Spicer tamps down Trump hack talk expectations – is this why?
Two days after celebrity real estate mogul and future president Domald Trump tickled the lizard brains of the press by announcing he’d have a yuuuuge announcement about the hacking of political targets, Sean Spicer is lowering expectations:
“It’s not a question of necessarily revealing,” Spicer said on CNN’s “New Day.”
“He’s going to talk about his conclusions and where he thinks things stand. He’s not going to reveal anything that was privileged or was shared with him classified. I think he can share with people his conclusions of the report and his understanding of the situation and make sure people understand there’s a lot of questions out there. “
Trump said during a New Year’s Eve celebration on Saturday that he knows “things that other people don’t know.”
Trump did not offer details when pressed about what he knows, saying only that, “You’ll find out on Tuesday or Wednesday.”
Trump also said he knows “a lot” about hacking, adding that it is a “very hard thing to prove.”
“So it could be somebody else. And I also know things that other people don’t know, and so they cannot be sure of the situation.”
Well, my own not-so-exclusive sources say that most hacking is NOT a very hard thing to prove for an experienced IT professional and/or forensic investigator, even if the hacker attempts to cover his tracks.
Just don’t tell the “official” media. It’ll ruin the whole narrative. Along with this story from CNN:
A top adviser to President-elect Donald Trump said Monday he thinks the Russians were involved in election-related hacking of the US — a very different view than that held by the incoming administration.
Former CIA director James Woolsey, an adviser to Trump on national security issues, told CNN’s Jim Sciutto that determining who was behind the hacks is difficult, but that he believes the Russians — and possibly others — were involved.
“I think the Russians were in there, but it doesn’t mean other people weren’t, too,” he said. “It’s often not foolproof to say who it is because it is possible and sometimes easy to hide your tracks. There’s lots of tricks.”
Asked if Trump is playing the media with his comments on who was culpable, Woolsey said it was a “possibility,” noting that Trump is an “expert in weaving around” on issues like this.
“Sometimes people may have been talking to somebody in the National Security Agency and have an idea that maybe it was one type of hacking rather than another,” he said. “I don’t think this is of substantial matter. I think it’s basically just dialogue back and forth.”
Woolsey’s comments come even as Trump and his aides continue to cast doubt on the links between Russia and recent hacks against Democrats, while US intelligence officials say that newly identified “digital fingerprints” indicate Moscow was behind the intrusions.
Mmmmmmmyeah — that’s gonna be a little problem for Mr. Trump.
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14 responses to Spicer tamps down Trump hack talk expectations – is this why?
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mea_mark January 2nd, 2017 at 20:40
But the Ass-in-Chief has connections with the Russian Mafia and that gives him special inside information. He knows things we don’t know, like how to spin and deflect from the truth. We won’t know what happened because we will be told not to look for the truth, but to look over, well, wherever. Did you all see the moon tonight? It was so incredibly beautiful, just hanging there in the sky right next to that great planet Jupiter. Wasn’t that just great? We should all be great like that. We all need more greatness in our lives … … …
… ?
Willys41 January 2nd, 2017 at 20:52
We’re gonna have so much greatness we’ll get sick of being so great.
StoneyCurtisll January 2nd, 2017 at 21:27
Already sick of trump…
And he isn’t even “precedent” yet…
bpollen January 2nd, 2017 at 22:03
Yeah, but he has SET a horrible president…
StoneyCurtisll January 3rd, 2017 at 17:06
Good one~!
Willys41 January 2nd, 2017 at 20:51
So basically nobody knows what Trump is going to say because Trump himself doesn’t know what he’s going to say. But it’s going to be big. Big and important. Because everything about Trump and everything he says and does is big, Big, BIG, and REALLY IMPORTANT!!!
And afterwards we’re gonna have dancing elephants.
mea_mark January 2nd, 2017 at 20:53
Dancing elephants sounds like so much fun, what kind of drugs are we going to get to see them?
labman57 January 2nd, 2017 at 20:57
With respect to any negative intel about Donnie’s comrades in Russia, Team Trump continues to embrace the “3 Monkeys”.
labman57 January 2nd, 2017 at 21:08
“Asked if Trump is playing the media with his comments on who was culpable, Woolsey said it was a “possibility,” noting that Trump is an “expert in weaving around” on issues like this.”
“Playing the media”, a euphemism for making crap up.
Of course, there’s another term for the process of deliberately disseminating disinformation for political gain — “Goebbelism”
Suzanne McFly January 2nd, 2017 at 21:36
Independent ethics committee has just been removed. GOP proving moment by moment what they value and yet idiots continue to vote them in to office.
rat618 January 2nd, 2017 at 22:08
Which hole on his golf course will this interview take place?
fahvel January 3rd, 2017 at 13:24
big door you opened there! The only hole that seems to produce something useful with this crud is the one that produces and discharges fertilizer.
ohpaleasegivemeabreak January 3rd, 2017 at 11:53
Maybe he will finally issue the big important report he has about the big Hawaii investigation into how Obama was not born in murka so he can be POTUS because his mother was an American citizen so it does not matter where Barack was born.
fahvel January 3rd, 2017 at 13:23
if you know in advance that someone is a liar and evader and simply ill at ease in the world they have just been dumped in, why is anyone surprised at the fuzz head and why does anyone believe a fkn thing that oozes out of his pouty rectum?