The idea that it was Russia is the oldest play in Washington's book. You do know who you are dealing with right? The C.I.A. doesn't just lie to the public, it lies to everyone including our own Congress.
Take a look at just a few examples and tell me if you think we should trust a word the C.I.A. says.
Lets start off with the Senate of the U.S. Congress itself calling the C.I.A. liars.
Senate report on CIA torture claims spy agency lied about 'ineffective' program
The full extent of the CIA’s interrogation and detention programmes launched in the wake of the September 11 terror attack was laid bare in a milestone report by the Senate intelligence committee on Tuesday that concluded the agency’s use of torture was brutal and ineffective – and that the CIA repeatedly lied about its usefulness.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/09/cia-torture-report-released
Remember when Congress brought the head of the C.I.A. in about spying on Americans?
Senators grill spy chiefs, accuse them of lies
Members of the Senate Intelligence Committee lambasted the nation's top intelligence chiefs on Wednesday, complaining of lies about gathering the phone records of Americans and failing to cooperate with Congress in an investigation of the CIA's controversial interrogation programs.
Committee members grilled Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and CIA Director John Brennan at the first intelligence committee hearing since President Barack Obama proposed reforms to the spy program.
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., told them an ongoing "culture of misinformation" has undermined the public's trust in America's intelligence leadership.
https://www.adn.com/nation-world/article/senators-grill-spy-chiefs-accuse-them-lies/2014/01/29/k
And then of course lets not forget about the C.I.A. lying about collateral damage due to drone strikes.
Senator Warns CIA Against Lying About Civilians Killed in Drone Strikes
https://www.wired.com/2013/02/feinstein-drone-deaths/
And I'm not even going to bring up their lies about "Weapons of Mass Destruction" Lets instead go all the way back to Iran-contra and see if there was a pattern of lies even back then.
Iran-contra Witness Tells How Cia Lied
It may not be worse than Watergate, but on Tuesday Fiers, who headed the CIA`s task force on Central America in the mid-1980s, sat on the witness stand and began to tell how the CIA pressed the secret war against Nicaragua`s Sandinista government and then lied about it to Congress and the public.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/...house-operation-alan-fiers-iran-contra-affair
Anyhow, that is only a few examples. Lying is what the C.I.A. does man. They even have the backing and expertise to manufacture evidence to go along with their lies. They are the APEX of liars on the world stage.