Pompeo: Russia interfered in 2016 election — and 2012, 2008, 1976 …

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Hot Air
Ed Morrissey
July 21, 2017

Not only should this not be controversial, it’s also not new. CIA director Mike Pompeo told an audience in Aspen yesterday that he believes Russia conducted a large-scale campaign to influence the 2016 election, as his agency concluded late last year. Russia has a long track record of such attempts, going back to the Cold War, and it remains an ongoing threat to which American counterintelligence has to remain vigilant:

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Hot Air
Ed Morrissey
July 21, 2017

Not only should this not be controversial, it’s also not new. CIA director Mike Pompeo told an audience in Aspen yesterday that he believes Russia conducted a large-scale campaign to influence the 2016 election, as his agency concluded late last year. Russia has a long track record of such attempts, going back to the Cold War, and it remains an ongoing threat to which American counterintelligence has to remain vigilant:

More... http://hotair.com/archives/2017/07/21/pompeo-russia-interfered-2016-election-2012-2008-1976/

IOW this is only an issue because Clinton lost and the DEMS have to come up with something to deflect and try to render him incompetent and ineffective.

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IOW this is only an issue because Clinton lost and the DEMS have to come up with something to deflect and try to render him incompetent and ineffective.

That's been the pitch. The alt-right gambit didn't have the desired effect so we don't hear much of that any more. I think that Bannon, Conway and Kushner have had to go to a lower profile so demonizing them had an effect. Now we're to see Russians everywhere Trump has tread.

They won't stop unless the assault backfires on them.