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Top-Secret NSA Report Details Russian Hacking Effort Days Before 2016 Election (theintercept.com)
Russian hacking groups played a larger role in the 2016 election than anyone realized, according to a highly-classified NSA document published today in The Intercept. The document reveals that a Russian intelligence operation sent spear-phishing emails to more than 100 local election officials days before the election, which ran through a hack of a U.S. voting software supplier. The Russian cyber espionage operation was functional for months before the 2016 U.S. election. From the report: It states unequivocally in its summary statement that it was Russian military intelligence, specifically the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate, or GRU, that conducted the cyber attacks described in the document: "Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate actors ... executed cyber espionage operations against a named U.S. company in August 2016, evidently to obtain information on elections-related software and hardware solutions. ... The actors likely used data obtained from that operation to ... launch a voter registration-themed spear-phishing campaign targeting U.S. local government organizations." This NSA summary judgment is sharply at odds with Russian President Vladimir Putin's denial last week that Russia had interfered in foreign elections: "We never engaged in that on a state level, and have no intention of doing so." Putin, who had previously issued blanket denials that any such Russian meddling occurred, for the first time floated the possibility that freelance Russian hackers with "patriotic leanings" may have been responsible. The NSA report, on the contrary, displays no doubt that the cyber assault was carried out by the GRU.
This is the second time Hillary failed to become “the inevitable president”. Did Russia sabotage her plans last time? (Oh, Obama won the primaries. Hillary made sure she won those this time.)
Did Russia tell Hillary to rig the primaries to freeze our Sanders?
Did Russia get the DNC to provide Hillary the debate questions in advance? (She still did terrible anyway.)
Did Russia make Hillary collapse on their way to their car?
Did Russia encourage Bill to pardon Marc Rich, the billionaire donor to the Clinton campaign and the Clinton Foundation?
Did Russia tell Hillary to be so confident that she could ignore the (previously Democratic) rust belt states in her campaign?
Did Russia tell Hillary to lie about dodging sniper bullets in Bosnia?
Did Russia tell Hillary, when she was a working attorney, to get a rapist a sweet plea deal and then laugh when questioned about it?
Did Russia tell Hillary to call Bill sexual accusers “bimbos”?
Did Russia tell Hillary to say to the bankers that she would ring China with defensive missiles?
Did Russia tell Hillary to have Huma Aberdeen as her aide, assistant editor of a publication that believes in Muslim Sharia Law?
Did Russia tell Hillary to say she would make a no-fly zone in Syria when Russia was already in Syria?
Did Russia tell Hillary to laugh demonically about “came, saw, and kill” Kaddafi?
Did Russia tell Hillary to take bribes on numerous occasions in the form of speaking fees?
Did Russia tell Hillary to use the personal unsecured server?
Did Russia tell Hillary to delete emails that were subpoenaed?
Did Russia tell Hillary to have a corrupt charity?
Did Russia tell Hillary to call 31 million voters deplorable irredeemable racist sexist homophobic bigots?
Did Russia murder Seth Rich, DNC’s Director of Voter Enhancement? He was the Sanders supporter who was shot 4 times while on the ground in a “botched robbery” in which nothing was taken.
Did Russia get the Clintons to accept a bribe on the Uranium One deal? Well, yes, they did do that one.
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Well I knew that slashdot jumped the shark awhile back, but when most of the comments are defending the Russians, it's reached an all new low.
Well, as people get older they do get more conservative...
More seriously - it's been true, for a lot of years, that whenever Slashdot has run a story which casts a bad light on Putin... an awful lot of anonymous pro-Putin posts appear. We saw it when he had his country invade the Ukraine; we saw it when he rigged the 2012 Russian election; and we see it now. It would be interesting to examine Slashdot's web logs.
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Every worldwide election in recent memory that went or was in danger of going the populists' way has been singled out as being meddled with by the Russians, from Brexit to France.
No one's going to call for a new election because Russians posted stuff on facebook any more than they would've called for a new election after Obama flew to London to campaign against Brexit.
>Everyone who disagrees with me is a russian agent.
Yeah, must be that. Couldn't just be that in the current political climate saying anything even remotely supportive of Trump or dismissive of the crazy conspiracies against him is thoughtcrime punishable by public ostracization and the angry dumping of long litanies of "-ist"s and "-phobic"s at the offender.
It's an issue for the DNC - a private organization which is apparently highly incompetent at keeping their shady bullshit under wraps - but not for us.
If provably true, relevant information about a president or presidential candidate comes to light I don't care if it comes from NBC or Fox or Billy Bush or Assange or Putin himself.
I guess it depends how long it takes for Trump to get impeached or otherwise unpresidented through a failed re-election. There is a reason the Trump administration is leaking like an open pipe (a sieve is not leaky enough for this metaphor). The distrust for this man goes beyond mere partisanship, and countless people are risking prison time to try to undo arguably the worst mistake in recent American history.
She probably should never work in a government position again. She has proven herself untrustworthy. Government secrets are important enough where even well-intentioned leakers need to be punished. We can't have every leaker be protected by their good intentions, or else there would be no secrets anymore.
That said, uncontrollable leaking is one of the failsafes of our democracy, and this is what it looks like when the immune system of democracy is rejecting it's new idiot commander.
An IP address from the Russian military.... you believe that? If this was such a sophisticated hack, why would they do it from their own house? They have Starbucks with free WiFi after all. Next thing you know, they'll be stealing credit cards and ordering stuff from Amazon to be delivered to the Kremlin. If it's tied up too neatly, it probably is. It is dangerous to assume that a foreign intelligence agency is that stupid and incompetent such that they would leave a map pointing right back to themselves.
https://theintercept.com/2016/12/14/heres-the-public-evidence-russia-hacked-the-dnc-its-not-enough/
Yeah, just like establishment types sneered at anyone who questioned the invasion of Iraq, calling them Saddam lovers. Establishment types were dumbfuckers back then, too.
While on the subject of dumbfuckery, got any evidence yet of a Russian invasion that wasn't collected from a Ukrainian neo-nazi Facebook page or twitter feed? It's been years now and not a single U.S. satellite photo or drone footage to be had of Russian forces moving across the border.
Then, of course, even if Russia had invaded Ukraine, it would only be a million times more justified than any U.S. intervention you can name, given the fact that the U.S. overthrew the democratically elected government of Ukraine. It's not like the U.S. would just sit by with its thumb up its ass if the KGB overthrew the elected government of Mexico and started making moves to bring the country into the Warsaw Pact.
It will be more interesting when the amount of evidence against Putin exceeds the amount of evidence that Obama's mom knew 45 years in advance that her son could be president, and got him a fake birth certificate with a fake birth announcement in an Hawaiian newspaper.
I would say not as interesting as when the Russiaphobes finally have to admit they were full of it the entire time, but I know you'll just move on to the next conspiracy fed to you by an anonymous source to the CIA-funded Washington Post. The CT that Russia hacked the DNC emails has turned out to be crap, so then you had to settle for "meddling" in the election which has turned out to be crap - a phishing email sent to election officials does jack to change election results - so now it's OMG someone in the Trump camp talked to some Russian official. Call me when you do the same when it comes out that the same campaign talked to the ambassador from India, or from Ireland.
Now, this is the part where you accuse me of being a Saddam lover, for asking for actual evidence of a nuclear weapons program or being involved in 911, and not trusting the word of professional liars and propagandists.
I don't care for Putin either.
But Russia DID NOT invade the Ukraine.
Victoria Nuland et al attempted to finance, train and encourage some local fascists and overturn the local government.
Destroying the country's cohesion, infrastructure, history, and future. Not to mention lots of innocent children and families.
Financed it all to the tune of billions - and that's what we call "regime change", otherwise known as "affecting foreign politics".
Which is apparently what everyone now accuses the USSR of doing.
When the USA does it, and they do it EVERYWHERE they can, it's ok, but when you even think that you're on the receiving end, you whine and point fingers.
Fuck off, you fucking hypocrits.
It can only really happen when the Republicans see that Trump is such an unbelievable liability that they have to replace him with Pence. It's a testament to their lack of character that this hasn't already happened. Once his approval dips below a certain point they'll probably have to pull the trigger. Pence is an odious cunt, of that there can be little doubt - white christian america, women as a slave class, etc - but even Democrats are saying put him in charge. That gives you an idea of what a disaster Trump is for the US. Every day that goes by, it gets weaker and its strategic enemies get stronger.
They can keep him if they want, I don't give that much of a fuck either way. Self-inflicted injuries are the most entertaining.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
They raised her to become a person who'd, though only 9 or 10 when 9.11. happened, pick up Pashto, Farsi and Dari languages and join US Air Force as a linguist, where she served for 6 years.
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06...
Not to mention the whole thing where they raised her to speak out about issues of public interest.
Such as evidence of attacks on the USA by a foreign government, while said attacks are denied by both the said foreign government - and the current USA administration which has landed the job in part thanks to said attacks.
At the expense of own liberty, job, future...
Some people really take that oath thing about "support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic" seriously.
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