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Russian hackers 'threaten Germany 2017 election', MPs warn
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Posted on 12/12/2016 7:24:19 AM PST by TigerClaws

German politicians have warned that hackers and others acting for the Russian state could undermine Germany's general elections next year.

The German election is at risk from "outside manipulation", said Wolfgang Bosbach, a senior MP in Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative CDU party.

The warnings came amid a US furore over Russian hackers accused over leaks of sensitive US Democratic Party files.

Russia was blamed for a cyberattack on the German parliament last year.

An unnamed German security official said it was "highly likely" that secret files published by Wikileaks two weeks ago originated from that cyberattack.

The files - dating from early 2014 to January 2015 - came from the parliamentary lower house (Bundestag) committee investigating US National Security Agency (NSA) spying on German politicians.

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


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Guess the elites can just shut down the voting and pick our leaders and laws for us now. Darn Russians.

And everyone on the left laughed when Romney said they were bad guys.

1 posted on 12/12/2016 7:24:19 AM PST by TigerClaws
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The ManBearPig of elections - Russia!

Like Russia didn't run East Germany (and hence Merkle) for decades....

2 posted on 12/12/2016 7:26:35 AM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: TigerClaws

Markell is set to lose her election as well. Yet another globalist leader cast to the side.


3 posted on 12/12/2016 7:26:40 AM PST by MNGal
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bump!


4 posted on 12/12/2016 7:27:52 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both)
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To: TigerClaws

The international Left acts in lockstep, pushing the phony “The Russkies did it” meme.


5 posted on 12/12/2016 7:28:30 AM PST by bkopto
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Phone call to Merkle from Barky: “We are going to use Russia hacked our election, you do the same”...

Merkle to Barky: “Will do, thanks for the heads up”... Click...


6 posted on 12/12/2016 7:28:40 AM PST by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: TigerClaws

GOOD F-IN GRIEF. I am so sick of hearing this crap wen there is no proof what so ever, and yet the idiots believe anything they are told off the far left rags like the Times.


7 posted on 12/12/2016 7:29:31 AM PST by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: TigerClaws

The Merkel Pig working to help promote the Obama lies while preparing the grounds to challenge their own defeat in German Elections.


8 posted on 12/12/2016 7:30:18 AM PST by ZULU (We are freedom's safest place!!!! #BOYCOTT HAMILTON!!! #BOYCOTT NEW YORK CITY!!!!!!!)
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So true. Now Merkel has something to blame for Germans not wanting her muslim invasion.


9 posted on 12/12/2016 7:31:16 AM PST by nclaurel
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To: TigerClaws

Russian hackers ate my homework!


10 posted on 12/12/2016 7:32:31 AM PST by Junk Silver
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How? How can hackers influence any election? They can’t. if you have done something very wrong and it’s brought to light, that’s on you, not anyone else. You did it, and now you’re accountable


11 posted on 12/12/2016 7:33:11 AM PST by realcleanguy
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To: TigerClaws

Interesting that the left is now using Russia as the Great Boogeyman.


12 posted on 12/12/2016 7:35:52 AM PST by samtheman (Voted Trump)
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To: TigerClaws

Does Frau Merkel have a private email server set up in her badzimmer?
Does she use. “ ein zwei drei vier” as her password?
Has she used and lost blackberries she bought on eBay?
Have her aides left classified documents in hotel rooms?
Does she sleep with a muslim brotherhood agent?
Has Saudi money paid for a big part of her campaign?
Have she and her husband both accumulated frequent flyer miles on Air Lolita?
Does her chief campaign strategist engage in weird email references to pizza pasta and domino parties with her big donors and think tank hacks?

If so then maybe she should worry


13 posted on 12/12/2016 7:40:20 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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Putin must be laughing his @$$ off at this insanity.

ML/NJ

14 posted on 12/12/2016 7:45:10 AM PST by ml/nj
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To: TigerClaws

Fake news.


15 posted on 12/12/2016 7:50:43 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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Already setting the stage to protest if Merkel loses, I’m guessing.


16 posted on 12/12/2016 7:54:18 AM PST by A_perfect_lady
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BS has gone international.


17 posted on 12/12/2016 7:57:50 AM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: TigerClaws

Gee, maybe the Germans will get to see Merkel’s emails and get to see how evil she is also so they can make an informed decision.


18 posted on 12/12/2016 8:00:48 AM PST by Lady Heron
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Russian hackers ate my homework!

LOL...Isn't it more like....Russian hackers exposed my cheating on my homework and because of them I got expelled??

19 posted on 12/12/2016 8:03:12 AM PST by Lady Heron
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To: TigerClaws
My take is that by putting out this "Russians will hack the German election" meme, the left - via its moles in the intelligence agencies - hopes to manipulate people into voting for Merkel just to show the Russians who's boss. No proof of actual Russian involvement is needed.

Also note that - if the Russians were involved in the US election process at all (IF!) - it was through hacking the DNC, NOT by hacking any part of our election infrastructure. But this German claim is sneakily morphing into the idea that the Russians will hack the actual election mechanism.
20 posted on 12/12/2016 8:09:54 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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