Key Takeaways From Intelligence Community Testimony On Alleged “Russian Hacking”
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Jan 5, 2017
For those disaffected Hillary snowflakes looking for some level of concrete, tangible evidence from today’s Senate testimony from the “intelligence community” that “Russian Hackers” purposefully colluded with President-elect Trump to steal the 2016 election from Clinton, we have some bad news: your desire for evidence required to start World War III over your candidate’s loss has still not been fulfilled. Better luck next time.
As we suspected, today’s testimony offered up by James Clapper and others of the “intelligence community” to the Senate’s Armed Forces Committee has largely been nothing more than another smear campaign rife with political rhetoric but light on facts and tangible evidence.
With that, here are some of the notable one-liners from the day.
John McCain opened the hearing by noting that the goal of the day was not to “question the outcome of the presidential election” but to gather “facts” about what happened…even though no facts actually followed, but we digress.
“The goal…is not to question the outcome of the presidential election. Nor should it be. As both President Obama and President-elect Trump have said, our nation must move forward. But we must do so with full knowledge of the facts.”
Senator Jack Reed (D-Rhode Island) used his time to call for the creation of a “special select Senate committee” to look further into the “Russian Hacking” narrative since it spills across the jurisdictional divide.
For those disaffected Hillary snowflakes looking for some level of concrete, tangible evidence from today’s Senate testimony from the “intelligence community” that “Russian Hackers” purposefully colluded with President-elect Trump to steal the 2016 election from Clinton, we have some bad news: your desire for evidence required to start World War III over your candidate’s loss has still not been fulfilled. Better luck next time.
As we suspected, today’s testimony offered up by James Clapper and others of the “intelligence community” to the Senate’s Armed Forces Committee has largely been nothing more than another smear campaign rife with political rhetoric but light on facts and tangible evidence.
With that, here are some of the notable one-liners from the day.
John McCain opened the hearing by noting that the goal of the day was not to “question the outcome of the presidential election” but to gather “facts” about what happened…even though no facts actually followed, but we digress.
“The goal…is not to question the outcome of the presidential election. Nor should it be. As both President Obama and President-elect Trump have said, our nation must move forward. But we must do so with full knowledge of the facts.”
Senator Jack Reed (D-Rhode Island) used his time to call for the creation of a “special select Senate committee” to look further into the “Russian Hacking” narrative since it spills across the jurisdictional divide.
Meanwhile, 30 minutes into the hearing, James Clapper told the Senate committee that he had no intention of providing any meaningful new details regarding the “Russian Hacking” narrative but instead intended to just repeat the same useless political rhetoric that has been slowly leaked to the mainstream media over the past several weeks.
“We plan to brief the Congress and release an unclassified version of this report to the public next week with due deference to highly sensitive sources and methods
“We’re not really prepared to discuss this beyond standing by our earlier statements.”
Asked whether Julian Assange was credible, Clapper, who ironically has lost all credibility throughout this process with his rapidly evolving story line, was quick to confirm in the negative.
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