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Snowden Doc Shows NSA Blamed Russia For Hack of Murdered Journalist (thehill.com)
The National Security Agency (NSA) knew that the Russian government hacked the email account of a prominent journalist the year before she was killed in Moscow, documents published by The Intercept show. The 2006 murder of longtime Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya -- who was gunned down in the elevator of her apartment complex -- is widely believed to have been a contract killing. Politkovskaya was a noted critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and it has long been suspected that the murder was carried out on his orders. From a report: The NSA compiled an internal file on Politkovskaya, which was exposed as part of the Edward Snowden leaks. Much of the document is unclassified and public, except for one top-secret segment: "Russian Federal Intelligence Services (probably FSB) are known to have targeted the webmail account of the murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya," the passage reads. "On 5 December 2005, RFIS initiated an attack against the account annapolitkovskaia@US Provider1, deploying malicious software which is not available in the public domain. It is not known whether this attack is in any way associated with the death of the journalist."
Vladimir Putin is a clone of Hitler
Calling a Russian "Hitler" is probably a pretty good way to get your ass kicked.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
Seriously Obama you are starting to make Trump look sane. The last thing the world needs is a new cold war, never thought I would say it but Trump can't come soon enough before you do any more damage, I can only assume you or your party has big financial interests that are not supported by friendly relations with Russia.
It took 8 years to undo the damage caused by Bush.
This just isn't accurate. We still have the TSA, we still have prisoners held without trial at Guantanamo Bay, we still have a Patriot Act (even though it isn't called the Patriot Act any more) and carte blanche spying on US citizens, we still have massive massive debt... The damage is most certainly not undone. This is Obama's greatest failure as president - he was elected pretty much with the sole purpose of undoing what Bush had done.
He managed to reduce it in some areas - there are fewer prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, the Patriot Act is marginally less bad than it was, the Bush tax cuts are mostly not bankrupting us anymore - but one cannot simply undo eight years of terrible legislation. You're right that we will be feeling the Trump administration 100 years from now, but we will still be feeling the Obama administration, the Bush administration, etc. Every legislator makes their mark, for good or ill, and when we vote we have to do so with the recognition that the decision we make is not a reversible one.
... that now owns the White House.
We are truly living in interesting times.
Well, after being a daily user of this website for almost 15 years I have to give it up. I took a break during the heat of the election season because the comment sections had gotten over heated and partisan. ... came back today to give it another chance and see the first comment in this thread...Oh well.
Thanks for the memories slashdot. Truely.
The intelligent discussions seem to have disappeared. Best wishes.
Stupid vatnik. Done with the hair rinse yet?
What about all the land you're stealing off Georgia, as you move your borders in South Ossetia and Abkhazia? Or how you sent soldiers to steal Crimia off another nation-state? Or how you're stealing Donbass? Or your countless 'frozen' conflicts (colour-revolutions by another name)?
When was the last time the US actually annexed land? It's been centuries.
Seriously, fuck off with your apologist bullshit, troll.
Gravewax, you obviously want to spin this as a Trump story when it is not. You obviously are trying to promote Trump as if he would handle this better and he would not.
When Trump shares names of Russia dissidents to Putin (which Putin will pretend are terrorists) and Putin kills them, will you defend Trump?
What if those dissidents act in the interests of the US? Would you defend the speech murder then?
What if those dissidents live in America? Would you defend Trump then?
What if those dissidents ARE American living in America, will you defend Trump then?
Putin had a dissident killed for saying thing Putin didn't like. Obama recalled a diplomat, you defend Putin the murderer.
Putin invades a neighbour, kills 10,000 plus people. Obama imposes sanctions, you defend Putin the murderer.
Putin hacks your elections, puts his puppet into power. Obama releases the details of the hack. You defend Putin the murderer.