I guess you better also clarify your position on these articles, since you have a habit of spouting off things like “I didn’t agree with it I just found it interesting” when posting articles.
I am not the only one to “spout” things in this thread. I’ll quote my two separate posts here together to show relevance to each other. My position was clear. These “russian narrative” issues have a few possible different avenues with regards to where it started and who is known to be involved that haven’t really been discussed.
The odd thing about what you say CatBus, is that it was Obama who changed the Intelligence rules, to allow “better and quicker” communication between numerous Global Intelligence agencies. It was put in to effect before he left office. Obama started tweaking these Intelligence rules as far back as 2011.
Early on, before the election, there were quiet rumblings about our Intelligence community, that didn’t get a lot of press. There seemed to be a narrative that some of our own Intelligence folks knew about Clinton’s “private” server and the pay for play, and that they may have hacked the DNC server to release or “leak” the info to try and get it out there. Since it has been shown that our Intelligence community does have tools to make it look as if others were doing they hacking, it would make a great smoke screen. A digital version of “wag the dog”, if you will. Make it look authentic, make it look like Russia.
IF, the “Russian Narative” investigation were already going on before Trump was sworn in it is probable that the “hacked info” evidence somehow made it to them. Trumps own people may not have even been aware of it and that may have set off or gave “cause” to their “surveillance” of some Trump Campaign team members because they already knew that specific information had been purposely leaked to the Russians because they recognized their own work. It may have then been given to the Democrats to take the advantage away from those that wanted Clinton fried.
President Obama was in support of better ties with Russia but maybe his intentions, our Governments intentions, were duplicitous to a specific agenda.
I was doing some googling on Evelyn Farkas and I found it interesting to learn this.
On a related note, Evelyn Farkas is also a senior fellow at the vehemently anti-Russia Atlantic Council, along with Crowdstrike founder Dimitri Alperovitch. The Atlantic Council is funded by the US State Department, NATO, Latvia, Lithuania, and Ukranian Oligarch Victor Pinchuk.
CrowdStrike, the Irvine, CA company partially funded by Google, was the only entity allowed to analyze the DNC servers in relation to claims of election hacking. Notably, CrowdStrike has recently been discredited – and was forced to retract evidence used in a botched report on Russia hacking Ukranian military equipment.
To sum up:
The White House surveilled the Trump campaign and then leaked information to anti-Trump allies in congress (on “The Hill”).
The Russian hacking claim hinges on a CrowdStrike Report from Dimitri Alperovitch.
Alperovitch was forced to retract statements in a report blaming Russia for hacking Ukrainian military equipment – a failed attempt to smear Putin.
Alperovitch, along with White House Leaker Evelyn Farkas and Ukrainian Oligarch Victor Pinchuk, are all senior fellows on the Atlantic Council – which is vehemently anti-Russia.
(As an aside – Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, sits on the board of a Ukrainian gas company reportedly owned by Pinchuk)
Is it a stretch to suggest that the CrowdStrike report on the DNC hack was fabricated to pin the DNC hack on Russia?
http://www.voanews.com/a/cyber-firm-rewrites-part-disputed-russian-hacking-report/3781411.html
Dmitri Alperovitch
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Cyber Statecraft Initiative
Expertise Topics: Cyber Policy, Cyber Security, US Cyber Policyhttp://www.atlanticcouncil.org/about/experts/list/dmitri-alperovitch
Evelyn Farkas
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Future Europe Initiative, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center, and Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
Expertise Topics: US Defense Policy
Regions: Eurasia, Russiahttp://www.atlanticcouncil.org/about/experts/list/evelyn-farkas
Some related articles …
(As an aside – Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, sits on the board of a Ukrainian gas company reportedly owned by Pinchuk)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/innokenty-kes-grekov/bidens-cash-in-on-ukraine_b_5326687.html
Possessed, does this meet with your approval regarding backing up my spouting?
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