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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.
seems Obama wants to stir as much anti Russian sentiment as he can before he joins the trash heap and make it as difficult as possible for Trump. I am very much anti trump but what Obama and Co are doing at the moment is fucking appalling.
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.
or roman like behavior... just being human is probably more like it.
i just read history and say meh, we have done worse.
First, why not Stalin instead of Hitler? He arguably murdered more people over the course of his life - and even engaged in his own brand of ethnic slaughter.
Second, I'm just thinking that constant hyperbole means I don't have a clue what someone means when they compare a person to Hitler these days. Trump is regularly called "Hitler" or a "Nazi" too. So is Putin a real Hitler, intent on purging million of people and taking over the world, or a George Bush / Donald Trump type Hitler where you disagree with his policies or behavior, or somewhere in-between? Calling someone Hitler these days means absolutely nothing, because it's now a term used to describe anyone the left disagrees with.
For the record, I didn't see any justification for Putin to invade Ukraine. It's hard to make a judgment on Crimea, which seemed to have populations vying both ways in a power play, while stabilizing Syria does seem to at least coincide with their actual economic interests (and they're a hell of a lot closer to that region than we are). He could very well be a very dangerous man to his enemies, though obviously we only have suspicions of killings. This makes it hard to differentiate from a conspiracy theory, especially from such a distance away. Remember, a lot of people believe there are a string of suspicious deaths tied to the Clintons as well. He's going to be very difficult for the next US administration to deal with, but it seems we could hardly do worse than what's happened over the past few years short of getting caught up into another a shooting war.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.