Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

CIA Captured Putin's 'Specific Instructions' To Hack the 2016 Election, Says Report (thedailybeast.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the more-you-know dept.

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.

3 of 535 comments (clear)

  1. Haven't we heard this before? by Charcharodon · · Score: 5, Interesting
    At this point I hardly believe anything they say.

    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.

  2. Re:Nobody says that. by CrimsonAvenger · · Score: 4, Interesting

    given that they are staffed with 100% lobbyists (which used to be a crime, treated as treason, punished with a maximum sentence).

    I'm curious. When was being a lobbyist treated as treason (a crime defined in the Constitution)?

    --

    "I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
  3. Re:Another round of nothing by king+neckbeard · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

    --
    This is my signature. There are many like it, but this one is mine.