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CIA Captured Putin's 'Specific Instructions' To Hack the 2016 Election, Says Report (thedailybeast.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Daily Beast: When Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr., CIA Director John Brennan and FBI Director James B. Comey all went to see Donald Trump together during the presidential transition, they told him conclusively that they had "captured Putin's specific instructions on the operation" to hack the 2016 presidential election, according to a report in The Washington Post. The intel bosses were worried that he would explode but Trump remained calm during the carefully choreographed meeting. "He was affable, courteous, complimentary," Clapper told the Post. Comey stayed behind afterward to tell the president-elect about the controversial Steele dossier, however, and that private meeting may have been responsible for the animosity that would eventually lead to Trump firing the director of the FBI.
When you require careful and concerted choreography to explain simple concepts to your president, there might be a problem.
If your boss explodes when reality does not conform to his wishes, he just might be a snowflake.
The real surprise would be if they didn't find any evidence of this.
Were those Putin's exact words or the MSM ubiquitous translation?
If you show the average person evidence that someone is doing something bad, they might ask questions about the reliability of the evidence.
If his own spy agency shows Trump evidence that Russia is doing something bad, he denounces them and has an off-the-record chat with Putin.
I wouldn't trust a spy agency as a general rule - their whole existence is about getting what they want by deception - but I'd hardly trust the Russians when it comes to a domestic agency's claims against them.
This immediately leads to questions about why a president might trust a foreign power over his own agencies. And more questions when there are records of his team attempting to work with that same power to scuttle an opponent's election bid, that have been consistently lied about in an obvious cover-up.
But this is Trump, so this will amount to another round of Twitter outrage and blow over.
That means they can release it, and settle this in public once and for all right? Right?
Oh, wait, it has to remain secret forever and we just have to take your word like with WMD in Iraq?
Yeah, no thanks.
With the Meuller investigation falling apart, dems refocusing on sexual assault allegations against Trump, I think this is pretty much bullshit until they release it.
Step 1: Subvert the dumbest man in America
Publish them... SHOW us all this "Evidence" I want to SEE it. Not hear about it. I can hear lies from ALL directions. SHOW ME THE TRUTH!
So the U.S. hacked Russian communications?
Is there any evidence that Putin ordered his resources to back President Trump? If so, we have a real problem. Even more damaging, the defenders who are screaming that we have no evidence lost that argument and this would seemingly indicate that tapping of Trump's communications was not only legal but warranted.
Don't forget the uranium. And the Russians.
Just forget the part about those things already being looked into and dismissed.
Somehow we are expected to believe that Putin was conspiring with Trump to get him elected at the exact same time he was working with Hillary to prevent him from getting elected. And the Democrats that were screaming for Comey to be fired for months are suddenly outraged when Trump does what they asked for. *And* somehow the CIA and FBI are chock full of integrity at the same time they are hiring spouses to build fake reports to damage Trump and switching to use HAM radios to avoid being recorded. *And* Clapper, who lied under oath to congress is suddenly trustworthy. Is the American memory really that bad?
Yes, just forget about the people who dismissed them being avid Clintonites, so much so that they had to be fired from the subsequent Mueller investigation. Forget about the fact that they sent text messages saying that even if Trump was elected they could use a special prosecutor as an insurance plan against him.
Curious Slashdot only wants to tell one side of the story.
Why no posts about Peter Strzok who worked on the Russian investigation AND Hillary's email server investigation who's leaked texts indicate he wanted to take Trump down even BEFORE he was elected!
http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/13/fbi-officials-discussed-insurance-policy-against-trump-presidency/
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-14/new-russian-hacker-claims-putin-ordered-theft-clintons-email-after-first-one-refused
I'm glad they finally found the smoking gun.
I know those ads on facebook made me change my vote!
But I'm curious, why did Hillary give them all our Uranium yet Putin wanted Trump to win? And why didn't China do anything?
For such a big story there's no information other than Russia = Evil and the election got hacked. I'm sure us Slashdotters who understand technology surely understand what that means.
I'm not saying Putin and the FSB aren't complete pieces of shit.
I'm just saying if you out-Stalin Stalin, and trying to make people forget that, maybe you should not point at a dog and yell "Hitler!".
They *wish* they were as evil and psychopathic as you.
Be a good role model, would ya?
Or to be more accurate, there were several firm phone calls.
The could have responded in kind, with attacks on Russian assets, or possibly financial attacks on assets close to Putin. There is no need to take credit, just leave thick hints and just a shred of plausible deniability.
There is the simple fact that even if the DNC and Hillary were hacked by the Russians, which evidence shows that it was mostly leaked data by their own people, they were acting in a criminal manner to rig the nomination process and to burn Trump with made with a made up dossier
I for one do not care how the information came out. The fact that it came out was good enough for me. I actually hope hackers all over the world do this every election. Break in to both sides as show where all the bodies are buried. Maybe then we can end some of the corruption that plagues governments.
Exactly.
The media has been pounding on the Russian drum for over a year now. So far, it's a big nothing-burger. A few alleged Facebook ads, not even a molecule in a drop in a bucket. Otherwise, endless allegations, but a stunning lack of actual proof.
Really, it's like the media are trying to distract from something. Like, maybe, Trump isn't doing such a bad job after all?
Enjoy life! This is not a dress rehearsal.
Turns out the entire FBI leadership was, and mostly still is, a rat's nest of opposition to him filled with unethical bureaucrats who think it's their right to have "insurance policies against the President" among other things.
If this were happening in 2009, the Democrats would have been giving Obama--rightly--carte blanch to purge the entire agency's leadership above the level of GS15. It doesn't matter what you think of Trump or Obama. Neither of them were Hitler or Stalin or anything like that. The only proper response from the federal civil service to their every lawful order is "yes, sir." Anything else is insubordination; this is approaching mutiny.
He continued and expanded W. Bush's policies so much, that we, outside of the usVSthem brainwashing call him Bush 3.0 (because W was 2.0).
If you manage to look at the actual actions and results, it is one continous progress since at least Nixon. Parties don't mean fuck-all. Which is obvious, given that they are staffed with 100% lobbyists (which used to be a crime, treated as treason, punished with a maximum sentence).
The second in charge of the FBI was texting about anti trump insurance policies during the election. Clearly we can not believe anything FBI and CIA say.
Also: It's 1965 again.
Moron. At least do you job right, if the CIA is paying you.
Besides, backwater town Slavs and US rednecks are basically one of a kind from my western European perspective.
They might be primitive, but they are a lot of fun. I could never again hate them, now that we have the Internet, and a constant stream of videos showing that matter where you go, people are just normal people, like us.
The only exception, and with evidence, are the psychopaths that rule all of them/us.
And your behavior is PRECISELY why that keeps being the case. They brainwash people into hating people they never met.
I don't hate you. Despite your comment, I am confident that you are actually a pretty nice guy. Can you do the same?
If you can stomach it, read the Washington Post article. It's filled with page after page of "he said she said".
Not one shred of evidence. I'm sure Russia, and every other country, has a preferred outcome in mind with regard to all foreign elections, but I haven't seen any evidence to suggest that ANY country manipulated our vote count in any way.
Up to this point it still appears that Russia bought some ads to try to sway the vote. There is no evidence that they hacked any voting machines. There appears to be no evidence of the Russians hacking anyone's email either.
Can we move on? Hillary lost Trump won.
Trump has been dancing with putin. There's no evidence of it... but if you keep looking you can piece a story together that loosely fits that narrative.
Trump has been colluding with russia. There's no evidence of it... but if you keep looking you can piece a story together that loosely fits that narrative.
In either case, no illegal activity has taken place.
Let's not pay attention to those screaming about them being frenetic Trumpeters, so much so that they chanted in chorus with him when he screamed his mantra of "Locker her up" and forget about the fact that his own son was caught trying to consort with Russian Intelligence agencies and lying about it.
So a "news" agency makes an outlandish claim and produces no evidence to support that claim and we are expected to simply believe it.
My how Slashdot has fallen - this used to be a place for evidence based discussion. Now it's a sewing circle.
Look, I don't trust the FBI. But PJMedia? Really?
Trump was too casual on this. And like this intelligence world is holding more. If Trump/pence loved America, they would simply step down and allow ryan to take over. Neither trump nor pence love America enough to do what is right. They are going to force America to release more which will only help Russia/China know how and where we monitor them.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
The ramblings of an A/C are usually caused by a lack calcium in their diet.
I am American and the amount of fake news is lots today! Wondering now why no one talks about Hillary and how she murdered children to keep power? Tonsof proof of this and her DNC hacking which leaked from the Benghazi hearings!
so where is that evidence?
we want to see it...
until then its just garbage
Please! What is that supposed to mean? Did they actually flip votes on the machines, or somehow forced people to vote Republican? This is tabloid press bullshit.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
...and you can believe as much or as little of that as you like.
Almost every story, the right wing noise brigade shows up with their out and out bullshit. The purpose is not even to shut down debate, it's just to firebomb the threads so there is nothing meaningful contained therein.
Happened earlier with the FCC NN thread. Now this one. Just lies and talking points.
So, maybe they are right, and NN doesn't matter. The SNR is so low now, the internet is useless.
This is the same James Clapper who lied under oath in proceedings in Congress. Not sure he can be trusted to make any comments at this point.
... Trump was the sort of person who would...
...kill the messenger. A petty little man.
CUR ALLOC 20195.....5804M
Becaue that is not evidence either!
Evidence needs to be peer-reviewable, or it is the same as anecdotal hearsay. Even the best study is just anecdotal hearsay, unless you check it with your own experiments.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/world/national-security/donald-trump-pursues-vladimir-putin-russian-election-hacking/?utm_term=.142f74849f3c
Found the democrat whom denies all evidence of Clinton pedophile ring and that the Russia are innocent. I am American (big fan of Texas Rangers! Go Bucks!) and know that you are the fake news.
Hillary didn't lose because of Russia. Trump didn't win because of Russia.
Ignore Russia for five seconds if you can... Hillary was a weak candidate and so was pretty much the entire republican field.
Jeb Bush for example carried 3 percent of the republican vote. Hillary is generally disliked by most of her own party. Trump naturally is one of the most disliked presidents in US history. But he didn't win the election because people liked him. He won because for whatever reason... he said he was going to do things and people believed him.
Pretending that the current political circumstances are the result of the Russians is deranged. This is the same sort of blind spot that lead to Al Gore losing the election against Bush 43. Anyone that studied the gore vs bush election knows that Gore made a lot of mistakes. If you tell yourself you lose because of the Russians or because the Supreme Court robbed you... then you're going to keep losing and you'll deserve to lose.
I've decided to stop wasting my time responding to AC trolls/sockpuppets... so if you want a response from me... login.
Nothing new here. More fake news that has never been reported by ANY OTHER news agency and has never been verified NOR has it has ever been repeated, except by the mentally distrubed still crying about not having sex with their alpaca this moring.
Love their little poopies.
By publishing this they just told the Russians exactly how they were spying on the highest echelons of their government. If they captured Putin directly giving the order that means there was with a spy in the room in which case that spy is now either ex-filtrated out or dead or they just told the Russians whatever communications kit they were using has been hacked in which case the have dropped whatever system they were using. Publishing this = compromising US security 10x worse than an "collusion" with Russia (as if the Russians ever needed to collude with Trump to justify hacking Podesta emails...).
Seriously Hilary Clinton was the worst candidate anyone has seen and she lost, maybe if you realize that you can start to understand why she lost and why her plan was so bad.
...but Trump remained calm during the carefully choreographed meeting...
Why would he be upset? After all, he won!!
For firing James Clapper. I do however know many reasons for why he should have been fired long ago:
1. He lied under oath to Congress about NSA surveillance of American citizens.
2. When it looked like Hillary was a sure bet for POTUS he mishandled the entire email investigation by destroying evidence, instructing subordinates to reword their findings to a non illegal definition, and refusing to suggest prosecution.
3. In an "oh shit" moment, when it looked like Trump had a very real chance to win, he magically finds more "related" emails and releases them to the public right before election time. Later after voting is up the American public finds out that the emails had little to do with the original investigation.
4. His entire handling of the Russian investigation and steele dossier. Every time a major conversion takes place between James and Trump, its magically a one on one, private, unprovable conversation. This is NOT the way in which you communicate with someone you are investigating.
Any one of those reasons he should be fired for but in combination, I believe he should be jailed. He has shown a steady track record of selfish, non partisan corruption.
Remember when they had incontrovertible proof that Saddam had WMD's and we had to go to war to stop him? Yeah, those were fun times.
And People take his words and run with them, only later do the News Agencies claim they were wrong (less Foxnews). I for one am tired of it.
https://www.theguardian.com/us...
I had such a warm fuzzy after Roy Moore was beat by Doug Jones, that I'm looking forward to Trump's ouster.
If you braindead George Soros (a real life jew AND an actual nazi from WW2) programmed yanks want war with Russia you can have war with Russia- but know this. Such a war will wipe out yankland from Human History for all time.
We see this dribbling anti-Russian propaganda across all tech sites now (go look at the infamous WCCFTECH for instance, that mirrors the effort on Slashdot). And today the BBC (PR arm of MI5) has its saturation coverage about "dirty russians" planning to destroy the international cables running across the oceans (the same cables GCHQ taps into- but the BBC is hardly going to tell its dwindling audience that little FACT).
Funny thing is, all these anti-Trump outlets are NOT discussing the demonic plan to move the US embassy to Jerusalem. See, when Trump proposes a crime that serves the JEWS, all the jewish controlled outlets fall silent.
And slashdot has run multiple articles saying radiation is GOOD for you- in readiness for the use of (small) nuclear warheads against Iranian facilities.
Obviously only braindead zionist losers still hang on this site (and those of us who monitor the mindset of said DANGEROUS losers)- as comments here prove. The world sits on the edge of WW3, and the population of a nation that benefits so much from trade now wants to see everything burn, because of their addiction to orwellian propaganda.
Now you little warmongering dribblers- dismiss this comment as the work of a 'russian troll' just like your masters tell you to do.
He is not the most credible guy.
Bill Maher VS Donald Trump - The Full Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
that a little birdie told them so. Really compelling stuff.
But who cares -- it's flashy and hugely controversial, and so will generate a yuuuuge number of SlashClicks.
Yes, people from all over the world are trying the hack the US all the time. What else is new?
The issue is whether, or not, Trump was personally involved in an illegal conspiracy to rig the election.
And that issue, the real issue, is not even addressed.
Putin controls the CIA. He won it in a card game with Trump.
rewriting history since 2109
COLLUSION!!! IMPREACH 45!!!!
Wikileaks colluded with Trump - Lie that was repeated for a year.
Release the evidence (like Wikileaks does) so it can be verified, because there's been nothing but bullshit coming out of the US government for as long as I can remember.
Putin controlled the DNC, is that right?
Seriously, did you faggots even read what Donna Brazil wrote?
If someone broke the law and you have evidence, you don't need to blame them for the current circumstances. You can just blame them for the crime.
Let's say we had a nasty argument, and in the course of our disagreement .. shit, I happened to shoot you and you died. Even worse than you dying, I got caught and the police are giving me a hard time! But I have an ace up my sleeve. See this file here? Turns out you had cancer and were doing to be dead in a few weeks anyway. (We were arguing about how much you're gonna pay me for some fraudulent cancer treatments that I sell. Hmm.. in hindsight, I think shooting you did not help me maximize my revenue, so I already have some regrets about that. Sorry.) By the time of my trial, there's no way you would have still been around.
Was it murder? Am I the reason your family doesn't have you anymore?
No, I'm not quite the reason your family doesn't have you anymore. Nevertheless, there was a murder.
From the court's point of view, it's not just about you; it's about me (the criminal) too. The jury will convict me, not let me go due to your cancer. Similarly, some of Trump's people (and maybe Trump himself, depending on the usual "what did the president know and when did he know it?") are getting indicted. Some may go to trial, others are already pleading guilty because they know how red-handed they got caught. A crime definitely happened and we caught some of the Trump people involved, and they're confessing. That these people have confessed to confirm all the evidence of their crimes, is an objectively true non-partisan uncontroversial fact. They did it, and they're admitting they did it.
That 95% of the voters tragically voted Republicrat right after these crimes, still might not be these criminals' fault. But we can still take out some Republicrat criminals that we've caught, so that next time, maybe the numbers will be a little better. But even election hopes aside, taking out Republicrat criminals means don't have to worry about all the other things that they do. There's way more to life than just the 2016 election, after all.
Even if the jury thinks your cancer is nearly as responsible for your death as my bullet was, they have a scumbag here who was going around shooting people! What if the next person I shoot, doesn't have cancer? You've gotta take out the bad guys.
Trump supporters: dumber than cattle
When all else fails, insult your opponents en mass because that's a good way to get them to vote for your ideas.
Who's dumb? I think you are all hat and no cattle myself..
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
This was the least untruthful thing he can say about it.
Every hacker changes the MAC address and IPaddress automatically. To even suggest that the Russian spy agency forgot to do that is like suggesting you forgot to put on boots before walking into deep snow, and that's not going to happen.
If a Russia IP or MAC address was in there, it was placed there intentionally.
Um... In your hypothetical, Putin ordered his resources to back Trump.
Problem here is that there is more involved in this a problem for Trump. First you have to show that Putin was ordering his folks to help Trump, this story doesn't show that. THEN, Trump (or his surrogate) must have agreed to Putin doing this.
If Putin was just putting his resources to work to "hack" the election to spread FUD, but didn't care about which candidate won, Trump is clear.
If Putin was supporting Trump but no duly authorized member of the Trump campaign authorized it (or asked for it), Trump is in the clear.
If you cannot prove all three of these things, Trump is in the clear.
So you have to have more than this story... Keep looking sir..
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
Let me tell you why Hilary lost. It's quite simple, really. It's due to the dems insistence on emphasizing identity politics. White people, especially poor white people, hated that. The democrat party used to be about blue collar workers. That demographic was ignored this time around. Trump claimed to be about bringing back a focus on jobs. That resonated with a group that was feeling pretty left out. There you go. Simple.
Putin or the United States Central Intelligence Agency? #MAGA #POTUSPUTIN
And you should be saying the same thing there sporky. Government officials deleting 33k official records three weeks after the subpoena was issued for them and she repeatedly lied about it.
They have to finish putting up the articles that argue for getting rid of Net Neutrality first.
This is ridiculous.
Trump Derangement Syndrome go hand and hand!
Is this evidence as bullet-proof as the one about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction?
We've been lied to so many times, why would we trust these guys if they don't show what they have in hands?
They modded down the original comment which will be almost as funny as the upcoming release of the DOJ Inspector's General report on the Obama Administration FBI - Russian collusion 'Insurance policy' against the Trump presidency. Proof again anything a leftist wants will be mandatory and anything they disagree with will be banned.
More pollitics allowed you by your /. censors. (Score:-1)
by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 15, 2017 @11:10AM (#55745813)
I can't wait till we start reading headlines on /. about the upcoming Uranium One reports and DOJ/FBI Obama Administration Russian collusion 'Insurance policy' against the Trump presidency. Who wants to guess when all those articles are going to come through the Soros aligned censors? WhereTF is the News for Nerds?
Irrelevent or you don't actually give a damn.
"This is the same Jeff Sessions who lied under oath in proceedings in Congress. Not sure he can be trusted to make any comments at this point."
I'm not sure I understand you. I have my settings adjusted so that I almost never see anything from AC unless the comment is heavily moderated up. Based on their rare appearances (sometimes in Parent searches), I am convinced I am missing nothing of significance.
I think there is a better solution, though it would not be minor. I can describe it briefly, however. One description is to make karma more symmetric to moderation. An alternative description would be to make public reputation more symmetric with respect to private representation. Lots of detailed suggestions available upon polite request, or you can just rummage around among my old comments.
At this point I think Slashdot is basically what it is. Sort of sad to see it falling on such hard times and sort of frustrating to see the potential for improvements. However there is no evidence things will ever improve, which I mostly attribute to the broken financial models. The question is not "change" or "no change", but "smooth change" versus "disruptive change". There is also the dimension of getting better or worse. I would currently place Slashdot in the quadrant of gradual change for the worse. (Makes me realize I can tag three of the cells as "declining", "collapsing", and "improving", but I don't know how to label the 4th cell. Perhaps because it is so rare?)
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
You do understand impeachment right? Simple majority of the House has to vote for impeachment and 75% of the Senate has to vote to remove him.
...
article 1, section 3, ... when the president of the united states is tried, the chief justice shall preside. And no Person shall be Convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.
What does "hack the 2016 presidential election" mean? I'm not seeing it in the article. Maybe the WaPo article has it.
Is it any different from what journalists with a political preference do?
Also, how long does it take for the FBI/NSA/CIA to create a fake document? Not that we've seen any document. At least I haven't. Maybe someone else here has.
There's no time like the present. Well, the past used to be.
This is the problem when an organization engagesn decades of lies and deception. Your can't believe anything they say. If they called anything, you still can't be sure who exactly it was that sent what they captured. You'd have to trust them. They've proven over and over and over they can't be trusted.
Only boring people are ever bored.
it's the Washington Post.... WaPo
Probably propaganda - worse than Russia's 97 cents worth of ads bought during the election. PLEASE
Verify - sources - people - and stories.
It's mostly PROPAGANDA
Comey stayed behind afterward to tell the president-elect about the controversial Steele dossier, however, and that private meeting may have been responsible for the animosity that would eventually lead to Trump firing the director of the FBI.
Perhaps, but maybe it's exactly because of the reason he stated - the botched investigation and public announcements involved with the Clinton email investigation, you know the reason countlessdemocrats were calling for his firing earlier that same year under Obama.
Ken
> They hacked the democratic party and had Wikileaks published 20000 internal stolen emails.
Prove it. Wikileaks denies this, saying there was a leak and pointing to one Seth Rich who was shot twice in the back of the head for no apparent reason with nothing having been taken, and there's been so far no real evidence of this. ODNI claimed it was something Russia might like to do, but otherwise said nothing, despite press claiming that 17 agencies confirmed way more than the report actually said and then mentioning that anonymous sources told them all kinds of nonsense. Crowdstrike released a report saying it's APT Fancy Bear, but their identification consists of someone using freeware tools on Tor, which leaves more than a bit of room for skepticism. Trend Micro's report might as well have just been the line "we think it's Fancy Bear." There was no technical substance to any of this, but once a veneer of alleged classified info from anonymous sources was added, it got spun into anything and everything by pundits.
> This was denied by the Trump campaign and Trump instead at a rally said, ""Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing"
The alleged hack was over at this point and the emails never turned up. That kind of undercuts the innuendo you're trying to put into that joke, frankly this one is just a special kind of stupid.
> Russia is trying to undermine faith in US democracy
Why are you helping them, then? From reading this, apparently you believe that, but you consider winning elections more important. Funny how that works, isn't it? I, for one, think this is utter nonsense and they're simply a convenient boogeyman that can be blamed for any political failing.
Hillary lost to a freshman Senator and Trump, the elephant in the room is that she didn't need any help losing. I can't wait for you guys to run Chelsea next.
Anyhow, going back to the instant story, my classified sources say that these classified sources are nonsense.
Putin must die for Russia to live.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/13/the-u-s-is-not-a-democracy-it-never-was/
"The problem, however, is that there is no contradiction or supposed loss of democracy because the United States simply never was one. This is a difficult reality for many people to confront, and they are likely more inclined to immediately dismiss such a claim as preposterous rather than take the time to scrutinize the material historical record in order to see for themselves. Such a dismissive reaction is due in large part to what is perhaps the most successful public relations campaign in modern history. What will be seen, however, if this record is soberly and methodically inspected, is that a country founded on elite, colonial rule based on the power of wealth—a plutocratic colonial oligarchy, in short—has succeeded not only in buying the label of “democracy” to market itself to the masses, but in having its citizenry, and many others, so socially and psychologically invested in its nationalist origin myth that they refuse to hear lucid and well-documented arguments to the contrary."
I dare you to read it through ... ... and think.
Strangely no-one wants to ask the critical question: How many FOREIGN elections have US hacked? How about US interventions in Greece to star with then Ukraine? Did Us try to affect Russian elections? If you were Russian and US tried to influence your elections would you not consider it quid pro quo to return the compliment? All those complaining about Russia activities are you willing ot ban US/ CIA State Department from seeking to influence foreign elections?