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The Media’s ‘Russian Influence’ Narrative Destroyed by Massive Reince Priebus Revelation (Video)
When The Washington Post and The New York Times reported that the CIA was convinced hackers acting on behalf of Russia intervened to help Donald Trump in the election, it was all the media needed to open their floodgates.
The president-elect quickly became, by implication, a Manchurian candidate, and the legitimacy of his win over Hillary Clinton was predictably called into question by agitators in the guise of media investigators.
However, the certainty with which the left eagerly presented the claims of pro-Trump Kremlin interference was not based on official evidence. The Post article noted that the FBI was not so sure that Russia’s role in the hacks was designed to help the Republican candidate. Then came the Sunday talk shows, and two huge bombshells.
First, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, suggested that the hacks might have been a “false flag” attack and that intelligence was being politicized by anti-Trump forces. Then, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said that a major part of the reports by the Times and the Post — that the RNC had been hacked as well — was simply untrue.
Bolton’s claim came during an appearance on “Fox News Sunday,” where the man The Hill says is being considered for a major position in Donald Trump’s State Department savaged the reports.
“It is not at all clear to me, just viewing this from the outside, that this hacking into the DNC and the RNC was not a false flag operation,” Bolton said, questioning the narrative. “So the question has to be asked, why did the Russians run their smart intelligence service against Hillary’s server, but their dumb intelligence service against the election?”
“We just don’t know,” Bolton responded. “But I believe that intelligence has been politicized in the Obama administration to a very significant degree.” (Bolton later clarified that he wasn’t suggesting the Obama administration was behind the hack attacks.)
The traditional definition of a “false flag” operation is one designed to look as if another entity — typically, some arm of a government — pulled it off.
Bolton’s accusation came on the same day that RNC Chairman Reince Priebus — chosen to be the incoming president’s chief of staff — threw a major wrench into part of the reports from The Washington Post and The New York Times during an appearance on “Meet the Press.”
Priebus said that the FBI didn’t find any hacking of the RNC’s servers.
“When the DNC was hacked, we called the FBI. The FBI went through everything, and we were not hacked,” Priebus insisted to host Chuck Todd. “If we were not hacked, then where does that story lie?”
Whether or not the RNC was hacked is not just a minor matter. A key part of the separate Times and Post reports was that the CIA had deduced Russia was helping Trump because they had hacked into both the DNC and RNC, but had only released information from the DNC via WikiLeaks. If the RNC’s data had not been compromised, that logic would be prima facie false.
And while the CIA was cited in both stories as having no doubt as to Russia’s intentions, several former CIA officials quoted by Newsweek said they had significant misgivings about jumping to that conclusion.
CIA veterans—none of them fans of Donald Trump–are urging caution about leaked allegations that Russia waged a secret campaign to put the New York Republican into the White House.
“I am not saying that I don’t think Russia did this,” Nada Bakos, a top former CIA counterterrorism officer tells Newsweek, in a typical comment. “My main concern is that we will rush to judgment. The analysis needs to be cohesive and done the right way.”
“Let’s assume the agency was able to pinpoint Russian hackers as those responsible for stealing the emails, and also let’s assume those Russian hackers were working for Russian intelligence,” another unnamed former CIA top intelligence analyst said. “OK, then let’s assume there is solid proof that Russian intelligence directed hackers passed the information to WikiLeaks/Assange. Even if all that is true, how would the CIA determine the Russian motivation for passing the information? That would presumably require a human agent behind the curtain with certain knowledge of Putin’s thinking and intentions.”
To suggest that Donald Trump is a tool of the Russians without formal evidence — hard data officially presented on the record — only poisons the well further and makes America trust the mainstream media even less.
As Fox News’ Judge Jeanine Pirro noted on her show “Justice,” so much about the current hysteria over presumed Russian interference in the election seems like an “orchestrated effort” by the current president and other pro-Clinton progressives to keep the next president from making America great again.
And it’s all coming to a head just a week before the Electoral College meets to make Trump’s White House victory official.
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