WASHINGTON — The Obama administration feared that acknowledging Russian meddling in the 2016 election would reveal too much about intelligence gathering and be interpreted as “taking sides” in the race, the former secretary of homeland security said Wednesday.
“One of the candidates, as you recall, was predicting that the election was going to be ‘rigged’ in some way,” said Jeh Johnson, the former secretary, referring to President Trump’s unsubstantiated accusation before Election Day. “We were concerned that by making the statement we might, in and of itself, be challenging the integrity of the election process itself.”
“We were very concerned that we not be perceived as taking sides in the election, injecting ourselves into a very heated campaign or taking steps to delegitimize the election process and undermine the integrity of the election process,” he said.
Concerned the truth might delegitimize and undermine integrity?
Hello Jeh, telling the truth means you must take a side - as well as constantly being fos is taking a side!
p.s. mr40, you should take up poker immediately? Just picture a poker table with opponents such as Obama, Hillary, Susan, Jeh, Loretta, Mook, Neenah - they'd try to bluff every pot, lmao
