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posted by on Saturday January 07 2017, @11:03AM   Printer-friendly
from the putin-his-nose-where-it-doesn't-belong dept.

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


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 07 2017, @04:40PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 07 2017, @04:40PM (#450760)

    > is all fair game for "underhanded, sneaky, disreputable, but non-retaliatory.

    I didn't say retaliate. I said take countermeasures.

    Public airing of russia's actions so the electorate is informed that they are being manipulated is a countermeasure. You can argue whether expelling diplomats goes to far. But none of the putin apologia has been about that. Its all about pretending either putin did nothing or that somehow what he did was good for the country because apparently putin is really on the side of truth and just has the american people's best interest at heart.

  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday January 08 2017, @06:24AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday January 08 2017, @06:24AM (#450956) Journal

    to be legitimate to take countermeasures?

    And...

    I didn't say retaliate. I said take countermeasures.

    Whatever.

    Public airing of russia's actions so the electorate is informed that they are being manipulated is a countermeasure.

    So why wouldn't it be legitimate to take that "countermeasure", assuming it is true, of course.