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McClatchy reports:
A Russian venture capitalist and tech expert whose name and company are mentioned in the now-notorious document alleging connections between the Donald Trump campaign and Russian hackers says no intelligence officers have ever contacted him about the accusations, which he says are false.
A report compiled by a former Western intelligence official as opposition research against Trump [...] alleged that global tech firm XBT Holding, with operations in Dallas, was instrumental in the hack of leaked Democratic Party emails that embarrassed Hillary Clinton and fellow Democrats.
XBT, owner of Dallas-based enterprise-hosting company Webzilla, is run by a successful Russian tech startup expert, Aleksej Gubarev. In a phone interview from Cyprus, where he said he'd lived since 2002, Gubarev said he was surprised to see his name in the report.
[...] Gubarev said he operated 75,000 servers across the globe and got real-time information if there had been hacking or illicit activity tied to his businesses. There is no evidence of that, he said, adding that no one has contacted him.
[...] If law enforcement wants to talk with him, Gubarev said, his door is open.
(Score: 3, Touché) by cubancigar11 on Tuesday January 17 2017, @04:07AM
Are you serious? You know you are talking about Trump, right? Because 3 months ago people were complaining that his opinions change every-day, and everyone all over the spectrum had their own theory behind it.
It is so so funny to see CNN digging the hole they find themselves in. I can't stop laughing...
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @04:40AM
Everyone thinks Trump is some sort of hard line neo conservative. He is more akin to your local used car salesman. Everything is negotiable and he will make you feel good while he does it so everything is 'win-win' for everyone involved. Bad deal on either side and he will usually walk unless he decides he does not like you. I think both Dems and Repubs are going to be in for a shock on how flexible he is on things.
He has already done what I wanted. At this point it is just going to be amusing to watch him to make fun and bring those stuffy political hack blowhards down a peg or two.
They want to paint him to be that way so they can attack the ghost straw man illusion that they created. He honestly has not done too much yet. He is also being fairly tight on what is going on. The media has gotten kinda lazy they are used to the gov spoon feeding them. They now will have to go to work. They do not know how to do it and are acting like the guy who just lost his position to some H1B and about how they will crash and burn if he is not around. He is going to make them better if they want it or not. They are throwing everything at the wall and trying to see what shit sticks. Because gossip and blamestorming is more fun and real news takes work. Next week they will have another narrative, impeachment. Which I am sure some lapdog in congress will get rolling and the DNC media will harp on to make sure people want it with the RNC media showing the obvious outrage.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @05:05AM
CNN (and at least a few other news organizations) have noticed that Trump is so mercurial that he can change his position on an issue more than once in a single day...and you interpret this as CNN digging a hole for themselves? I must say, you have have an odd view of the world.
Go ahead and laugh it up now, odd little fellow. I expect that tears will be following on soon enough.
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Tuesday January 17 2017, @05:52AM
CNN has noticed nothing new. It is all documented. CNN and its ilk can chose to talk about some actual issues people are having or keep playing liberal celebrity circlejerk gossiping and keep the SJW fanclub. Eventually half of those 'youth' are going to grow up and wonder why nobody is talking about them. And CNN can continue to ignore them or be relevant again.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @06:34AM
> the SJW fanclub
Hey, could you do us a solid?
Just start all of your non-technical posts with the SJW epithet.
Just get it right out with a bang! It will feel good, I promise.
And then the rest of us will all recognize that you are one of those instead of contorting our brains to give your opinions the benefit of the doubt.
Thanks,
— The Internet
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Tuesday January 17 2017, @12:11PM
I am sorry but I don't speak american. It looks like you are using solid as an adjective without noun. Not sure what that means...
(Score: 1) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Tuesday January 17 2017, @01:29PM
"Solid" as a noun loosely translates to "favour".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @02:54PM
It means firm up your shits so you stop spraying diarrhea all over us.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @06:46AM
You don't think what the PEOTUS is doing and saying is important enough to warrant coverage by CNN et al.? And, C'mon, man!!! No one gives a rat fuck about your anti-SJW Gamergate conspiracy theories! That may be your thing but the rest of us just don't care. Get over it already!
The reason why no one is talking about those 'youth' is that the antics of the Kardashians, Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, et al. have no relevance to how the rest of us live our lives. While you might find them fascinating they register a great big "don't care" with me and, I suspect, with a whole lot of other people.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @07:24AM
No one gives a rat fuck about your anti-SJW Gamergate conspiracy theories!
Uh you did. Also that 6th grade 'everyone is doing' shit does not fly much... There are a LOT of people who give the very ideas some credence. If not they would be squirreled away on random conspiracy server. CNN about 2 years ago decided to go the buzzfeed route. They did that because FoxNews is eating them alive in the ratings with similar tactics. Notice the do not do much 'news' anymore and most of what they do is one liners and journalists interviewing other journalists or their favorite expert. Ignore the 'message' they push and watch the presentation. You can see the idea of how they present themselves and what they want to sell you. They are selling you 2 things. Their credibility and product. The product is not news but the commercials they make you sit through to find out just how 'evil' that guy is. Do not mistake that pretty slick presentation for real substance.
'Youth' is just a market to them. Do not think they care about them. Once they figure out this 'youth' is no longer 'in' and they want to try to stay relevant they will move onto the next generation of 'youth'. I and my parents and their parents were at one point 'the youth'. We are just as ignored now.
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Tuesday January 17 2017, @12:20PM
Bingo. Thanks for putting it like that. Youth is a demographic that has always been the target of those in power because youth is the next generation. TV news is in entirety a farcical entertainment displacing actual journalism that will report on your neighborhood. It will have us believe that we are to care about Trump's dumbassery and Russian influence more than what actually happens in our life. It wants to replace teachers with media personalities and education with niceness - hey hey, as long as you are nice you have the freedom to be wrong!
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @02:58PM
Your are delusional if you think CNN targets a "youth" market.
Seriously, how old are you that you could be so out of touch? The median age of CNN's viewers is 61 years. Even primetime they are still at a median of 59.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @08:42PM
How old are you? Late teens? Early twenties? You may not yet comprehend this but, yes, because Trump is about to become POTUS and leader of the free world his "dumbassery" does have implications for what happens in your life. And it terrifies me that we are about to find out just how fateful his antics can be for all of us.
Yes, you do have the freedom to be wrong. And you can even be wrong regardless of how "nice" you are. What you don't have is a free pass to not be called on your dumbassery. See, the same freedom you have to expose your stupidity to the world also lets the rest of us pick apart and analyse your stupidity out in the public square. That is what true freedom is all about, Sunshine. Welcome to your crash course on how the First Amendment really works!
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @05:07AM
So your contention is that Trump did a 180 because it is his nature to just says random shit until something sticks?
At what point did sucking off Putin become popular with Americans? Even with Trump's cheerleading, Putin still has a negative 10 point favorability rating [politico.com] among republicans.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @05:13AM
Putin still has a negative 10 point favorability rating [politico.com] among republicans.
You mean to say, better than Trump, then?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @01:11PM
For when Trump's 'White Pride' turns out to have been a white lie.
Putin: He'll make America Great Again... as long as you're white, don't speak out against him, and are one of his cronies or sycophants.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @04:50PM
I'm not confident that Trump will make America great even for white authoritarians.
On the other hand, at least white authoritarians will love it and go all "Trump! Trump! Trump!" when Trump raises the chocolate rations from 30 to 20 grams per week.