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Did Obama Slip & Tell the Truth?

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Oops. Did President Barack Obama acknowledge that the extraordinary propaganda campaign to blame Russia for helping President-elect Donald Trump become president has more holes in it than a sieve?

Eloquent obfuscation has been the name of the game, but inadvertent admissions are dispelling some of the clouds.

Does the Russian government hack? Of course. Did it hack the emails of the Democratic National Committee? Yes, almost certainly. If Russian intelligence did not do so, this alone would constitute gross misfeasance, and its heads' heads should roll -- the more so, since the DNC was such easy pickings.

But that is not the question.

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It was WikiLeaks that published the very damaging information, for example, on the DNC's dirty tricks that marginalized Bernie Sanders and ensured that Mrs. Clinton would win the Democratic nomination. What remains to be demonstrated is that it was "the Russians" who gave those very damaging emails to WikiLeaks -- QED, as we used to scribble beneath the proof of a theorem in geometry.

At President Obama's January 18 press conference, he admitted, "the conclusions of the intelligence community with respect to the Russian hacking were not conclusive as to whether WikiLeaks was witting or not in being the conduit through which we heard about the DNC e-mails that were leaked." [Emphasis added}

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Ray McGovern works with Tell the Word, the publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour in inner-city Washington. He was an Army infantry/intelligence officer and then a CIA analyst for 27 years, and is now on the Steering Group of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS). His (more...)
 
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