Russia Hack Story Collapses, Ripped Apart By CBS Atlanta

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Russia Hack Story Collapses, Ripped Apart By CBS Atlanta

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December 24, 2016
CBS in Atlanta presents 5 problems with the CIA’s claims that Russia hacked the election to help Donald Trump defeat Hillary Clinton.
CBS Atlanta rips apart the CIA's claims Russia hacked the election for Trump.

CBS Atlanta rips apart the CIA’s claims Russia hacked the election for Trump.

CBS 2 in Atlanta tears apart the CIA’s claims that Russia hacked the election to help Donald Trump win in a “Reality Check” from Ben Swann.

The reality check concludes by pointing out that the accusations aren’t even that Russia hacked the election but instead that Russia is merely accused of making public DNC and Podesta emails which did nothing more than inform the public with the truth about Hillary Clinton.

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“By now you’ve heard that the CIA is sure that Russia did hack the DNC and John Podesta’s emails with the intent of swaying the election toward Donald Trump,” Swann said.

“But what most media isn’t doing is actually asking for evidence of these claims,” he said. “I’m going to give you five problems with what the CIA is saying.”

The first problem revolves around how the information about the alleged hacking was released.

“The CIA did not officially release this information, rather anonymous sources inside the CIA leaked this conclusion to The Washington Post on Friday, and then another anonymous source leaked the same conclusion to the New York Times,” Swann said.

He quoted the Post’s claim that a “secret assessment” into the Democratic National Committee and chairman John Podesta’s emails conducted by the CIA concluded Russia hacked in with a focus on helping Trump. The Post reported that the CIA believes individuals with ties to the Russian government shared the information with Wikileaks, which posted it online.

“The second problem here is the anonymous sources did not provide any evidence to support those statements, and by releasing the information anonymously there is no one accountable to provide that proof,” Swann said.

“The third problem here is the CIA lies,” he continued. “Not always, but I can give you a number of recent stories where that agency has made claims that have been proven untrue.”

Swann cited the Senate Intelligence Committee’s criticism of the CIA’s “culture of misinformation” in 2014, as well as comments from Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon about the public’s lack of trust in the CIA.

“That trust has been seriously undermined by senior officials’ reckless reliance on secret interpretations of the law and battered by years of misleading and deceptive practices,” Wyden said.

“Please excuse us if the public needs the CIA to do more than just leak anonymously its conclusion that Russia tried to sway the election,” Swann said.

The fourth problem highlighted by the Reality Check is that CIA officials don’t agree on the agency’s secret conclusion.