December 12, 2016

Monday, December 12 – Hour 1 Podcast

Secret CIA assessment says Russia was trying to help Trump win White House – The Washington Post

For example, intelligence agencies do not have specific intelligence showing officials in the Kremlin “directing” the identified individuals to pass the Democratic emails to WikiLeaks, a second senior U.S. official said. Those actors, according to the official,

11 paragraphs down. Average person only reads the headline, and 3-5 paragraphs of an article. This is called burying the lead.

Wikileaks Keeps Saying Leaker Was Not Russian – Liberal Media Keeps Ignoring Them

Assange: The Clinton camp has been able to project a neo-McCarthyist hysteria that Russia is responsible for everything. Hillary Clinton has stated multiple times, falsely, that 17 US intelligence agencies had assessed that Russia was the source of our publications. That’s false – we can say that the Russian government is not the source,” Assange told the veteran Australian broadcaster as part of a 25-minute John Pilger Special, courtesy of Dartmouth Films.

Wikileaks Keeps Saying Leaker Was Not Russian – Liberal Media Keeps Ignoring Them

Former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray, who is a close associate of Julian Assange, said he has met the DNC leaker and he’s not Russian.

Report: FBI less certain about the purpose of Russia’s hacking « Hot Air

And over at New York magazine, Jonathan Chait wrote, “Friday, the Washington Post reported that the CIA had concluded well before November that Russia specifically sought to elect Trump.” But there doesn’t seem to be any support for that claim in the initial Post story and the follow-up story says that is not the case:

FLASHBACK: Site connected to Russian hackers posts Republican emails | TheHill

A website tied to the hacking scandal of the Democratic Party has now posted a small batch of leaked emails from Republican campaigns and state GOP staffers.

Bah! Humbug! ACLU Sues Over Christmas Tree Cross — Todd Starnes

The ACLU filed a federal lawsuit against the town on behalf of Joseph Tomkins,  a resident who said the image of the lighted cross has caused him “irreparable harm.”

 

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