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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) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 07 2017, @03:12PM
I have no idea. I am sure more rational and conscientious members of the public have not forgotten that it was Republican neocon warhawks who started the current round of shit in the Middle East. Some individuals will simply never be deceived by the false dichotomy of bi-partisan politics.
I would love to see Trump rescind Nobel Peace Prize winner, Barack Obama's use of executive privilege with regard to drone strikes. [washingtontimes.com] That would be a welcome reminder that regardless of political allegiance, in a democratic society we all have a duty and obligation to prevent the creation of power structures that are only ever a single election away from falling into the wrong hands. I am sure you would agree.
(Score: 2) by Sulla on Saturday January 07 2017, @07:42PM
You fail to see that neocon warhawks are not unique to the republican party. Hill is a neocon hawk, so was Bill. The entire republican leadership. Pelosi and Ried are both neocon warhawks when it comes to intervention and spending on any vote where their vote could have made a difference,
The good ones are folks like the Pauls, Defazio, Wyden. The non-neocon hawk republicans are going to be people like Powell and Rice.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam