In break with Trump, top intelligence and homeland security officials affirm Russia's election med
Source: USA Today
Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY Published 5:22 p.m. ET July 20, 2017 | Updated 9:44 a.m. ET July 21, 2017
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ASPEN, Colo. President Trump still won't say whether he believes the Russian government meddled in the presidential election..................................
CIA Director Mike Pompeo, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, and White House Homeland and Counterterrorism adviser Thomas Bossert all said they backed the intelligence community's conclusion that Russia carried out a campaign of cyberattacks and fake news to influence the election in favor of Trump.
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The affirmations came during often animated discussions about the country's cyber vulnerabilities at the annual Aspen Security Forum. One day earlier, Kelly also acknowledged the intelligence community's findings that Putin orchestrated the campaign to hack Democratic political organizations and leak stolen material to websites such as WikiLeaks.
The officials' public remarks, along with previous acknowledgments by top administration officials, appeared to put even more distance between the president and his own top advisers on a critical, and still looming, national security threat.
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Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/07/20/top-homeland-security-officials-break-donald-trump-russia/496400001/
Interesting. Trump's main cabinet members starting to pull their fingers out of the dyke holes. Who will be next???
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Mrs. Overall
(6,839 posts)riversedge
(69,537 posts)bucolic_frolic
(42,478 posts)I don't believe these appointees he made. They know they answer to him and not to America.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)DK504
(3,847 posts)"President Trump still won't say whether he believes the Russian government meddled in the presidential election"
That is an attack, an act of war, this isn't throwing dirt, this was a concentrated effort to wreck democracy. WTF are we going to do with this?
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,053 posts)....even making music videos (!) about it, I'd say they interfered with the election.
https://www.facebook.com/lebedev.tv/posts/1323343767763171?pnref=story
YOHABLO
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