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WASHINGTON President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia is most likely continuing to approve and direct interference operations aimed at raising President Trumps re-election chances, a recent C.I.A. analysis concluded, a signal that intelligence agencies continue to back their assessment of Russian activities despite the presidents attacks.
The assessment was disseminated in support of sanctions imposed this month on Andriy Derkach, a pro-Russian Ukrainian lawmaker who has spread information critical of Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. It is consistent with intelligence officials warning to lawmakers in January that Russia was interfering on Mr. Trumps behalf, a briefing that outraged Republicans and eventually helped oust Joseph Maguire from his post as acting director of national intelligence.
The C.I.A. has moderate confidence in its analysis, a lower degree of certainty than its 2016 assessment of Mr. Putins preferences, in part because the intelligence community appears to lack intercepted communications or other direct evidence confirming his direction of Mr. Derkachs efforts. Mr. Putin, a former intelligence agent, is careful not to use electronic devices.
According to people familiar with the matter, the new analysis was published ahead of the sanctions in the C.I.A. Worldwide Intelligence Review, a classified document that circulates to members of Congress and the Trump administration. The Washington Post earlier reported the assessment.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/09/22/us/politics/cia-russian-election-interference.amp.html
The dateline is from September.
"Refusing to concede"
Did this all seem just a little out of the ordinary?
I thought so too.
Now it's official.
The intelligence services know exactly what's going on.
Blue Owl
(50,330 posts)orangecrush
(19,499 posts)Trump's chances of overturning the election are zero.
He is, in my opinion, buying time for Putin.
Blue Owl
(50,330 posts)But I wanna see this bromance ripped open, exposed, and tRump punished to the full extent of the law. No more murky suspicions or useless whisperings. And all who continue to support trump are accessories to treason.
I know I'm dreaming big, but the MAGAts need a cold shower...
barbtries
(28,787 posts)because trump's really scraping the bottom of the barrel when it comes to the home team.
orangecrush
(19,499 posts)Of Putin
bdamomma
(63,814 posts)Vlad's Parkinson's will kick in or Covid will get him.
orangecrush
(19,499 posts)But there is no comparison between him and Trump.
Putin is one of the greatest spymasters who ever lived.
He has to know there will be major blowback from what he has done, and is preparing for it.
Trump is buying him time.
That time will soon run out, and it will be seriously on
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Im sure they float these things to chill people out.
Klaralven
(7,510 posts)Russian disinformation operations have an effect on the US public similar to when you use a laser pointer to play with the cat.
orangecrush
(19,499 posts)58Sunliner
(4,379 posts)Disinformation is just the tip of the iceberg.
crickets
(25,959 posts)point all the lasers in the same direction, and it doesn't look like a game anymore.
Cha
(297,032 posts)did Poot go wrong?
orangecrush
(19,499 posts)A battle has been, and is being fought hidden from view.
Pure conjecture on my part.
Cha
(297,032 posts)November 3rd? Poot must have been Shocked that Biden was allowed so many Millions of Votes.. Almost 80 Million & Counting!
orangecrush
(19,499 posts)Is my sincere hope.
Cha
(297,032 posts)I've been getting at.. lol
orangecrush
(19,499 posts)Cha
(297,032 posts)I'll have to read more when I get back.
I really like that we have a CIA & FBI that are mostly doing their jobs.
It will also be interesting to see what Biden does with his hirings at those intelligent institutions.
orangecrush
(19,499 posts)triron
(21,993 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)But I s'pose we all of us sometimes entertain ourselves with conjecture.
orangecrush
(19,499 posts)dalton99a
(81,426 posts)triron
(21,993 posts)orangecrush
(19,499 posts)Botany
(70,483 posts)n/t
uponit7771
(90,329 posts)... to be be able to do that for instance.
I bet its close like that in other states where the turnout in Red counties is damn near 90%
JDC
(10,122 posts)Can be brought up on new charges after Trump is out on his ass, hopefully.
seta1950
(932 posts)A two bit actor thinks he can interfere in this country without consequences 😤😤😤
Vivienne235729
(3,381 posts)orangecrush
(19,499 posts)Trump would have "won" by a "landslide".