CIA Provides No Evidence, But Claims 'Consensus View'
The CIA offered no real evidence themselves, simply making some references to unnamed people involved in leaking data to WikiLeaks being somewhat close to the Russian government. WikiLeaks denied Russia was the source of the leaks long ago.
Indeed, that the CIA is not only suddenly involved, but suddenly at the forefront, may well reflect President-elect Trump’s stated policy intentions being far removed from those that the CIA has endorsed, and might be done with an eye toward undermining Trump’s position in those upcoming policy battles.
At the center of those Trump vs. CIA battles is Syria, as the CIA has for years pushed to move away from the ISIS war and toward imposing regime change in Syria. Trump, by contrast, has said he intends to end the CIA-Saudi program arming the Syrian rebels, and focus on fighting ISIS. Trump was even said to be seeking to coordinate anti-ISIS operations with Russia.
The Trump transition team issued a statement mocking the allegations, noting “these are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.” That’s indeed the case, though ominously these same people managed to drive American policy for years on end with those false allegations.
THE WASHINGTON POST late Friday night published an explosive story that, in many ways, is classic American journalism of the worst sort: The key claims are based exclusively on the unverified assertions of anonymous officials, who in turn are disseminating their own claims about what the CIA purportedly believes, all based on evidence that remains completely secret.
These unnamed sources told the Post that “the CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency, rather than just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system.” The anonymous officials also claim that “intelligence agencies have identified individuals with connections to the Russian government who provided WikiLeaks with thousands of hacked emails” from both the DNC and John Podesta’s email account. Critically, none of the actual evidence for these claims is disclosed; indeed, the CIA’s “secret assessment” itself remains concealed.
DYI: The CIA is an agency that is likened to a run away train. Huge budget of around $52 billion per year. With all of that money programs begin with the only reason to garner more money from Congress. Spy on other countries [which we should] when the agency reached it limits lets move on to the next best thing - spy on Americans - without any due process of law. When asked about it - lie before Congress despite being under oath.
This agency needs to be reduced in size of around 75% and placed under tight Congressional control. No guarantee the CIA won't get out of control again but what is required are for Americans to be eternally vigilant.
The only way to be effectively vigilant is by limited government - a small government. When big government becomes the norm waste, fraud, and abuse[spying on Americans] becomes rampant. When government becomes so large not even an army of top notch citizen journalist - an awaken citizens are able to tame the beast.
Surgery is the cure by reducing government significantly to manageable levels.
DYI
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