Posted on 10/08/2016 7:29:16 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
The Russian government's cyber-espionage campaign against the American political system began more than a year ago and has been far more extensive than publicly disclosed, targeting hundreds of key people -- Republicans and Democrats alike -- whose work is considered strategically important to the Putin regime, official sources told NBC News.
The targets over the past two years have included a Who's Who of Hillary Clinton associates from her State Department tenure, the Clinton Foundation and her presidential campaign, as well as top Republicans and staffers for Republican candidates for president.
Starting in earnest in 2015, Russian hackers used sophisticated "spearphishing" techniques to steal emails and other data from Capitol Hill staffers, operatives of political campaigns and party organizations, and other people involved in the election and foreign policy. That's according to NBC News interviews with more than two dozen current and former U.S. officials, private sector cybersecurity experts and others familiar with the FBI-led investigation into the hacks.
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Wonder if the Ruskies got into Kristol’s mail box?
Not a shred of evidence yet that it was the Russians.
Let's look at the countries that have given money to the Hillary, Bubba, Chelsea fund.
If Obama’s DHS takes over the election ,it’s over
Exactly the right follow up questions. Hypothetically, let's say that Putin personally ordered the hacks for the very intent of affecting the outcome of the election.
What about the hacks influences the election?
To answer the question is to basically come out and snarl "Well, we were trying to keep our lie and slander plans secret, and we would have gotten away with if it weren't for those Russian kids, and their Guccifer dog, too!"
“Not a shred of evidence yet that it was the Russians.”
The thing (if it is a thing) is bad (if it is bad) so that must be Russians.
No other conclusion is possible for the thing that might or might not have happened and which might or might not be bad, or even matter.
Paul Ryan? Mitch?
It’s one heck of a stretch for the communist “demokrats” to say that Putin would rather deal with Trump than a sickly and frail old lady who wears vacuum cleaner bags for a wardrobe. Geez.
If it was the russkies and they are working against the dems, then it says that Putin is telling Hillary to stuff her "Reset Button" back in her Depends, he wants to deal with a grown-up that can face reality.
Blaming the russians strikes me as falling back on the old boogy-man fears. It could've been them, but it also could have been any one of a half dozen or so other regimes, or some truth seeking hackers. I certainly don't consider the claims it was the russians, anything shoveled out by the 0bama-klinton regime as "truthful".
Well, if we allow this election to be stolen, I wonder if they are going to blame the Russians for the massive civil unrest that will target the elites.
Yeah, blame the Russians for exposing the truth to the citizens of the US!
I would not be surprised if this nothingburger Trump story is what they point to as the cause of Trump’s “loss” during their post-election “autopsy”...
massive civil unrest that will target the elites.
Dream on. Republicans and conservatives don’t do civil unrest. They’ll hunker down and bitch through their keyboards but that’s about it. And the elites know it. That’s why they get away with everything.
Oh, per Podesta, most are likely fake....
Yup. That’s the plan. Obama is setting the table for a DHS takeover of the election.
Blaming the Russians allows them to frame the results of the leaks as unpatriotic. The more interesting facet is that the hacking program is described as highly sophisticated, at the same time the Clinton machine insists her server wasn’t hacked.
Trump is reasonable, negotiable and won’t likely arm islamists.
Hillary has destabilized the middle east, armed the wrong people, and for sale to the most corrupt and highest bidder.
You are absolutely correct. Republicans and conservatives don't do civil unrest. Civil unrest is usually the province of either paid-for protesters organized by a core anti-American group(e.g the CPUSA that is behind the Black Lives Matter movement)or people who feel that they are part of an idea--America--worth dying for.
This latter group I would call PATRIOTS.
Putin is looking past Hillary to Tim Kaine as the almost immediate successor for president on the Democrat ticket—a probable nut-job in line for the top power position.
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