CIA Director Mike Pompeo met late last month with a former U.S. intelligence official who has become an advocate for a disputed theory that the theft of the Democratic National Committee’s emails during the 2016 presidential campaign was an inside job, rather than a hack by Russian intelligence.
Pompeo met on October 24 with William Binney, a former National Security Agency official-turned-whistleblower who co-authored an analysis published by a group of former intelligence officials that challenges the U.S. intelligence community’s official assessment that Russian intelligence was behind last year’s theft of data from DNC computers. Binney and the other former officials argue that the DNC data was “leaked,” not hacked, “by a person with physical access” to the DNC’s computer system.
In an interview with The Intercept, Binney said Pompeo told him that President Donald Trump had urged the CIA director to meet with Binney to discuss his assessment that the DNC data theft was an inside job. During their hour-long meeting at CIA headquarters, Pompeo said Trump told him that if Pompeo “want[ed] to know the facts, he should talk to me,” Binney said.
So if you are wondering if this is about that old debunked story about the murder of Seth Rich by Hillary Clinton (Which is referenced below.), yes it most certainly is.
This Binney guy is a frequent guest on Info Wars with Alex Jones and just about any fringe conspiracy focused radio show or blog that will have him.
He has some impressive credentials so people often take him seriously, but the majority of the charges he makes remain unsubstantiated.
This particular conspiracy theory has been debunked by essentially every intelligence agency in the country, including the CIA by the way, so the very fact that Pompeo talked to this guy speaks to Trump's desperation to get Robert Mueller and the other investigators off his back.
This of course is another reason why I was so frustrated with Donna Brazile, because her mentions of Seth Rich in her book only pour more gasoline on the dying embers of the "DNC hack was an inside job" conspiracy theory.
Two Democratic victories in one day.
ReplyDeleteLooks like Brazile failed to sabotage her party, at least for right now.
PLEASE let Christie be gone, and YAY Virginia!
Deletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/thanks-for-the-memories-watch-msnbcs-hilarious-supercut-of-chris-christies-greatest-hits/
Deletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/vast-majority-of-voters-in-virginia-and-new-jersey-said-they-cast-their-ballots-to-show-opposition-to-trump/
I think he was term limited. But true to T.Rumpian form, Christie remained an asshole to the end: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/testy-nj-gov-chris-christie-argues-voter-polling/story?id=50987973
DeleteShe doesn't have to. Perez is doing just fine on his own.
DeleteAnd then we have this: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-page/former-trump-adviser-page-met-russian-officials-in-2016-moscow-trips-idUSKBN1D70CR
ReplyDeleteOoops, meant then we have this: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-prosecutor/senator-seeks-explanation-for-career-u-s-prosecutors-abrupt-resignation-idUSKBN1D735P
ReplyDelete"Boente will step down as head of the National Security Division once Trump’s nominee John Demers is confirmed by the Senate. After that, Boente will continue as head of the Eastern District in Alexandria, Virginia, until he is replaced."
DeleteTrump foiled in effort to visit Korean DMZ
ReplyDeletehttps://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/11/07/trump-foiled-effort-visit-korean-dmz/841674001/
""He's actually pretty frustrated," Trump spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said after the secret trip was scrubbed, adding that a DMZ visit was "something the president wanted to do.""
DeleteThe Fog of War...
Yeah fog!! Wonder if Seoul is experiencing more fog because of climate change? If yes, it's just Mother Nature's way of giving the fat fog finger to T.Rump.
DeleteYES, THIS WAS TO BE AN IMPORTANT photo op. Yuge disappointment. Only Mother Nature would do this timing to Trump, you know she is mad. The United States is now the only country on Earth that's declined to be a part of the Paris climate agreement.
DeleteDamn. And he would have been in easy bombing distance of Kim Jong Un.
DeleteRussia:Your NEVER getting the $$$
ReplyDeleteAmerica: Your losing the $$$
My fantasy: World to dotard, “you want to come visit? Stay the FUCK home!” Such a dump, that White House, eh donnie.
ReplyDeleteWhen Stephen Harper was PM of Canada he was so universally disliked that he was never invited to a single state dinner.
DeleteDid you read the WHOLE BOOK? Or are you only reading those parts that some news organization has released to support their own editorial opinions?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donna-brazile-hacks_us_5a0200fde4b06ff32c93e3a7?section=us_politics
"Donna Brazile’s new book is called “Hacks” and is billed as the “inside story of the break-ins and breakdowns that put Donald Trump in the White House.” The former interim chair of the Democratic National Committee said the whole reason she wrote the book was to draw more attention to the Russian hacking of the organization.
But so far, no one is really talking about those parts of her book. And that is frustrating her.
“You probably skipped that whole part ― the part that was the hardest for me to write was the Hacker House,” she said, referring to a chapter about the cybersecurity task force she recruited to address the DNC hacking."
"“I know,” she said, when HuffPost pointed that out. “They went to chapter 10 when they should’ve started on chapter 11. I had no control over that.”"
"In an interview with ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday, Brazile shot back against her critics: “If I released it next year, they would say, Donna, you’re impacting our 2018 [prospects]. ... For those who are telling me to shut up, they told Hillary that a couple of months ago. You know what I tell them, go to hell. I’m going to tell my story.”
“What seems to be lost in talking about my book is the fact that the Democratic National Committee was the victim of a crime,” Brazile concluded in her interview. “And all throughout last year when I was out there trying to warn everybody, trying to say as much as I could say, nobody believed us. Even in doing interviews over the last 24 hours, I’m still sad that nobody still believes that the hacking that took place was serious.”"
I think the bootlickers are still looking to pin Hillary's loss anywhere but where it belongs.
BTW Democrats seem to have won in Virginia DESPITE the Democratic Party rather than because of it.
http://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/government-politics/after-pledging-an-aggressive-race-against-gop-del-jackson-miller/article_dfd7783b-de44-557e-82c7-b6bc439656f1.html
"With the Democratic Party focusing efforts on other races, Carter gets canvassing help from groups including the Democratic Socialists of America, Indivisible NovaWest and Let America Vote."
Because he's not getting support from his own party. It's happened over and over and over.
Read the book? You're hilarious, of course none of these whiners read even one page of the book.
DeleteWell, Now that Brazile has been totally trashed and discredited, no one will read ch. 11 of HACKED! Because that's what the book is about, the HACK of the DNC.
ReplyDeleteMan, Putin must be giggling. Stupid Americans fall for it every time.
If the book was about hacking,why was it chap 11 and not chap?
DeleteSaw her on the View,still don't like her,she allowed MEgan to say Hillary got opposition info from Russians!
If everything in based on popularity then you shouldn't have a problem with Hillary losing since a lot of people didn't like her. (But they voted for her anyway.)
DeleteI haven't read the book but my guess is that she felt the need to establish a ground and provide context for the Hack and it's results. Otherwise it wouldn't make much sense.
The CIA reportedly suspects its director could try to shield Trump from the Russia probe
ReplyDeletehttp://www.businessinsider.com/cia-director-mike-pompeo-trump-2017-8