A study on the Russian campaign. It suggests that the campaign did not influence the election but that people were exposed.
While, on average, respondents were exposed to roughly 4 posts from Russian foreign influence accounts per day in the last month of the election campaign, they were exposed to an average of 106 posts on average per day from national news media and 35 posts per day from US politicians. In other words, respondents were exposed to 25 times more posts from national news media and 9 times as many posts from politicians than those from Russian foreign influence accounts.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35576-9
That article just mentions Butina, we know Butina and Torshin worked to infiltrate conservative groups like the NRA.
My belief is that like Ferguson, the Russians invest in pushing the extremes to sow discord.
@aloha-hoosier my friend. You have been wrong on every aspect wrt to Trump/ Russia. From the mueller report, to cyber influence campaigns, to the Ukraine war, to this most recent release of documents.
Sit this one out if you aren’t willing to educate yourself. If we were back on the Cooler I’d have a list of your old quotes as long as my arm in this post showing just how WRONG you were at every term.
Shut. Up.
LOL! My friend? I'm not your friend. You are completely unable to educate yourself, you revel in your ignorance, but you just don't know you're ignorant. No one is more wrong about anything than you - because you're ignorant, but somehow don't know it. How many times do I have to tell you that I value your opinions on everything less than those of any other poster, and that I respect no one less than you? STFU, asshole. I have no desire whatsoever to converse with you.@aloha-hoosier my friend. You have been wrong on every aspect wrt to Trump/ Russia. From the mueller report, to cyber influence campaigns, to the Ukraine war, to this most recent release of documents.
Sit this one out if you aren’t willing to educate yourself. If we were back on the Cooler I’d have a list of your old quotes as long as my arm in this post showing just how WRONG you were at every term.
Shut. Up.
@aloha-hoosier The house report. That was not finalized until September 2020, was not released immediately due to partisan disagreements on the Democrat led committee and concerns about sources and methods.
Two fairly understandable reasons.
That is the report that sheds more light on just how irregular and without any evidentiary basis the 2017 assessment was.
That’s what was released this week.
All of that could have been evident to you with a modicum of research, not even research, you just had to read the thread.
None of that stopped you. You still went off on some nonsensical tangent about conspiracy theories for the umpteenth time in the post above.
What. Is. Wrong. With. You.
@carramrod You truly are an idiot. Just STFU. I sincerely have no desire to converse with you, pinhead.
Long story short. The Biden administration shelved it. The Democrats don’t have much shame Brad.
But why did the CIA keep it secret from Trump, his CIA chief, etc.?
So it wasn't until the geniuses in the House of Representatives (I hope you detect the sarcasm) shed light on these actions by the intelligence communities that anyone could have figured this out?@aloha-hoosier The house report. That was not finalized until September 2020, was not released immediately due to partisan disagreements on the Democrat led committee and concerns about sources and methods.
Two fairly understandable reasons.
That is the report that sheds more light on just how irregular and without any evidentiary basis the 2017 assessment was.
That’s what was released this week.
All of that could have been evident to you with a modicum of research, not even research, you just had to read the thread.
None of that stopped you. You still went off on some nonsensical tangent about conspiracy theories for the umpteenth time in the post above.
What. Is. Wrong. With. You.
If this was such an irregular occurrence, I don't understand why the career guys at CIA and other intelligence agencies, of which at least a few had to be Repubs I'm assuming, wouldn't have spoken up as soon as Trump got into office. Or at least once all the Russia Gate stuff started hitting the fan.
@squeakyclean I’m sure it was just coincidence that Paul Manafort gave Russia campaign polling data. And that Trump didn’t know anything about it. ( general reply, not just to you)
Was Kilimnik a Russian intel officer? What evidence do you have for that other than it being asserted in the senate report?
Mueller didn’t even go that far.
Kilimnik was a frequent source used by the U.S. embassy in Kyiv. A long serving employee of the International Republican institute. And yes, and aide to Paul Manafort.
The caper? The Senate intel committee never contacted Kilimnik or even attempted to interview him. Why? The U.S. government had a long standing relationship with him.
That’s some real rigorous investigation right there.
But blowhards like you and Aloha come here and repeat the same, non evidence based assertions and you don’t even know what you’re talking about.
I weep for our country.
@bradstevens Gabbard’s findings are littered with intel community sources stating just how irregular it was.
The 2017 ICA was drafted by just five intel officers with large parts of the IC being shut out.
Heavily insulated nonsense.
Heads need to roll.
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THE RECKONING!!!🔥 🔥
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Soon.
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We’ve known 2 for awhile. No one thought Trump would win. Putin was putting out shit to delegitimize the electoral system and eventual president. No doubt they do it every election.Gotta keep bumping this because it's a real scandal. Granted, Gabbard is overselling it, I don't know why this administration keeps doing that. Certainly not "treason" in my view and unlikely anything criminal. But at minimum it's a massive breach of professional ethics and norms the likes of which haven't been seen coming out of the oval in decades.
Two things have come into focus since Gabbard's document dump.
1. In spite of intelligence assessments to the contrary and protestations of the intel community, the highest levels of the Obama administration hatched a plan to smear Trump and undercut his presidency between December 2016 and January 2017, turning away assessments and contriving their own report with no evidentiary basis.
2. It is highly unlikely Putin's influence campaign was intended to to help win Trump the election. We now know he had intel on Clinton that he held back assuming she would win the election. There was never an evidentiary basis for claiming Putin preferred Trump to Clinton.
Now. Most of us who pay attention had surmised this for some time. But it has to be a shock to some of the blinkard leftists on this board.
Since Hilary was the prohibitive favorite, it makes sense he would target her more.
But on #1, why is this known only now and not during Trump’s first term?
Good question
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified a report prepared by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence back in 2020.
The report, which was based on an investigation launched by former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., was dated Sept. 18, 2020. At the time of the publication of the report, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., was the chairman of the committee.
The report has never before been released to the public, and instead, has remained highly classified within the intelligence community………….
The committee focused on the creation of the Intelligence Community Assessment of 2017, in which then-CIA Director John Brennan pushed for the inclusion of the now-discredited anti-Trump dossier, despite knowing it was based largely on "internet rumor," as Fox News Digital previously reported.
Long story short. The Biden administration shelved it. The Democrats don’t have much shame Brad.
Who was the contact between the Clinton campaign and Brennan?
Susan Rice?
@dbmhoosier he’s doing everything he can to get the heat off of him for Epstein. It’s fantastic to watch.