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Dead Drop: December 16

Dead Drop: December 16

WAIT, WHAT?  It comes as no surprise that President-elect Trump is declaring war – but it is a bit startling that the target is the CIA.  In case you have been off the grid for a while – we’ll simply summarize that the CIA reportedly thinks that the Russian government hacked DNC computers and did other things with the intent of helping Trump get elected.  And Trump is offended by that suggestion. He lashed out saying that this is a “ridiculous” claim brought to you by the same wonderful people who told you Saddam had WMD. Meanwhile the DNI is not entirely sure about what the Russians’ motivation was – but is not disputing the fact they were hacking around.

The flap has resulted in mass derangement on all sides of the question.  Here are just a few examples of some wacky stuff:

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