On Tuesday, December 13, 2016 at 10:46:51 AM UTC-5, FromTheRafters wrote:
trader_4 expressed precisely :
On Tuesday, December 13, 2016 at 7:05:06 AM UTC-5, burfordTjustice wrote:
Top U.S. spy agency has not embraced CIA assessment on Russia hacking


http://reut.rs/2hrysSI

Funny how the "top spy agency" can be credible when it suits Trump
and the Trumpets, but totally incompetent and wrong when it does not.
When they concluded based on 11 intel agencies, that Russia was
indeed behind the hacking and
meddling in our election, Trump said they don't know WTF they are
doing, that it wasn't Russia. Now when they are not ready to accept
the next CIA conclusion, that Russia did it to help Trump, well,
now they are credible I guess. Go figure.

And of course all honest, fair Americans want a full investigation of
all of this, to find out to the fullest extent possible, what really
happened. That of course does not include Trump. Trump just picked
a good business friend of the Russians to be sec of state. Let's see
how that goes in the Senate.

As usual, the subject line is misleading.

What that article is actually saying is that there is disagreement
about the *motive* of the Russians. That being to help Trump as opposed
to just that of stopping Hillary. I heard that Putin really doesn't
like Hillary. I suspect the motive was to avoid having Hillary as
President. IMO, that's the motive. I'm not ready to believe that Trump
has anything to do with the hacking, but as usual we need evidence
before drawing conclusions about motive.

I agree it's probably unlikely that Trump had anything to do with the
actual hacking. But I would not be surprised if some people in his
campaign had some contact with Russians that might be involved in
screwing with the US.