Why that Washington Post Article on Trump, Putin, and Hacking the Election Matters

thewinterking:

For those of you who haven’t seen it, the Washington Post was tipped off by a high ranking official (a term not used lightly – more on that in a second) that a secret CIA assessment was conducted and found that Russia did indeed interfere with our US election – not for the purpose of just casting doubt on our system – but for the sole purpose of electing Donald Trump. Some have tried to allege that this is fabricated news, but here’s now we know it is not: back in late September, President Obama received this intelligence but thought if he were to give it to the American people, it would look partisan. He instead decided to have the intelligence agencies brief the “Gang of 12” or, a group of the twelve senior ranking congress men and women, so they could put out the information to the American people in a bipartisan fashion. The hope was that they would expose Russia’s interference and denounce any further attempt to sabotage our election system.

While Democrats said yes and some Republicans said yes, most notably Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said no. He refused.

Let’s say for a second he didn’t trust the intelligence. Let’s say he didn’t trust all seventeen security agencies about this information. Let’s say that.

But we also need to take into consideration that after the election, McConnell’s wife, Elaine Cho, was given a cabinet position.

This doesn’t even touch on the fact that America’s security agencies are almost certain (see: they won’t confirm it outright) that WikiLeaks was acting as a proxy for Russia and the FSB (their CIA) for a long time now, which explains why WikiLeaks has not gone after Russia with the same tenacity they’ve gone after the rest of the world with for years. They’re certain that Russia also hacked the RNC but sat on the information (and remember: WikiLeaks said the information on Donald Trump wasn’t “interesting” enough to leak).

And now Donald Trump has filled his cabinet with people who are not just alt-right they are billionaires with ties to the Kremlin and friends of Putin. I know this website doesn’t really give a shit about Eastern Europe, but realize that for people living beyond Germany and living in the Balkans, this is terrifying stuff. This is a return to the Cold War, and while I am no fan of America throwing itself into everyone’s backyard nor do I glorify Reagan (i fucking do not like Reagan), consider a return to the Cold War where Russia is left to invade countries at their leisure. We saw it with Georgia in 2008. We saw it with Crimea.

This is happening right now and if you don’t think Donald Trump isn’t Putin’s handpicked puppet, boy have I got news for you.