普丁果真是川普的超級助選員？

公孫明 12.11.2016

美國國務卿是落實美國外交決策的執行者，在美國行政系統中是“天下第一部”。國務卿也是美國權力的第四順位，次於總統，副總統，眾議院議長，其重要性可想而知，而前三者均屬民選，獨國務卿不然。

川普政的內閣人選大致定奪，惟有國務卿一位難產。前此，川普一直在六人身上打轉，他們是前美國駐聯合國大使波頓（John Bolton）、現任參議員庫克（Bob Corker），前紐約市長朱利安尼（Rudy Giuliani，已退出），前駐北京大使洪博培（Jon Huntsman Jr.）、和前中情局局長裴卓斯（David Petraeus），前麻州州長羅姆尼（Mitt Romney）等。但近日突然又新加兩員，一是福特汽車公司（Ford Moto）的前執行長莫拉利（Alan Mulally），另一則是艾克生-美孚石油公司（Exxon Mobil Corp）的現任執行長提爾森（Rex Tillerson）。

其中最引人注目的是這個艾克生-美孚石油公司（Exxon Mobil Corp）的現任執行長提爾森（Rex Tillerson），因為這個人不但操控全世界最大的石油開發與買賣的頭頭，也是俄國總統普丁的老友記，兩人一向過從甚密；而普丁；正也是掌握俄國龐大石油業的厲害人物。這兩個人的興趣和利益是一致的。

川普舍前六人不顧（或被動地）而再考慮提爾森，如果孤立地來看，或許是個用人的技術問題，但我們如果把它跟昨天的一則新聞（見下附文）連結起來，結論將是很可觀的了。

為此，美國中央情報局已公開揚言要調查此事，未來發展，仍待觀察。

問題是如果川普真的採取聯俄以制中的伎倆，中國軍民兩方面都要依靠的能源就有大問題，如果普丁改變原來石油和天然氣輸入中國的立場，而代表西方原油市場的財團也跟進，於中國的未來是大大的不利的，即使藉此勒索中國，提高油價，中國也是吃不消。

西方財團投資中國發展世界工廠數十年，將中國的經濟命脈放在輸入能源的節骨眼上，而時移世轉，在盡情剝削中國勞工和資源把中國搞得疲憊不堪之後，再來一個過河拆橋，讓中國進退兩難，的確是個狠毒的招數。

Russia intervened to help Trump win election: intelligence officials

By John Walcott

ReutersDecember 10, 2016

By John Walcott

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence analysts have concluded that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help President-elect Donald Trump win the White House, and not just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system, a senior U.S. official said on Friday.

U.S. intelligence agencies have assessed that as the 2016 presidential campaign progressed, Russian government officials devoted increasing attention to assisting Trump's effort to win the election, the U.S. official familiar with the finding told Reuters on Friday night, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The president-elect's transition office released a statement that exaggerated his margin of victory and attacked the U.S. intelligence community that Trump will soon command, but did not address the analysts' conclusion.

"These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction," the statement said. "The election ended a long time ago in one of the biggest Electoral College victories in history. It's now time to move on and 'Make America Great Again.'"

Democrats and some Republicans in Congress are calling for a full investigation into Russia's election year activities.

"Protecting the integrity of our elections is hindered when President-elect Trump and his transition team minimize or dismiss the intelligence assessments themselves," Representative Adam Schiff of California, the ranking Democrat on the House intelligence committee, said in a statement issued on Saturday.

Citing U.S. officials briefed on the matter, the Washington Post reported on Friday that intelligence agencies had identified individuals with connections to the Russian government who provided thousands of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and others, including the chairman of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, to WikiLeaks.

U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered intelligence agencies to review cyber attacks and foreign intervention into the 2016 election and deliver a report before he leaves office on Jan. 20, the White House said on Friday.

Obama's homeland security adviser, Lisa Monaco, told reporters the report's results would be shared with lawmakers and others.

"The president has directed the intelligence community to conduct a full review of what happened during the 2016 election process ... and to capture lessons learned from that and to report to a range of stakeholders, to include the Congress," she said during an event hosted by the Christian Science Monitor.

As summer turned to fall, Russian hackers turned almost all their attention to the Democrats. Virtually all the emails they released publicly were potentially damaging to Clinton and the Democrats, not Republicans, the official told Reuters.

"That was a major clue to their intent," the official said. "If all they wanted to do was discredit our political system, why publicize the failings of just one party, especially when you have a target like Trump?"

A second official familiar with the report said the intelligence analysts' conclusion about Russia's motives does not mean the intelligence community believes that Moscow's efforts altered or significantly affected the outcome of the election.

Russian officials have denied all accusations of interference in the U.S. election.

A Central Intelligence Agency spokeswoman said the agency had no comment on the matter.

The hacked emails passed to WikiLeaks were a regular source of embarrassment to the Clinton campaign during the race for the presidency.

U.S. intelligence analysts have assessed "with high confidence" that at some point in the extended presidential campaign Russian President Vladimir Putin's government had decided to try to bolster Trump's chances of winning.

The Russians appear to have concluded that Trump had a shot at winning and that he would be much friendlier to Russia than Clinton would be, especially on issues such as maintaining economic sanctions and imposing additional ones, the official said.

Moscow is launching a similar effort to influence the next German election, following an escalating campaign to promote far-right and nationalist political parties and individuals in Europe that began more than a decade ago, the official said.