Tump encouraged CIA director to meet with author disputed story about DNC emails
3 posters
Page 1 of 1
Tump encouraged CIA director to meet with author disputed story about DNC emails
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.
It is highly unorthodox for the CIA director to reach out to someone like Binney, a 74-year-old ex-government employee who rose to prominence as an NSA whistleblower wrongfully persecuted by the government, for help with fact-finding related to the theft of the DNC emails. It is particularly stunning that Pompeo would meet with Binney at Trump’s apparent urging, in what could be seen as an effort to discredit the U.S. intelligence community’s own assessment that an alleged Russian hack of the DNC servers was part of an effort to help Trump win the presidency.
It is possible Trump learned about Binney and his analysis by watching Fox News, where Binney has been a frequent guest, appearing at least 10 times since September 2016. In August, Binney appeared on Tucker Carlson’s Fox show to discuss his assessment that the narrative of Russia hacking the DNC during the 2016 campaign is untrue, stating that “many people are emotionally tied to this agenda, to tie the Russians to President Trump.” Binney said he is not sure how Trump found out about his analysis.
Binney’s claim that the email theft was committed by an insider at the DNC also helps fuel one of the more bizarre conspiracy theories that has gained traction on the right: that the murder of a young DNC staffer last year was somehow connected to the data theft. Binney said he mentioned the case of Seth Rich to Pompeo during their meeting.
The meeting raises questions about Pompeo’s willingness to act as an honest broker between the intelligence community and the White House, and his apparent refusal to push back against efforts by the president to bend the intelligence process to suit his political purposes. Instead of acting as a filter between Trump and the intelligence community, Pompeo’s decision to meet with Binney raises the possibility that right-wing theories aired on Fox News and in other conservative media can now move not just from conservative pundits to Trump, but also from Trump to Pompeo and into the bloodstream of the intelligence community.
https://theintercept.com/2017/11/07/dnc-hack-trump-cia-director-william-binney-nsa/
Turtleneck- Geronte
- Posts : 42500
Join date : 2014-04-22
Re: Tump encouraged CIA director to meet with author disputed story about DNC emails
Not shocked by this at all. I've heard a couple of comments from former staffers at Langley who said morale at the CIA is in the shitter because of how political the director runs things.
tGreenWay- Geronte
- Swill Pick 'em 2022 Regular Season Champion
- Posts : 55791
Join date : 2014-04-18
Location : East Lansing
Re: Tump encouraged CIA director to meet with author disputed story about DNC emails
Fake News
No reasonable person would believe it
No reasonable person would believe it
GRR Spartan- Geronte
- Posts : 10560
Join date : 2014-04-25
Similar topics
» Democrat hypocrisy! LOL We should be more angry about who hacked the emails than what the emails say.
» So I see where gov scott wants FBI Director to resign...
» For All Of You Whining About Hillary's Emails Regarding the Bernie Campaign..
» So, I now get emails from 247 with MSU news and bolts
» Ivanka Clinton sent private server emails.
» So I see where gov scott wants FBI Director to resign...
» For All Of You Whining About Hillary's Emails Regarding the Bernie Campaign..
» So, I now get emails from 247 with MSU news and bolts
» Ivanka Clinton sent private server emails.
Page 1 of 1
Permissions in this forum:
You cannot reply to topics in this forum