For the better part of 8 months we have been hearing from the Clinton campaign, the western mainstream media, Congress et al. about the 17 intelligence agencies that have concluded that Russia interfered, hacked, sabotaged the US elections and America’s democracy.
To be accurate, 16 agencies were “highly confident” Russia hacked the DNC. The one agency capable of investigating the allegations, the NSA, said it was only “moderately confident.”
To be even more accurate, the FBI did not even get access to the DNC servers. It relied upon data provided by private security firm CrowdStrike, who just the other day walked back their audit conclusions on the hacks (via AntiWar)…
The “cyber-security” firm that everyone is depending on to make the case for Russia’s alleged “hacking” of the 2016 presidential election, CrowdStrike, has just retracted a key component of its analysis – but the “mainstream” media continues to chug along, ignoring any facts that contradict their preferred narrative.
As Voice of America – hardly an instrument of Russian propaganda! – reports:
“U.S. cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has revised and retracted statements it used to buttress claims of Russian hacking during last year’s American presidential election campaign. The shift followed a VOA report that the company misrepresented datapublished by an influential British think tank.”
Most pundits and analysts probably cannot even name 5 of the 17 intelligence agencies that they so proudly say prove Russia hacked US democracy.
Below is a complete list of the 16 intelligence agencies in the US Intelligence Community, headed by the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), whose statutory leadership is exercised through the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), who under the Obama White House was James R. Clapper…making 17 total agencies.
Why the list?
Because we are certain that the Coast Guard Intelligence Agency, Marine Corps Intelligence Agency, and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency are authorities when it comes to US election hacking, and thus should be trusted when they sign off to being “highly confident” of Russian election meddling.
The 16 members of the IC are:
Agency/Office
Parent Agency
Federal Department
Date est.
Defense Intelligence Agency
none
Defense
1961
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
none
Defense
1996
National Reconnaissance Office
none
Defense
1961
National Security Agency
none
Defense
1952
Military Intelligence Corps
United States Army
Defense
1863
Office of Naval Intelligence
United States Navy
Defense
1882
Twenty-Fifth Air Force
United States Air Force
Defense
1948
Marine Corps Intelligence
United States Marine Corps
Defense
1939
Coast Guard Intelligence
United States Coast Guard
Homeland Security
1915
Office of Intelligence and Analysis
none
Homeland Security
2007
Central Intelligence Agency
none
Independent agency
1947
Bureau of Intelligence and Research
none
State
1945
Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence
none
Treasury
2004
Office of National Security Intelligence
Drug Enforcement Administration
Justice
2006
Intelligence Branch
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Justice
2005
Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence
none
Energy
1977
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