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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, @07:30PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 07 2017, @07:30PM (#450805)

    Meanwhile, the US track record is remarkable. Obama tried to influence the UK Brexit vote

    jesus christ - Obama made official, public statements

    And that's the moral equivalent of breaking the law and then conducting a dirty tricks campaign?

    The last time that happened in the US it was called watergate.

    But now "putin is the adult in the room?"

    WTF is wrong with you? You are so blindly partisan that you are happy to sacrifice american election integrity because you like the results. Come on.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 07 2017, @08:24PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 07 2017, @08:24PM (#450825)

    You are so blindly partisan that you are happy to sacrifice american election integrity because you like the results.

    Please provide evidence to support your claim that US electoral integrity has been compromised.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 07 2017, @09:39PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 07 2017, @09:39PM (#450847)

      It stares you in the face and you ask for more proof... Not just an idiot folks, a blind idiot! Foreign countries messing with politics is nothing new, but as the results suit you it is seen as no big deal. I guarantee you'd be pitching a fever fit if the tables were turned.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 08 2017, @02:52AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 08 2017, @02:52AM (#450922)

        It stares you in the face and you ask for more proof...

        Not "more proof", since non has been presented, any "proof" will do. No matter how flimsy the evidence, kindly present it here or fuck off. Thank you.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 07 2017, @09:09PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 07 2017, @09:09PM (#450834)

    If the email "hackers" were in Russia, they were probably not breaking their law. Does the US have an official policy to not sway elections in other countries? No? Then shut up.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 07 2017, @09:14PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 07 2017, @09:14PM (#450838)

      > If the email "hackers" were in Russia, they were probably not breaking their law.

      So the US has no right to complain and take action?
      WTF

      The amount of motivated reasoning on this story is just beyond nuts.