And IIRC, the Intelligence Community Assessment stated the following:

Quote:Key Judgments
Russian efforts to influence the 2016 US presidential election represent the most recent expression of Moscow’s longstanding desire to undermine the US-led liberal democratic order, but these activities demonstrated a significant escalation in directness, level of activity, and scope of effort compared to previous operations.

We assess Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the US presidential election. Russia’s goals were to undermine public faith in the US democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency. We further assess Putin and the Russian Government developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump. We have high confidence in these judgments.

We also assess Putin and the Russian Government aspired to help President-elect Trump’s election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton and publicly contrasting her unfavorably to him. All three agencies agree with this judgment. CIA and FBI have high confidence in this judgment; NSA has moderate confidence.

https://www.lawfareblog.com/odni-release...-elections

Quote:The Committee found the ICA presents a coherent and well-constructed intelligence basis for the case of unprecedented Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. On the analytic lines of the ICA, the Committee concludes that all analytic lines are supported with all-source intelligence, although with varying substantiation.

The Committee did not discover any significant analytic tradecraft issues in the preparation or final presentation of the ICA.

REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE UNITED STATES SENATE ON RUSSIAN ACTIVE MEASURES CAMPAIGNS AND INTERFERENCE IN THE 2016 U.S. ELECTION

Dude, have you not kept up with the release of the classified material? We know exactly what happened.

by the way, buckle up, some initial indictments should be coming this week. Which is why the timing of this stinks. IN fact, i can almost guarantee some indictments start happening almost immediately bcause they are putting this out at this very moment.

And Burr should have already resigned.

Wait, you mean the committee chaired by Adam Schifforbrains concluded this? Shocking.

This appears to based completely on information obtained in a report prepared by James Clapper at the direct instruction of president Obama. Since Clapper has now been found to have violated the law by lying to a FISA court by hiding all exculpatory information both from the court and apparently the Senate (via his report)---any findings based on such a report would be as erroneous as the original Clapper report. This entire sordid story of illegal and improper political use of intelligence assets is not complete yet. Charges will soon be filed.

Burrs a lackey and his sidekick Frankenlurch is a borderline moron who got lucky and cashed in on an emerging technology called cellphones.

They both seemed to go into this with predetermined outcomes they were looking to find. Course, they mostly came up with zippo cause they were looking in Allllllll the wrong places.

Neither of those two chums should be in a leadership position of any sort. Maybe a t-ball or swim coach.

Maybe

I’ll play the devil’s advocate here. So what if they did? The Russians have tried to influence every election since WWII. Let’s see who the Ruuskies and the Red Chinese support in this election. I bet it’s the same side Silicon Valley and Hollywood support. So maybe we should investigate Facebook, Twitter etl and send them to prison for ‘collusion’.

(04-21-2020 12:47 PM)banker Wrote:  Wait, you mean the committee chaired by Adam Schifforbrains concluded this? Shocking.

Looks like you need to get out of the house. And perhaps into the Senate?

(04-21-2020 01:52 PM)SoMs Eagle Wrote:  I’ll play the devil’s advocate here. So what if they did? The Russians have tried to influence every election since WWII.

Right...the whole thing is quite ludicrous for the right-wing to get their panties into a wad about and decry deep state and the like.

Especially since no coordination with trump has been brought to light.

Strange hill to want to die on.

(04-21-2020 12:43 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  Dude, have you not kept up with the release of the classified material? We know exactly what happened.

Even Mueller knew what happened and admitted it in his report. The Russians backed Trump, Sanders and Clinton and tried to divide the country and undermine faith in the system.

Trying reading his report instead of the NYTimes distortions of it.

(04-21-2020 12:45 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  by the way, buckle up, some initial indictments should be coming this week. Which is why the timing of this stinks. IN fact, i can almost guarantee some indictments start happening almost immediately bcause they are putting this out at this very moment.

And Burr should have already resigned.

He's at risk of indictment on insider trading.

(04-21-2020 02:02 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(04-21-2020 12:43 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  Dude, have you not kept up with the release of the classified material? We know exactly what happened.

Even Mueller knew what happened and admitted it in his report. The Russians backed Trump, Sanders and Clinton and tried to divide the country and undermine faith in the system.

Trying reading his report instead of the NYTimes distortions of it.

Correct, but with the redactions this week, we now know that the *F A K E D O S S I E R* had info primarily created by Russian intelligence officials who fed it to Steele. And we know that the Obama FBI/DOJ knew this prior to getting the FISA warrants.

Yawn...

(04-21-2020 02:05 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  

(04-21-2020 02:02 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(04-21-2020 12:43 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  Dude, have you not kept up with the release of the classified material? We know exactly what happened.

Even Mueller knew what happened and admitted it in his report. The Russians backed Trump, Sanders and Clinton and tried to divide the country and undermine faith in the system.

Trying reading his report instead of the NYTimes distortions of it.

Correct, but with the redactions this week, we now know that the *F A K E D O S S I E R* had info primarily created by Russian intelligence officials who fed it to Steele. And we know that the Obama FBI/DOJ knew this prior to getting the FISA warrants.

I'm clueless why this is surprising....I'll leave this as a reminder...

Edit: fk my phone phone

So, how is this different than what the Russians, and many other nations have been doing since forever? I mean, the KGB, or whatever it's called now, wasn't formed in 2016.

(04-21-2020 02:05 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  

(04-21-2020 02:02 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(04-21-2020 12:43 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  Dude, have you not kept up with the release of the classified material? We know exactly what happened.

Even Mueller knew what happened and admitted it in his report. The Russians backed Trump, Sanders and Clinton and tried to divide the country and undermine faith in the system.

Trying reading his report instead of the NYTimes distortions of it.

Correct, but with the redactions this week, we now know that the *F A K E D O S S I E R* had info primarily created by Russian intelligence officials who fed it to Steele. And we know that the Obama FBI/DOJ knew this prior to getting the FISA warrants.

We know that the Obama DOJ/FBI/CIA willingly worked with the Russians-and even PAID them-to disrupt Trump's campaign .

Low iq post op. Sad. Bigly.

How is this new? This has been the talking point of democrats since 2017.

Also breaking, no votes were directly effected by Russia. Move on

Send Russia a thank you note.

https://thefederalist.com/2020/04/20/7-d...-releases/
"...1. The FBI Always Intended to Spy on the Trump Campaign...
2. FBI Failed to Brief Trump About Its Page Suspicions...
3. The FBI Spied on the Trump Administration...
4. Rep. Adam Schiff Is a Rotten, No-Good, Two-Faced Liar
The latest declassifications also expose—yet again—that Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) lied about everything in his “response memo” to Rep. Devin Nunes’s (R-Calif.) memo on FISA abuse. ...
5. FBI Relied Solely on Fake News to Support Portions of the FISA Applications...
6. The Special Counsel Pushed Pathetic Intel Too...
7. Oh, the Sweet Irony
The final take-away from the newly declassified portion of the FISA applications reveals just how tone-deaf and oblivious the FBI agents involved in Crossfire Hurricane were. In the final application, the FBI “notes that Pages continues to be active in meeting with media outlets . . . to refute claims of his involvement with Russian Government efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. Presidential election.”

“This approach is important,” the FBI posits, “because, from the Russian Government’s point-of-view, it continues to keep the controversy of the election in front of the American and world media, which has the effect of undermining the integrity of the U.S. electoral process and weakening the effectiveness of the current U.S. Administration” (emphasis added).

As the kids would say, “I can’t even.”"