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To date, the only public evidence that the Russian government was responsible for hacks of the DNC and key Democratic figures has been circumstantial and far short of conclusive, courtesy of private research firms with a financial stake in such claims. Multiple federal agencies now claim certainty about the Kremlin connection, but they have yet to make public the basis for their beliefs.
Now, a never-before-published top-secret document provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden suggests the NSA has a way of collecting evidence of Russian hacks, because the agency tracked a similar hack before in the case of a prominent Russian journalist, who was also a U.S. citizen.
[...] NSA whistleblowers have so far given the best idea of what the NSA's signals intelligence on Russia, today or in 2005, could look like. Earlier this year, Snowden tweeted that if the Russian government was indeed behind the hacking of the Democrats, the NSA most likely has the goods, noting that XKEYSCORE, a sort of global SIGINT search engine, "makes following exfiltrated data easy. I did this personally against Chinese ops." Snowden went so far as to say that nailing down this sort of SIGINT hacker attribution "is the only case in which mass surveillance has actually proven effective."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 01 2017, @07:12PM
My name is Greenwald. I've got all these documents, but I'm only going to release them when we need to generate more ad clicks, but I get to pick what we release so I can keep the content on (our) point (we don't want to piss off Mr. Putin, of course).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 02 2017, @10:01PM
There are no ads on The Intercept. Are you paid to shill or do you do it for free?
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Tuesday January 03 2017, @06:10PM
The government WANTS it to all come out at once. One big scandal, 24/7 media coverage for a week or two, so many issues that none of them gets more than a couple sentences. And then it all blows over in a mass of confusion while they pretend it's no big deal.
If it was up to them, they'd release the whole thing in one big block on December 24th or something. By releasing them slowly you can really drive home the point that it's one scandal after another with these guys. They'd LOVE it to look like it's all "one" big scandal, just a single email hacking scandal, then they can make it all about the hackers. By dragging it out people eventually get sick of that angle and want to hear the real story.