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[Freethinker65]

1. I trust the CIA to be looking out for America's interests more than I trust the KGB

or whoever is advising the president elect. Not saying I approve of all of their methods, or would blindly believe everything they produce as evidence, but still...

[davidn3600]

8. How is sending America's tax dollars to ISIS helping our interests?

Didn't we play this same game with Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan in the 80s?

How'd that turn out?

[Freethinker65]

10. If what you say is indeed occurring, my answer is - Realpolitik

[RoccoR2]

2. +1

+1

[KittyWampus]

4. That was Cheney and his Office of Special Plans that lied about Iraq.

[JHan]

5. It's not just the CIA pointing out the Russian influence...

Several independent cyber security firms noted it as well.

[AngryAmish]

21. Oh, the cyber. Big with the cyber.

[JHan]

23. #lol Just for you. e. e. trumpings on the cyber..

https://twitter.com/rseymour/status/780775955187036160/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[AngryAmish]

25. Diarrhea. He had nothing to say.

The cyber.

[LonePirate]

7. Overseas, things can be murky. Domestically, I trust they put the country first.

[pangaia]

16. Murky to us, perhaps but not to those "overseas"..

by which I assume you mean across the Atlantic, Pacific, or Caribbean. :&gt )

I spend a good deal of time 'overseas'. Trust me, we are much murkier than the people I hang with are.

[etherealtruth]

9. Seriously, are you basing this on what gabbard of all people is saying?

she was on NPR this morning talking bout how the russians and Assad were better for the Syrian people than the rebels

http://www.npr.org/2016/12/10/505079126/hawaii-congresswoman-tulsi-gabbard-introduces-bill-to-halt-u-s-arms-supplies-to

SIMON: Let me follow up on this, Representative Gabbard. Are you really holding the Syrian rebels more responsible for the death and destruction in Aleppo, for example, than the Assad regime?

GABBARD: I'm simply being a realist about the situation - and that the people in Syria would be in a far worse situation if al-Qaida took charge and took over Syria than they were before this effort to overthrow this regime began.

SIMON: I mean, the Assad regime has used chemical weapons and has committed what a lot of people consider to be war crimes against its own people. You really think the Syrian rebels would be worse?

GABBARD: My statement stands. If those who are calling for the removal of this regime are, in essence, accepting

[davidn3600]

14. So if Assad goes....what happens next in that power vacuum? Who takes over?

Can you be certain it will turn out better for the Syrian people?

Because that policy hasn't worked anywhere else.

[Bucky]

17. With Trump in the White House, Assad safer than he's been in years.

[etherealtruth]

22. No fears of Assad losing now ... Trump and the Russians have this all settled

sometimes you just have to leave it up to the people ... Assad is an horrendous "leader" that has gassed, bombed, and killed by many means his own people ... you are saying it is best to help and support keeping this in power? Well Putin has decided on the Syrian's people behalf that this is what they will have (Gabbard appears to agree)

[sheshe2]

19. 1000

[pbmus]

11. Really questioning the cia because of a Trumpster mouthpiece...

[dumbcat]

12. Yes, because they are giving us some hope

Something that has been in short supply around here.

[malaise]

13. I no longer know who to trust

Phillip Agree came to Jamaica decades ago and told us some truths about his agency.

I know what was done here as well.

[Bucky]

15. There's been plenty of evidence on your TV for the past four months

It's not like Russia hasn't finagled to get other anti-Nato rightwing despots elected in other western countries.

[pangaia]

20. remember, this is the US of A.

Most people here, (not the person you replied to) don't know shit.
They have never been anywhere...

[m-lekktor]

18. Nope. I don't believe the CIA anymore than I believe the NSA. look at their history. nt

I

[FarCenter]

26. NSA and FBI counterintelligence would have actual information about what was done

CIA is pieced together political speculation.

[bluedigger]

24. I believe both can be true.

In fact, they support each other.

[RazBerryBeret]

27. I trust Obama

if he called for an investigation, he must feel there is credible evidence. He's not a dumb attention seeker like the Don and wouldn't make this one of his last acts as POTUS.

[TonyPDX]

28. I'm sad that we have to question the allegiance of those who should be defending us.

[zippythepinhead]

29. the cia can't talk about it

because it's "classified". Obama should declassify it. Then the american people [what's left of them] can decide.

[Jean-Jacques Roussea]

30. yes because everything else in the world leads to that conclusion

Liberals have known Russia was colluding with the Trump campaign since October. Since that Trump tower server was in communication with a Putin-owned bank.