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Tuesday, December 13, 2016

FBI Disagrees With CIA On Russian Influence In The Presidential Election

The FBI did not corroborate the CIA’s claim that Russia had a hand in the election of President-elect Donald Trump in a meeting with lawmakers last week.

A senior FBI counterintelligence official met with Republican and Democrat members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in order to give the bureau’s view of a recent CIA report. The official did not concur with the CIA, frustrating Democrats.

The CIA believes Russia “quite” clearly intended to send Trump to the White House. The claim is a bold one, and concerned Democrats and some Republicans who are worried about Trump’s desire to mend relations with an increasingly aggressive Russia. The CIA report was “direct, bald and unqualified,” one of the officials at the meeting told The Washington Post Saturday.

The FBI official was much less convinced of the claims, providing “fuzzy” and “ambiguous” remarks.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Interesting how often the CIA clashes with other agencies. Against the FBI in this case. In Syria there are factions backed by the CIA fighting factions backed by the Pentagon. Makes you wonder about opposing agendas within these agencies. Hopefully the investigations will shed some light onto just what is going on.

Anonymous said...

5:28 the Investigations will reveal that someone hacked Podesta's emails and proved just how corrupt our entire Government is. That is all. on top of that we do not need the corrupt government officials investigating who outed them.

LastMohican said...

and they need to learn the difference between HACKS and LEAKS.