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.
Is it confirmed that he was at the keyboard?
The riots didn't work, the re counts didn't work, the threats to the EV’s are not working, so now the lies about Russia are being pushed...it's all lies there is nothing there...Russia didn't do anything, this was an inside job, probably by the DHS, remember Georgia, or/and CIA...
All lies, all of it...’fake news’ on top of it...
Why not? If they're so sure of their position they should be blasting the airwaves wide open.
A Pulitzer Prize
What ... plays golf with obumbles ?
“Sources.” Well all this comes from “sources,” therefore it must be true.
Something this serious needs concrete proof. There has got to be physical evidence or credible eye witness testimony.
Or, is it the old leftist game, where the seriousness of the charge is proof enough, and if the lies are repeated often enough, people actually believe it as truth?
I just cannot wait for Trump to start cleaning house.
Hitlery needs an orange jump suit and bars to look out of.
Putin had nothing to do with Benghazi. That, and the Clinton Foundation, and Comey alternately protecting her and exposing her and then protecting her again and then repeating the process... That did some damage, it helped to cut through the din of the press’s Noise Machine.
Is there anything Putin can’t do?
I never thought the President of Russia would have the time and knowledge to sit in his mom’s basement behind a computer screen with a six pack of Jolt Cola and bag Cheetos hacking into Hillary’s email account?
Wow, I am impressed
Of course Democrats’ poor security is never to blame.
I’m defending Putin here because if he only made available the evidence of the Democrats’ criminality, he deserves our thanks.
Which the Democrats unsuccessfully sought to hide it from the American people.
The DNC leaks exposed the seamy underbelly of the Democratic Party.
If there really was foreign interference, it was for a good cause.
Well if the Russians hacked into the DNC Emails then they sure as hell hacked into Hillary’s Classified unsecure private EMAIL Server and Trump should point this out
Well Putin didn’t write those emails
bttt
Anonymous
How can learning the truth about Hillary or the DNC be a bad influence ? who cares about the messenger, what about the message ? the democrats and their candidate were involved in corruption, and responsible voters who took this into account are somehow being manipulated ? Since when is the truth a hostile influence? .. unbelievable!
Democrats are not denying the e-mails came from them.
If their DNC servers were compromised, that’s not Trump’s fault.
True, an embarrassment of riches. Why all the carping?
The Truth comes NOT from NBC News. More Fake News from the Deep State.
Stop right there. NBC? No thanks.
Uh, huh. You mean "sources" as in the mailman at Langley?
And as has been pointed out elsewhere, where was Obama when the Chinese hacked the feds and accessed millions of federal worker's personal information? Why was nothing done then?
Why did Hillary break the law and set up a personal communication server as a high public official?
This has all the classic hallmarks of the Democrats working hand-in-glove with the corrupt MSM to delegitimize the election. Know what I say to all this??
President Trump!
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