FOX News: No evidence of Russian 'play' to help Trump, briefer may have 'overstated' intelligence, official says
Contrary to numerous recent media reports, there is no evidence to suggest that Russia is making a specific "play" to boost President Trump's reelection bid, a U.S. intelligence official told Fox News on Sunday.
In addition, top U.S. election official Shelby Pierson, who briefed Congress on Russian election interference efforts, may have overstated intelligence regarding the issue when speaking to the House Intelligence Committee earlier this month, the source added.
The Wall Street Journal reported last week, citing people familiar with her work, that Pierson "has a reputation for being injudicious with her words and not appreciating the delicate work of corralling federal agencies, technology firms and state election officials to collaborate on election security."
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Update: US intelligence briefer appears to have overstated assessment of 2020 Russian interference (CNN)
WNU Editor:What were these intel officials thinking?
This just further makes them look like swamp creatures.
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ReplyDeleteIt looks like perhaps Ms. Pierson puts some spin on the intel she was to deliver.
There 24 hour cycles are keeping things in an uproar. People need to be left alone and not subjected to the latest Washington lie or political offensive.
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Before it is all over the average Joe on the street will be stealing signs of the DNC, RNC & media as if he worked for the Astros.
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ReplyDeleteAn investigation by Responsible Statecraft has found that President Trump’s newly installed acting Director of National Intelligence, Richard Grenell, knowingly provided public relations services directed at U.S. media on behalf of a project funded by Hungary’s far-right government. Grenell didn’t register as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA), which is a requirement applying to individuals and entities operating inside the U.S. as an “agent” of a “foreign principal.”
ReplyDeleteGrenell’s appointment as acting Director of National Intelligence, which was announced last week, was met with widespread ridicule and disbelief.
“President Trump selected an unqualified loyalist as his top spy,” said International Institute for Strategic Studies senior fellow Jonathan Stevenson in a New York Times op-ed.
" Responsible Statecraft " ?
ReplyDeleteNever heard of them
Are they to foreign service officers what the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is to real scientists?
"Every year, Rachel Bronson, President and CEO of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, who has a degree in political science from Columbia, gets up in front of a fake clock to announce that the world is doomed."
So after a few years of nagging, people will investigate the bien pensants at Responsible Statecraft and find out that they are hacks, partisans and shills
There is an observation that if a country is called Democratic Something, you know it is anything but a Democracy. Case in the point the GDR, the German Democratic Republic.
Grennell has been promoted because Maguire failed. If Maguire had not failed in regards to his lieutenant Pierson, Gennell still would be in his old job.
On a side note I think a parrot with a doctorate in the humanities would do a better job someone with a mere degree in political science. The head of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists should be someone with a doctorate sheepskin, who can caw with the best of them.
ReplyDeleteThe International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) is a British research institute (or think tank) in the area of international affairs. Since 1997 its headquarters have been Arundel House in London, England. The 2017 Global Go To Think Tank Index ranked IISS as the tenth-best think tank worldwide and the second-best Defense and National Security think tank globally,[1] while Transparify ranked it third-largest UK think tank by expenditure, but gave it its lowest rating, 'deceptive', on funding transparency.
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Three national security officials told CNN that the briefer, Shelby Pierson, failed to accurately relay intelligence findings to Congress having to do with Russia helping Donald Trump get re-elected.
ReplyDeleteThe US intelligence community has assessed that Russia is interfering in the 2020 election and has separately assessed that Russia views Trump as a leader they can work with. But the US does not have evidence that Russia's interference this cycle is aimed at reelecting Trump, the officials said.
"The intelligence doesn't say that," one senior national security official told CNN. "A more reasonable interpretation of the intelligence is not that they have a preference, it's a step short of that. It's more that they understand the President is someone they can work with, he's a dealmaker."