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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.
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.
That would be news to those of us who have been following this very closely. Please provide a citation.
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Literally none of those things have happened. You seem to want them to have happened, so you are pretending that "evidence" suggests they did.
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I'm curious. When was being a lobbyist treated as treason (a crime defined in the Constitution)?
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Probably not from Putin either. Someone at some level in the Kremlin said "FUCK HILLARY" once, and that equates to "hack the election and put Trump in."
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You left out "a deeply corrupt primary system in the opposition party that coronated the only person in the country that could lose a general election" and "hubris that stopped said candidate from stepping foot in the Rust Belt"
Those were, after all, larger factors than anything you mentioned.
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Russia did much more that Facebook advertising. They hacked the democratic party and had Wikileaks published 20000 internal stolen emails. 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". US intelligence released a statement stating that Russia was responsible and Obama kicked out a number of Russian diplomats and enforced sanctions on Russia. While Trump claimed it "could be Russia, but it could also be China, it could also be lots of other people. It also could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds".
Russia is trying to undermine faith in US democracy, and not only that but is interfering in the election process of many western counties. This is what Theresa May said about it a month ago: “I have a very simple message for Russia. We know what you are doing. And you will not succeed. Because you underestimate the resilience of our democracies, the enduring attraction of free and open societies, and the commitment of western nations to the alliances that bind us."