FAKE NEWS EXPOSED: A Service of PoliticalChat.com

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Originally Posted by finnbow

Well whaddya know?

U.S. intelligence officials now believe with "a high level of confidence" that Russian President Vladimir Putin became personally involved in the covert Russian campaign to interfere in the U.S. presidential election, senior U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/...n-hack-n696146

Well, whaddya know? Still no "intelligence officials" on record, still anonymous sources. And still no consensus that anyone was trying to tip the scales for Trump.

Ultimately, the CIA has assessed, the Russian government wanted to elect Donald Trump. The FBI and other agencies don't fully endorse that view, but few officials would dispute that the Russian operation was intended to harm Clinton's candidacy by leaking embarrassing emails about Democrats.

In fact, there's more in your post that aligns with the the idea that, if anything, this was about screwing Hillary:

"It is most certainly consistent with the Putin that I have watched and used to work with when I was an ambassador and in the government," said Michael McFaul, who was ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014.

"Putin's objectives were multifaceted, a high-level intelligence source told NBC News. What began as a "vendetta" against Hillary Clinton morphed into an effort to show corruption in American politics and to "split off key American allies by creating the image that [other countries] couldn't depend on the U.S. to be a credible global leader anymore," the official said.

Thanks for providing additional evidence that the NY Times story was fake news.