[Peace-discuss] unsubstantiated rumors of Russian attempts to influence the U.S. election

[David Johnson]

CIA Election Report Leaks After Obama Calls for Investigation

*	Description: The lobby of the CIA Headquarters Building in McLean,
Virginia, August 14, 2008.

The lobby of the CIA Headquarters Building in McLean, Virginia, August 14,
2008. | 

Published 10 December 2016 

Hours after Obama called for a "full investigation" into rumors, source says
CIA concluded Russia hacked the U.S. election to get Trump elected.

Within hours of an announcement that the Obama administration would convene
a full, but secret, investigation into rumors about Russian attempts to
influence the U.S. Presidential election, an anonymous source told the
Washington Post on Friday that the CIA has already concluded the Russian
government intervened in the U.S. election to get Donald Trump elected. 

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The anonymous source told the Washington Post, "It is the assessment of the
intelligence community that Russia's goal here was to favor one candidate
over the other, to help Trump get elected. That's the consensus view." 

The leak is the latest in a string of unsubstantiated rumors of Russian
attempts to influence the U.S. election since Wikileaks released a cache of
embarrassing emails from the Democratic National Committee as well as
Hillary Clinton's campaign chair John Podesta. 

The source offered no proof but claimed that CIA had shared "a growing body
of evidence from multiple sources" with a group of U.S. Senators in a secret
meeting last week. The Post claims that the CIA has "identified individuals
with connections to the Russian government who provided Wikileaks with
thousands of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and
others, including Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman." 

 

Rumours of Russian attempts to influence the outcome of the U.S. election
started immediately after Wikileaks released a series of emails damaging to
then Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton. The emails offered extensive
proof of DNC attempts to sabotage Senator Bernie Sander's campaign to win
the Democratic primary, as well as excerpts of speeches Clinton gave to her
Wall Street backers which she and her campaign had refused to release. 

Despite Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's denials that the emails came from
the Russian government, Clinton campaign surrogates continued to push the
rumor, without any evidence, that Russia was behind the release. 

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On Friday afternoon, Lisa Monaco, an adviser for homeland security and
counterterrorism, said that the Obama administration had ordered a "full
review" of the rumors of Russian interference to be completed before Obama
leaves office on Jan. 20, 2017. Monaco said that the review would be a "deep
dive" by all intelligence agencies into the rumors, but suggested that the
results might be kept secret. Within hours of her public announcement, the
Washington Post published their story about CIA "conclusions." 

In response to the story, President-elect Trump's transition team issued a
statement on the CIA report saying, "These are the same people that said
Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. The election ended a long
time ago in one of the biggest Electoral College victories in history. It's
now time to move on and 'Make America Great Again.'" 

 

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