Posted on 06/14/2016 12:13:03 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Why go to the trouble? If Putin wants dirt on Trump, he could just download the Page Six archive and start sifting through old Howard Stern shows. A friend, goofing on the evergreen Democratic gender-gap obsession, messaged me after the news broke, “The Kremlin is now in possession of a long list of misconstrued, slightly out of context quotes from Trump about women.” Indeed. The FSB may now be the proud owner of a list of all the 10’s that Donald Trump has dated.
Hillary’s not even the nominee yet and she’s already putting her stamp on the party. And that stamp, apparently, is “Easy hackability.”
The intruders so thoroughly compromised the DNC’s system they also were able to read all e-mail and chat traffic, said DNC officials and the security experts…
Some of the hackers had access to the DNC network for about a year, but all were expelled over the past weekend in a major computer clean-up campaign, the committee officials and experts said…
“The purpose of such intelligence gathering is to understand the target’s proclivities,” said Robert Deitz, former senior councillor to the CIA director and a former general counsel at the National Security Agency. “Trump’s foreign investments, for example, would be relevant to understanding how he would deal with countries where he has those investments” should he be elected, Deitz said. “They may provide tips for understanding his style of negotiating. In short, this sort of intelligence could be used by Russia, for example, to indicate where it can get away with foreign adventurism.”…
Russia has always been a formidable foe in cyberspace, but in the last two years “there’s been a thousand-fold increase in its espionage campaign against the West,” said Alperovitch, who is also a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. “They feel under siege.”
How bad is it? According to experts, this was actually two different hacks conducted by two different Russian outfits (one probably the FSB, the other possibly the military) — and they might not have been working together. That means two distinct infiltrations into the DNC’s system. I wonder if the hackers ran into each other while they were poking around in there. Which reminds me: Are we still pretending that they never made it into the Secretary of State’s amateurish home-server set-up despite the likelihood that it would contain far more valuable information than the Donald Trump oppo file?
As for what they might do with the information, one possibility is blackmail — but what good is party oppo in engineering that when the most damning stuff will, presumably, be made public by the Democrats to try to take Trump down before the election? The point in the excerpt about understanding Trump’s investments to anticipate what he might do as president is possible, I guess, but Trump seems more invested in his image as a strongman and a “winner” than he does in any financial holding. If you want to manipulate him, offer him self-serving foreign policy agreements that let him posture as a big man.
Anothe
“DNC Sells Trump Oppo File to Putin, Covers by Claiming Theft” may be a more accurate headline
This is sort of Watergate-like, isn’t it?
Putan now knows Trump true handicap!
Horror!
Why go to the trouble?
How about this? Maybe Putin thinks Hillary is just nucking futs, and would rather deal with an adversary who has some predictable integrity. Maybe he’ll leak the hacked oppo research to Trump.
It’s not like Trump won’t know everything about his own past, but having a headstart on the distortions that are coming down the pike could be helpful in preparing counter-blows.
Putin wants Trump elected and is giving him the heads up to crush the DNC.
The answer to your question, Russia did:
http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/breaking-hillary-just-received-worst-news-emails-putin-smiling/
Why do I doubt that it was a “hack” as they say, but rather a matter of leaving the barn door open for anyone to get in and steal the horses...?
Isn’t Putin a member of the DNC?
The Russians were interested in penetrating the DNC system, but they weren’t fishing for Trump opposition research. Oh sure, they grabbed that just for fun.
They were really looking for info on DNC strategy and contacts, to continue blackmailing Hillary.
Thanks!
This means the Chinese WHO HATE TRUMP also have the opposition research on him. And the Mexicans who hate Trump... The DNC must be soooooooooo sad.
Did the DNC leave the door open so IRS ‘leaks’ on Trump could be shared to damage Trump?
Has a Clinton feel to it... Much like her stuff was hacked. Then we have FBI Director James Comey becoming the darling of the MSM - which means Hillary’s gonna walk - and this newest outrage will never be check closely...
Probably going to hand it over to Trump.
Putin is not communist enough for the DNC.
Pray America wakes
Trump has been in the spot light one way or another for over 30 years. There ain’t much to uncover. Obama’s entire life has been shrouded in secrecy and we still know very little about him aside from his radical marxist philosophy. Hillary has spent her entire life covering up and destroying anything that gets in her way.
I’m sure the Russians’ “hack” consisted of little more than taking a handoff of the thumb-drive, in the Dem’s back parking lot.
Hillary reminds me of my cat trying to cover its poop in the litter box.Sure its covered but, it's still there.
Just for some good old fashioned glasnost, I hope the Russians put a couple naked pics of Hillary in the thumb drive content, just to liven up their meetings. “From America, with Love”.
Avid by yourself you might solve our obesity problem. How could anyone eat after seeing those pics.
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