Senate Intel chair: 'No reason' to doubt Russia's election hacks

[Jose Garcia]

Source: Politico

Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr said on Tuesday he has “no reason” to question the U.S. intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia launched a cyber assault on the 2016 presidential election.

Intelligence agencies last week released a report accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin of ordering a digital campaign to interfere with the U.S. election. The operation eventually aimed to help install President-elect Donald Trump in the White House, the report said.

During a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on the subject, Burr said his briefings on the evidence behind the report “give me no reason to doubt the findings contained within the product.”

That said, the North Carolina Republican added that the panel would launch its own bipartisan investigation to assess “the sourcing behind the report.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/russia-election-hack-senate-hearing-233420

[Javaman]

1. in a real democracy we would have a new election but we

live in a cartoon democracy. or as a friend mis-wrote but has now become my favorite way of describing what we have now: a democrazy.

[tenorly]

2. Democrazy: the new normal.

[Botany]

3. and no reason to doubt that the Russians helped Trump to cheat to steal the election.

n/t

[sarcasmo]

4. Putin+Trump+Tillerson 500 billion dollars.

[Skittles]

5. sure there is a reason

that reason is: RUSSIA IS BLACKMAILING YOU