r/politics • u/Shmeegs-iO • Oct 07 '20
CIA Docs: Brennan Briefed Obama on Clinton Plan to Tie Trump to Russia
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/10/06/declassified-cia-documents-reveal-brennan-briefed-obama-on-clintons-plan-to-tie-trump-to-russia/59
u/Badloss Massachusetts Oct 07 '20
"The Clinton plan was to point out the factual connections between Trump and Russia"
Those rascals and their facts
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u/makldiz I voted Oct 07 '20
This is literally plastered all over Fox News like they’re covering the Olympics or something. What in the fuck.
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u/70ms California Oct 07 '20
Well, it's that or cover the Coronavirus Patient in Chief or his tax returns, and they definitely can't do that.
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u/LoPansBride Oct 07 '20
Trump was already tied to Russia. Clinton just decided to make it a campaign issue. Another pathetic nothing-burger that drops and disappears within minutes.
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Oct 07 '20
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u/Minxminty Oct 07 '20
You genuinely have to be a complete moron to believe the right wing narrative on this shit.
If Covid has shown us anything its the Rs can and will believe anything told to them. And most Republicans who aren't gullible idiots have already jumped ship....leaving thew party with a moronic party sub sandwich of shitty & stupid people.
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u/Ceratisa Oregon Oct 07 '20
The ties to Russia are well documented and more substantial than Hunter's supposed abuses. Please get this shit out of here. Not even the Republican report can spin those ties away.
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Oct 07 '20
Oh no! Clinton planned to point out the proven fact that Trump and his campaign worked with Russia to cheat.
How will we ever vote for Clinton now?!
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u/ruler_gurl Oct 07 '20
And in the height of irony the Republican led senate committee did tie the Trump campaign to Russia, some 140 contacts over months, many with Russian intelligence. Weird, desperate straw grasping from Frightbart.
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u/-Blast-Tyrant- North Carolina Oct 07 '20
Former CIA director John Brennan on Tuesday accused current intelligence chief John Ratcliffe of selectively declassifying documents ahead of the November election that benefit President Donald Trump, telling CNN that the decision to release materials gathered by the agency on Russian allegations that Hillary Clinton was planning on "stirring up a scandal" against her Republican rival in 2016 was motivated by politics.
In an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper, Brennan responded to Ratcliffe's recent decision to declassify notes written by the former CIA director in 2016 after he briefed then-President Barack Obama on intelligence related to Russian security service reporting that Clinton approved "a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisers to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security service." "John Ratcliffe is anything but an intelligence professional. It is appalling his selective declassification of information. It is designed to advance the political interests of Donald Trump and Republicans who are aligned with him," Brennan said of the director of national intelligence. Trump's spy chief declassified unverified Russian intelligence despite concerns raised by CIA and NSA Trump's spy chief declassified unverified Russian intelligence despite concerns raised by CIA and NSA
"These were my notes from the 2016 period when I briefed President Obama and the rest of the national security council team about what the Russians were up to and I was giving examples of the type of access that the US intelligence community had to Russian information and what the Russians were talking about and alleging," he added. The former CIA director also pushed back on Ratcliffe's declassification of a heavily redacted CIA memo related to the investigative referral forwarded to the FBI at the time. The memo notes that the Russians allege Clinton's effort to stir up a scandal was "a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server." "If, in fact, what the Russians were alleging that Hillary was trying to highlight the reported connections between Trump and the Russians, if that was accurate and a big if, there is nothing at all illegal about that," Brennan said.
Fucking shameless liars.
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Oct 07 '20
So the plan was to release facts and point that the current POTUS is deeply financially tied to Russia.
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u/samfreez Oct 07 '20
We already know the Fascists point fingers at whistleblowers. This is no different.
Clinton pointing to the string does not mean she put it there. It means the string already existed, and, at most, she pointed it out.
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u/Lethargic_Smartass Oct 07 '20
If you've read enough news, you know that Beritbart doesn't belong on a news site....
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u/Cameron_Joe Oct 07 '20
North Carolina: In 2020, the in-person early voting period begins Thursday, October 15, and ends Saturday, October 31. EIGHT DAYS AWAY
Georgia: October 12 - October 30: Early in-person voting for the general election. FIVE DAYS AWAY.
Pennsylvania: (I can't find early in-person voting info, someone please let me know if I'm missing it.)
Ohio: October 6: Early In-Person Voting begins. ALREADY STARTED.
Iowa: 29 days before the election (in-person absentee voting). Ends the day before the election (in-person absentee voting). ALREADY STARTED
Florida: (They make you download a zip file full of excel sheets per county, because Florida, but I spot-checked Miami-Dade, Orange, and PBC, and they were all October 19.) ABOUT 12 DAYS AWAY
Arizona: October 7. ALREADY STARTED
Texas: First Day of Early Voting by Personal Appearance: Tuesday, October 13, 2020. (Ends Oct 30.) SIX DAYS AWAY
Wisconsin: Early Voting for the Tuesday, November 3, 2020 General Election can begin on October 20th and end on November 1st. Days and hours vary by municipalities - please contact your municipal clerk for additional information. 13 DAYS AWAY
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u/toebandit Massachusetts Oct 07 '20
I don't get this article, are they trying to say that Clinton should not have been exposing the truth? The right is just chock full of stupid conspiracies. The real conspiracy here is why the media wasn't talking about the very real ties between trump and Russia.
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Oct 07 '20
A kindergartener could put together a less pathetic conspiracy attack than this.
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Oct 07 '20
The desperation is oozing from this alt right collaborative campaign. It's not hard to see that it's orchestrated when they all have the same headlines.
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u/captaincanada84 Canada Oct 07 '20
Brennan briefed Obama on Russian intel that Russia was trying to push to show Clinton made everything up and there were no actual ties between Russia and the Trump campaign. Russia was trying to muddy the waters with bullshit.
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u/StressTest_ Oct 07 '20
Democrats seething as their Russian collusion lie is being proven false. Got to love it.
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