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JustTheNews: 2016 intel report said Kremlin preferred GOP over Dems — but actual history tells a different story
The Obama-era ICA claimed the Kremlin has a history of preferring Republicans over Democrats, but decades of Moscow history contradict the narrative that was pushed -- and believed as gospel by the legacy media and public.
via Jerry Dunleavy, all rights belong to Just The News (extract)
The Obama-era intelligence community assessment on Russian meddling in the 2016 election contained a newly-declassified claim that the Kremlin “historically” preferred Republican candidates over Democratic ones — something belied by the actual historical record — while a key architect of that assessment has made the questionable contention that Russian actions that year were “unprecedented.”
These two claims seem to conflict with a lengthy Kremlin record of aggressive active measures targeting numerous U.S. elections over many decades, with the Kremlin typically, although not always, seeking to harm Republicans, albeit with at least one instance of the Kremlin trying to undercut a Democrat who was well known to be a Soviet hawk.
The report on Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent U.S. Elections — written at the direction of President Barack Obama and largely overseen by then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, then-CIA Director John Brennan, and since-fired FBI Director James Comey — was finished in December 2016, with a publicly declassified version released in early January 2017 and a more extensive classified version declassified and released last week.
The version of the ICA, which had been highly classified but which was released this July, had a subheading stating that “Putin Ordered Campaign To Influence U.S. Election.” Beneath that subheading, …
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