*ALERT* Take the NT Times FBI push-back story with a BIG grain of salt.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

They quote Breitbart.... Ya... right...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/us/politics/fbi-russia-election-donald-trump.html?rref=collection%2Fbyline%2Fsteven-lee-myers&action=click&contentCollection=undefined®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection

Mr. Stone derided the accusations and those raised by Michael J. Morell, a former C.I.A. director and a Clinton supporter, who has called Mr. Trump “an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation.” In an article on the conservative news site Breitbart, Mr. Stone denied having links to Russians and called the accusations “the new McCarthyism.”

Plus... click on authors names and examine their previous stories. Judge for yourselves.

http://www.nytimes.com/by/eric-lichtblau

http://www.nytimes.com/by/steven-lee-myers

[lapucelle]

1. There are no named sources in the story.

I just emailed a complaint to the NYT public editor.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

4. Plus, if you read the article carefully,

it is very artfully crafted. i.e.,

F.B.I. officials declined to comment on Monday. Intelligence officials have said in interviews over the last six weeks that apparent connections between some of Mr. Trump’s aides and Moscow originally compelled them to open a broad investigation into possible links between the Russian government and the Republican presidential candidate. Still,

they have said

that Mr. Trump himself has not become a target. And no evidence has emerged that would link him or anyone else in his business or political circle directly to Russia’s election operations.

At least one part of the investigation has involved Paul Manafort, Mr. Trump’s campaign chairman for much of the year. Mr. Manafort, a veteran Republican political strategist, has had extensive business ties in Russia and other former Soviet states, especially Ukraine, where he served as an adviser to that country’s ousted president, Viktor F. Yanukovych.

But the focus in that case was on Mr. Manafort’s ties with a kleptocratic government in Ukraine — and whether he had declared the income in the United States — and not necessarily on any Russian influence over Mr. Trump’s campaign, one official said.

The past tense is used to convey select information. In other words, selective spin. Please read the whole thing very closely. You can pick out "wiggly" language.

[lapucelle]

7. I'm not disagreeing with you, and I did read it carefully.

It is anonymously sourced.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

9. I should have written in addition

to being anonymously soured...

[skylucy]

3. Yes. I agree. The whole article sounds like BS

[geek tragedy]

8. Russians hack only one party, but totally not trying to influence outcome. Orly?

The spirit of Judy Miller lives on

[LisaL]

13. Russians might have hacked both parties.

We just don't know. But what we know is that information is only released about one side.