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Ukraine Hacker Cooperating With FBI In Russia Probe, Says Report (thehill.com)
schwit1 shares a report from The Hill: A hacker in Ukraine who goes by the online alias "Profexer" is cooperating with the FBI in its investigation of Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election, The New York Times is reporting. Profexer, whose real identity is unknown, wrote and sold malware on the dark web. The intelligence community publicly identified code he had written as a tool used in the hacking of the Democratic National Committee ahead of last year's presidential election. The hacker's activity on the web came to a halt shortly after the malware was identified. The New York Times, citing Ukrainian police, reported Wednesday that the individual turned himself into the FBI earlier this year and became a witness for the bureau in its investigation. FBI investigators are probing Russian interference efforts and whether there was coordination between associates of President Trump's campaign and Moscow. Special counsel Robert Mueller is heading the investigation.
How many more should have to die over such nonsense?
Donald Trump colluded with Russia's attack on our democracy and continues to cover up Russian crimes.
Donald Trump continues to obstruct investigations into Russia's election hacking and refuses to protect our country against Russian attacks.
Donald Trump's behavior is the literal definition of treason.
nuhhhhhhhhhh fuhh
Yiur all the Naszi, Meep meep! arf
I guess John Podesta didn't fall for a simple phishing scam, the servers were hacked direct by some uber-Ukranian Evil Crime Lord sitting at a computer system that would make the one in Swordfish look like a Fisher-Price toy (blowjob under the desk by Halle Barry probably not included...) All done at the behest of Putin as he rode, magnificently and bare-chested, through the Siberian tundra aboard his chestnut colored steed, hunting wolves with a slingshot and pocket knife.
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
So the Russian government is employing Ukrainian hackers. This doesn't make sense.
Like a Ukrainian hacker is going to turn himself in... without direction from the Communist Party.... To cause havoc in our political system.
5 out of 6 people enjoy Russian Roulette & 6 out of 7 Dwarfs are not Happy
Weren't there several discussions on how it was a local USB copy and questions of why the DNC have yet to let anyone including the FBI actually look at the supposed compromised servers? Also that the DNC needed to make Wikileaks appear to be 'stealing' the information with some Russian bogeyman. I also saw some information that the Ukraine and various associated parties were contributing to the DNC possibly illegally and that none of the supposed hackers were Russian or real, but Ukrainians... Oh I guess that must all be wrong right? Good save by the trusty New York Times.
durrrpp... Nazis? There's nothing wrong with Nazis..
Nazis just love Robert E Lee, because he is a traitor just like Donald Trump.
There are good neo-Nazis who just want to walk around with torches screaming anti-semitic slurs and threatening violence. They are very fine people. Just like Robert E Lee, a very fine traitor.
Durrppp I'm such a trashy wannabee Nazi that I support traitors like Donald Trump and Robert E Lee.
*sucjs girlteeth*
Do you HAVE to alt-man in eveyr thread? Can't we have a nice girls thread?
This fukcking rape culture shit asshole?
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All he did was get Podesta to fall for a lame phising email.
If that's all it takes to "hack" a Democrat, it's a good damn thing Hillary! didn't win.
Her whole damn administration would have fallen for a Nigerian prince scam.
Or a Russian uranium one...
I mean, the NYT has been right with 100% of the Russia stuff so far, right?
Every single week, usually every single day, another Russia story, and they have ALL turned out to be true, right?
And EVERYBODY knows how much Ukrainians LOVE Russia, right?
Muh Russia.
Muh Russia.
Muh Russia...
During the run up to Tony Blair's invasion of Iraq (for which the people of Spain would love to 'thank' him for the murderous events of the last day), Blair's tame media outlets- fronted by the BBC and Guardian newspaper- pushed the FAKE NEWS lie of Saddam's 'mobile biological warfare units'. In reality these were British provided systems to inflate weather balloons- but diagrams of the same devices were annotated by the BBC and others to 'prove' they were designed to 'brew' biological agents.
The directors of the company contatacted the press to correct the fake news- but then were in their turn visited by MI5 to tell them to keep their mouths shut and to allow the BBC to carry on pumping out its pro-war lies. The truth of the psy-op only came out later when Blair had already laid waste to Iraq.
Years earlier, Amnesty International, the MI6 psy-op fronted by a bunch of British celebs, co-published the FAKE NEWS lies about Saddam's forces throwing babies out of incubators in Kuwait. Amnesty International's lying atrocity propaganda culminated in the 'highway of death'- the greatest concentrated act of mass murder in Human History.
Slashdot runs daily anti-Russia propaganda as part of a general Deep State preparation for war between the USA and Russia down the road. Same reason the US Congress bloc voted, soviet style, for sanctions against Iran, Russia and N Korea. Of course, unlike every other enemy the cowardly Americans have butchered, the Russians can look after themselves. When Clinton authorised actual nazis to go after ethnic Russians in East Ukraine, Russia ensured these NATO backed goons were ground to dust. Likewise, Russia has exterminated Clinton's wahhabi terror gangs in Syria. Yet those of you that suck up every piece of anti-Human hate promoted by Slashdot honestly think Russia will fall to American aggression like all the others.
Not that the owners of Slashdot will ever get over the fact that despite 99.999% of the mainstream media and fake Soros funded 'indy' media campaigning day and night for war criminal Clinton, she lost to a 'no-hoper' like Trump.
Before the election
Dec. 10, 2015
Lt. Gen Michael Flynn is part of a panel discussion in Moscow for the 10th anniversary of government-backed Russia Today, for which he receives payment (The Washington Post, Aug. 15, 2016). Officials notice an increase in communication between Flynn and the Russian ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kislyak, following the Russia Today event (CNN, May 19, 2017).
Late 2015
British intelligence agencies detect suspicious interactions between Russia and Trump aides that they pass on to American intelligence agencies (The Guardian, April 13, 2017).
March 19, 2016
Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta is sent an email that encourages him to change his email password, likely precipitating the hack of his account (CBS News, Oct. 28, 2016).
March 21
During an interview with The Post, Trump lists Carter Page as part of his foreign policy team. Page had been recommended by a son-in-law of President Richard Nixon, New York Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox (WP, March 21, 2016).
March 28
Political veteran Paul Manafort is hired to help the Trump campaign manage the delegate process for the Republican National Convention. He is recommended by Trump confidante Roger Stone (New York Times, March 28, 2016). Before joining the campaign, Manafort lobbied on behalf of Oleg Deripaska, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. That deal followed a memo from Manafort in which he offered a plan that could "greatly benefit the Putin Government." His relationship with Deripaska ended in 2009 (Associated Press, March 22, 2017). Manafort also worked on behalf of the Russia-friendly Party of Regions in Ukraine, helping guide the party's leader, Viktor Yanukovych, to the country's presidency. Yanukovych would later be ousted. (WP, Aug. 19, 2016)
April 27
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) may have met with Kislyak at a reception at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington before a foreign-policy speech given by Trump (CNN, May 31, 2017).
June
At a closed-door meeting of foreign policy experts and the prime minister of India, Page praises Putin effusively (WP, Aug. 5, 2016).
June 9
Donald Trump, Jr., Manafort and son-in-law Jared Kushner meet at Trump Tower with a Kremlin-connected attorney named Natalia Veselnitskaya. Veselnitskaya's efforts to reverse a law passed in 2012 sanctioning Russians suspected of human rights violations at some point drew the attention of the FBI. The meeting was not initially reported to the government by Kushner as required when he took a position with the administration (Times, July 8, 2017). After the meeting was originally reported, Trump, Jr. admitted that the pretext for the conversation was that he believed Veselnitskaya to have information incriminating Hillary Clinton (Times, July 9, 2017).
June 15
A hacker calling himself "Guccifer 2.0" releases the Democratic National Committee's research file on Donald Trump (Gawker, June 15, 2016). News reports already link the stolen data to Russian hackers (WP, June 14, 2016).
July
At some point this month, the FBI begins investigating possible links between the Russian government and Trump's campaign (Wired, March 20, 2017).
July 7
Page travels to Moscow to give a lecture (NYT, April 19, 2017). The Trump campaign approved the trip (USA Today, March 7, 2017). This trip was likely the catalyst for the FBI's request for a secret surveillance warrant to track Pageâs communications (WP, May 25, 2017).
July 11 or 12
Trump campaign staffers intervene with the committee developing the Republican Party's national security platform to remove language call arming Ukraine against Russian aggression. (July 18, 2016).
July 18
At an event hosted by the Heritage Foundation as part of the Republican National Convention, Sessions and Kislyak have a brief conversation (WP, March 2, 2017).
Flynn delivers a speech at the Republican convention, joining in the crowd's "Lock her up!" chant. "If I, a guy who knows this business, if I
Slashdot. The latest player in the FAKE NEWS game. Seth Rich was the leaker. This will come out soon, BeauHD.
Why can't we go back to using jumpers to configure slot adapter cards? Why? I say!
Real news: Ukrainian lawmakers asked police to investigate Clinton election help.
What do we make of Seymour Hersh's comments about Seth Rich? For that matter, what do we make of PI Wheeler's comments about his investigation (the laptop/emails)? It's already known now that a hack was impossible; the files were transferred locally and made to look as though they came through a Russian source (covering tracks). Source audio of Hersh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYzB96_EK7s
WIKILEAKS already confirmed Seth as the source of the leaks. This story is totally and completely false. Why have there been such numerous retractions about the DNC 'hack' over the past few months? They have been LYING!
HIS NAME WAS SETH RICH
All I know is that Russia hacked the election and made me change my vote along with all the others.
At least that's what they tell me.
Does he not have access to youtube or something? https://www.youtube.com/watch?... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... yadayadayada....
What the hell are ya doin' Beau...?
When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law he tore his robes.2Kings22:11
from TFS: "turned himself into the FBI"
Ah, yes ... reminds me of the magician who was walking down the street and turned into a convenience store.
Alternative wording- try "turned himself in to the FBI". Much less disruptive to law enforcement.
...omphaloskepsis often...
The depths of parallel construction have now entered into the realm of fantasy for the FBI. Their source is some anonymous hacker that is supposedly the author of some code the FBI conveniently "discovered" who also just happened to turn himself in to the FBI who have no actual jurisdiction in Ukraine. Lol wut
Lord knows slashdot has run enough stories about racism, sexism, etc they felt the need to go back to the fake russian hacking... I mean "collusion" for a minute. Anything to meet that daily anti trump quota eh slashdot? Hopefully trump does a mean tweet and we can get another brief reprieve from from the identity political bullshit.
I'm not even a big supporter of trump but the endless bitching about him is so contrived and ridiculous. News for nerds, stuff that matters!
By that measure, multiple Democrats would be guilty also. See the "dossier" and Democratic party members who colluded with the Ukraine to dig up dirt on Paul Manafort.
Because they would have to charge people in both parties, you simply won't see it happen. On the 1 in a trillion chance they do make such a charge, it would be on a toady that actually did the handling of information and cash that would be guilty. Hillary and Donald would be free of any such charge.
Contrary to popular belief, Politicians really are not dumb. They all come from Law school and know how to play the game.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
Well I wish Profexer the best of luck and hope he isn't found dead like so many who cross the Kremlin Mafiocracy.
You have nothing. Nothing you listed is illegal, and everything you have listed seems normal for a transition team and business people. Why no stink with Obama met with dozens of foreign agencies before he was even elected, let along after he won? Ignoring history makes you look really dumb to most of us.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
Are you alleging that Trump directly colluded with a foreign government, or that someone under him did? Will be Hillary be charged with Treason if Alexandra Chalupa is charged with colluding with a foreign government? Much more evidence that happened, but that doesn't change the question.
14 months after these allegations started there is still no evidence that Trump did anything wrong. I see a few very weak allegations based on anecdote that Flynn or Manafort did, but there are 0 (Zero, goose egg, nada) charges pending for either of them. That is after at least 12 months investigating Manafort and 9 months investigating Flynn.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
according the buzz that seems to be circulating. But I'm sure that can be covered up by the FBI...
This is an even more pathetic defense.
The "the country which attacked your democracy isn't an enemy" goes a step further to allege it's legal to collude with a foreign adversary's attack on your country, as long as what some paperwork to officially declare them an enemy hasn't been filled out?
Seriously treason isn't just illegal - it's wrong. What does it say about you that you hide behind pedantic nonsense to claim that the country which has attacked and is attacking America is not an adversary?
as if some random hacker would just be given all and any such information, had there been any. They extradited this guy on bogus charges, and are now telling him he can either lie for them, or spend the rest of his life in an American federal prison.
He will say whatever lies they want, and what's worse, the dumb Americans and average internet dweller will believe it.
Or at least about as coherent as it gets in the news these days.
Cause I know your questions, fi you choose to ask them.
The answer is:
1) Collusion
2) Espionage Act
3) Money Laundering
4) Obstruction of Justice
Morally it is having a President who is an agent of Russia, our greatest enemy, betraying Americans.
I think that about sums it up.
Denial is not a river in Egypt.
Too many of my fellow Americans have lost their mind, just because Trump won. I didn't vote for him, but at least I didn't fall for this Russian BULLSHIT, which we ONLY have the word from CrowdStrike -- a "private" company the DNC and has ties to Clinton -- that "MAYBE" the RUSSIANS did it. FOR FUCK SAKE PEOPLE! The real collusion and crimes are with Clinton and the DNC. But we need to get Trump out, so let's just blame him for the DNC/Clinton's bullshit...
While i am left leaning, I am no apologist to either the Clintons or Obama.
Having said that, many Dems are apologists, as are *ALL* Republicans I have ever met (I would love to meet one who ISN'T, but anyone who lists R as their party sure seems to, no matter the conduct, legal matters, or proposed bills being discussed.) This is one of the two major tragedies of the past election (The other being Bernie selling out and supporting Clinton rather than jumping to the Green Party ticket and trying to establish a 'funded' 3rd party for the next election.) Our system is getting worse because everybody is too busy looking at the next 4-8 years instead of looking at the bigger picture and what is necessary to dilute the centralization of power continuing to happen in US politics by ensuring, even if they don't win, that enough third parties are eroding votes from the Democrats and Republicans to ensure that future votes will have a better chance of actually representing the peoples will, whether left leaning or right leaning, and hopefully eventually learning to institutional reform, so that for instance, greater than 51 percent of the population has to vote for a candidate for them to become president (The most ignored detail of this past election was that neither candidate had over 51 percent of the vote, meaning neither was actually a popular candidate for a majority of americans. Maybe the final numbers were different, but the numbers I saw were ~48 percent of the vote each, give or take a half percent, with about 4 percent having voted for 3rd party candidates. None of which were enough to ensure said candidates will get federal funding or televised viewship opportunities during the next election, both important factors to having 'dissenting voice' candidates available in future elections.) Furthermore this past election acting as a final form of polarization of the two political parties into essentially rabid sports teams, ignoring misconduct of their own players while ranting about the misconduct of the other side's... even after they have already won/lost.
How convenient, let's just ignore the very person who's campaign is responsible for this Russian-conspiracy-bullshit.
No hacking, NO COLLUSION... STOP wasting our time, tax money, and get back to fucking work fixing our country... I'll probably get modded down though, because it appears that Media Matters have their narrative-army out in full force trying to make sure their lies get modded up and the truth modded down.
fake news.
fake hacker.
fake evidence.
fake case.
let's lock Hillary up over her private email server (that created her own vulnerability in the first place), and then we'll talk Trump.
Russia hacked Hillary's illegal IT platform that the U.S. gov earned her about on repeat; not the gov, not the dnc, Hillary got hacked.
had Hillary followed the rules in the first place a) she might have won the election or b) at least she wouldn't have been hacked and we might not be talking about Russia at all.
Hillary doing illegal things and fing up is why things are so bent on the news today. and she's not even president. imagine that.
Brian Krebs has a blog post today claiming the NYT is incorrectly attributing these claims.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/08/blowing-the-whistle-on-bad-attribution/
I want him to get a chance to tell his story. There are probably a lot of people who wouldn't, people with the power to make bad things happen.
http://www.salon.com/2017/08/15/what-if-the-dnc-russian-hack-was-really-a-leak-after-all-a-new-report-raises-questions-media-and-democrats-would-rather-ignore/
How many people has he fired over the Russia story?
Nothing like a massively broad generalization to attempt to portray a narrative, followed by a speculation based on 3rd party opinion instead of facts or the subject being attacked with this rhetoric.
Manafort was fired after a short stint on the campaign. Manafort having been in Ukraine, and Trump firing him to an independent observer looks like Trump didn't want people with potential ties to Russia on his team. Further evidence of this can be found in documents given to the various committees where a guy kept trying to setup meetings with Russian officials and both Manafort and Trump refused any meetings.
Flynn, like Manafort had a problem with visibility. Having been in Turkey and on RT the firing looks like Trump did not want people with potential ties to Russia. As with Manafort, there is plenty of evidence to back that assertion.
Sally Yates was fired because she _refused_to_do_her_job and played politics on an issue not related to "Russia". The DOJ works for the President, and she refused to comply with the law and her bosses (yes, that is plural). Her job was to address the law, not to grandstand a Democratic position which _MOST_ Americans disagree with.
Comey was fired for lots of reasons. The particular issue of "Russia" Trump disliked is that Comey would not publicly announce that Trump was not under investigation which would have removed the narrative repeated by Leftists, Democrats, RINOs, and the media that supports them. Democrat and RINO outrage is laughable, as is any true Republican outrage. Comey was the most evil man alive and cost Hillary the election and a _majority_ of voices in Media and Politics called for his head numerous times since last summer for slightly different reason. We call this feigned outrage, and it's quite common.
You then make a claim about Mueller which is based on what? Tea leaf or bone reading? Are aliens beaming you info, or the extra voices in your head telling you things? Perhaps all of those things from third parties in your religious party so you believe them? I can only suggest that you consider medical treatment for your delusion.
Instead of playing the fallacy logic game, how about you use real logic and critical thinking. Give me _FACTS_ which show President Trump, or anyone on his team, committed a crime. After over a year of investigation by the FBI including numerous individual investigations, numerous Senate and Congressional committees running for upwards of 8 months, and independent investigation for 6 months, there are 0 charges and 0 evidence presented which even hints at wrong doing let alone crimes being committed.
If you were smart, you would be pissed at politicians and media outlets for lying to you repeatedly and generating hysteria over those lies. Sadly people are not smart, which is why the media continues the narrative. Dummies keep falling for it.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
Please read the following blog post for a full and complete review of how and why this NYT article is totally flawed:
http://www.robertmlee.org/russian-election-meddling-grizzleysteppe-and-bananas/
Last I checked, the Ukraine and Russia were practically at war. I'm not sure how the involvement of a Ukrainian automatically means a Putin managed it.
Dnc was not hacked. Facts show that hack was fabricated by some in the dnc, to offset the damage from all those Facts in the Podesta emails.
And, adults know the emails were not hacked, tbey were provided by someone who worked with our traitorous goverment scumbags.
Wake the fuck up you retarded sheep.
From TFA: "Ukrainian police did not provide details on the individual in question, including his name, but said he is living in Ukraine and has not been arrested. THERE IS NO EVIDENCE the individual worked for Russian intelligence."
From other articles in Ukrainian and Russian press - hacker made it very clear that he was NOT working for Russia. Moreover, he only created the malware, he didn't attack any American server.
I'm starting to think that Slashdot stopped being news for nerds and became a swamp of low-end political "news".