Obama White House Knew of Russian Election Hacking, but Delayed Telling

[karynnj]

15. It might have been more that conventional wisdom was that HRC was ahead by 10 points then and

they could not know the impact of putting out a statement that the Russians were attempting the hack the election. It could have been seen as spectacularly backfiring had they done so. I have not read much of the testimony, but if it is similar to things said before I don't know how different the statement would have been to the statement that 17 intelligence agencies saw Russia as behind the hacking. That statement came out in early October and - when the New Yorker behind the scenes article came out, the timeline was that they knew in - I think- late July.

Remember that HRC spoke of the 17 agencies' determination that Russian did the hacking and even called Trump a Russian puppet in one of the dates. Those words echoed everywhere - on SNL and on social media. Looking to get a link, I found this article that spoke of how that went viral. http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article125773299.html Reading it now, I see it differently than I did when I watched the debate and thought Trump made no sense and HRC really defined him there. What Trump said in the debate was essentially what their response was - that this happened because Obama was weak on national security and Clinton would be too. This plays to the decades old meme that Democrats - even if they are war heroes - are bad on national security.

As I said, I have not read or watched most of yesterday's testimony and am assuming that he did not say that they had proof during the election that Trump actually colluded with Russia. I assume that had he said that, that would - of course - have been the headline - as well as a call to immediately impeach him.

If what he said was that they were cautious about saying that Russia was behind the hacking and stayed quiet for a month and a half before making the statement in October, then I suggest that the article I linked to is worth reading in retrospect. I do have a question for people who followed social media more than I did and who looked at the "other side" - Did that exchange go viral on the right ... as it did on the left? If so, it is beyond scary that people could have seen this clip so differently.