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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday December 11 2016, @08:07AM   Printer-friendly
from the all-your-email-are-belong-to-us dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Sunday December 11 2016, @07:50PM

    by hemocyanin (186) on Sunday December 11 2016, @07:50PM (#440038) Journal

    You have exactly zero evidence that Russians hacked either campaign. What you have is the unsubstantiated word of the CIA. If I have to explain to you why one should never believe what the CIA says (OK, one example, WMD in Iraq), you are a lost cause.

    I take it as incontrovertible proof that the DNC has finished its conversion to NewGOP as I watch it try to reignite tensions with Russia, and this time without even an ideological basis like "Commie Bastards". I don't see Russia as an enemy -- the DNC however, that lot is fucking dangerous (mass surveillance, due process free execution, gutting the War Powers Act, the NDAA, the new propaganda bill, and they never say a fucking thing when their own kind act like neocons (entirety of Obama's reign)).

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  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday December 12 2016, @01:40AM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Monday December 12 2016, @01:40AM (#440161) Homepage

    The CIA specializes in overthrowing governments. It seems that now it's becoming more public about trying to overthrow its own, and with the new breaking news about them entering the frey to tie Trump to the Russians, and everything falling into place after 9/11, I totally believe that.