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NSA Chief: Nation-State Made 'Conscious Effort' To Sway US Presidential Election (aol.com)

Posted by msmash on from the revelations dept.

The head of the US National Security Agency has said that a "nation-state" consciously targeted presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, in order to affect the US election. From an AOL article:Adm. Michael Rogers, who leads both the NSA and US Cyber Command, made the comments in response to a question about Wikileaks' release of nearly 20,000 internal DNC emails during a conference presented by The Wall Street Journal. "There shouldn't be any doubt in anybody's minds," Rogers said. "This was not something that was done casually. This was not something that was done by chance. This was not a target that was selected purely arbitrarily. This was a conscious effort by a nation-state to attempt to achieve a specific effect." Rogers did not specify the nation-state or the specific effect, though US intelligence officials suspect Russia provided the emails to Wikileaks, after hackers stole them from inside DNC servers and the personal email account of Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, John Podesta. At least two different hacker groups associated with the Russian government were found inside the networks of the DNC over the past year, reading emails, chats, and downloading private documents. Many of those files were later released by Wikileaks.Further reading: Quartz and MotherJones.

7 of 667 comments (clear)

  1. Re:What If The Effect Was... by Anon-Admin · · Score: 4, Funny

    After reading some of the emails released, I am not sure the DNC could spell GPG let alone get it installed and use it correctly.

  2. Re:Blah blah blah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't worry, when the commies invade a scrappy band of high school students will defeat them.

  3. Re:Manchurian Candidate by HornWumpus · · Score: 3, Funny

    Quit insulting Infowars.

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    John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
  4. Re:It's Russia's fault! by unixisc · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's Russia's fault that Debbie Wasserman Schultz rigged events in the DNC in favor of Hilary over Sanders

  5. Re:Blah blah blah by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 5, Funny

    You know....I hope they find exactly who did the break-ins AND the meddling and there are consequences for that.

    I totally agree that there should be consequences for whoever exposed this corruption. Maybe a Congressional Gold Medal, or a Presidential Medal of Freedom.

  6. Re:They didn't succeed though by I'm+New+Around+Here · · Score: 3, Funny

    >

    Also, you voted for a racist, misogynistic fascist. .

    I think the term you are looking for is "deplorable".

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    If you think I voted for Trump because of this post, you're wrong. I voted for Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party. Again.
  7. Re: Blah blah blah by nikkipolya · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think "Holy Man ( priest, Cardinal, etc )" shouldn't be on that list. It should be on another list ;)