Posted on 12/30/2016 10:45:11 AM PST by jerod
Two notorious Russian hackers were fingered by the FBI for playing starring roles in meddling in the U.S. election.
Evginey Mikhailovich Bogachev, 33, and Aleksey Alekseyevich Belan, 29, are reported to have made millions by selling financial information they obtained through hacking.
Both men have been wanted by the FBI for years but because Russia doesn’t have an extradition treaty with the U.S., they remain beyond the reach of U.S. law enforcement.
The naming and shaming comes in the wake of President Barack Obama launching economic and political sanctions against Russians involved in the hack.
(Excerpt) Read more at torontosun.com ...
Sounds like the upcoming POTUS should push a treaty with Russia, so that we can get the criminals from over there who screw with us over the net.
But... the DHS report told me it was Fancybear and Cozyduke and Chopstick.
Even the Canadian newspapers manage to not mention that this “meddling” amounts to telling us the truth about:
1) Hillary Clinton working in collusion with the DNC to deny Sanders the nomination.
2) The content of the “behind closed doors” speeches to the financial elites.
3) The corrupt Pay-to-Play relationship between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department.
So, maybe, perhaps, a slight chance that a couple of Russian citizens tried to hack the process, and we demand the Russian Government to be held responsible. Is this plausible.?
Now they are “meddling in the US election”.
What did they do to meddle?
Did they force John Podesta and HRC refer to Latino outreach as “Taco Bowl Engagement”? Did they provide the debate questions to Donna Brazile?
“Sounds like the upcoming POTUS should push a treaty with Russia, so that we can get the criminals from over there who screw with us over the net.”
You sure you want that? Because the Russians would then have every right in the world to extradite no end of NSA and CIA cyberspies to face prosecution for hacking Russian computer systems.
Trade them for Soros.
We need to be careful how we respond to this. Believers in Anthropogenic ] Global Warming will ask if their opponent believes in climate change. The proper answer is: Of course there is climate change and always has been, and always will be!!
On this issue we have to remember that Russia and eastern European countries house lots of miscreants who engaged constantly in hacking the internet.
The facts we have seem to show that the Russians did not do the WikiLeaks dump or “manipulate the voting”. The phrase “manipulate the voting” is intended to imply that they hacked actual voting machines, which is not what is being charged, but being heavily implied for the benefit of low information voters.
The story that the WikiLeaks dump came from the NSA, as reported on Fox News, seems to be confirmed with the latest shakeup at NSA by Obama, this morning.
Um, OK. So why would these two hacks want to hurt Illary and who paid them to do it?
They are not mentioned in the report.
Article on Fox News website says about these two, “The cyber pros, not specifically tied to election hacking, appeared to specialize in fraud, according to the feds.”
No doubt this OMG report is to bolster Bozo’s lame attempt to blame Russia for Hillary losing...TWENTY DAYS TO GO!
Excellent point!
Likely this article was placed by US intelligence as part of a perception management campaign. The report does not name individuals, the article lies by saying it does, it’s purpose is to spin up a myth from whole cloth.
The FBI appears all in for the political propaganda.
These two guys are hackers. Nothing about them influencing voters in the USA. The FBI is trying to mislead.
These must be the scapegoats, like the guy that made the video “responsible for” Benghazi.
want to secure US elections?? Institute unconditional voter ID and eliminate electronic vote and vote counting machines. There, fixed it.
Ok, one of these guys isn’t even Russian and they don’t know where he is even located in the World.
The other one is Russian.
All the crimes attributed to them has one thing in common, money.
I find it more plausible that some DNC got phished and these guys sold off the access to others. They use a shotgun approach to gather as much compromised systems as possible. Targeting a specific target isn’t something that has ever been attributed to them.
That’s what these guys do, they are famous for that.
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