Ex-intel chief: 'No evidence whatsoever' anyone but Russia interfered in election

[Julian Englis]

Source: The Hill

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Thursday that he saw no evidence that anyone besides Russia attempted to meddle in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, despite President Trump's comments.

"As far as others doing this, well that's new to me," Clapper, who served under former President Barack ObamaBarack ObamaREI encourages customers to challenge Trump administration on public lands Waters to Trump: Only 'weak,' 'impotent' leader focused on attacking press Ex-intel chief: 'No evidence whatsoever' anyone but Russia interfered in election MORE, said during an interview on CNN's "The Situation Room."

"We saw no evidence whatsoever that [there] was anyone involved in this other than the Russians," he said.

Clapper's comments draw a contrast from Trump, who declined earlier Thursday to single out Russia for interference in the 2016 White House race.

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/340921-ex-intel-chief-no-evidence-whatsoever-anyone-but-russia-interfered

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In other words, Putin's puppet has dissembled again.

[Kablooie]

1. That just means they haven't come across the evidence yet.

Trump knows these things much better than you do because he's the president.

[njhoneybadger]

2. President One Inch is an ignoramus.

[TomVilmer]

3. That is simply too blank a statement to be true

"We saw no evidence whatsoever that [there] was anyone involved in this other than the Russians," Clapper said. If that is his true conclusion, he must blindly have been looking for Russia evidence, and blanking everything else totally out. Trappers claim - that Russia last year launched a campaign to influence the 2016 elections in the U.S and that nobody else did something similar - is too far out. And just as silly as Trumps earlier denials of any interference from other nations.

One easy example is the disinformation campaign in US media paid by Turkey, which Michael Flynn ran. Any country, from the EU to China and Russia, is doing all they can in US election years to make candidates support agendas from these states. And to make more or less hidden media campaigns to make the general public care for these agendas, as does every organization and industrial group. And so do they all against other countries as well.

[PoliticAverse]

4. Hey if you can't believe the guy who lied under oath who can you believe?... n/t

[Igel]

6. It is. Or it is not.

Depending on what "involved" means.

If they mean hacking computer systems, okay then. In that narrow sense, it's true (at least for now).

If they mean fake news, then there were some greedy Macedonians, as yet unproven to be closely allied with the Russians (or even Macedonian speaking, as far as I can tell), that were good at that. In which case the statement is false.

If they mean bots or trolls mean to change the relative rating and therefore placement news sources (and I use that term lightly) assign to stories, then it's probably true.

If they mean trying to alter how the American public voted, a number of countries' leaders came out against Trump publicly and got front-page coverage, then it's false.

Speak in vague generalities and ambiguous terms, it could mean anything. Now, I suspect it's not the guy talking in the OP that's vague. I think much of it's in the reading.

[Achilleaze]

5. republicans: "Ha ha America"

"Tuff shit America. Thanks to our russian buddies, our republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief, Comrade Casino, is the KING. We think that's cool. More tax cuts for the rich! Ha ha." - republicans

[C Moon]

8. Damn. That is just the way I hear the traitors talking. Spot on.

[lark]

7. Hey, he's just doing his job!

The job Putin paid him to do, and by damn, this is the only job he truly cares about. We are nothing to him, he just loves the bully boys and when one flatters and pays him, well, then it's off the charts love and admiration.

[brooklynite]

9. Putin: Trump appeared to agree Moscow did not interfere in election

Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters Saturday that US President Donald Trump appeared to agree with Moscow's position that it did not interfere in last year's election during their bilateral talks at the G20 meeting in Hamburg, Germany, on Friday.

"I repeat, he asked a lot of questions on this matter," Putin said at a Saturday press conference. "I answered as many as I could answer. I think he took it into consideration and agreed with it. But you should ask him what his opinion is on that."

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/08/politics/putin-trump-election-interference/index.html
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So, either your friend Putin is wrong, or your UN Secretary is; which is it?