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A specter of treason hovers over Donald Trump. He has brought it on himself by dismissing a bipartisan call for an investigation of Russias hacking of the Democratic National Committee as a ridiculous political attack on the legitimacy of his election as president.
Seventeen US national intelligence agencies have unanimously concluded that Russia engaged in cyberwarfare against the US presidential campaign. The lead agency, the CIA, has reached the further conclusion that Russias hacking was intended to influence the election in favor of Trump.
Admiral Michael Rogers, director of the National Security Agency and commander of the US Cyber Command, has stated, This was not something that was done casually, this was not something that was done by chance. This was not a target that was selected purely arbitrarily. This was a conscious effort by a nation state to attempt to achieve a specific effect. On Thursday, a senior intelligence official disclosed that there is substantial evidence that Russian President Vladimir Putin himself authorized the cyberattack.
Why does Trump publicly reject these intelligence agency conclusions and the bipartisan proposal for a congressional investigation? As president-elect, he should have a strong interest in presenting a united front against Russias interference with the electoral process at the core of American democracy.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/12/16/trump-raises-specter-treason/zdwgXRuJBMChEXmX5kchhP/story.html?event=event25
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)... it looks like political opportunism
benld74
(9,904 posts)rwsanders
(2,596 posts)This can't wait to be fixed "next time".
Jacob Boehme
(789 posts)...The charades and parlor games of all these Mayberry Machiavellian actors is indeed thrilling!
Each worthy of an academy award no doubt
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If it weren't for the fact that we'll all be the butt of their sad jokes in the end.
bucolic_frolic
(43,128 posts)'the election has to be 'fair'"
'The election is rigged'
'Please hack Hillary's email accounts'
Now he's moving as fast as possible as if there's nothing to examine,
no vote rigging, no undercounting, no voting fraud, no foreign influence,
not a problem anywhere
Why did they look at Anthony Weiner's cell phone? Why did James
Comey do what he did?
Lot's of unanswered questions