“His actions were unprecedented, unethical, shocking, and have apparently led to chaos within the bureau, an unprecedented number of leaks, and chaos in our election cycle,” said Douglas Charles, a history professor at Penn State.
“It is the assessment of the intelligence community that Russia’s goal here was to favour one candidate over the other, to help Trump get elected,” a senior US intelligence official briefed on information shared with US senators told the Post. “That’s the consensus view.”
In a perplexing response, the Trump transition team outright dismissed the validity of the report and the intelligence committee they will soon be running.
Some in the intelligence agencies say the evidence is not clear. Notice what Assange said in the Independent article above,
"The Clinton camp has been able to project a neo-McCarthyist hysteria that Russia is responsible for everything," he said. "Hillary Clinton has stated multiple times, falsely, that 17 US intelligence agencies had assessed that Russia was the source of our publications.
and slotted in here because it fits with the just above it thought. Assange could have intentionally misled the world with his statement there. Could have.
So seems the U.S.A. has a president and his team who reject their intelligence bodies. We knew Trump does/did reject intelligence, now we know his team agrees.
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
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