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So, the RNC Blocked the Attempted Russian Hack?
National Review ^ | December 16, 2016 9:37 AM | by RICH LOWRY

Posted on 12/16/2016 8:20:27 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines

RNC officials, concerned they too might have been compromised, called a private computer security firm, which in turn called the FBI and obtained information about what kinds of malicious emails to look for, the person said.

Upon inspection, the RNC found that its electronic filters had blocked emails sent to a former employee matching the description they’d been warned about.

The apparently successful blocking of a Russian espionage operation offers one possible explanation why the GOP’s main political organization didn’t suffer the same fate as its Democratic counterpart—a deluge of leaked emails revealing private correspondence and internal strategy.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Politics/Elections; Russia
KEYWORDS: blocked; fakenews; hackers; rnc; russian
Man, I can't wait for Trump to get in and purge the people at the CIA who concocted this lie.
1 posted on 12/16/2016 8:20:27 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
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Likely most of the DNC “workers” were on porn sites and had machines more infected than any Sq. millimeter of Bill Clinton’s body.


2 posted on 12/16/2016 8:22:03 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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Have you noticed that we never see anything in any of these articles that includes proof that it was the Russian Government doing the hacking? It’s just assumed to be true and not worth discussing.

And this after Assange and (amazingly) Lynch pretty much let Russia off the hook. Big Lies are are to kill.


3 posted on 12/16/2016 8:25:53 AM PST by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed. About time.)
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Upon inspection, the RNC found that its electronic filters had blocked emails sent to a former employee matching the description they’d been warned about.

You mean the MSM's Russians-made-Trump-win schtick is fake news?! How disillusioning. /s

4 posted on 12/16/2016 8:25:54 AM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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I can certainly believe the DNC had non-existent information security. What a bunch of incompetents.


5 posted on 12/16/2016 8:29:47 AM PST by jalisco555 ("In a Time of Universal Deceit Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act" - George Orwell)
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Standard Fake News procedure.

Have one stooge run out and create a lie based on “unnamed sources” that may not even exist. Then all the little fake news organs endlessly repeat and distort the lie hoping if the lie is repeated often enough it become perceived as truth.


6 posted on 12/16/2016 8:30:44 AM PST by MNJohnnie (Trump discriminates against non-successful people.)
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To: InterceptPoint

Seems like the standard “phishing” exploit.


7 posted on 12/16/2016 8:35:37 AM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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The thing is ... the truth revealed by the hack, whomever did it, is what sank the RATs. Their story is really that it was unfair, unbalanced sans revelations from the RNC about their shenanigans.

BUT ... what a RNC hack would have revealed is the extent of the "Stop Trump" activities. That would not have counter-balanced the DNC revelations. Hence sHrillary still loses.

8 posted on 12/16/2016 8:51:06 AM PST by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #MyPresident #MAGA)
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Upon inspection, the RNC found that its electronic filters had blocked emails sent to a former employee matching the description they’d been warned about.


The former employee was Russian?


9 posted on 12/16/2016 9:10:06 AM PST by stocksthatgoup (Where's Hillary?)
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Possible - or his address was the one the perps happened to find for an attempted delivery of malware attachments.
10 posted on 12/16/2016 9:17:41 AM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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...and set their password as “password”, and disabled filters to let offset idiots have easy access.


11 posted on 12/16/2016 12:42:29 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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Maybe the RNC’s email weren’t proof of corruption like the DNC’s were. Then again.....


12 posted on 12/16/2016 3:28:01 PM PST by Terry Mross (This country will fail to exist inmy lifetime. And I'm gettin' up there in age.)
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The apparently successful blocking of a Russian espionage operation offers one possible explanation why the GOP’s main political organization didn’t suffer the same fate as its Democratic counterpart—a deluge of leaked emails revealing private correspondence and internal strategy.
. . . and it’s possible - just possible, mind - that there wasn’t anything juicer in the RNC emails than there was in Gov. Sarah Palin’s emails.

13 posted on 12/16/2016 3:41:29 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion ('Liberalism' is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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