Outgoing Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told the Senate Armed Services Committee the campaign to sway the election in favor of Donald Trump did, in fact, involve Russian government-coordinated hacks, but,
‘Hacking was only part of it. It also entailed classical propaganda, disinformation, and fake news.’
This heavy-handed and ‘multifaceted Russian campaign’ attempted to undermine the United States, Clapper asserted, and – although these Russian hackers did not manage to infiltrate any voting machines or tamper with the vote count – there would be no way for the U. S. Intelligence Community to assess the total impact on the election. Stopping a hair’s breadth from calling this campaign an act of war, Clapper posited,
‘Whether or not that constitutes an act of war. I think, is a very heavy policy call that I don’t think the intelligence community should make’ – and then added, ‘It certainly – would carry, in my view, great gravity.’
This post was published at The Daily Sheeple on JANUARY 6, 2017.
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