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deminks

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Sat Dec 31, 2016, 08:24 AM Dec 2016

This is forensic! Its indisputable: Former CIA operative slams Trump for dismissing Russian hacks [View all]

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/this-is-forensic-its-indisputable-former-cia-operative-slams-trump-for-dismissing-russian-hacks/

Former CIA operative Bob Baer is shocked that President-elect Donald Trump and his Republican allies are ignoring what he calls “forensic information” and “computer DNA.”

“I think he hacked the elections,” Baer said of Russian President Vladimir Putin. “The FBI came out today and put out a report. This is forensic information. He manipulated our election and now he’s manipulating our politics. The fact they didn’t expel any American diplomats from Moscow and he turns around and says, ‘Trump is just the man we can deal with,’ this is just extraordinary.”

(snip)

“And the fact that Trump has not reacted is incredible,” he continued. “This FBI information is forensic. It is the same sort of evidence they send people to jail on. It is computer DNA. It is indisputable at this point.”

CNN host Kate Bolduan remarked that it was interesting Baer laid out the argument that way because former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani questioned the evidence, claiming it might be political. Giuliani said that Trump will get his own team to look through the intelligence report given the politics or the possibility of the intelligence being wrong.

“It is going to be the same stuff,” Baer explained. “But what Giuliani misses, this isn’t intelligence. This isn’t assessments. This isn’t people trying to get into Putin’s mind. This is forensics. It is DNA. And this is what they are all missing and it is every single intelligence agency in the United States government that this is just a fact.”
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They're ignoring it because they either knew about or were on on it Chasstev365 Dec 2016 #1
Yes! They are guilty of something! Connected to the whole she-bang! Madam45for2923 Dec 2016 #22
The geeks disagree HoneyBadger Dec 2016 #2
hmmm, that's too bad Fast Walker 52 Dec 2016 #7
Yes-- it's always a matter of cui bono ailsagirl Dec 2016 #19
The geeks are either CT peddlers meow2u3 Dec 2016 #8
SOME geeks disagree unc70 Dec 2016 #10
thanks for that perspective... personally, I have no clue how to evaluate this stuff Fast Walker 52 Dec 2016 #23
+1 uponit7771 Dec 2016 #33
Internet geeks vs. the CIA and FBI. hadEnuf Dec 2016 #12
Even the banned geeks disagree HoneyBadger Dec 2016 #17
Definitely queen geek HoneyBadger Dec 2016 #20
link is here Fast Walker 52 Dec 2016 #25
This is when we need Lisbeth Salander. pangaia Dec 2016 #35
This is false on its face, .. that's like saying climate scientist disagree... SOME climate scientis uponit7771 Dec 2016 #32
'scientists' also say climate change is a hoax nini Jan 2017 #39
He should be slamming greenwald, tucker, and taibbi, too.. for enabling Cha Dec 2016 #3
Ugh! Tucker Carlson. So hate that guy. Backpfeifengesicht! smirkymonkey Dec 2016 #9
Tucker wearing a grown-up tie? Must be a photo-shop... Thor_MN Dec 2016 #13
Ugh, Greenwald is on my shit list permanently now Fast Walker 52 Dec 2016 #24
Sure as hell hope the intelligence agencies aren't shackled democratisphere Dec 2016 #4
But.. but.. but.. emails! Amimnoch Dec 2016 #5
IOKIYAR pbrower2a Dec 2016 #18
M$Greedia is calling it malaise Dec 2016 #6
I know, right! Equinox Moon Dec 2016 #14
Has Obama changed his position? Buckeye_Democrat Dec 2016 #11
"the same sort of evidence they send people to jail on." panader0 Dec 2016 #15
a herd of idiots come to Donnie's defense Angry Dragon Dec 2016 #16
"Deplorables" to the rescue! pbrower2a Dec 2016 #21
He basically followed Hitler's playbook! n/t RKP5637 Dec 2016 #26
A herd of millions. FFS, where do we live now. I expect Alex Jones to soon be the lead on Fox News, RKP5637 Dec 2016 #27
Deep breath and have Good start to the New Year Angry Dragon Dec 2016 #28
... RKP5637 Dec 2016 #29
Fucking CNN triron Dec 2016 #30
This link has nothing to do with this hack, but everything to do with the hackers HoneyBadger Dec 2016 #31
See Putin's yooooge party tonight to celebrate putting his lackey Trump in the WH. keithbvadu2 Dec 2016 #34
The Republicans Will Sweep this Under the Rug dlk Dec 2016 #36
Will it do any good to bucolic_frolic Dec 2016 #37
But Trump says it's a 400-pound guy lying in his bed. tclambert Jan 2017 #38
"It's forensics. It's computer DNA." AmericanActivist Jan 2017 #40
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