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posted by n1 on Sunday August 14 2016, @11:01AM   Printer-friendly
from the known-unknowns dept.

Congressional Leaders Were Briefed a Year Ago on Hacking of Democrats

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.

Hacker Releases Personal Data of Around 200 Congressional Democrats

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/.


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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 14 2016, @02:50PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 14 2016, @02:50PM (#387860)

    Oh yes, you're of the "If Trump doesn't win, it is because of cheating" camp, aren't you? It is very pitiful how he's already started laying that groundwork. It can't be because of the idiotic things he says, or the outright dumbass positions he's staked out, that has the 90% of the country who aren't 30 year old male dumbfucks thinking "NFW am I going to let that asshat run my country", can it? It HAS to be because of cheating.

    She'll win because she's the lesser of two evils to the swing voters, or she'll lose because too many votes went to third-party candidates and too many people stayed home. If Trump wins, it sure as hell won't be because of him.

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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 14 2016, @04:15PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 14 2016, @04:15PM (#387881)

    Democrats oppose common sense Voter ID laws despite all of the supposedly affected groups need a state ID to sign up for welfare, food stamps, public housing, to buy alcohol, to buy cigarettes, etc. That is because they can only win through voting fraud.

    • (Score: 4, Informative) by art guerrilla on Sunday August 14 2016, @05:53PM

      by art guerrilla (3082) on Sunday August 14 2016, @05:53PM (#387910)

      oh for fuck's sake, you are a stupid shit and a propaganda victim to boot...
      there is essentially ZERO "VOTER" fraud extant in today's voting systems; there is RAMPANT "VOTE" fraud conducted by insiders who have the keys to the kingdom...
      EXACTLY why computer-based, PROPRIETARY voting systems are for shit:
      paper ballots
      hand counted
      locally reported

      computer-based voting systems are simply a convenient way for the puppetmasters to control the supposed outcome...
      stupid shit, it is NOT juan non-citizen casting 10 votes for obomber, you stupid shit, it is NOT dem'rat shill voter fraudy mcfraudy who is casting 2 votes for cliton, IT IS THE INSIDERS controlling the outcome, you stupid shit...
      stop barking and biting at your 99% brothers and sisters getting the same shaft you are, you stupid shit, bark and bite the 1%, you stupid shit...

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 14 2016, @07:14PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 14 2016, @07:14PM (#387934)

        Insiders like "Jew who just happened to have parents who resided in Hungary" George Soros who hire lawyers to fight common sense Voter ID laws?

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 14 2016, @11:50PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 14 2016, @11:50PM (#388013)

          I guess you haven't realized that most voter ID laws are meant to disenfranchise certain segments of society....

          • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 15 2016, @12:30AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 15 2016, @12:30AM (#388023)

            People too lazy to get a photo ID don't deserve to vote. If I can get a photo ID for voting, they can too.

            Honestly though I'd be fine if the requirements went back to being a land owning white male in order to vote.

            Minorities will vote for more gibsmedat and women will vote for more government.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 15 2016, @01:09PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 15 2016, @01:09PM (#388166)

    It's pretty likely Trump will drop the ball on purpose because he's no dumbass like you. He makes deals and he doesn't let the "Presidency" get in the way of a good deal.