Reuters is reporting that US intelligence officials were aware a year ago that Russian efforts were being made to attack the Democratic Party. Moreover, they informed top congressional leaders who were prevented from telling the targets about the attack because the information was so secret.
From the article:
The disclosure of the Top Secret information would have revealed that U.S. intelligence agencies were continuing to monitor the hacking, as well as the sensitive intelligence sources and the methods they were using to do it.
The material was marked with additional restrictions and assigned a unique codeword, limiting access to a small number of officials who needed to know that U.S. spy agencies had concluded that two Russian intelligence agencies or their proxies were targeting the Democratic National Committee, the central organizing body of the Democratic Party.
The National Security Agency and other intelligence agencies sometimes delay informing targets of foreign intelligence activities under similar circumstances, officials have said.
The alleged hacking of the Democrats and the Russian connection did not become public until late last month when the FBI said it was investigating a cyber attack at the DNC. The DNC did not respond to a request for comment for this story.
There has been another leak of U.S. Democratic Party data, this time including the personal phone numbers and email addresses of House Democrats. Memos and opposition research were also included:
The hacker known as Guccifer 2.0 dumped the personal contact info of House Democrats on his website Friday, part of the latest batch of documents from a widespread breach of Democratic groups.
The document was obtained from the cyberattack on the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). The hacker also published DCCC shared passwords to several online databases and news networks.
The release has been listed at https://cryptome.org/.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by takyon on Sunday August 14 2016, @02:47PM
Putin has won the US election.
Because as we all know, Trump has a huuuuuuuuge lead in the polls:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html [realclearpolitics.com]
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/fl/florida_trump_vs_clinton-5635.html [realclearpolitics.com]
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/oh/ohio_trump_vs_clinton-5634.html [realclearpolitics.com]
(feel free to link a better site, I don't track em every day)
Sure, even if Clinton wins, Putin has a nice trove of material to work with, but I doubt it will do as much as having the guy who wants to respect Russia's sphere of influence as President.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 14 2016, @02:59PM
Polls and county-by-county historical analysis are of limited value when someone like Trump is running. Brexit was an example of what could happen.
Hillary might be better off if Trump actually comes out ahead in some polls a week before the election, then people will think about what a Trump Presidency would bring.