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From NPR:
President Obama has ordered the intelligence community to conduct a "full review" of "malicious cyber activity" timed to U.S. elections, the White House said Friday.
The review will go all the way back to the 2008 campaign when China was found to have hacked both the Obama and McCain campaigns, White House spokesman Eric Schultz said at a Friday press briefing.
In the 2016 election, U.S. intelligence officials charged that Russia had interfered. In early October, they released a strongly worded statement saying they were "confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of e-mails from U.S. persons and institutions, including from U.S. political organizations." The statement went on to say "these thefts and disclosures are intended to interfere with the U.S. election process."
Shortly after that, WikiLeaks began posting emails hacked from Clinton campaign Chairman John Podesta's Gmail account. The slow drip of those emails, including transcripts of Clinton's remarks to Goldman Sachs, hung over the campaign in its closing weeks and proved embarrassing at times. Podesta said he spoke to the FBI about the hacking, and intelligence experts blamed Russia for that as well.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 11 2016, @02:00PM
There is not a shred of evidence that Russia or any other State actor hacked the election.
Uh, no. They have the phishing email that compromised podesta. It used the same exploit, and more importantly the same back-end server infrastructure that the fancybear hacking group used in other attacks that were indepdendently traced to russia.
Bear in mind that the very same people that are making such claims without proof also claimed that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq,
Don't blindly repeat Trump talking points without checking them. Its not the "very same people" - because the intelligence agencies were highly skeptical of the idea that iraq had wmds. Its was the Bush administration that took low-confidence intelligence based on 5-year old data and sexed it up to sell the invasion:
Congress eventually concluded that the Bush administration had "overstated" its dire warnings about the Iraqi threat, and that the administration's claims about Iraq's WMD program were "not supported by the underlying intelligence reporting."
The CIA Just Declassified the Document That Supposedly Justified the Iraq Invasion [vice.com]
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Sunday December 11 2016, @07:55PM
That's evidence of a phishing email, not that Government of Russia hacked the emails.
Also, thank our lucky stars someone so careless with technology isn't part of the government.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 12 2016, @02:09AM
> That's evidence of a phishing email, not that Government of Russia hacked the emails.
Those fingerprints on the gun used to kill the victim aren't evidence that the suspect killed the victim, its evidence that he touched the gun.
Seems like you don't understand how evidence works.
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Monday December 12 2016, @05:02AM
You got a source? And by that I don't mean the lying bastards at the CIA/FBI?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 12 2016, @05:41AM
Do you have proof their evidence is faked?
No, I didn't think so.
So stop playing the role of dumbfuck. We've got more than enough intellectually dishonest masturbation here on soylent.
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Thursday December 15 2016, @06:18PM
CIA: Santa is real.
Me: That's bullshit.
You: Do you have proof?
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by hemocyanin on Sunday December 11 2016, @07:58PM
Let us not forget that HRC was JUST AS BAD as GWB about cheerleading for the Iraq war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtK9AzcU42g [youtube.com]
synopsis:
-- 1:40 HRC enters room
-- Code pink intro: war in Iraq will harm American and Iraqi families and cost a lot.
-- 6:30 HRC parrots the WMD arguments, blames the danger to Iraqis on Hussein, ignores harm to Americans, financial costs, and the fact that Iraq was not a threat to the US nor involved in 9/11.
-- 8:52 HRC lies about careful review of WMD info [remember that HRC never even read the National Intelligence Estimate which while suggesting WMDs existed, also contained significant disagreements with that conclusion that a reader not interested in a particular outcome would have agreed called the whole thing into question].
-- 10:00 Audience member: not up to the US to disarm Hussein, up to the world community, Iraq has no connection to terrorism, not only are Iraqi people in danger, so are US people, and will harm the economy. It's reckless.
-- 11:14 HRC: The world community would not take on difficult problems without US forcing the issue. Goes on and on about Bosnia. Segues into how GWB tax cuts are a bad idea.
-- 13:29 [regarding the tax cuts] "Here at home, this administration is bankrupting our economy forcing us to make the worst kinds of false choices between national and homeland security, which they don't fund ..." [IOW, HRC would have preferred GWB raise taxes for more war and domestic surveillance. Interesting to think of in light of Snowden's revelations.]
-- 14:12 HRC is given a pink slip
-- 14:20 HRC goes off: "I am the Senator from NY I will never put my people at risk ..." [Yeah, like Saddam had anything to do with 9/11.]