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A new declassified report released by US intelligence officials says Russian President Vladimir Putin "ordered" a campaign to influence the 2016 US presidential election.
The 25-page public version of the report was released on Friday after the officials briefed President-elect Donald Trump and top lawmakers on Capitol Hill on a longer, classified version.
The report said Russian efforts to meddle in vote represent the most recent expression of Moscow's long-standing desire to undermine the US-led liberal democratic order.
[...] After his briefing, Trump stopped short of embracing the intelligence community's assessment that Russia interfered in the presidential campaign, saying only that any hacking attempts had "absolutely no effect" on the outcome of the election.
Having hours earlier dismissed the hacking controversy as a "political witch hunt," Trump later issued a statement whose main aim appeared to be to deflect questions about the legitimacy of his November 8 victory over Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton.
Full text of report available in many places, including at scribd.
Ironically, Wikileaks, an organization usually in favor of information sharing, was upset about dissemination of this report.
In a Friday tweet, WikiLeaks slammed the CIA for leaking information to NBC.
"The Obama admin/CIA is illegally funneling TOP SECRET//COMINT information to NBC for political reasons before PEOTUS even gets to read it," the tweet read.
An NBC report last night touted "an exclusive, inside look" at the report connecting the Russian government to breaches of the Democratic National Convention and other groups and individuals during election season sourced to two intelligence community sources.
WikiLeaks and Assange have championed the dissemination of sensitive or classified in the past, publishing United States diplomatic cables and military information, emails from the 2014 Sony hack and internal documents from multiple other governments and political parties.
http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/313002-wikileaks-opposed-to-cia-leaking-report-info-to-nbc
Previously on SoylentNews: Reactions to Russian Hacking Activity
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 07 2017, @01:59PM
A lot of people who rode the ladder 25 year from GS-11 to executive level were promised very high paying "czar" positions in the Clinton cabinet. They even made big housing purchases in anticipation (million dollar homes in Old Town and within DC) as the inevitability of her coronation loomed.
The will of the people was different, at least the will as defined according to the Constitutional framework these people were sworn to defend. There will be no coronation and they suddenly find themselves unable to renig on their poor housing decisions. These people are lashing out now as the swamp starts to drain.
State employees who anticipated a coronation were among the top monetary contributors to the Clinton campaign. It is a money laundering scheme of taxpayer money.
These are the same people, who fifteen years ago as GS 13-15's, swore that Iraq had WMD's, and started a perpetual war so they could get their war zone tours in the green zone and make the federal statutory salary limit for public servants year over year.
Good bye.
At the most, whoever leaked this information, exposed exactly what was going on in higher levels of the DNC and government-media complex.