Posted on 12/10/2016 7:23:49 AM PST by SeekAndFind
U.S. intelligence officials have determined that Russia interfered with the 2016 election, specifically to help Donald Trump win the presidency, The Washington Post first reported on Friday.
In addition to hacking into Democratic organizations, Russians hacked the Republican National Committee's computer systems, according to the Post — but they did not release any information that might have been retrieved from Republican networks.
"Intelligence agencies have identified individuals with connections to the Russian government who provided WikiLeaks with thousands of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and others, including Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, according to U.S. officials," the Post reports. "Those officials described the individuals as actors known to the intelligence community and part of a wider Russian operation to boost Trump and hurt Clinton's chances."
Citing anonymous officials briefed on the issue, the Post says the CIA shared its findings with senators in a closed-door briefing last week, saying it was now "quite clear" that Russia's goal was to tip the presidency in Trump's favor:
" 'It is the assessment of the intelligence community that Russia's goal here was to favor one candidate over the other, to help Trump get elected,' said a senior U.S. official briefed on an intelligence presentation made to U.S. senators. 'That's the consensus view.' "
In a previous assessment, CIA officials had thought Russians intervened with the intention of undermining Americans' electoral system, Adam Entous, one of the Post story's reporters, tells NPR's Scott Simon.
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Oh yes and we cant release this overwhelming mountain of evidence that the russians hacked the election because it is highly sensitive and classified and by doing so we risk starting WWIII. Stupid annoying liberals. SSDD.
There actually “isn’t” one IMO. This is Obama and the head of the CIA concocting some disinformation campaign.
Trump’s first move on January 20 should be to have Brennan and ALL of his lieutenants forcibly escorted from the CIA premises. Then begin a comprehensive purge to remove the Democrat sleepers in that organization.
Why would Russia try to defeat the very entity that, as Secretary of State, made lucrative nuclear deals with them?
The Washington Post reports that Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham—who were both personally attacked by Trump during the presidential campaign—”are preparing to launch a coordinated and wide-ranging probe into Russia’s alleged meddling in the U.S. elections and its potential cyberthreats to the military.”
McCain says he will launch an investigation under the auspices of the Senate Armed Services Committee, of which he is chairman, and notes to the Post that he considers the disruption of the election “a national security issue.”
Now we even have yellow leaked intelligence
Classified as “Secret need to know by the audience of ithe lamestream media”
Please even the FBI concluded the RNC server was not compromised. This is the shadow government fighting back.
HR 4310 passes in NDAA authorizing propaganda on American Citizens
http://www.opsecnews.com/hr-4310-passes-in-ndaa-authorizing-propaganda-on-american-citizens/
Probably less chance of that than 99.99% of the fake Trump stories posted on FR.
And the CIA is investigating if another country hacked and influenced the Ukraine elections, Israeli elections, Egyptian elections........sarc/
ping
I might be paranoid but the rhetoric is sounding more and more like they’re going to try and invalidate the election. They’re making it sound like these supposed Russians have actually physically manipulated votes in our election system.
Uncontrolled “Lone Wolf” comes to mind when I think of the CIA. I do not trust them. Never did. Especially when their hierarchy becomes infested with rabid liberals.
Gee, sounds rock solid to me. Somebody's mother's brother's uncle's next-door neighbor's best friend's gardener's dog walker said......
Thanks.
Hopefully Trump will drain the swamp on all of this bs fake news.
"Intelligence agencies have identified individuals with connections to the Russian government who provided WikiLeaks with thousands of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and others, including Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, according to U.S. officials," the Post reports. "Those officials described the individuals as actors known to the intelligence community and part of a wider Russian operation to boost Trump and hurt Clinton's chances."
The exact phishing attempt had every hallmark of Goosefer's 2.0 Romany/Ukrainy/Anony cadre, and in fact they proudly claimed the DNC hack.
Shouldn’t the CIA be checking for Soros voting machines internal mechanisms hacking some votes for Hellary?
Even Romney wanted to cut the NPR cord. CIA is in Soetero’s pocket. Fake newsx3
exactly imho
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