Trump Set To Receive “Intelligence” Briefing On “Russian Hacking”
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Jan 6, 2017
After some early confusion on timing, Trump is finally set to receive his “intelligence” briefing from the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, CIA Director John Brennan and FBI Director James Comey later this afternoon. The meeting comes just one day after the same three people briefed the Senate’s Armed Services Committee on their “Russian Hacking” discoveries, which actually turned out to be nothing more than a repeat of the numerous allegations leaked to the mainstream media by “anonymous sources” over the past three weeks.
Of course, the meeting took a bizarre twist earlier this week when Trump suggested via Twitter that it had been pushed back to allow more time “to build a case.”
Of course, the entire “Russian hacking” narrative has drawn very serious questions from the start leading many to question whether the intelligence community was on a crusade for the truth or to simply delegitimize President-elect Trump. One question that has been raised repeatedly is why the Obama administration and intelligence community waited until after the election to assert their very procative claims. Meanwhile, new details have emerged in recent days that, after allegedly being attacked by vicious “Russian hackers,” the DNC refused to cooperate with the FBI. Per NBC:
A senior law enforcement official said the FBI repeatedly stressed to DNC officials the importance of obtaining direct access to the servers “only to be rebuffed until well after the initial compromise had been mitigated.” The official said the FBI had to rely on a “third party” for information, but did get access to the material it needed.
The Washington Post, citing anonymous U.S. officials, reported Thursday that intelligence agencies have identified parties who delivered stolen Democratic emails to WikiLeaks. The officials also said there were disparities between efforts to infiltrate Democratic and Republican networks, and said the U.S. intercepted communications in which Russian officials celebrated Trump’s victory. It was not clear which of those details were included in the classified report.
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