CIA Report: Russia Worked To Help Donald Trump Win The U.S. Presidency

Washington Post: Secret CIA assessment says Russia was trying to help Trump win White House

The CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency, rather than just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system, according to officials briefed on the matter.

Intelligence agencies have identified individuals with connections to the Russian government who provided WikiLeaks with thousands of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and others, including Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, according to U.S. officials. Those officials described the individuals as actors known to the intelligence community and part of a wider Russian operation to boost Trump and hurt Clinton’s chances.

“It is the assessment of the intelligence community that Russia’s goal here was to favor one candidate over the other, to help Trump get elected,” said a senior U.S. official briefed on an intelligence presentation made to U.S. senators. “That’s the consensus view.”

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WNU Editor: A lot of news converage but no smoking gun, and no explanation on why would Russia support a Donald Trump Presidency. But what we do know is that the Wikileaks revelations seriously embarrassed the Democrat party, the media, and the U.S. electoral process. It revealed how the primaries were rigged to favour Hillary Clinton. It revealed extensive media cooperation with the Democrat campaign .... first against Bernie Sanders, and then against Donald Trump. It also showed how Democrat insiders operate .... and how they reward their supporters. In short .... if a reporter had done the same thing against a Republican candidate and his political party what the CIA is accusing Russia and Wikileaks of doing .... he or she will be receiving a Pulitzer Prize for his work right now. As for the Trump transition team .... they are not holding back on their opinion of this report .... Trump breaks with Obama, intel agencies on election hacking (Politico). As to what is my take .... the CIA will need to declassify their report and to release names the and organisations that they believed were responsible for hacking the Democrat servers .... they must also include timelines, the what and when the data was taken, and when was this info given to Wikileaks. Saying that you believe someone did this .... while not providing any evidence to back it up .... does not make it necessarily true. As to this claim .... Russia Hacked Republican Committee but Kept Data, U.S. Concludes (New York Times). The FBI in an earlier report says the opposite .... the Russians were not successful in hacking into the Republcan Party servers. But if the Russians had hacked the Republican Party servers .... and knowing how they think .... they would have also forwarded this info to Wikileaks. So why is this CIA report being leaked now? I do not know, but I do know that this report will be used by some quarters to deligitimze the Trump Presidency. On a side note .... the Washington Post is saying that the Republicans are getting on board to support this CIA assessment. Senators Lindsey Graham and John McCain are not the Republican party .... they are just two guys who are Republican Senators who have a long "beef" with President-Elect Trump.

Update: Someone asked me on who do I believe is responsible for leaking this information to Wikileaks. As I had mentioned in a previous post on this matter, when you have a leak like this it is usually done by someone on the inside .... i.e. someone on the inside of the Democrat Party. I also belevie that Julian Assange is telling the truth when he says that the Russians did not leak this info to Wikileaks. Julian Assange and Wikileaks have a reputation of revealing secrets and telling the truth .... and they have not been caught on a lie for the past ten years. I cannot say the same for the CIA.