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Russian Hackers Targeted More Than 200 Journalists Globally (apnews.com)
The Associated Press: Russian television anchor Pavel Lobkov was in the studio getting ready for his show when jarring news flashed across his phone: Some of his most intimate messages had just been published to the web. Days earlier, the veteran journalist had come out live on air as HIV-positive, a taboo-breaking revelation that drew responses from hundreds of Russians fighting their own lonely struggles with the virus. Now he'd been hacked. The Associated Press found that Lobkov was targeted by the hacking group known as Fancy Bear in March 2015, nine months before his messages were leaked. He was one of at least 200 journalists, publishers and bloggers targeted by the group as early as mid-2014 and as recently as a few months ago. The AP identified journalists as the third-largest group on a hacking hit list obtained from cybersecurity firm Secureworks, after diplomatic personnel and U.S. Democrats. About 50 of the journalists worked at The New York Times. Another 50 were either foreign correspondents based in Moscow or Russian reporters like Lobkov who worked for independent news outlets. Others were prominent media figures in Ukraine, Moldova, the Baltics or Washington.
So, Ronald Reagan was right with his "Evil Empire", and Barack Obama was a dupe for thinking he could "reset" relations with Russia?
50+ years of "progressive" derision about not trusting Russia was WRONG?
One event - the worst presidential candidate in history losing to the second-worst - invalidates an entire half-century of "progressive" beliefs and actions?
"House passes first rewrite of nation's tax laws in three decades, providing steep tax cuts for businesses, the wealthy." https://twitter.com/AP/status/...
Exactly a DNC talking point, which the AP has no problem toeing the party line.