Bolton was never constrained by truth in the past, why start now?
This is a point that the media really need to cover: That Trump and his henchmen have now told us that they will govern without recourse to actual facts. Not surprising given the nature of the campaign, but still very, very scary. That is the big thing here, not Trump & Co’s rejection of the CIA conclusions, important as those conclusions are.
Please someone get the hook and get him off the stage.
The fact John Bolton used the crackpot Alex Jones vernacular: “false flag,” should disqualify this madman from holding any position in this Administration in waiting that requires senate confirmation – especially as it pertains to national security.
There are no Russian hacking cyber fingerprints on Hillary’s server - that was, by the way, not hacked. This shows that Russians are so smart and sneaky, that if they had hacked DNC and RNC servers, there would be no fingerprints on them either. Therefore, since there are Russian fingerprints on the DNC and RNC servers, somebody else purposely put them there while leaving none of their own. Perfect logic.
The wonderful thing about conspiracy theories is they cannot be disproven. You can simply add layers of mystery and obfuscation and continually drag the same dead dog around the yard till the leash breaks. Then claim the conspirators cut the leash.
Bolton wants to see the CIA intelligence? OK. Let’s see Trump’s returns and financials.
'It’s nice to know that both the Deputy SOS and the National Security Advisor suffer from the same illness."
I don’t know how long will his ‘roadblock’ last, but I’d like to thank Kentucky’s junior senator for his Bolton opposition.
Though this story wasn’t the reason for a possible rejection at State, it’s becoming clearer every day, that 2017 is going to be full of so many surprises.
9/11 and Pearl Harbor were also false flag ops … right Bolton?
I was reminded of this interview. Bolton dodging any responsibility for anything, absurdly retconning history and claiming that people who simply ask factual questions have weak hearts and are giving in to intimidation. Stay the course!
This is exactly what we’re in for for the next few years. Nothing in government working because it’s being run by billionaires who want to destroy it? STAY THE COURSE. Be loyal to the boss! Don’t listen to reason! We’ll be hailed as liberators!
(‘We’ll be hailed as liberators’ seems to be the Trump view of his own election.)
A pie in the face for sure.
Trump take on reality:
At 2:40 into the tape I spit out some coffee on the keyboard because here’s Bolton denying his own assertion seconds after he made it (lack of planning for the Iraq invasion).
Good fucking Jeebus (buries head in hands after wiping face)
“false flag” – iike a destroyer laying smoke, an act of desperation.
Not to be too quibblesome, but “false flag” is an espionage term used when a source is told his info is going to a friendly government vs, say, Russia or China.
But not in Bolton’s usage of the term. That’s what I was targeting in part.
“The question that has to be asked is why did the Russians run their smart intelligence service against Hillary’s server but their dumb intelligence services against the election,” Bolton said.
Note that he’s starting from the assumption that Clinton’s server was attacked. The absence of evidence is seen as conclusive proof of this, in his eyes. “Since we can’t find evidence that Clinton’s server was compromised, that must mean that they used their ‘smart intelligence service.’” Case closed.
His assertion reminds me of the Team B CIA analysis back in the 1970s, where, among other things, they insisted that the lack of evidence for new silent Russian submarines was conclusive proof that such submarines existed, because their new technology was fooling our detection tools. It was all B.S., just as this is.
This is the same guy who about a month ago called for American lead regime change in Iran. They were able to sue to stop the recounts but they cant stop this so easily.
Bolton questioned why FBI Director James Comey said the agency did not find any “direct evidence of foreign intelligence service penetration” in its review of Hillary Clinton’s private email server, but found “cyber fingerprints” while looking into alleged hacks of the Democratic and Republican National Committees.
“The question that has to be asked is why did the Russians run their smart intelligence service against Hillary’s server but their dumb intelligence services against the election,” Bolton said.
There is so much wrong with this analysis, it’s hard to know where to start. First of all, there is the assumption that the actually was an intrusion into Hillary Clinton’s server.
It’s hard to believe this hack is actually moving back into our government. I’ve been trying to keep hope that things won’t get so bad under Trump, but everyday something else comes up to destroy that hope.
Yes exactly. His whole discussion assumes the Clinton’s were hacked without any evidence whatsoever. The lack of evidence is itself proof. They just know that is the case. They know the impact was devastating. People died. The county was placed at risk. And by the way, no one else has ever been hacked.
At least the Chinese still have Bolt\on’s personnel files.
Bolton questioned why FBI Director James Comey said the agency did not find any “direct evidence of foreign intelligence service penetration” in its review of Hillary Clinton’s private email server
Hmmm… could it be that Clinton was actually right to have a private server that actually wasn’t hacked?
Bolton’s sort of a dummy. Great 'stache though. I think all his brain cells went into growing that.