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So on what specific grounds would you prosecute CNN or BuzzFeed for their reporting this week?
It's Justice.
They lie about someone, it's their penalty.
So on what specific grounds would you prosecute CNN or BuzzFeed for their reporting this week?
Biden: Intel officials told us Trump allegations might leak
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday that top intelligence leaders told him and President Barack Obama they felt obligated to inform them about uncorroborated allegations about President-elect Donald Trump out of concern the information would become public and catch them off-guard.
In an interview, Biden said neither he nor Obama asked U.S. intelligence agencies to try to corroborate the unverified claims that Russia had obtained compromising sexual and financial allegations about Trump.
"I think it's something that obviously the agency thinks they have to track down," Biden said. He added later, "It surprised me in that it made it to the point where the agency, the FBI thought they had to pursue it."
In the hourlong session with The Associated Press and other news outlets, the vice president was sharply critical of Trump for publicly disparaging intelligence officials, saying Trump was damaging U.S. standing and playing into Russia's hands. He also took umbrage at Trump's comments accusing intelligence agencies of allowing the information to leak publicly and drawing a comparison to "living in Nazi Germany."
"The one thing you never want to invoke is Nazi Germany, no matter what the cir stances," Biden said. "It's an overwhelming diversion from the point you're trying to make."
Biden said that in the briefing he and Obama received from Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and others, there were "no conclusions drawn" from the uncorroborated dossier, which was produced in August and then released publicly this week by the media. Biden said it was "totally ancillary" to the purpose of the meeting, which was to brief Obama on a report he ordered do enting Russian interference in the U.S. campaign.
"As a matter of fact, the president was like, 'What does this have anything to do with anything?'" Biden said. He said intelligence leaders responded by saying "Well, we feel obliged to tell you, Mr. President, because you may hear about it. We're going to tell him," referring to Trump.
Biden said intelligence leaders told him and Obama that they couldn't say whether or not the allegations were true or untrue. He said there was "hardly any discussion" about the allegations in the briefing.
"Neither the president nor I asked for any detail," Biden said. But he added of the dossier: "I've read everything."
Trump has vehemently denied the allegations included in a dossier about close coordination between Trump's inner circle and Russians. The dossier also included unsubstantiated claims about unusual sexual activities by Trump, attributed to anonymous sources. The Associated Press has not authenticated the claims. Trump has denied them.
The FBI director has refused to say whether the FBI is investigating any possible ties between Russia and Trump's presidential campaign.
The dossier was compiled by a former Western intelligence operative and had been circulating among news organizations and intelligence agencies in Washington for months. Its existence became known publicly following reports the intelligence community had briefed Trump on the dossier.
In the interview, Biden criticized Trump's rocky relationship with intelligence officials. The president-elect has publicly challenged their assessment about Russia's role in the election and suggested they have skewed evidence. Trump has received the briefing a few times but has insisted he doesn't need it daily and suggested he knows more than intelligence leaders.
Biden said it would be a "genuine tragedy" if Trump refused the daily intelligence briefing presidents traditionally receive.
To illustrate his point, Biden took out the black tablet computer he uses to read his daily briefing and showed it to reporters as he sat next to a crackling fireplace in his office, just steps from the Oval Office. He said it is password-protected and includes a feature he uses to ask questions about the intelligence that are responded to the same day.
Biden said at least five foreign leaders have already contacted him expressing concern over Trump's second-guessing of U.S. intelligence agencies.
"It is really very damaging in my view to our standing in the world for a president to take one of the crown jewels of our national defense and denigrate it," Biden said. "It plays into, particularly now, the Russian narrative that America doesn't know what it's doing."
After nearly half a century in public office, Biden will exit the national stage next Friday, although he plans to stay active in Democratic politics and work on policy issues at a pair of ins utes he's developing at the University of Delaware and the University of Pennsylvania. He also plans to continue with the cancer "moonshot" effort he launched after his son died.
Biden was full of praise for his successor, Vice President-elect Mike Pence. He said he's been sending Pence memos with his advice on how to handle certain relationships, such as with Iraqi and Ukrainian leaders, and on "the things that could explode most easily."
He said Pence had been receptive to his advice but had less time these days to speak to Biden due to the heavy role he's playing in setting up Trump's administration. Biden said he's made his national security adviser, Colin Kahl, available to Pence but hoped Pence would quickly name a national security adviser of his own.
"It would be better if they had been in a better position where he actually had somebody that Colin could sit down with every morning," Biden said.
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Reach Josh Lederman on Twitter at http://twitter.com/joshledermanAP
Trump doesn't win without the 4chan green frog army and the blessing of kek
1488 GTKRWN!
not true
Your links prove nothing. But even if true that they altered the article 10 minutes after publishing (doubt it) that cons utes a "walk back"?Here is the part I'm talking about. I don't remember reading this when it was originally posted
"It is not just unconfirmed: It includes some clear errors. The report misspells the name of one company, “Alpha Group,” throughout. It is Alfa Group. The report says the settlement of Barvikha, outside Moscow, is “reserved for the residences of the top leadership and their close associates.” It is not reserved for anyone, and it is also populated by the very wealthy."
And here is the twitter timeline with them posting link to the same article ten minutes apart
https://twitter.com/BuzzFeed?ref_src...Ctwgr%5Eauthor
3:29
3:39
you are so ing dishonest
This is really pointless at this point but I find it funny that I'm providing some sort of proof to try and back my claim while you've done nothing to support yours. And yes I consider adding "it contains some clear errors" covering their asses ie: walking back.Your links prove nothing. But even if true that they altered the article 10 minutes after publishing (doubt it) that cons utes a "walk back"?
how so?
I don't know. I haven't paid attention to either for a rather long time.
that was in the original article
theres no proof it happened
no no no no no someone on 4chan said he did it! proof, his word is good enough. if there's anything we know about 4chan it's that it's a place filled with the most honest and honorable of anonymous neckbeards.
but but but TSA said it "most definitely" did! I'm so confused
We should give the benefit of the doubt to a site of anonymous people bragging about successfully misinforming people.
proof?
i read it and posted a screenshot on page 1 of this thread right after it was published
at the butthurt 3 amigos embarrassed for being duped
the only one "duped" was Dale. He thought it was real. The rest of us were laughing at the newly created meme, hashtags, and lulz in response
Nothing about your screen shot has anything to do with Buzzfeed editing the original article
The timestamp does
What was I duped by, Spirit Cookie?
Looks like a forgery to me.
Like the Bush Memo.
"Russians claim to have dirt on Trump" lol
That's it? An uneditable headline that I retracted less than 5 minutes after posting? lol ok, you nailed me Pizza Dude
What does your timestamp prove?
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