War Declared: The Intelligence Community v Trump
by C. Mitchell Shaw
TheNewAmerican.com
Saturday, 14 January 2017
n his press conference Wednesday, President-elect Donald Trump responded to recent attacks against him by the intelligence community by saying that leaking “information that turned out to be so false and fake” was “something that Nazi Germany would have done.” His remarks were in reference to an unsubstantiated “dossier” added to the intelligence community’s report of alleged Russian interference in recent U.S. elections.
But how culpable is the intelligence community in its handling of this dossier? Do intel’s actions rise to the level of “something that Nazi Germany would have done,” as Trump charges? And do those actions include not only fake intel against Trump but also giving him “fake briefings” (more on this below)?
The intelligence community had previously released first one, and then another, report alleging that Russian president Vladimir Putin directed a campaign to influence the U.S. presidential election for the purpose of discrediting Hillary Clinton and assuring Trump’s election. Last week, the intelligence community appended a spurious document purported to be a “dossier” of Trump’s connections with Russia to the most recent of those classified reports. The document — which even Director of National Intelligence James Clapper admitted has not been verified — alleges that Russian agents have compromising information on Trump that could be used to blackmail him, including a litany of freakish sexual misbehaviors supposedly committed by Trump while in Moscow.
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