{"id":24312,"date":"2017-06-14T09:16:54","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T13:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=24312"},"modified":"2017-06-14T09:39:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T13:39:47","slug":"nbcs-kelly-hits-putin-with-a-beloved-canard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/06\/14\/nbcs-kelly-hits-putin-with-a-beloved-canard\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC\u2019s Kelly Hits Putin with a Beloved Canard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Consortium News<\/em> has the Ray McGovern article <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2017\/06\/12\/nbcs-kelly-hits-putin-with-a-beloved-canard\/\" target=\"_blank\">NBC\u2019s Kelly Hits Putin with a Beloved Canard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nFor instance, on May 8, in testimony before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper conceded publicly that the number of intelligence agencies involved in the assessment was three, not 17, and that the analysts assigned to the project from CIA, FBI and NSA had been \u201chandpicked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On May 23, in testimony before the House Intelligence Committee, former CIA Director John Brennan confirmed Clapper\u2019s account about the three agencies involved. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t a full inter-agency community assessment that was coordinated among the 17 agencies,\u201d Brennan acknowledged.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/NevA1FFfj7s\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube video<\/a> to back up this part of what Ray McGovern said in his article.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NevA1FFfj7s\" style=\"border:thick ridge #009900;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre class=\"plain\">\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Follow this link to some <a href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?s=wordfence\" target=\"_blank\">posts that debunk other parts of the Russian hacking propaganda<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consortium News has the Ray McGovern article NBC\u2019s Kelly Hits Putin with a Beloved Canard. For instance, on May 8, in testimony before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper conceded publicly that the number of intelligence agencies involved in the assessment was three, not 17, and that the analysts assigned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24312"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24316,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24312\/revisions\/24316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}