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.
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Exactly. Call the process into question, hope for backlash, backup plan post election is to call the entire process into question. Need a re-do like they want here.
Extremely destructive to democratic elections, but they want to rule in spite of the people.
Russian hackers forged my name as co-signer on a jewelry loan.
Took my ring—I hates them fat stupid Russians, Precious.
The Russian Bogeyman is everywhere. Fake news is all the Alt-Left has left in their bags of tricks.
So this is the new meme: any time the leftist (socialist) agenda is defeated anywhere, it must be because the world’s most notorious champion of socialism is secretly working to undermine it.
Just like Bonnie and Clyde were responsible for enacting tougher bank security regulations.
Talking points sent around the world.
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