{"id":18955,"date":"2017-01-02T23:45:10","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T23:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18955"},"modified":"2017-01-02T23:45:10","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T23:45:10","slug":"cia-gets-blame-for-russian-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18955","title":{"rendered":"CIA gets ‘blame’ for Russian hackers?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Here comes the counterattack from the right wing.<\/p>\n

U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa — a fire-breathing conservative —\u00a0says he believes the CIA and the National Security Agency “leaked” the info about Russians hacking into the U.S. electoral process.<\/p>\n

Income White House press secretary Sean Spicer says there is no evidence linking Russians spooks to allegations that they meddled in our 2016 election. \u201cThere is zero evidence that they actually influenced the election,\u201d Spicer told the Fox News Channel.<\/p>\n

Really? Well, I don’t want<\/em> to believe such a thing could happen, I am waiting to learn more about what’s been determined so far to draw my own conclusion.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/312394-king-suggests-cia-and-nsa-leaked-information-on-russian-election<\/a><\/p>\n

OK, then. I have a suggestion.<\/p>\n

Why doesn’t the CIA provide some<\/em> of the evidence it says it has that leads the U.S. spy agency to conclude the Russians did do what’s been alleged.<\/p>\n

Should the CIA spill all the beans? Should it reveal every secret it has gathered? No. But surely there must be an avenue for the CIA to disclose to Americans interested in determining what effect — if any — this activity might have had on the outcome of the election.<\/p>\n

As it stands now we are left to listen to empty platitudes from allies of the president-elect, who continues to dismiss — if not denigrate — the ability of the CIA and other intelligence professionals to assess national security threats.<\/p>\n

And this brings to mind a final thought: How does a politician like Donald J. Trump get\u00a0away with denigrate our intelligence gatherers while seeming to support an international adversary, such as Russia?<\/p>\n

Imagine what those on the right would say if, oh, Barack Obama would do such a thing.<\/p>\n\n

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Here comes the counterattack from the right wing. U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa — a fire-breathing conservative —\u00a0says he believes the CIA and the National Security Agency “leaked” the info about Russians hacking into the U.S. electoral process. Income White House press secretary Sean Spicer says there is no evidence linking Russians spooks to allegations … Continue reading CIA gets ‘blame’ for 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],"tags":[540,989,1424,3344,6736,5249],"class_list":["post-18955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-national-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-cia","tag-donald-trump","tag-nsa","tag-russian-hackers","tag-white-house-press-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18955","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=18955"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18958,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18955\/revisions\/18958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}