@georgeob1,
Quote:In an announcement released today we are told that President-elect Trump accepts the recently provided evaluation of the Intelligence Community regarding the Russian sourcing of the hacked e mails from the DNC server.
What we have is a statement from Priebus. And what he said is about as weaselish as it gets.
Quote:Trump] “is not denying that entities in Russia were behind this particular hacking campaign”.
Note that "entities in Russia". Could be a 400 pound Russian kid.
Quote:“When this whole thing started, it started from the Russians 50 years ago, in other words this is something that has been going on in our elections for many many years. It happens every election period.”
That's purposefully deceitful.
Conway is maintaining the "there was no consequence for the election" as somehow a conclusion of the intel community, I guess, as she continues to insist this is a known fact. Of course it isn't. She's lying.
Neither of them are mentioning Putin. Neither are indicting Putin (or leadership figures in Russia). Like Trump, they are trying to run cover for Putin.
The other thing they are saying as with Priebus' statement that the DNC was a "sitting duck" has an obvious purpose. That's to suggest that it was mere opportunity that led the hackers to hack/release DNC documents but not RNC related docs. And/or to suggest the target was damaging Clinton, not advancing Trump. And toss in the notion that Dems are weak on security while Republicans are strong.
It's telling that, at least to this point, Trump is not the one talking even though this idiocy
came from him. He is not saying, "I was wrong". I don't expect him to say it at any point. I also don't expect Priebus and Conway to speak to the findings on Putin/leadership as prime agents here. Honesty isn't the game they are playing.
This statement surely arises simply because it had become apparent after the revelations of Friday that Trump's prior statements were beginning to look insane or corrupt.