CIA Director John Brennan defends the use of waterboarding in 2013.
On Friday, the CIA announced that “the consensus view” of US intelligence agencies is that Russia used computer hackers to influence the election in favor of Donald Trump. Democrats agree. Can you blame them? It’s comforting to think Americans didn’t really choose Trump. Like the Michigan recount, the CIA report holds out the possibility that last month’s disturbing vote didn’t really happen. And even if it did, blaming Russian cyberspies lets Democrats off the hook. They wouldn’t have lost to the worst major-party candidate in history, if Vladimir Putin hadn’t put his thumb on the scale. Never mind that we don’t know how much this possible Russian hacking actually influenced the election. The important thing is that the CIA is right, and to suggest that they might be mistaken is unconscionable. After all, those people are heroes:
Men & women of CIA serve, risk their lives -often anonymously w/o glory or fame- to keep rest of us safe. Attacking them is NOT ACCEPTABLE.
— Ana Navarro (@ananavarro) December 12, 2016
Updated head count of sacred cows after the jump.