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President elect Donald Trump is suspicious of the intelligence agencies he will oversee because they are stalling a briefing in which they promised to provide proof that Russian hacking of emails influenced US elections. The evidence that the Obama administration has released so far is far from credible. For example, a list of internet addresses that they released purportedly linking Russians to hacking turned out to be from the TOR internet service, from American universities, and from Yahoo. AP 2017 Jan 4 (Story)

James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee that the Russians did not hack into the elections or change vote tallies. He stated, however, that the Russians influenced voter attitudes through RT (Russia Today news channel), social media, and fake news, in addition to hacking emails, all of which had an impact on the election. He failed to comment that these are precisely the activities pursued by the US in other countries or that the politically significant content of the emails were the responsibility of those who sent them, not those who revealed them. AFP 2017 Jan 5 (Story) RT 2017 Jan 4 (Story) (Cached)

Sean Hannity interviews Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Assange says that the Russians were not the source of his information about the DNC and Podesta emails. Because the Wikileaks revelations were not widely reported in the orthodox media, he concluded that the Leftists in politics and the media colluded together. Assange is worried that his enemies might take revenge on his children. Fox News 2017 Jan 3 (Story)

The story of Russia hacking the DNC emails is more fake news. David E. Spring, a retired college instructor, who specializes in website security and design, analyzed a 13-page report from the FBI and Department of Homeland Security that claims to prove that Russians hacked into the DNC emails. Spring found that, out of 885 ISP links offered as evidence of hacking, only two were in Russia. He concludes that it is far more likely that the attacks are coming from the NSA. Turning Point News 2016 Dec 30 (Story) (Cached)

More fake news from the Washington Post. The newspaper reported that the Russian government hacked the energy grid in Vermont, putting America at risk. Actually, the reporters didn’t even bother to contact the Burlington utility company that supposedly had been hacked. If they had done so, they would have known that the grid was not hacked by the Russians or anyone else. RPI 2017 Jan 3 (Story)