Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Obama intel chiefs gave Russia a pass, and now blame

Long before the 2016 election, when Donald Trump was a mere private citizen, Russia was engaged in widespread cyber-aggression against the United States.

Why? Because the Obama administration was obsessed with protecting its bigger agenda: namely, closing and implementing the Iran nuclear deal and trying to save their collapsed Russian "Reset." Calling Russia on its malign cyber activity would have imperiled both initiatives, so Obama and his intel team apparently chose to ignore it, even as it escalated.

According to Rep. Louie Gohmert, an intelligence community forensic examination showed "Embedded information" that a "Foreign entity that was not Russia was getting every single one of her 30,000 emails." Gohmert suggests that this was known by top intel officials, including Peter Strzok, then head of FBI counterintelligence who also served as a lead investigator in the Clinton server investigation.

Brennan, Clapper, Comey and Strzok gave Clinton a pass when they knew her server had likely been compromised, partly because they also needed to protect Obama and anyone else who knowingly communicated with her over that unauthorized system.

As Russia ramped up its cyber espionage, the Obama team refused to say or do anything to address it until its first public statement in October 2016.

While Russia incessantly used advanced cyber weapons against us and launched ground wars against its neighbors, and while the secretary of State and Democratic presidential candidate left state secrets wide open, Obama and his intel chiefs buried the rising threats.

This is why those intel chiefs have no problem using the most extreme rhetoric against the sitting president for simply engaging in normal diplomatic relations with Russia; they must keep up their disinformation campaign against Trump to cover up their own misdeeds and blame-shift for their catastrophic policy failures and loss of a presidential election.

http://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/398299-obama-intel-chiefs-gave-russia-a-pass-and-now-blame-donald-trump 

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