Lewdog
Gold Member
You're grabbing at straws there junior.
The hell I am. How do you reconstruct a "circuitous route" of custody from the GRU to Wikileaks 6 months AFTER the deeds? If congresscritters were SMART enough to ask that question (or the Giant Cheeto) , this little charade would be over by now..
Now if they assigned ASSETS to follow this trail back THEN -- why did the US not take measures to stop the release. There was a last minute effort to shut Assange up about 2 weeks before the election, but prior to that -- NOTHING..
And that conflicts with the initial assessment by the private agency that worked with FBI. Which laid the finger on CozyBear and FancyBear OUTSIDE the GRU as the most likely suspects.
How do you know they didn't track them at the time it happened? What did you expect them to do to stop it? Assassinate the delivery guy? Cause war during the election?
A phone call indicating that we KNEW the material was in Russian hands would be all that's neccessary.
Actually, I'll tell you why there was not active countermeasures. Because this type of data probing is what the world Intel Agencies do. And it's not suspicious at all. Because NO agency wants it's sources and methods tracked and therefore the info is KEPT to be used as "blackmail" or "leverage" in random future negotiations.
But if all those Monday Morning Quarterbacks at the head of the Intel Agencies KNEW that GRU and the KREMLIN had intent to influence to the elections back last June or July ---- they failed in assessing the need to intervene.
Again, what did you expect them to do? What could they do to intervene? Hell now they are coming forward and everyone says they are full of shit and lying. If they came out before the election everyone would have just said Obama was having them do it to try and help Hillary win and that it was all a lie... what did you expect them to do???
What they did do, was find out what was hacked, and then sit back and gather as much information as possible to build a strong case to be used.
Oh ... I expect them to wring their hands and scream "what do you expect us to do" in same whiny baby sort of way that YOU just did it of course.
I told you in the last post. If intel was following the "circuitous route" and knew the Kremlin has a SPECIFIC INTENT to interfere with the election, a few choice words from Obama to Putin on the Red Phone would have stopped it cold. Because once you're TAGGED in esponiage, you'd be a fool to continue. Because you are just compromising MORE sources and methods by continuing the operation...
It helps to have a mild understanding of the "different rules" of the spy agencies.
You expected Obama to tell Putin to cut it out? You mean like he did?
Obama says he warned Putin to 'cut it out' over US election hacking