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Cyberattack on Dems bigger than originally believed: report
The Hill ^ | August 11th, 2016 | By Rebecca Savransky

Posted on 08/11/2016 5:53:18 AM PDT by Mariner

The cyberattack targeting Democratic politicians was more widespread than originally believed, The New York Times reported Wednesday.

The likely Russian cyberattack breached the private email accounts of more than 100 party officials and groups, sources told the Times.

Email accounts of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign officials, party operatives and Democratic Party organizations seem to have been the focus of the attack.

The FBI is now widening its investigation, and officials have started to tell Democrats that Russians may have gained access to their email accounts.

It had been previously reported that Russian hackers accessed the networks of the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and the Clinton campaign's network was also believed to have been breached.

But the hack may also have extended to other organizations such as the Democratic Governors' Association, according to the Times.

Ahead of the Democratic National Convention last month, a trove of emails was released by WikiLeaks that appeared to show officials at the DNC planning how to undermine Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: demscyberattack; demscyberhack; dncemailscandal
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There is likely evidence of a conspiracy to commit vote fraud in there somewhere.

After all, they are Democrats.

1 posted on 08/11/2016 5:53:18 AM PDT by Mariner
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I don’t like it. The media is working too hard to set the stage for a narrative that a Trump victory was the result of Russian hacking. The Leftist Doomsday Plan may be underway.


2 posted on 08/11/2016 5:57:52 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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It's the RUSSIANS dammit ! !

If any further confirmation of their collective sedition were needed, this presstitute farce of focusing on the source rather than the substance of the information 'hacked' ought to do the trick.

3 posted on 08/11/2016 6:01:27 AM PDT by tomkat
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breached the private email accounts of more than 100 party officials and groups, sources told the Times.

......there was no intent....


4 posted on 08/11/2016 6:01:46 AM PDT by Recon Dad (Force Recon Dad)
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To: Mariner

Getting to see how the sausage is made...


5 posted on 08/11/2016 6:02:11 AM PDT by Libloather (Embrace the suck.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Meanwhile, no one is asking the question, while the 600 pound gorilla sits in the center of the room eating all the bananas.

“How can this woman be trusted on either the national or international stage?” If the Russians are in fact hacking DNC servers it is for no other reason than they can and the Democrats don’t care about national security as demonstrated over and over.


6 posted on 08/11/2016 6:04:36 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Common Sense, Trump and Pence. More of the same, Clinton and Kaine.)
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Cyberattack on Dems bigger than originally believed: report

1. Find out if Bernie's new beach house was paid for by a payoff from the clinton [crime] foundation; and

2. Did th socialist bastard declare that cash as income to the (crooked) IRS?

7 posted on 08/11/2016 6:05:00 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty ("We re going to raise taxes on the Middle Class!" - HRC Aug 3, 2016)
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It’s no good without the emails.... let’s see it all, heh heh. I sure hope the ‘Rats will be far more embarrassed than we’ve seen to date. There must be some awful stuff in their emails that we have yet to see.

What about Republican emails, have they been better about security or just lucky so far? We don’t seem to see any hacking of Republican emails so far..... not that I want it.


8 posted on 08/11/2016 6:06:30 AM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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I don’t support the Russians but it’s not like we’ve got clean hands in this regard. Snowden pretty much established that we do the same thing, not only to our enemies but to our allies.


9 posted on 08/11/2016 6:08:40 AM PDT by circlecity
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From the article: “Officials are still trying to figure out a motive.”
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We heard this story line before but with the obvious Jihadi attacks around the world. No one can figure out the motive. Thinking folks know the motive behind Wikileaks releasing the corrupt DNC e-mails and the Jihadi’s blood thirsty attacks. All you need is a little common sense. It’s not rocket science. Regarding the DNC, here you have a corrupt criminal syndicate that wants the FBI to help them figure out how to keep secret their corrupt criminal communications. Talk about an upside down world. What ever happened with the notion that no one should benefit or profit from having conducted a crime?


10 posted on 08/11/2016 6:09:30 AM PDT by iontheball
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And they used to be such good Comrades!


11 posted on 08/11/2016 6:09:55 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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This is the effort to revive the theme that it was hacking by the Russians and not a leak by an insider, IMHO.


12 posted on 08/11/2016 6:15:05 AM PDT by NEMDF
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And you want to be my Latex salesman?


13 posted on 08/11/2016 6:15:42 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: circlecity
For all we actually know, as opposed to what the spin doctors are feeding us, the DNC and other democrat emails could be getting to Wikileaks from Snowden or someone like Snowden who works/worked for the NSA.

In addition, contrary to popular opinion not everyone in the US Intel establishment is in Hillary's corner. What such folks could make available to the public is well beyond what we've seen so far.

JMHo

14 posted on 08/11/2016 6:29:19 AM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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sure hope the ‘Rats will be far more embarrassed

How can people with no sense of shame be embarrassed?

15 posted on 08/11/2016 6:35:09 AM PDT by null and void (Has there ever been a death associated with the Clintons that *wasn't* beneficial to them?)
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Snowden pretty much established that we do the same thing, not only to our enemies but to our allies.

...and our own citizens.

16 posted on 08/11/2016 6:36:24 AM PDT by null and void (Has there ever been a death associated with the Clintons that *wasn't* beneficial to them?)
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-— Russian cyberattack-—

The concept of a Russian attack was developed as cover for the real story where a DNC staffer who leaked e mails to Wikileaks was murdered and was going to the FBI.

The suspect in the murder is a hired DNC hitman that will never be discovered.

The concept of a Russian hack story is directly analogous the the Benghazi Video lie put forth to cover a terrorist attack.

The big lie play is always good for a large gain up the middle

The Democrat Party is truly a murderous criminal enterprise


17 posted on 08/11/2016 6:42:36 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP ....Opabinia can teach us a lot)
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This doesn’t make any sense. Why are we not seeing leaks of Republican emails?

Either...

1.) The Russians ignored the party that is traditionally the most vocal critic of Russia (republicans) and only went after the Democrats email

OR

2.) The Republican security was sooooooo good that elite Russian hackers could breach it

OR

3.) The hack came from someone other than Russia who had access to the Democrat servers and NOT the Republican servers.


18 posted on 08/11/2016 6:45:59 AM PDT by nitzy
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Gee, why would any of this be a problem? After all, the Dems are as pure as the driven snow. We’re likely to see stuff like vacation plans, discussions about yoga classes, wedding plans for the kids of all these Dems, stuff like that. Right?


19 posted on 08/11/2016 6:46:17 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Is old Russian proverb, comrades!

Kalinka, kalinka, kalinka moya!
V sadu yagoda malinka, malinka moya!
Akh, pod sosnoyu, pod zelenoyu,
Spat’ polozhite vy menya!
Ay-lyuli, lyuli, ay-lyuli, lyuli,
Spat’ polozhite vy menya.

;^)


20 posted on 08/11/2016 6:47:42 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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