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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, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 12 2016, @05:39AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 12 2016, @05:39AM (#440228)

    Does it not strike anybody as unusual that this claim isn't about cheating in any sort of way but simply giving the public access to factual information? It gets even more bizarre in that much of the information released would nominally be available under freedom of information queries, but aren't simply because our elected officials are working to actively subvert that process. Politicians are openly freaking out about their actual opinions and views being revealed, instead of just their finely tuned lies crafted by entire teams of public relations people.

    That they can do this, and nobody seems to realize the insanity of it all just bewilders me.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 12 2016, @05:46AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 12 2016, @05:46AM (#440230)

    > Does it not strike anybody as unusual that this claim isn't about cheating in any sort of way but simply giving the public access to factual information?

    A lie of omission is still a lie.
    The fact that trump wasn't given an equal amount of exposure is half the problem. The other half is that a foreign country was the instigator.
    Trump hasn't even disclosed his tax returns. You know Russia has hacked the fuck out of the IRS and has all of that info. Just waiting for the right opportunity to release it (or to threaten trump with releasing it in order to make him suck putin's cock).

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 12 2016, @04:26PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 12 2016, @04:26PM (#440419)

      Of course Russia wouldn't release any info on their desired candidate.
      If you wanted "equal" exposure, you could go ahead and get the dirt on Trump and release it in favor of your candidate. Or, actually, maybe Hillary could have asked her middle east friends whom *she* got into power to hack Trump for her!

      In all honesty, both major party candidates were horrendous, which is why I didn't vote for either. Hillary wouldn't have been any better and would have directly led us into the next cold war, along with putting her own corporation leaders into office.

      The United States has a history of screwing over elections all around the world.
      Maybe now that it directly affects the US, the country will finally unite and fix the broken election system.