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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 Sunday January 08 2017, @06:09PM
I don't know any people, friends or co-workers that all voted democratic -- that think with any degree of certainty that Russia hacked the vote and caused Trump to win, and that Russia is entirely to blame because it is unpossible that the deep south could have voted for a non-Clinton.
I see people like you writing that democrats all think this is the reason--that Russia is totally the scapegoat no doubts about it -- and that on the news there are people called experts that have an opinion on it -- but it seems more like this has to do with people believing what they read without thinking about it; and repeating what they've seen if it meshes with their bubble.
Our information age has turned into an ad filled tabloid, customized for our own preferences. and we as a country got what we deserved for allowing it to happen like this. Our new president will very likely roll back many privacy protections because of the FCC being in the way, and it will be very hard to close the barn door now.
I expect propaganda to reach into the home with the new amazon Winston whatever its called, just as it fills the schools already...