Jeh Johnson, the head of the Department of Homeland Security under Obama, testified the other day to Congress that “we know for sure that Putin himself ordered the election to be hacked in favor of Trump.”
It’s time to stop playing games and go public with the proof. The heads of the intelligence agencies keep telling us we should take their word for it; that they can’t reveal the intel itself because it would “burn an asset.”
The intelligence agencies seem not to recall that they lost the trust of the American people when they told us Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. We can’t just “take their word for it” anymore. We need to see the evidence — and we deserve to see it. Unless they’re being less than truthful again.
It’s time to put up or shut up.
Moments in history like this are what we have “assets” for! The asset him or her or itself is not more important than proving to the American people — and the world — that we were under attack by a foreign nation. We may not know every tactic used by Putin, but we know one thing: Putin’s minions succeeded in their mission. Their preferred candidate won. Against all odds.
And now we’re stuck with Moscow’s malignant marionette as our president.
If Obama had gone on TV with the evidence of Putin ordering the hack before the election — if he had played the tape with Putin’s voice on it, or shown us the indisputable piece of intel that Johnson was referring to, this coup could have been avoided. But they didn’t want to burn an asset? They didn’t want to appear partisan? The president of the United States didn’t think he had enough credibility with the American people for us to believe it when he told us we were under cyber attack?
Again: this is what we have assets for, to alert us when treasonous acts and threats against our sovereignty are taking place.
Countless thousands of Americans have given their lives for our freedom — and free and fair elections. The intelligence agencies must stop being coy and SHOW US THE EVIDENCE.