The overseers of the U.S. intelligence community have not embraced a CIA assessment that Russian cyber attacks were aimed at helping Republican President-elect Donald Trump win the 2016 election, three American officials said on Monday.
While the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) does not dispute the CIA's analysis of Russian hacking operations, it has not endorsed their assessment because of a lack of conclusive evidence that Moscow intended to boost Trump over Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton, said the officials, who declined to be named.
The position of the ODNI, which oversees the 17 agency-strong U.S. intelligence community, could give Trump fresh ammunition to dispute the CIA assessment, which he rejected as "ridiculous" in weekend remarks, and press his assertion that no evidence implicates Russia in the cyber attacks.
Trump's rejection of the CIA's judgment marks the latest in a string of disputes over Russia's international conduct that have erupted between the president-elect and the intelligence community he will soon command.
An ODNI spokesman declined to comment on the issue.
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WNU Editor: So much for the mainstream media narrative that the 17 spy agencies who are overseen by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence are in agreement that Russian hacking influenced the election for Donald Trump to win. What we actually have is one agency .... the CIA .... that believes that Russia deliberately tried to influence the U.S. Presidential election .... while the others (including the office that oversees the CIA) ... are not sure.
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This debate is fully stupid. Of course Putin prefer Trump than Hillary, but how ca we measure the real influence of his action? Does it mean that American are more influenced from Russian propaganda than the Hillary one....with ALL the American press with her which is much more powerful than outside one? We are walking on our head.
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