February 11, 2018: Of Course - Russia Interfered in the Last Election

 

2/11/18: In Congressional testimony, the heads of six U.S. intelligence agencies assure lawmakers that the Russians meddled in the last election. 

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“Frankly, the United States is under attack.” 

Dan Coats, Director of National Intelligence

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Dan Coats, head of National Intelligence, is emphatic. Of course, the Russian interfered! He warns they’ll try again. “There should be no doubt that Russia perceives that its past efforts have been successful and views the 2018 midterm U.S. elections as a potential target for Russian influence operations. Frankly, the United States is under attack.” 

Committee members ask F.B.I. Director Wray, one of the witnesses, about recent White House explanations for the delay in firing Rob Porter (see: 2/9/18). Trump officials have been claiming they could not act because Porter’s background check was incomplete. Wray says the Agency completed a preliminary check last March. They submitted a full report last July. Someone working for the president asked for follow-up info in November 2017. This was supplied. 

Porter kept working at the White House. 

Porter continued to handle highly-classified material despite lacking the requisite security clearance. 

When the story broke (the free press doing what the free press does best) everyone working in the White House appeared baffled. 

Press Secretary Pinocchio Sanders insisted top officials did the best they could, knowing what they knew. “The process for the background was ongoing,” she told reporters, “and the White House had not received any specific papers regarding the completion of that background check.”  The whole truth, Pinocchio said, only came out a few hours before Porter was fired.

Rob Porter's ex-wife.

 

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WHITE HOUSE speech writer David Sorensen also gets canned after his ex-wife accuses him of domestic abuse. On this bleak day for Trump & Co., she appears on TV to make clear she had no wish to speak publicly. But she had to make her case. Her husband had thrown her into walls. He put a lighted cigarette out on the back of her hand. He drove over her foot with a car. 

Drain that swamp!