President Trump Told The CIA Director To Meet A Former NSA Official Who Believes The DNC Hack Was An 'Inside Job'

Photo: Former technical director of the National Security Agency (NSA) William Binney (Reuters/Thomas Peter)

The Intercept: CIA Director Met Advocate of Disputed DNC Hack Theory — at Trump’s Request

CIA Director Mike Pompeo met late last month with a former U.S. intelligence official who has become an advocate for a disputed theory that the theft of the Democratic National Committee’s emails during the 2016 presidential campaign was an inside job, rather than a hack by Russian intelligence.

Pompeo met on October 24 with William Binney, a former National Security Agency official-turned-whistleblower who co-authored an analysis published by a group of former intelligence officials that challenges the U.S. intelligence community’s official assessment that Russian intelligence was behind last year’s theft of data from DNC computers. Binney and the other former officials argue that the DNC data was “leaked,” not hacked, “by a person with physical access” to the DNC’s computer system.

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WNU Editor: Former National Security Agency official-turned-whistleblower William Binney has  been a thorn on the side of the U.S. intelligence community for a long time .... Former Technical Director Of The NSA: NSA Records 80% Of All Phone Calls (July 13, 2014). But it looks like he now has someone in the Oval Office who believes his analysis should be investigated further.

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