Intel failure

‘What is going on?’ Trump wonders why FBI never requested access to the DNC’s ‘hacked servers’

Amid an avalanche of self-replicating reports of “Russian hacking,” Donald Trump has questioned how the task of checking whether the DNC’s servers were indeed breached was outsourced by the FBI to a third party.

“The Democratic National Committee would not allow the FBI to study or see its computer info after it was supposedly hacked by Russia,” the president-elect tweeted after the DNC reportedly confirmed that the bureau failed to send their own staff to check the servers.

Trump’s concerns were voiced the same day the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, defended the US intelligence assessment that Russian agents interfered in the US election.

Clapper stopped short of declaring the DNC server hacking an “act of war,” as he told the Senate Armed Services Committee that Russia had stepped up its cyber espionage operations.

Commenting on Clapper’s testimony, John McAfee, the founder of McAfee antivirus software, told RT that Clapper engaged in the “most deceptive propaganda” that was ever delivered to the American public. McAfee added, “our intelligence community is so ignorant and naive that they should all be replaced.”