Russia Hackers Had Targets Worldwide, Beyond US Election (apnews.com)

Raphael Satter, Jeff Donn, and Justin Myers, reporting for Associated Press: The hackers who disrupted the U.S. presidential election had ambitions well beyond Hillary Clinton's campaign, targeting the emails of Ukrainian officers, Russian opposition figures, U.S. defense contractors and thousands of others of interest to the Kremlin, according to a previously unpublished digital hit list obtained by The Associated Press. The list provides the most detailed forensic evidence yet of the close alignment between the hackers and the Russian government, exposing an operation that stretched back years and tried to break into the inboxes of 4,700 Gmail users across the globe -- from the pope's representative in Kiev to the punk band Pussy Riot in Moscow. "It's a wish list of who you'd want to target to further Russian interests," said Keir Giles, director of the Conflict Studies Research Center in Cambridge, England, and one of five outside experts who reviewed the AP's findings. He said the data was "a master list of individuals whom Russia would like to spy on, embarrass, discredit or silence."

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Trump is Russia's big play in the U.S.?

[deecemobile]

IMO, if Russia swung the election then they already own the country; they are in every computer, spying on government and citizens and manipulating everything in the U.S. It's over. If this is true then why is Trump their big play? Destabilizing the West was more effective under Obama. O intentionally tried to knock the U.S. down to size. Trump is trying to do the opposite. Just because he doesn't blame Russia as a villain even though Obama-era Intelligence Community does, doesn't make him a type of Manchurian Candidate. It doesn't make sense.

Re:First time an American President committed Trea

[Bing Tsher E]

The Clintons are the ones who should be worried about Mueller's actual investigation. Not because of Mueller's intent, of course (never!!) but because of the side effects of all the looking into things that is coming out.

Also, the 'birther' thing originated from Hillary Clinton's primary campaign against Obama. Yes, it's boring arcana and nothing new with regard to the Clinton Crime Family, but it's the deal.

Nice Straw man

[rsilvergun]

they didn't side with Russian, they sided with Communism. Never mind the fact that Russia was not and never has been communist. They were a dictatorship that happened to use communist rhetoric. And then there's the fact that the American communists were a small minority even in the left wing.

Nice politics troll though. The part at the end was a little odd though. Are you working for the Ruskies?