Post by: AngelOfThyNight on January 12, 2017, 07:45:20 PM
President-elect Trump's curious decision to take on the US intelligence community -- a community that will soon report to him -- over its assessment of Russian hacking and disinformation during the 2016 campaign has needlessly muddied the waters about a matter of national and international significance. "[T]here was absolutely no effect," said Trump after receiving a special highly-classified briefing, "on the outcome of the election including the fact that there was no tampering whatsoever with voting machines." But here's the problem: the intelligence community never publicly accused the Russians of tampering with voting machines or that the effort had decided the election. In any case, whether the hacking had any effect on a US domestic election is something that the intelligence community is not in the business of measuring.
Source: Opinion: President Obama can help beat fake news (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~3/uQy6R7HR1XQ/index.html)