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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: 2) by jmorris on Saturday January 07 2017, @05:29PM
What do you think #NeverTrump was all about? The Republican leadership most certainly saw Trump as a mortal threat to the gravy train. And their resistance may have ceased in public but we all know war is coming behind the scenes as they join with Democrats to undermine the Trump administration.
Oh yes, we understand that before this is over, before the swamp is drained, there will be me more Republicans in Congress but there will be a lot of fresh faces.
That said, I do think both Ryan and Trump are wrong on the ethics commission thing. It was a recent creation of a Dem Congress and is a monster that needs to die. On both principle and practical grounds I find it wrong and dangerous.
On principle I object to the Progressive ideas that drive it, the idea that elected officials are nice in that they let people vent but the important things will be done at a level above them, the unelected unaccountable experts. No, we elect Representatives and if we don't like them we can unelect them every two years. Splash their scandals in the press and let us judge them.
As a practical matter this thing will always be tilted D because it is staffed from the swamp, and a look at the most recent election shows which way the eternal machinery of Capital City votes. Democrats created it that way, so they would never need to fear it.
Eliminating it first day was bad optics, the idea is still sound. Stuff an amendment in a bill somewhere and put it out of our misery.