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turbinetree

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Fri Oct 20, 2017, 08:10 AM Oct 2017

CIA director distorts intelligence communitys findings on Russian interference [View all]

By Greg Miller October 19 at 4:59 PM
CIA Director Mike Pompeo declared Thursday that U.S. intelligence agencies determined that Russia’s interference in the 2016 American presidential election did not alter the outcome, a statement that distorted spy agency findings.

“The intelligence community’s assessment is that the Russian meddling that took place did not affect the outcome of the election,” Pompeo said at a security conference in Washington.

His comment suggested — falsely — that a report released by U.S. intelligence agencies in January had ruled out any impact that could be attributed to a covert Russian interference campaign that involved leaks of tens of thousands of stolen emails, the flooding of social media sites with false claims and the purchase of ads on Facebook.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-director-distorts-intelligence-communitys-findings-on-russian-interference/2017/10/19/d7f8e05e-b4ed-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_pompeo-5pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.640a0a8c6084


What a asshole and f*cking liar

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