NBC Unnamed Source Says Putin Directly Involved in Hacking of American Presidential Elections, Due to ‘Vendetta’ Against Hillary

Let’s crystallize what the media is attempting to do here. Through the revelations of the DNC leaks and the Podesta emails, the American people learned how corrupt the democrats were and how they’ve coopted the media on every level to the point where the major networks are nothing more than state media shills.

Instead of addressing and trying to correct their ill behavior, they’re doubling down on it by blaming the whistleblower and then fomenting hatred against Russia — by accusing them of interfering in our elections because of Putin’s personal ‘vendetta’ against Clinton. It’s equal to a pedophile being caught with unseemly material on his computer and then getting mad at the police for finding it.

Bottom line, democrats, you’re still pedophiles. I meant that anecdotally of course (no Pizzagate).

Here we are, once again, bearing witness to the democrats trying to overturn a democratically elected President and attempting to start World War 3 with a country who has nearly 8,000 ICBMs in their arsenal, using unnamed sources, and zero evidence to do so.

By simply stating ‘the Russians did it, obviously’, isn’t enough evidence to overturn American elections and certainly not grounds for a war that would cost the lives of millions.

Are these people insane?

This from NBC.

U.S. intelligence officials now believe with “a high level of confidence” that Russian President Vladimir Putin became personally involved in the covert Russian campaign to interfere in the U.S. presidential election, senior U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News.

Two senior officials with direct access to the information say new intelligence shows that Putin personally directed how hacked material from Democrats was leaked and otherwise used. The intelligence came from diplomatic sources and spies working for U.S. allies, the officials said.

Putin’s objectives were multifaceted, a high-level intelligence source told NBC News. What began as a “vendetta” against Hillary Clinton morphed into an effort to show corruption in American politics and to “split off key American allies by creating the image that [other countries] couldn’t depend on the U.S. to be a credible global leader anymore,” the official said.

Ultimately, the CIA has assessed, the Russian government wanted to elect Donald Trump. The FBI and other agencies don’t fully endorse that view, but few officials would dispute that the Russian operation was intended to harm Clinton’s candidacy by leaking embarrassing emails about Democrats.

The latest intelligence said to show Putin’s involvement goes much further than the information the U.S. was relying on in October, when all 17 intelligence agencies signed onto a statement attributing the Democratic National Committee hack to Russia.

The statement said officials believed that “only Russia’s senior-most officials could have authorized these activities.” That was an intelligence judgment based on an understanding of the Russian system of government, which Putin controls with absolute authority.

Now the U.S has solid information tying Putin to the operation, the intelligence officials say. Their use of the term “high confidence” implies that the intelligence is nearly incontrovertible.

“It is most certainly consistent with the Putin that I have watched and used to work with when I was an ambassador and in the government,” said Michael McFaul, who was ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014.

“He has had a vendetta against Hillary Clinton, that has been known for a long time because of what she said about his elections back in the parliamentary elections of 2011. He wants to discredit American democracy and make us weaker in terms of leading the liberal democratic order. And most certainly he likes President-elect Trump’s views on Russia,” McFaul added. Clinton cast doubt on the integrity of Russia’s elections.

As part of contingency planning for potential retaliation against Russia, according to officials, U.S. intelligence agencies have stepped up their probing into his personal financial empire.

2016-12-14