Personally, I think its kind of telling that you trust wikileaks (run by a foreign national with heavy links to Russia) over US intelligence agencies. Now, I won't claim the US intelligence agencies are perfect or anything, they have been completely, utterly wrong before, but there's exactly zero oversight for wikileaks, period. We have no idea what they publish and what they don't, and why they do what they do.

Also, I think it's mildly hilarious that Trump says he wants to shrink US intelligence agencies as they continue to offer evidence of things he doesn't like: [www.businessinsider.com] - its very much like a childish 5-year-old. "You say things that make me angry! I will punish you!" Behavior I'd expect out of Putin, really.

Intelligence agencies have very notably stayed out of politics the last few decades of elections, refusing to offer comment on politicians of either stripe except to say "I, as an individual, like this guy's defense/foreign policies". They said nothing in the Obama elections, in the Bush elections, in the Clinton elections, in the H.W. Bush elections, in the Reagan elections. When they all suddenly get together and decide to say, as a group, a foreign political entity is intervening in our election, I think it's definitely worth listening. Especially because nobody benefits from this - there's absolutely no reason to push themselves into the spotlight, where everyone can take a shot at them, unless they had real evidence of this happening.



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