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US Announces Response To Russian Election Hacking [Update] (reuters.com)
Dustin Volz and Joel Schectman, reporting for Reuters: The Obama administration plans to announce on Thursday a series of retaliatory measures against Russia for hacking into U.S. political institutions and individuals and leaking information in an effort to help President-elect Donald Trump and other Republican candidates, two U.S. officials said on Wednesday. Both officials declined to specify what actions President Barack Obama has approved, but said targeted economic sanctions, indictments, leaking information to embarrass Russian officials or oligarchs, and restrictions on Russian diplomats in the United States are among steps that have been discussed. One decision that has been made, they said, speaking on the condition of anonymity, is to avoid any moves that exceed the Russian election hacking and risk an escalating cyber conflict that could spiral out of control. One example of an excessive step might be interfering with Russian internet messaging. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, Central Intelligence Agency and Office of Director of National Intelligence agree that Russia was behind hacks into Democratic Party organizations and operatives ahead of the Nov. 8 presidential election. There is also agreement, according to U.S. officials, that Russia sought to intervene in the election to help Trump, a Republican, defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton.Update: Here's the statement by the President of the United States in response to Russian malicious cyber activity and harassment: All Americans should be alarmed by Russia's actions. In October, my Administration publicized our assessment that Russia took actions intended to interfere with the U.S. election process. These data theft and disclosure activities could only have been directed by the highest levels of the Russian government. Moreover, our diplomats have experienced an unacceptable level of harassment in Moscow by Russian security services and police over the last year. Such activities have consequences. Today, I have ordered a number of actions in response. I have issued an executive order that provides additional authority for responding to certain cyber activity that seeks to interfere with or undermine our election processes and institutions, or those of our allies or partners. Using this new authority, I have sanctioned nine entities and individuals: the GRU and the FSB, two Russian intelligence services; four individual officers of the GRU; and three companies that provided material support to the GRU's cyber operations. In addition, the Secretary of the Treasury is designating two Russian individuals for using cyber-enabled means to cause misappropriation of funds and personal identifying information. The State Department is also shutting down two Russian compounds, in Maryland and New York, used by Russian personnel for intelligence-related purposes, and is declaring "persona non grata" 35 Russian intelligence operatives. Finally, the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are releasing declassified technical information on Russian civilian and military intelligence service cyber activity, to help network defenders in the United States and abroad identify, detect, and disrupt Russia's global campaign of malicious cyber activities. Editor's note: the story has been updated to include the statement and has also been moved to the top of the front page.
And that's the problem here. The people denying Russian involvement and denying evidence know damned well that no security service is going to fully elaborate on how the intelligence was gathered.
But really, Trump is nominating Rex Tillerson has Secretary of State. That says it all. Putin is getting everything he wants, a direct inside track in the Oval Office.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
There is no "Wikileaks organization" any more, there's the Cult of Assange, and Assange clearly had a personal vendetta against Clinton. I wouldn't believe a single thing Assange said.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Russia was trying to help Russia by showing how weak the U.S. was, and how easily the Russians could break their security at will.
Inadvertently they may have helped Trump, but only to the degree that they simply showed us what Democrats were thinking and doing. Did it not occur to anyone that if the Democrats simply did nothing unethical or shameful that the election would not have been effected?
It was the fact that the DNC shoved Bernie Sanders out in favor of Queen Hillary that cost them so many Bernie voters, not the Russians.
It was the fact that Hillary lied about so, so many things (including to the FBI) that lost her so many other voters, not the Russians.
By contrast, what could the Russians really do to hurt Trump in the election? You can say many things about Trump but can you truly say he was not transparent and vocal about what was truly on his mind? Or that the Democrats dug and aired things beyond even the capability of the Russians to find?
The Russians played no favorites, they dredged up whatever they could and put it out for display to show the world they could. It just happened that Hillary lived by deception and so unvarnished truth hurt her far more than the open-to-a-fault utterly de-varnished Trump.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
The parallels between Trump's Friends of Putin Club and Hitler's pre-WWII Germany are great and very disturbing.
FTFY
Yet the extremely ignorant and uneducated left insist and saying, "literally Hitler" when speaking about Trump.
As a college-educated moderate conservative, I can reassure that Trump is clear and present danger to the U.S. Constitution and the country. Sticking your hand up your ass isn't going to change that.
maybe you should stop calling people who don't enjoy cock up their ass "hillbillies".
Another child posts.
Another AC talks out of his ass. How tiresome.
Provide some proof.
Trump consistently playing the down Russian interfering, defending Russia against Obama and praising Putin at every opportunity. Most Trump's appointees have some kind of relationship with Russia. Trump's casual disregard for every rule put into place to prevent another Watergate scandal 40 years ago. If the Russian connections weren't bad enough, the Nixon connections might be scarier.