{"id":18506,"date":"2016-12-10T21:16:41","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T21:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18506"},"modified":"2016-12-10T21:16:41","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T21:16:41","slug":"big-surprise-trump-trashes-cia-analysis-of-russian-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18506","title":{"rendered":"Big surprise: Trump trashes CIA analysis of Russian hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Of course<\/em> Donald J. Trump would dismiss the CIA’s assessment that Russia played a role in seeking to influence the U.S. presidential election.<\/p>\n

Naturally<\/em>, he would dismiss the analysis provided by career intelligence officers trained to the max to make such determinations.<\/p>\n

The president-elect won the election fair and square, by a “landslide,” he says. He didn’t need no stinkin’ Russian hackers trying to mess with our electoral process, he’ll say.<\/p>\n

This is a potentially huge deal, folks.<\/p>\n

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It’s so big that President Obama has ordered a top-to-bottom analysis of what happened, when it happened, who did it and why. He wants the results on his desk before he leaves office on Jan. 20.<\/p>\n

The president-elect has fired yet another barrage at the U.S. intelligence community he is about to lead. He is opening up a potentially serious breach between the myriad intelligence agencies and the White House.<\/p>\n

Trump has drawn fire from, get this, fellow Republicans. As the New York Times reported: \u201c’To have the president-elect of the United States simply reject the fact-based narrative that the intelligence community puts together because it conflicts with his a priori assumptions \u2014 wow,’ said Michael V. Hayden, who was the director of the N.S.A. and later the C.I.A. under President George W. Bush.”<\/p>\n

That’s what he is doing. He is rejecting these findings out of hand.<\/p>\n

I get that partisan emotions are still burning white hot. More from the New York Times: “With the partisan emotions on both sides \u2014 Mr. Trump\u2019s supporters see a plot to undermine his presidency, and Hillary Clinton\u2019s supporters see a conspiracy to keep her from the presidency \u2014 the result is an environment in which even those basic facts become the basis for dispute.”<\/p>\n

The man who’s still the president for a few more weeks has ordered a complete review. How about letting the intelligence pros do their job, deliver their complete findings to the president — and then let us discuss how we might need to defend our electoral system against foreign interference.<\/p>\n\n

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Of course Donald J. Trump would dismiss the CIA’s assessment that Russia played a role in seeking to influence the U.S. presidential election. Naturally, he would dismiss the analysis provided by career intelligence officers trained to the max to make such determinations. The president-elect won the election fair and square, by a “landslide,” he says. … Continue reading Big surprise: Trump trashes CIA analysis of Russian hackers<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,14],"tags":[540,989,1424,3360],"class_list":["post-18506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-cia","tag-donald-trump","tag-ny-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18508,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18506\/revisions\/18508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}