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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.

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  1. Re:I'd like to thank the leader of said nation-sta by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    The ruling party... you mean the Republicans? They've been in control of the government for a long time now.

  2. Re:They didn't succeed though by NatasRevol · · Score: 1, Troll

    Really?

    So Trump didn't settle with the DoJ over racial discrimination?

    And he hasn't said many, many racist things since?

    Oh, BTW, she did it too isn't a defense of him.

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  3. Re:They didn't succeed though by DogDude · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm going to continue to call racists, racists, misogynists, misogynists, and fascists, fascists. If it bothers you being called these names, then perhaps you should stop being one or all of these things.

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  4. Re:They didn't succeed though by goose-incarnated · · Score: 1, Troll

    Honestly? Even scarier. The guy made racist/xenophobic remarks through his campaign - on record.

    Obviously, a significant portion of the population does not consider "enforce existing laws" to be the same as "racist".

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