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- transition office issued a statement Friday evening reflecting the deep divisions that emerged between his campaign and the intelligence agencies over Russian meddling in the election.
- But the intelligence conclusions that the hacking efforts were successful which have been presented to President Obama and other senior officials add a complex wrinkle to the question of what the evolving objectives were in intervening in the American presidential election.
- That report is intended in part to create a comprehensive history of the Russian effort to influence the election and to solidify the intelligence findings before Trump is sworn in.
- The BEV fund which has a duration aims to invest in the commercialization of new technologies that reduce emissions in areas including electricity generation and storage transportation industrial processes agriculture and efficiency.
- The list of initial investors in the fund is an comprehensive catalog of the richest and most powerful including Kingdom prince Alwaleed bin Talal Jeff Bezos Richard Branson Bridgewater Ray Dalio African Rainbow Patrice Motsepe Iliad Xavier Niel Masayoshi Son and SOHO Zhang Xin and Pan Shiyi.
- The fund which charge investors management fees beyond its operating costs will likely start with a temporary office in the heart of the US venture capital industry on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park California.
- The CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the election to help Donald Trump win the presidency rather than just to undermine confidence in the electoral system according to officials briefed on the matter.
- Intelligence agencies have identified individuals with connections to the Russian government who provided WikiLeaks with thousands of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and others including Hillary campaign chairman according to officials.
- Update And now David Sanger whose story on the review was particularly bad and Scott Shane reveal the RNC also got hacked and it is the differential leaking that leads the spooks to believe the Russians wanted Trump to win.
- transition office issued a statement Friday evening reflecting the deep divisions that emerged between his campaign and the intelligence agencies over Russian meddling in the election.
- But the intelligence conclusions that the hacking efforts were successful which have been presented to President Obama and other senior officials add a complex wrinkle to the question of what the evolving objectives were in intervening in the American presidential election.
- That report is intended in part to create a comprehensive history of the Russian effort to influence the election and to solidify the intelligence findings before Trump is sworn in.
- These unnamed sources told the Post that CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the election to help Donald Trump win the presidency rather than just to undermine confidence in the electoral The anonymous officials also claim that agencies have identified individuals with connections to the Russian government who provided WikiLeaks with thousands of hacked from both the DNC and John email account.
- Those who question criticize or are perceived to impede Hillary smooth entitled path to the White House are vilified as stooges sympathizers agents of Russia Trump WikiLeaks Sanders The Intercept Jill Stein.
- all the more reason these debates should be based on publicly disclosed evidence not competing unverifiable anonymous leaks from professional liars inside government agencies cheered by drooling lost partisans anxious to embrace whatever claims make them feel good all conducted without the slightest regard for rational faculties or evidentiary requirements.
- In an interview with News host Chris Wallace Trump said on whether climate change is underway but has serious concerns about how President efforts to cut carbon emissions have undercut global competitiveness.
- The New York businessman made the same critique of the Environmental Protection Agency to which he has nominated Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt a climate change skeptic as the head.
- Last week transition team for the Energy Department asked officials there to identify which employees have participated in international climate negotiations or worked on domestic efforts to cut greenhouse gases such as calculating the social cost of carbon.
- WASHINGTON The office of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell would not comment on reports that the CIA believed Russia was actively trying to help Donald Trump win the White House.
- office said the senator does not discuss such briefings and they not violate federal law by providing classified to BuzzFeed News.
- The explosive story came the same day the Obama administration announced they would be launching a full review into the email hacks of various political entities in the to the election.
- Having serially denied or downplayed involvement in steering the election the team issued an unsigned statement casting doubt on the competence of the very intelligence establishment the will inherit to help him run the country in a month and a half.
- the old days in my time we relied on human efforts penetration handling manipulating people from the inside Kalugin told The Daily Beast noting that he personally convinced the DNC and RNC hacks were done by the Russian government and not by.
- In this hypothetical a heretofore RNC staffer who may have written something professionally or personally damaging to himself is likelier to find himself approached by a Russian operative and offered a chance to switch sides than a member of the National Security Council.
- transition office issued a statement Friday evening reflecting the deep divisions that emerged between his campaign and the intelligence agencies over Russian meddling in the election.
- But the intelligence conclusions that the hacking efforts were successful which have been presented to President Obama and other senior officials add a complex wrinkle to the question of what the evolving objectives were in intervening in the American presidential election.
- That report is intended in part to create a comprehensive history of the Russian effort to influence the election and to solidify the intelligence findings before Trump is sworn in.
