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Russian Hackers Targeted US Conservative Think-Tanks, Says Microsoft (reuters.com)
retroworks shares a report: Hackers linked to Russia's government tried to target the websites of two right-wing U.S. think-tanks, suggesting they were broadening their attacks in the build-up to November elections, Microsoft said. The software giant said it thwarted the attempts last week by taking control of sites that hackers had designed to mimic the pages of The International Republican Institute and The Hudson Institute. Users were redirected to fake addresses where they were asked to enter usernames and passwords. There was no immediate comment from Russian authorities, but the Kremlin was expected to address the report later on Tuesday. It has regularly dismissed accusations that it has used hackers to influence U.S. elections and political opinion. Casting such allegations as part of an anti-Russian campaign designed to justify new sanctions on Russia, it says it wants to improve not worsen ties with Washington. Further reading: Microsoft Reveals First Known Midterm Campaign Hacking Attempts, and Microsoft Launches Pilot Program To Provide Cybersecurity Protection To Political Campaigns and Election Authorities.
Well Podesta's email password was "password", so anyone could have gotten those emails (Russia might have been involved here, but there will be no proof)
Sydney Blumenthall was hacked by Guiccifer 2.0, a Romanian not a Russian (People claim he is Russian, but have no evidence of that)
DNC emails were hacked by their own admin from Pakistan, and once found out DW Schultz covered up for it and is to this day. Pakistan intelligence has all of the DNC emails since the admin was a family member of a high ranking Pakistani intelligence officer.
The DNC gave their servers to Crowdstrike, paid by Clinton to say Russia hacked them. DNC servers never given to FBI even to this day. Crowdstrike lied for the DNC helping cover the Pakistan hack, but when it looked like they would have to go to court under oath they recanted and have since said Russia did not hack the DNC servers.
So there is literally NO ONE with evidence Russia hacked anything. Muller indicted 17 Russians based on lies and Putin called him out on it by saying he would extradite any Russians guilty once he was shown proof. Muller declined to show ANYONE his evidence because it doesn't exist.
That leaves us with Russia buying $50,000 of Facebook ads AFTER the election. However, Facebook has also not released evidence of this to date. They originally claimed it was $11 million, but when asked for evidence it suddenly became $50k and no evidence released.
So Russia bought Facebook ads after the election is what it looks like happened.
Hope that helps you out.
This sums it up very well actually.
2 years in and there's no actual proof, which implies that Donald Trump is either a genius mastermind and worked so well with exclusively trustworthy people or... it didn't happen. None of the indictments have any associated evidence, or if they do the indictment is not related to the "Russia Collusion" narrative.
At this point, if you're going to believe the "Russian Collusion" narrative you have to assume that Donald Trump is one of the smartest people in America and has been able to outwit Muller's entire crew for more than two years. You also have to believe that Vladimir Putin is a 4th dimensional chess player, since the email hacks all happened long before Hillary convinced Don to run.
Finally, remember that Donny-boy got Mitt Romney numbers. Don didn't win from some landslide of support. He didn't win because the voting machines were hacked or rigged and counted more votes for him. Donald Trump won because Hillary was unable to get people excited enough to go out and vote for her. Donald Trump got the forever Republicans, the people that religiously vote every year for whatever has an R by it. If we based the president on the popular total vote of the US the president would be NOBODY, because more than half the country's registered voters chose not to vote at all.
Unlike that of the USSR, who only supported foreign Leftists, Putin's Russia is non-partisan, looking for support and influence wherever they can find it. In Germany, for example, thay happen to be particularly successful among the Left (no doubt with the aid of the old Stasi files). In France they supported the supposed rightists.
Western societies aren't immune to corruption — if the price is right — and for years Putin could afford bribes on the scale of millions.
Likewise, their targeting computers of all political parties is not at all surprising. That the GOP runs a tighter ship is not surprising either...
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.