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How Russian intelligence officers interfered in the 2016 election
CBS 60 Minutes ^ | 11 24 2019 | 60 Minutes

Posted on 11/24/2019 4:55:11 PM PST by yesthatjallen

There was a lot of testimony during this past week's impeachment inquiry about foreign interference in our 2016 election, including the president's assertion that Ukraine was involved. But the president's own intelligence agencies say it was the Russians who "hacked" the 2016 elections. Special counsel Robert Mueller spelled it out in his report.

Now the Justice Department has at least two open cases against Russian citizens for interfering with our presidential and congressional races, we decided to take a closer look at one of them - the case against 12 Russian military officers accused of breaking into the Democratic Party's computers, stealing compromising information, and selectively releasing it to undermine Democratic candidates. There's no evidence of similar operations against Republicans in 2016. With the 2020 election approaching, the story of "The Russian Hack."

Robert Anderson: The Russians never left. I can guarantee you in 2016 after this all hit the news, they never left. They didn't stop doing what they're doing.

SNIP

Marc Caputo has covered Florida politics for 20 years. The senior writer for Politico was one of the reporters who received and wrote about the hacked documents.

Bill Whitaker: Not a lot of people know that the Russians interfered in five congressional races here in Florida. When did you first get wind of it?

Marc Caputo: Well, I'd been paying attention, like the rest of the press corps, that Russia had been hacking and Russia had been trying to interfere in our election system. And then out of the blue I got contacted by this blogger, Hello Florida.

SNIP

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 2016; 60minutes; cbs; democrats; fakenews; guciffer; haxxorz; novoteswerechanged; russia; russiarussiarussia; seebs; sorelosers; tds; witchhunt
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CBS naturally tries to create the narrative Republicans were colluding with Russian hackers.

In this piece, we find Democrats and Politico used the hacked material for their own agendas.

Democrats had no problem using any hacked material to go after Democratic opposition.

1 posted on 11/24/2019 4:55:11 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Is there *anyone* under 80 who watches 60 Minutes?


2 posted on 11/24/2019 4:59:01 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (A joke: Brennan,Comey and Lynch walk into a Barr...)
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To: Gay State Conservative

They fall asleep about 5 watching football and never change the channel hence the ratings.


3 posted on 11/24/2019 5:03:36 PM PST by relictele
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To: yesthatjallen

I just watched that whitewash too. No mention of Crowdstrike, no mention of Imran Awan, no mention of refusal to allow FBI to inspect server, no mention of Concord MGmt. demanding exculpatory evidence etc. IOW, totally slanted. Mueller cronies still working on the case.


4 posted on 11/24/2019 5:05:59 PM PST by euclid216
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No mention of 2018 elections. Why didn’t the Russians interfere with 2018 elections?


5 posted on 11/24/2019 5:07:06 PM PST by euclid216
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To: yesthatjallen

How pathetic. CBS is still trying to rehash this Russian collusion nonsense. This is as absurd as Hillary going on her “Why I Lost” tour.

They just cannot get over the fact they lost a rigged election.


6 posted on 11/24/2019 5:08:25 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd
They just cannot get over the fact they lost a rigged election.

I think I may steal that as my new tag line. Hope you don't have a copyright.

7 posted on 11/24/2019 5:13:52 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (A joke: Brennan,Comey and Lynch walk into a Barr...)
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To: yesthatjallen

wouldnt this mean the dems should be going after the russians, then....? If the report isnt complete bullshiite?


8 posted on 11/24/2019 5:18:26 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Did they stage more fake ford engines blowing up too?


9 posted on 11/24/2019 5:19:12 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Seth Vladimirovich Richsky?


10 posted on 11/24/2019 5:20:25 PM PST by rfp1234 (All hail President Fartwell.)
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I wish assange would blurt out tyat seth rich was the source of tye dnc leak


11 posted on 11/24/2019 5:24:55 PM PST by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Nott mee


12 posted on 11/24/2019 5:29:50 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Guns up . . . We cominÂ’ PS: Eric The Blower Ciaramella. PASS IT ON)
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To: Secret Agent Man
Did they stage more fake ford engines blowing up too?

I think that was Dateline...not that there's any difference.

13 posted on 11/24/2019 5:31:38 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election)
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To: euclid216; bitt; little jeremiah; a little elbow grease

I just watched that whitewash too. No mention of Crowdstrike, no mention of Imran Awan, no mention of refusal to allow FBI to inspect server, no mention of Concord MGmt. demanding exculpatory evidence etc. IOW, totally slanted. Mueller cronies still working on the case

Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Any mention of ukraine?
Any mention of seth rich?

Russia Russia Russia must have been sent out on today’s mockingbird media talking points memo.

Chris Wallace on Fox is grilling LA Sen Kennedy now.

Wallace “ we all know Russia interfered in our 2016 election”. “All of iur intelligence agencies said so”


14 posted on 11/24/2019 5:38:59 PM PST by thinden
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To: yesthatjallen

breaking into the Democratic Party’s computers, stealing compromising information,
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His name was Seth Rich.

They killed him for it.


15 posted on 11/24/2019 5:38:59 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Responsibility2nd

In the Soviet Union, there were only a couple of channels saying the same lies. We have a myriad of them who do exactly what “the party” tells them to.


16 posted on 11/24/2019 5:41:06 PM PST by Luke21
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To: yesthatjallen

More Russian hoax. We’ll hear more of it again next year should Democrats lose.

If they lose its because of Russian interference, not because of voter rejection of them and their policies.

Its always a conspiracy against them.


17 posted on 11/24/2019 5:42:35 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: yesthatjallen
Leftist Youtuber completely destroys Mueller's "Russian troll indictments."

LANGUAGE WARNING - Loads of F-bombs and other cursing.

It's an awesome dissection in spite of the language.

The Mueller Indictments Are A F**king Joke & It's Dangerous [Web Exclusive] (15:09)

The bottom line is this company in Russia is a click-bait farm. They had no interest in interfering with our election or creating any chaos here.
It existed only to make money through the cyber equivalent of creating and selling client lists.

18 posted on 11/24/2019 5:43:22 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: yesthatjallen

“When Ahab finally appears on the quarterdeck, he announces he is out for revenge on the white whale which took one leg from the knee down and left him with a prosthesis fashioned from a whale’s jawbone. Ahab will give the first man to sight Moby Dick a doubloon, a gold coin, which he nails to the mast.
Starbuck objects that he has not come for vengeance but for profit...”
LOL!


19 posted on 11/24/2019 5:47:24 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: yesthatjallen

New report claims DNC hack was an inside job — not Russia

https://nypost.com/2017/08/15/new-report-claims-dnc-hack-was-an-inside-job-not-russia/


20 posted on 11/24/2019 5:49:15 PM PST by McGruff (Does no one is above the law apply to Democrats?)
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