WATCH: Atlanta TV reporter dismantles anonymous CIA ‘hack’ report
BY VICTOR SKINNER
TheAmericanMirror.com
DECEMBER 16, 2016
Anonymous CIA insiders convinced national mainstream media outlets that Russian hackers attempted to sway the 2016 presidential election for Donald Trump, but an Atlanta television reporter actually did some reporting and quickly found five solid reasons to question the claim.
Ben Swann conducted a “Reality Check” on the allegations of Russian interference in the election for Atlanta’s CBS affiliate WGCL-TV and came to the conclusion that something shady is going on.
“By now you’ve heard that the CIA is sure that Russia did hack the DNC and John Podesta’s emails with the intent of swaying the election toward Donald Trump,” Swann said.
“But what most media isn’t doing is actually asking for evidence of these claims,” he said. “I’m going to give you five problems with what the CIA is saying.”
The first problem revolves around how the information about the alleged hacking was released.
“The CIA did not officially release this information, rather anonymous sources inside the CIA leaked this conclusion to The Washington Post on Friday, and then another anonymous source leaked the same conclusion to the New York Times,” Swann said.
He quoted the Post’s claim that a “secret assessment” into the Democratic National Committee and chairman John Podesta’s emails conducted by the CIA concluded Russia hacked in with a focus on helping Trump. The Post reported that the CIA believes individuals with ties to the Russian government shared the information with Wikileaks, which posted it online.
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