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Report: Putin Was Directly Involved in Hacking
Townhall.com ^ | December 14, 2016 | Cortney O'Brien

Posted on 12/14/2016 5:55:14 PM PST by Kaslin

Russian President Vladimir Putin was behind a hacking operation that exposed the Democratic National Committee and other targets during the U.S. presidential election, according to sources speaking with NBC News. The two U.S. officials told NBC that Putin had a "vendetta" against Hillary Clinton and had a goal of exposing corruption in U.S. politics. They have "high confidence" in the intelligence they received.

Putin's objectives were multifaceted, a high-level intelligence source told NBC News. What began as a "vendetta" against Hillary Clinton morphed into an effort to show corruption in American politics and to "split off key American allies by creating the image that [other countries] couldn't depend on the U.S. to be a credible global leader anymore," the official said.

If true, Democrats and liberal pundits have more ammunition to try and prove that Russia helped swing the election for Donald Trump. 

President Obama got the ball rolling when he demanded a full review of the hack last Friday. Yet, the agencies looking into the matter are not on the same page. Multiple congressional committees are also planning on launching investigations into the hacking claims. 


TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister; Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: fakenews; prosecuteputin; putinsucks; russiasucks
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1 posted on 12/14/2016 5:55:14 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

FAKE NEWS


2 posted on 12/14/2016 5:57:00 PM PST by HypatiaTaught (Trump saved the Republic)
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To: Kaslin

ATRIBUTION ?


3 posted on 12/14/2016 5:57:07 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Kaslin

Fake news?


4 posted on 12/14/2016 5:57:08 PM PST by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: Kaslin

Give Putin a medal, if that’s true.


5 posted on 12/14/2016 5:57:29 PM PST by Jim Noble (Die Gedanken sind Frei)
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To: Kaslin

Did the MSM never learn Rule #1 - Stop Digging?


6 posted on 12/14/2016 5:57:51 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamiin Franklin)
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To: Kaslin

These will be shown to be lies.


7 posted on 12/14/2016 5:58:01 PM PST by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticides, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: Kaslin

Prove it.


8 posted on 12/14/2016 5:58:05 PM PST by henkster
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“high confidence” lmao


9 posted on 12/14/2016 5:58:08 PM PST by al baby (Hi Mom Its a Joke friends)
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To: Jim Noble

This is the last hope of the establishment — to
latch onto anything to give the electors an excuse
not to vote for Trump.

I hope the truth about Hillary, the Clinton Foundation,
pizzagate, etc., comes out before then — in time to inform the public (because the msm won’t do it).


10 posted on 12/14/2016 5:58:54 PM PST by CondorFlight (I)
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To: HypatiaTaught

Be a great name for a Race horse


11 posted on 12/14/2016 5:58:57 PM PST by al baby (Hi Mom Its a Joke friends)
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To: Kaslin

Next we’ll hear: “Highly placed, reliable sources further state that Mr. Putin initiated this activity at the request of Donald Trump, and that the go-between delivering the request was Rex Tillerson.”

For next week, of course.


12 posted on 12/14/2016 5:59:00 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Kaslin

This stuff is just not credible. Name the sources or provide the evidence, at least one or the other if not both. But just - “some guy who’s really smart told us this”, is not cutting it with me.


13 posted on 12/14/2016 5:59:36 PM PST by babble-on
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To: Kaslin

What exactly was it that swayed voters? What exactly was exposed? Was it that the Clintons are as dishonest as everyone knows they are? Was it that the press conspired to carry her across the finish line? Is that the big secret that supposedly turned the voters against her?


14 posted on 12/14/2016 5:59:41 PM PST by marron
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To: Kaslin

What vendetta, she gave him control of 20% of our uranium.


15 posted on 12/14/2016 5:59:49 PM PST by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: Kaslin

From a cursory search, it looks like Cortney was/is #NeverTrump like most of townhall.


16 posted on 12/14/2016 6:00:01 PM PST by Rastus (#NeverHillary #AlwaysTrump)
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To: Kaslin

i dont want foreign governments messing with us, BUT let’s get real about this

1. there has been ZERO proof of this offered to us yet, Zero
2. IF Putin did some hacking..... let’s at least put this into perspective... the D’s (with their fellow travelers McCain and Lindsay) have been trying to provoke a war with Russia...including threatening military adventures....and shipping or positioning dangerous weapons near Russian borders or bases or allies

and our D’s also overthrew, or tried to overthrow, a number of other governments including Libya, Syria, Egypt, Somalia, Israel, Iraq, and several in Africa (always on the side of the IslamoNazis or their interests)

seems to me there’s a mighty big mote in the D machine’s eye.............before they try to criticize anyone else’s possible, unsubstantiated sliver

dear D/islamoNazi party machine bosses and financiers: PUT UP OR SHUT UP


17 posted on 12/14/2016 6:00:05 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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To: Kaslin

Going to need another reset button with Russia after all of the Hate from the Leftards...


18 posted on 12/14/2016 6:00:15 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
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To: Kaslin

Why do you think the Cyber Experts wouldn’t send anyone to testify today.

Nobody has any proof other than it hurt Hellary.


19 posted on 12/14/2016 6:00:20 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: Kaslin

I heard that Putin was spotted at a Kinkos outside of Waco, Texas...


20 posted on 12/14/2016 6:00:37 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
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