The mainstream media is very angry voters chose President-elect Donald Trump over their favored candidate — and they seem willing to push “fake news” to help spin things back under their control.
Turns out the Russian election hacking story that corporate media has worked itself into a frenzy over may not be true.
That’s not The Horn News saying it — that’s straight from top intelligence officers. And the push back against the media’s false narrative from the intelligence community is so serious, even Reuters is admitting they may have gotten it wrong.
Monday, the news agency released an article titled, “Exclusive: Top U.S. spy agency has not embraced CIA assessment on Russia hacking,” in which the writers admit that “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.”
Whoops, sorry mainstream media! Turns out Trump isn’t in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s pocket like you’d hoped.
While there’s little doubt there was election cyber leaks from journalistic organizations like WikiLeaks, there’s no concrete proof it was a Russian plot to back Trump.
The article continued: “The Federal Bureau of Investigation, whose evidentiary standards require it to make cases that can stand up in court, declined to accept the CIA’s analysis – a deductive assessment of the available intelligence – for the same reason, the three officials said.”
Trump himself continues to hold firm to skepticism, doubting the CIA conclusion that Russia tried to hack its way into tipping the U.S. election in his favor.
Trump emphasized that he does not accept the conclusion that the Kremlin tried to disrupt the election in his favor, an idea he dismissed as “ridiculous” over the weekend — and intelligence professionals are backing him up, saying the CIA’s assessment being parroted by liberal media outlets is a “judgment based on the fact that Russian entities hacked both Democrats and Republicans and only the Democratic information was leaked,” one of the three officials said to Reuters. “[It was] a thin reed upon which to base an analytical judgment,” the official added.
“Unless you catch ‘hackers’ in the act, it is very hard to determine who was doing the hacking,” Trump tweeted Monday.
Trump himself had raised questions during a presidential debate in September about whose hackers were responsible, after Clinton blamed Russia. “She keeps saying ‘Russia, Russia, Russia,’ and maybe it was. It could be Russia, but it could be China, could also be lots of other people,” Trump said then. “It could be someone sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds.”
In doing so, Trump embraced one of the truisms about cybersecurity. After a hacking, it remains a lingering challenge to identify whose hands were on the keyboard: foreign spies, cybercriminals, disgruntled insiders or bored teenagers. Skilled hackers can cover their tracks, use software tools traceable to others and feign their locations across borders or continents.
Kentucky Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Monday that he had “the highest confidence in the intelligence community and especially the Central Intelligence Agency,” signaling that he disagreed with Trump. “Obviously, any foreign breach of our cybersecurity measures is disturbing. And I strongly condemn any such efforts.”
When the government chooses to go public with hacking accusations, credibility is its most important asset, said John Bambenek, manager of threat systems at Fidelis Cybersecurity.
It’s not uncommon for skeptics, particularly within the hacking community, to second-guess the government’s conclusion. Even after the FBI fingered North Korea as the culprit for the Sony hack in 2014, some computer scientists challenged the assessment. The FBI subsequently disclosed even more information to be more convincing.
The Associated Press contributed to this article
it’s about time liberal fucking retard media pulls their heads out of their asses and we put all liberal media out of business so america can get real live accurate honest journalism like fox and fox business
i say fuck you to all mainstream killary media especially clinton news network with all the assholes who work there
First it was the riots, then the recounts now the Russians…….wonder what’s next? Oh the electors, forgot about that one.
Paranoid aren’t they? It’s an evil plot to rip the Presidency out of the corrupt Clinton’s grand witches fingers. Poor, poor pitiful Hillary “Elphaba” Clinton. I can almost hear her say… I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little dog Donald too. They’re incredulous that Americans rejected them. after all they’ve been spoon feeding us for decades with not much to show for it, other than increasing their own wealth and increasing their own power..
@ HOWARD M.. don’t if true but read an article about impeaching TRUMP 4 criminal acts. probably they will never give up, the hate will just continue 2 simmer.
I agree with you Thomas, all except the four letter words they add nothing to your comment.
Agreed.with you about Thomas’s wording. That’s what one would expect from a Libtard.
What you’ve never heard an adult word before from somebody who’s pissed off Mr easily offended by cuss words ? Fuck that dude the guy can say whatever the hell he wants dont be such a dick man and govern yourself , what you’re doing is expected from libtards policing peoples language .
Those 4 letter words do not bother me at all. I am ultra conservative and I love Donald Trump and know he will be the best president we have had in years. He is so much smarter than all of the media and most other people. The only thing I actually do not like when using then 4 lettered word on the internet is that my 10 year old great granddaughter looks at it and I really do not like her reading that kind of language. I do not like young kids start to talking that way. I use that word sometime nI a controlled environment when no young people are around. I have heard young boys and girls talk that way and it looks like they come out of low class environments. That is all I can say to that
Sorry; I have to agree with some other comments that using bad language reflects on the user, sometimes more than on the person against whom the word is being leveled.
It has taken some years of experience, but I have found that avoiding potty-mouth language and using instead well-chosen, descriptive, true adjectives and adverbs is much more powerful, and will verbally flay a potty-mouth adversary (who often can’t keep up because he/she doesn’t have the vocabulary to do so).
It also has the advantage of making one appear to be a lady or a gentleman – a very RARE quality these days.
Just a thought!
Yeah! What is with the 4 letter words – try FK U instead, so you don’t risk getting your message pulled!
For them to do that they would first have to acknowledge that they have
never been reporters, merely hacks for the DNC, Democrat Socialist Party
and others Anti American groups who are hell bent on the destruction of
our Nation. They were first sponsored by the Communist party and other
actors our for one thing, out total destruction and the demise of the freedoms
that others in the world will sacrifice their lives to try and achieve. We have
been the one shinning light against despots around the world and if we
were to falter and fail it would only make them stronger against us.
I agree with you over 100% but by telling the truth, your post will probably get deleted!
Sorry but Fox news, I might think that were true if they reported actual news, but they really aren’t any better than the rest of the alphabet soup that supposedly reports the news. How many news stations report on the hazards of our drinking water? How about the quality of our air? How about reporting on GMO’s and the adverse effect it is having on people? How many stories have you heard about many Americans being deficient in vitamin D, yet no correlation between these planes spraying the skies and blocking out the suns rays where a majority of Americans get their vitamin D. Sorry Fox New is neither fair or balanced, compared to the rest of the liberal media maybe, but in general that would be a resounding NO!
I have heard many times that the expressions of a dirty mouth is the attempt to express itself forcefully.
Lee Walker, the key word in your sentence is ‘attempt’. I have heard many times that having to express yourself by using foul language just shows a lack of intelligence. Ask any educated person about the power of persuasion and they will tell you that they are more apt to consider the other person’s point of view if that person isn’t peppering their sentences with filthy, slang words. A dictionary and thesaurus are cheap, yet provide a wealth of knowledge.
I’m a 62 year old female. Among other things, I spent six years in the military and 20+ years driving a big rig all over this country. I have heard some of the most filthy language coming out of people’s mouths anyone can imagine. Nothing surprises me anymore. That does not mean that I accept it or stick around to find out what they are so upset about…I simply don’t care what they think about anything because, to me, they aren’t smart enough to have an intelligent conversation about the matter. It’s really too bad that so many consider using such language is a badge of honor. I’m sorry to say that they are wrong about that.
The main question still remains. How can Russian hacking affect an election? How do the Ruskies change votes or rig voting terminals?. No, it is clear that if the Russians could have rigged the election, Vladimir Putin would have won??
Any other outcome considering both O’bozo the “Big Eared” Clown and his Director of the CIA are self proclaimed Muslim sympathizers if not practicing Muslims – WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There was an article that the CIA DID try unsuccessfully to hack into Ohio’s election….so maybe if we stand back and look really hard, it may have been the CIA that hacked Killary….John Podesta hacked himself….he got a phishing email telling him to change his password, called his ITT buddy who told him to change his password, but since he is a Demorat and a imbecilic moron, instead of going to his gmail account, this ahole clicked on the phishing scam email and changed it with them instead….and we wonder why Democrats are so stupid….Clinton, herself, said in 2005, and I quote “LOOK THE AVERAGE DEMOCRAT VOTER IS JUST PLAIN STUPID. THAT’S THE EASY PART”.
I’ve wonder what hook the phishing caught him with? Like 12 year old girls click here and she could be yours?
12? Isn’t that getting a little long in the tooth for Muslims and Muslim sympathizers?
(And here we were, wondering for so long why the liberals love the Muslims so much. Now we know; they have so much in common with them!)
Yes!
I think that it is imperative that we are certain of Russia’s guilt before rendering any sanctions or retaliation. Remember Iraq and weapons of mass destruction was based on the same “common sense circumstantial evidence” and they were wrong but we still paid trillions in tax payer dollars ( or debt, however you want to see it) and worse yet, in the lives of many of our military. We do not want to make such a mistake with Russia.
Don’t forget the lies about Benghazi and the cause of which was a stupid video….and the bad thing about all of that is the only person sitting in a jail cell was the guy who made the video that the White House interns searched and found on the internet. Sometimes, justice is blind.
One thing these lefties and the news (if you can call them news anymore) have put their foot in it now because they are saying it is because of hacking. We on the right have been saying for years that our cyber security needs a massive review and update. Weeke leaks has been around for about 10 years and the Obama administration and the news media have barley paid lip service to the subject and even heaped parse on weke leaks when they told on Bush, now that they are telling about Obama and Hillary they are all up in arms. Can’t they see that this makes them look utterly incompetent and stupid! Well we are talking about the left here are we not.
And the last I heard, the man who made the video is still in jail, whereas the Evil Elite are buying designer outfits for their lavish holiday parties.
Absolutley. Bush was lead by bad Intel. He trusted the sources yet the sources obviously had an agenda perhaps the NWO?
Trust me; Bush knew damn well that what he was telling the American people were outright lies!
Paul, you really think I should believe you? I don’t.
And your personal connection with the Bushes is what?
It wasn’t circumstantial evidence. It was outright lies!
Do you operate a crystal ball?
If so, which horse will win the Kentucky Derby in 2017?
Linda, for some reason [ can’t figure out why ] Barry & Hill want a war with Russia. This latest fiasco is a step in that direction. Pres. Trump can keep the peace & I think they are afraid of that.
The “lie” about WMD was not a mistake. The lie was used to convince the public to support going to war with Iraq.
Here is the proof
Bush lied – search youtube for “a_cciUzoLwo” or for “leading to war”
Oh, for God’s sake. Aren’t you aware that Saddam Hussein HIMSELF was a WMD?
In fact, Islam (Saddam’s “religion”) is a WMD; it has killed about 270 million people since the time of their Illustrious Pedophile Leader, Mohammed.
But Saddam, et al aren’t the bad guys.
Noooooooooooooooooooooooo – Bush is the bad guy.
IQ test time.
Trump would never take any kind of hasty action without proof; he’s too smart.
Just as I thought, The CIA conclusions are based on highly questionable analysis with no evidence to support them. Analysis without evidence or proof is just opinionated garbage, pretty much like what we get from the media everyday…There is only one agency, the NSA, that I would believe about cyber attacks, and they ain’t talking, apparently to the CIA either. More political BS from the losing side again
Alphabet News equal FAKE NEWS…..if ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN (who is still trying to find the answer to why Americans picked Trump and whinning about it), MSNBC were REAL news agencies instead of paid propogandists/communists, we would not have to go to the internet to get the real news. If they want to find Fake News look no further than the end of their noses.
And apparently some other alphabet organizations are problematic, too, such as the CIA.
You are right on! Also, it was likely the NSA that released the info to Wiki-leaks to keep the lying corrupt btch from becoming their boss. Don’t forget, they record everything and were the only ones that knew just how bad the witch was.
When the Clinton’s meet their maker he won’t be wearing white robes and his walking stick will be a pitch fork. Chelsea needs to make a break from the family before she lives a long life of misery.
I can only hope that it is soon.
Not likely; look who she chose to marry.
when the trials come, Chelsea will see the light unless she is so corrupted that she can’t. hey she’s an adult. And totally responsible for her choices good, bad or ugly.
Absolutely – everyone was a child once, not just the Elites! She shouldn’t get off just because she was a child in the White House.
The spotlight should be on the treasonous internet, etc. activities of Hillary Clinton!!!
She sent classified information over insecure Internet 100’s of times and NOTHING is done!!!!!!
What the HELL is going on in WASHINGTON?????
Anything Wikileaks put out was what Clinton, Podesta, Mills, Abedine… wrote!!!!
These are the REAL CRIMINALS!
Why is this such a BIG issue now that so much time has passed – the pre-election media love fest over Hilary and hate fest towards Trump (=MSM LYING) failed; the “recount failed”; death threats to electoral college voters hasn’t had an overwhelming response??????
What is the next liberal/progressive/Democrat/marxist/communist scheme to get Hillary Clinton into the presidency????
It’s almost like a Satanic cult has America by the throat!
Hillary & 0bama and their group of troubled friends need to stop this foolishness and except that they lost and let our new President to be Donald J. Trump clean up the mess the Democrats have made all these years. Hillary is still trying to cover up the e-mails she sent out because they are still investigating her and 0bama. They are scared of the results and what is going to happen to them
The propaganda machine hasn’t cared about “minor” little things like accuracy or veracity for years now… why would they suddenly start today?
Maybe it was the guy who bleached the emails that did it … he knows how to cover his tracks!!! Wouldn’t that be ironic!!! in a Hilarious kind of way!!!
All this halabaloo about fake new is just a red herring and a distraction. Any fake news that may of been out there was probably planted by the socialists. And the mainstream media have repeatedly demonstrated their inclination toward creative reporting. Hillary lost! Get over it already!
Norway just took down the largest pedophile network ever. Funny there not blaming Putin and fake news for this
That’s almost funny, considering the number of pedophile Muslims they insist on dumping on their non-Muslim population! Maybe they think the one will distract from the other.
Suprise they’re not blaming Trump or Bush or that evil, racist basket of Republicans .
Is creative reporting anything like creative accounting?
Sure seems like it!
I’m a Texan too; would I be “La Tejasa”? LOL!
US Intel agencies should not allow politicization of this issue. Thought that US is best in cyber technology. Do your work professionally & don’t allow Obama to politicize issue. Allow new administration to do its job.
Will someone please explain how and if the Russians had their hands in our election how they could have been responsible for Hillary to get the populous vote yet loose the electoral vote to Trump? What makes the election results so difficult for the democrats is because they thought they had everything so well rigged there wouldn’t be a chance for anyone to even get close to a win against them. The open borders didn’t do it, illegal immigrant vote wasn’t enough, votes by deceased citizens wasn’t enough, the huge negative add campaign wasn’t enough, poisoning the minds of our youths wasn’t enough, intimidating the American worker Trump supporters didn’t do it, riding around campaigning with our president Obama in Air Force l didn’t do it, establishing sanctuary cities and counties didn’t do, trying to passify the American struggling portion of our society with government hand outs didn’t do it either. What lost it was the lack of credibility of the Clinton’s and this administration, very simple. Americans have gotten real tired of the nonsense they have been continually cramming down their throats
All good points!
This is total BS . Look at All of Trumps Rallys !! Packed houses with voters who believe in Real Change , not the kind of crap change obummer has done to Our Country , and The Reason we all came out . Enough is Enough ! We want Our Country back to its Original Rule of Law and a Small Government !! We have watch Such a Decline over the past two terms , and Sickening Moral Depletion . There’s been Soo Much Bad done these past years and I Pray we can recover .
Not only is there fake news out there thier is also fake Hillary Clinton.
Don’t they know that The Almighty is watching? How do these people sleep at night?
How do these people sleep at night? Judging by the look of both Clintons, they’re on something. Booze/drugs or any combination.
With regard to the Evil Elite and the Almighty, I believe that many of them are on The Other Side.
Figured the Russia story line was Just more anti-trump fake news. Wiki-leaks got Podesta files because some hacker found those files susceptible to hacking. Who knows if hackers also tried to also get into Rep.files, but obviously anyone linking with Hillary’s private server crap was going to be easier. Main thing though is Wiki-leaks published true, not fake files and its the truth that hurt Hillary!!!
And what are the hackers and WikiLeaks guilty of really? Showing the American voters what their potential leaders are really up to! If the mainstream media can broadcast questionable “news” under the first amendment, why can’t anyone else?
Ban all porn bring our country back from the sewer, put God back in our schools and society, watch God bless our nation.
Wonder why Mr. Trump ordered no demonstraions in Washington DC from Jan 2017 thru March 2017? BAD NEWS?
Wonder why 57%of America’s money goes to the military? Now they have all sorts of new toys and plan to test them out on us?
Wonder why forces in Washington bought 1,000,000,000 ROUNDS of ammunition?
That comes to roughly 3 rounds for every man, woman, and child in America, according to my reckoning..
Planning to do some serious shooting are they?
What. ????
What?? I do not understand what you are implying.
You think Trump is more likely to attack us than Lolita Island Bill & Hillary, who have no problem with small children being kidnapped, sold into slavery, raped, tortured, dehumanized, and in some cases murdered?
Perspective is such a tricky thing.
Democrats stink!
Donald Trump is right again, and again about the lying Democrats
Again Senator McConnell reveals he is a real old RINO’s needs to be retired or resent ASAP. He just doesn’t get it…hopefully his days in our Senate are numbered.
Rev. Tom, you are on target!
EVERY ONE IS JUMPING THROUGH THEIR RECTUMS ABOUT RUSSIA , CHINA OR LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD WHOEVER IS HACKING WHATEVER . WHAT ABOUT THE EXPOSURE HILLARY THE HUN PERMITTED WITH HER SECURITY NEGLIGENCE.HAVE WE FORGOTTEN ABOUT THAT ALREADY. ONLY THE GOOD LORD KNOWS HOW MUCH DAMAGE WAS DONE BY HER TREASON.LETS GO PEOPLE ARE WE GOING TO GIVE HER A FREE GET OUT OF JAIL CARD.IF YOU OR I DID ONE TENTH OF WHAT SHE DID THE GOVERNMENT WOULD PUT US IN THE SLAMMER AND THROW AWAY THE KEY
At this point what difference does it make, Right Hillary? You lost and we are ecstatic about it. If the PTB were oblivious about your insecure server being hacked by our enemies why would the idiots at MSM fake news about Russia hacking the election? After all, you seem to have earned a deserved reputation for transparency when it comes to our national security.
its too bad that McConnell and Ryan cant be true to their party and Mr Trump. but both of them are two faced back stabbers and they have again said one thing to Mr Trumps face and gone behind his back and went with the Dems who want to do him harm and the Repubs want to stop him from getting his tax cuts
Oh my Our stupid person from the white house who never got briefing and he is now telling Trump what he should be doing.. Go sock your head Obama
I have worked in lumber camps, oil fields, drove truck, sawmills, and never heard or saw the kind of language being used by various people on this site. Express yourself, but try to avoid using words that turn others off your message. If you don’t think your message can be delivered any other way, then we don’t have to listen, read, or hear you.
No Inside job by Dems, NOT Russians.
Done by Dems to blame to Russia.
The biggest sources of fake news are the Democrat Party, the Obama administration, the Hillary Clinton campaign, MSNBC, CNN, NBC, CBS, and ABC. All these organizations have the same goal-to advance the Democrat Party’s candidates and their radical agenda.
I was in the supermarket yesterday in line at the register . There was a People magazine that was looked at by someone else in line and placed back on the rack backwards. I picked it up and placed it back with the front facing out.Then I realized why they put it back backwards. There was a picture of Obama and his wife Michael (google it) on the cover. I knew immediately why they turned it around and I did the same thing. Who wants to look at them? They can’t get out soon enough to please me. Him and his red line are responsible for the deaths of so many innocent people in Syria. Why doe Assad still want control? Of what? Bombed out buildings, corpses all over? Ruined artifacts? How much do you think it will cost to rebuild all that rubble? We can complain a lot, but I would rather live here than in any other country. It will improve under Trump.
To the Moron that wrote this article … Your the only one posting fake news idiot !!
The President himself (Obama) was on national television announcing that the U.S would retaliate against Russia for hacking BECAUSE … The FBI and the CIA and ODIN all agree that the Russians hacked the election for Trump and Hilary’s emails.
So let me guess you will next say that…….
it wasent Obama on TV instead it was an actor pretending to be him that said it right ???
And this actor just happened to be standing in front of the (REAL) White House.
So many delusional people on the internet LMAO !!