In a rare rebuttal, CIA is pushing back
From the WSJ story
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Intelligence officials pushed back Sunday for the first time against Mr. Trump’s criticism, a rare rebuttal against an American elected official.
“It’s concerning that intelligence on Russian actions related to the U.S. election is being dismissed out of hand as false or politically partisan,” a U.S. intelligence official said in a written statement.
"The inclination to ignore such intelligence and impugn the integrity of U.S. intelligence officials is contrary to all that is sacred to national-security professionals who work day and night to protect this country.”
U.S. intelligence agencies have rarely been at odds with the commander-in-chief, or an incoming president, over their assessment of a key American adversary. While the assessments during the George W. Bush administration of Iraqi weapons proved wrong, they weren’t the subject of such a public back and forth.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-blames-democrats-for-reports-of-russia-hacking-1481467907
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to think of 90 year olds going through this! I'm so sorry. Hug your auntie for me. And you too.
rocket scientist, called "the dumbest fucking guy on the planet."
Trump is toast!
Go CIA!! hahahaha never thought I'd say or think that 
No.
The CIA never said there were WMDs in Iraq.
The thing is, the Iraq War was not the result of an intelligence goof — rather, the country’s top office systematically misled the public about Iraq’s nonexistent WMD program, as well as Saddam Hussein’s link to Al Qaeda.
On Tuesday night, former CIA Deputy Director and Bush’s intelligence briefer Michael Morell appeared on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” where he, under an amount of good cable news duress, admitted that the administration intentionally misrepresented intelligence.
http://www.salon.com/2015/05/20/george_w_bushs_cia_briefer_admits_iraq_wmd_intelligence
turnip head needs to call out bush2 on this.
and that he already knows all they know and more.
J. Edgar Hoover himself virulently opposed the creation of the CIA. Why? Because he jealously guarded his status as America's Red-Baiter-In-Chief. And he was of the Joe McCarthy view that the biggest threat to the U.S. came from within the country - including from within the U.S. government. Contrast this to the CIA, which from the beginning was all about undermining the Soviets and their allies - and foreign governments who dared to oppose the U.S. in general...in other words, the CIA's jurisdiction was explicitly international (though they of course violated that rule for decades, as exposed by the post-Watergate Congressional investigations in the 1970s...).
Many have argued that the mutual suspicion and distrust and petty rivalries between the CIA and the FBI directly led to the failure to prevent 9/11. Looks like they still hate each other's guts. Fasten your seat-belts, folks, because things are about to get very, very unpredictable...
