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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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To: faithhopecharity
mote?

More like a mountain I would say.

41 posted on 12/14/2016 6:13:31 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Kaslin

according to sources! Yet again no names mentioned, no facts/evidence given.


42 posted on 12/14/2016 6:14:36 PM PST by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: Kaslin

Those who hold Putin in contempt for the ills in the world, and often deride him, are also helping to turn him into a powerful demigod... ironic!

My theory is the Russians were aware of the hacking, as were the Americans. U.S. is not a ‘Banana Republic’.

Improve internet and email security. People must know by now that the internet is not secure. Anything placed there is open to hacking.


43 posted on 12/14/2016 6:16:20 PM PST by odds
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To: Kaslin

fake.

she was the most hated and highest negative candidate they have put up since carter’s second run. and at that time, many people still liked jimmy as a person, they just thought he sucked hard as a president.


44 posted on 12/14/2016 6:16:30 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Kaslin

"...according to sources speaking with NBC News."

45 posted on 12/14/2016 6:16:33 PM PST by Obadiah
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To: McGruff

46 posted on 12/14/2016 6:19:10 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: Kaslin

He had help from secret agents and secret Russian technology.

47 posted on 12/14/2016 6:22:25 PM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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To: a fool in paradise

Yike !


48 posted on 12/14/2016 6:22:47 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: All

But but, “highly placed sources”!

Oh noes!


49 posted on 12/14/2016 6:24:49 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: seastay

The Left only liked leaks when it was things like the Pentagon Papers. Exposing corruption within the enemedia and DNC colluding to rig the outcome of the 2016 election, well that isn’t for “your” eyes...


50 posted on 12/14/2016 6:31:53 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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Even if true, which I doubt, did Vlad write the damn emails? At least the Russkies exposed the wickedness of the Dems.

Seems to me the mass media and some in the Obama and Clinton camps are just itching to warmonger with Russia.


51 posted on 12/14/2016 6:50:52 PM PST by BluegrassCardinal
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To: Jim Noble

George Washington’s right hand man.


52 posted on 12/14/2016 6:52:02 PM PST by Bogie
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To: Kaslin

Hard to believe TownHall put this up. Great example of FakeNews ... sorry to see it come from them.


53 posted on 12/14/2016 6:54:10 PM PST by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else.)
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To: seastay
Well said!

Cheers.

54 posted on 12/14/2016 6:57:03 PM PST by Bogie
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To: Kaslin

Burchell Syndrome - when investigators already decide who the guilty party is or the outcome of an investigation at it’s onset and then “find” evidence that supports their theory without investigating other suspects or theories.


55 posted on 12/14/2016 7:03:09 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: McGruff

McCain and Linda. I knew it was Democrats behind this!


56 posted on 12/14/2016 7:06:28 PM PST by phoneman08 (qwiyrqweopigradfdzcm,.dadfjl,dz)
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To: Kaslin

What does this have to do with how the people voted? Nothing.


57 posted on 12/14/2016 7:13:12 PM PST by hsmomx3 (Love my Steelers!!)
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To: Kaslin
Let me put it this way. If Putin had personally walked into the DNC headquarters, rifled through all the papers on desks to obtain the most damaging information, personally copied millions of copies, and placed a copy of this information in the hand of every voter (living and dead) in the United States, SOOOOO WHAT?????????

WHO CARES???????

It's not like he hacked into voting computers and dumped a gazillion votes for Trump into the system, or even made up lies about Clinton.

Even if he was personally involved to the worst degree imaginable in an attempt to influence the election, it's no different than what Soros has done.

58 posted on 12/14/2016 7:31:02 PM PST by cincinnati65
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To: Kaslin
Townhall.com is a Salem Media traitor site, like The Right Scoop, Red State, Twitchy, Hot Air and Human Events. Might as well be reading CNN.

The Wrong Poop is truly a disgusting site these days. It seems to be frequented only by former Ted Cruz staffers, and ANY good word about Trump is quickly shouted down or (like me) banned.

59 posted on 12/14/2016 7:37:42 PM PST by montag813
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To: Kaslin

Like he has nothing better to do and nobody to do this for him. These propagandist’s are stooping sooooo low.


60 posted on 12/14/2016 7:40:28 PM PST by JerseyDvl (PRESIDENT TRUMP trumps hate and racism! Put some ice on it Hitlery ;-)
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