Vice President Pence on Wednesday said the U.S. intelligence community universally concluded that Russia did not have an effect on the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, despite the fact that officials have made no such judgment.“Irrespective of efforts that were made in 2016 by foreign powers, it is the universal conclusion of our intelligence communities that none of those efforts had any impact on the outcome of the 2016 election,” Pence said at an event hosted by Axios, a claim he later repeated.
“We did not make an assessment of the impact that Russia activities had on the outcome of the 2016 election,” an unclassified assessment released last January states. “The US Intelligence Community is charged with monitoring and assessing the intentions, capabilities, and actions of foreign actors; it does not analyze US political processes or US public opinion.”
That statement by Pence is a lieThe intelligence community made no such assessment and stated so in a written report in January of 2017Do fundies still consider lying to be a sin. It's so hard to keep track of that stuff these dayshttp://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/373855-pence-says-intel-community-concluded-russia-did-not-affect-outcome-ofhttps://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICA_2017_01.pdf
