt Clinton\u2019s chances.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is the assessment of the intelligence community that Russia\u2019s goal here was to favor one candidate over the other, to help Trump get elected,\u201d said a senior U.S. official briefed on an intelligence presentation made to U.S. senators. \u201cThat\u2019s the consensus view.\u201d<\/p>\n

[Keep reading. . .]<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Photo from Kremlin Press Office<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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