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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 VLM on Monday December 12 2016, @01:34AM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Monday December 12 2016, @01:34AM (#440159)

    Its part of the healthy stages of grief process as the planet rejects the insanity of the last few decades.

    There was tons of denial before the election with massively faked poll results and fundraising to recount.

    This is part of the Anger stage, perhaps? I mean dirtbags were rioting and trashing their neighborhoods before it got too cold, sometimes beating random white people as hate crimes. Might be bargaining, like if we just give up more civil liberties and trash our international relationships a bit more, then they'll win, kind of like famously an end stage doctrine to win was calling white people racists just one more time then they're sure to vote for us, LOL.

    Haven't seen much depression or acceptance yet. Give them time, its the death throes of an entire movement.

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