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The former senior CIA officer who helped oversee the 2017 intelligence assessment on Russia’s interference in the 2016 election says Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and the White House are “lying” when they claim that it was an attempt to sabotage President Donald Trump.

Susan Miller, a retired CIA officer who helped lead the team that produced the report about Russia’s actions during the 2016 campaign, told NBC News it was based on credible information that showed Moscow sought to help Trump win the election, but that there was no sign of a conspiracy between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign.

“The director of national intelligence and the White House are lying, again,” Miller said. “We definitely had the intel to show with high probability that the specific goal of the Russians was to get Trump elected.”

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[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to remember hearing that they got the intelligence through a channel they were already monitoring, and Obama decided to sit on it specifically to avoid the appearance of exactly this.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

My recollection was that he tried to get it released in a bipartisan manner and McConnell spiked it

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

They lie broadly for any reason, so I don't see why they wouldn't be lying about this too.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

...you voted these fuckers in...protest or non...

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Shocked face****

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Of course Gabbard is lying. Her lips are moving.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I mean when you have nothing else left in the cannon & have already turned over every piece of furniture in the hotel lobby, what’s wrong with some outright lying?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

It's nice for somebody to finally use the word.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Black did gets elected, next time round GOP says “whatever it takes,” calls Putin.

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