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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: 5, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Sunday December 11 2016, @07:12PM
Just how many elections has the United States meddled in, in it's history? I couldn't even offer a decent guess. All of the banana republics, for starters. When we didn't like a government, we quashed it, and made sure that our favorite replaced the former government. We don't even make a secret of "regime change" anymore. We publicly announce that we don't like a government, send in the troops, kill everyone we don't like, and appoint a dictator. Unlike what happened in Iran, where we attempted to keep all that nasty stuff secret.
If the Russians, the Chinese, Iranians, and a dozen South American countries attempt to influence our elections, we only have ourselves to blame. We set the example for them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 12 2016, @05:35PM
Just how many elections has the United States meddled in, in it's history? I couldn't even offer a decent guess. All of the banana republics, for starters. When we didn't like a government, we quashed it, and made sure that our favorite replaced the former government. We don't even make a secret of "regime change" anymore. We publicly announce that we don't like a government, send in the troops, kill everyone we don't like, and appoint a dictator. Unlike what happened in Iran, where we attempted to keep all that nasty stuff secret.
If the Russians, the Chinese, Iranians, and a dozen South American countries attempt to influence our elections, we only have ourselves to blame. We set the example for them.
You are arguing that "what's good for the goose is good for the gander" type moral stance, which has some plausibility.
I'll trump that by saying from a real politick, "might makes right" stance... look at all those banana republics. Do you really want the US to end up looking like that?