{"id":60496,"date":"2016-12-15T20:27:56","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T00:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=60496"},"modified":"2016-12-15T20:27:56","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T00:27:56","slug":"kerry-throws-doubt-on-anonymous-intelligence-reports-on-russian-hacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=60496","title":{"rendered":"Kerry Throws Doubt on Anonymous \u201cIntelligence\u201d Reports on Russian Hacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Nee To Know Network<\/p>\n<div class=\"contentUnder\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7HCemrIGB7o?feature=oembed\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Secretary of State John Kerry appeared before reporters to deliver a statement on the crisis in Syria. After giving his statement, a reporter asked Kerry if he had any comment on reports that Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian hacks that might have influenced the presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, let me \u2013 look, I am not going to start making comments at this point. I haven\u2019t commented on this publicly because of the job I do,\u201d Kerry told the reporter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not going to comment on anonymous reports from intelligence officials that are not identified that have quotes around the concept of intelligence officials,\u201d Kerry went on to say, putting \u201cintelligence officials\u201d in air quotes.<\/p>\n<p>Questioning the validity of these sources is something that members of Donald Trump\u2019s transition team have been doing for days. Members of the media, however, don\u2019t seem to think this is an issue. It seems as though the sitting secretary of state does.<\/p>\n<p>Watch incoming White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus on \u201cintelligence officials:\u201d<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5-pS2eCEKBE?feature=oembed\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Watch RNC\u2019s Sean Spicer on \u201cintelligence officials:\u201d<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1yZqM3bv_pk?feature=oembed\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"suggestedWrap\"><\/div>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ntknetwork.com\/kerry-throws-doubt-on-anonymous-intelligence-reports-on-russian-hacks\/\">http:\/\/ntknetwork.com\/kerry-throws-doubt-on-anonymous-intelligence-reports-on-russian-hacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}