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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 11 2016, @11:09PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 11 2016, @11:09PM (#440109)

    Oh we should have more transparency. Of that I agree. However, the things popping out of those emails shows exactly how F'd up everything is. One of the candidates was screaming 'its rigged'. The other side was screaming it wasnt. Turns out it *IS* rigged. But not as in a computer hacker sort of way. But more in a 'people with political power are fucking you and lying to you' sort of way.

    Russia hacked both campaigns, but they only released the dirt they have on one candidate. That means they've got blackmail material on trump. In what world is it good for the USA to have a president who is compromised by russia from the first day he gets into office?
    You have 0 proof of that or than a gut feeling. It *could* be true. But you will need to prove it. We *do* however have mountains of proof how the DNC was f'ing everyone over. Next up the RNC.

    However, I do have to say when you can register your dog to vote and get a voter packet to mail in something is wrong. I can pretty much 100% say my dog does not care who wins.

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