Posted on 11/25/2019 1:49:35 AM PST by NorseViking
WASHINGTON Republicans have sought for weeks amid the impeachment inquiry to shift attention to President Donald Trumps demands that Ukraine investigate any 2016 election meddling, defending it as a legitimate concern while Democrats accuse Trump of pursuing fringe theories for his benefit.
The Republican defense of Trump became central to the impeachment proceedings when Fiona Hill, a respected Russia scholar and former senior White House official, added a harsh critique during testimony Thursday. She told some of Trumps fiercest defenders in Congress that they were repeating a fictional narrative and that it likely came from a disinformation campaign by Russian security services, which themselves propagated it.
In a briefing that closely aligned with Hills testimony, U.S. intelligence officials informed senators and their aides in recent weeks that Russia had engaged in a yearslong campaign to essentially frame Ukraine as responsible for Moscows own hacking of the 2016 election, according to three U.S. officials. The briefing came as Republicans stepped up their defenses of Trump in the Ukraine affair.
The revelations demonstrate Russias persistence in trying to sow discord among its adversaries and show that the Kremlin apparently succeeded, as unfounded claims about Ukrainian interference seeped into Republican talking points. U.S. intelligence agencies believe Moscow is likely to redouble its efforts as the 2020 presidential campaign intensifies. The classified briefing for senators also focused on Russias evolving influence tactics, including its growing ability to better disguise operations.
Russia has engaged in a long pattern of deflection to pin blame for its malevolent acts on other countries, Hill said, not least Ukraine, a former Soviet republic. Since Ukraine won independence in 1991, Russia has tried to reassert influence there, meddling in its politics, maligning pro-Western leaders and accusing Ukrainian critics of Moscow of fascist leanings.
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Breaking property or killing people under normal circumstances but it is justified and legal under certain conditions to protect legal relationships of higher order.
You said unauthorised access to a computer is an offence punished by a fine of $5000.
Don’t you think the right of the citizens to know about the illegal corrupt activities hidden in these computers is MUCH MORE valuable?
You mix it up read the text again: “where the value of the information obtained exceeded $5,000”
Oh, thank you.:) It doesn’t change the idea though.
People has a right to know. That’s above the $5000 worth of Democrat privacy:)
There is no reason to rely on the Dutch for information about the Clinton bathroom server, the American intelligence agencies have already “investigated” and found no tampering...despite evidence the server was improperly secured and relaying data out of the country.
The notion that Russian intelligence would target the DNC server and not the insecure Clinton State Dept. bathroom server remains absurd, as does the notion that the Dutch not the Americans were watching them operate inside the US.
-btw is this the same Dutch Intel agency involved in the Mh17 shoot down investigation? They cooked the books on that as well....Just ask the Malaysians
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