One of the reports most startling findings is that Russian President Vladimir Putin apparently ‘ordered’ an effort to influence the U.S. presidential election.
Overall, the report is vague on details, and evidence backing up the allegations.
The report has been declassified, so of course, it is possible that the fully classified version has more empirical evidence.
# 1 Russia’s goals were to undermine public faith in the US democratic process and hurt Secretary Hillary Clinton’s chances of becoming president.
“We further assess Putin and the Russian Government developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump,” the reports reads. The report also found that the Russian Government “aspired” to help President-elect Trump’s election chances whenever possible by discrediting Hillary Clinton.
In addition, the report found that the Russian military intelligence ‘probably’ began cyber operations around March 2016 when the U.S. primaries were in full swing. They believe the Russian intelligence hacked emails accounts of Democratic Party Officials and by May 2016 had “large volumes of data from the DNC.”
# 2 Russia paid “internet trolls.”
From the report: “Moscow’s influence campaign followed a Russian messaging strategy that blends covert intelligence operations—such as cyber activity—with overt efforts by Russian Government agencies, state-funded media, third-party intermediaries, and paid social media users or “trolls.”
#3 U.S. Intelligence believes with “high confidence” that the Russian military intelligence used the Guccifer 2.0 persona to release information to DCLeaks and Wikileaks.
Guccifer 2.0 was the internet en y that claimed he hacked into the Democratic National Committee server and leaked the findings to the media and websites like Wikileaks.
“We assess with high confidence that the GRU (Russian Military Intelligence) relayed material it acquired from the DNC and senior Democratic officials to Wikileaks. Moscow most likely chose Wikileaks because of its self-proclaimed reputation for authenticity,” the report states.
However, in an interview with Vice, Guccifer 2.0 told the outlet that he was not Russian nor could he read or understand Russian. In addition this week, Wikileak’s founder, Julian Assange, told Fox News’ Sean Hannity that there was absolutely no Russian involvement in the Wikileaks emails.
# 4 Russia intelligence apparently had access to U.S. electoral boards.
However, the report says that the types of system Russian actors targeted or compromised were NOT involved in vote tallying. In other words, they didn’t actually meddle in the voting process, even though they appeared to have access to some of the databases.
#5 Russia might interfere with other elections now that they have the capability.
The report states, “We assess Moscow will apply lessons learned from its Putin-ordered campaign aimed at the US presidential election to future influence efforts worldwide, including against US allies and their election processes.”
http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/5-mo...-interference/
We still don't who gave DNC emails to Assange, who leaded them out week by week to keep distracting from Hillary's campaign.
Assange is totally compromised now, having taken political sides.
Having been decided in typically very close election by Comey and Assange, Trash's "presidency" is 100% delegitimized.
"Probably".
ha...that's rich.
I'm sure Hillary will find solace in that in her autumn years as she stands on the sideline with Bill and his skin condition.
Were any of these US intelligence agencies allowed into the DNC servers to do their own analysis?
Obviously not, otherwise they'd a tackled that tact immediately when Trump operatives put it out there. I waited, after 6 minutes of CNN/MSNBC ashen faces and shifting heavily in their soft seats on studio I knew the answer.
You expect this analysis would annul the effect of Assange leaking the contents week by week to defeat Hillary?
Assange's source is important, but the overriding fact is that Assange and Comey threw the election to Trash.
& we caught it with one of those over sized catcher mitts.
You had your Barry. He coulda put a stopper in the bottle anytime he wanted, but, he thought it was in the bag for Hillary. Hey, sweetheart,,,it was not in the bag.
You dodged my question so I'm hoping someone else has answer.
To address your dodge, Assange and Comey did not throw the election to Trump. Hillary caused the FBI to investigate when it was revealed she had a private server set up. The content of the emails released by Wikileaks was also not falsified, so the words of Hillary and her staff are what cost her the election, on top of just being a vile kunt with no campaign strategy.
goddam, you're stupid
FBI found nothing, but had a national press conference (protocol has always been "no indictment, then silence") to trash Hillary.
Weiner's stuff UNSEEN, Comey announced the discovery of the emails 10 days before the election.
Comey's political hacking of the election to Trump was not Hillary's fault or cause.
Assange and Comey threw the very close election to Trash, esp Comey's 2nd intervention which,eg, Silver saying he shifted votes in key states.
goddam, you're stupid
Answer these two questions.
Why was the FBI investigating Hillary Clinton?
Was the content of the Wikileaks emails falsified?
The great prognosticator providing proof of his take through interpretation of future events.
Obama wanted to watch Hillary squirm a bit for her handling of Benghazi and her history of shame. He let it go too far and couldn't recover after momentum was gained.
The Repugs witch hunted, harassed Bill until Linda Tripp fell in their lap
The Repugs were witch hunting, harassing President-presumed Hillary about Benghazi, and her email server fell in their lap. Then the entire Repug establishment put enormous pressure on the FBI to go after Hillary. And we learned later that Comey was a Repug tool.
You failed to answer either question. Try again.
Why was the FBI investigating Hillary Clinton?
Was the content of the Wikileaks emails falsified?
I can't vouch for the reason, but, he did indeed "let it go too far"---& he'll take that decision on into the grave.
Been since Florida as the century turned that the Dems made such lethal mistakes. And I frankly believed they'd never make another. I was wrong.
The way he physically stalked Hillary on the 3rd debate stage was magnificent. I wanted to see her destroyed. & by God I got it. I never really took into account the effect(s) it would have on Obama. It didn't occur to me. I just wanted Bill & her. And I got 'em both. Obama is the bonus. Turns out he's squealin' loudest of the 3.
Obama is the Kobe of the political world. Ah..never mind...that makes no sense.
More like Gus Fring. Lol
Donald Trump, Julian Assange and Russia: How they’re connected, and how they changed an election
You don't have to believe the Russians hacked the Democratic Party to be disturbed by the Trump/Assange/Putin axis
Trump openly encouraged Russia to spy on Clinton.
Regardless of whether Russia was behind the election hacking, one thing is clear: When Trump first caught wind of the allegations, his reaction was to encourage the fascist state to continue doing it.
“They probably have her 33,000 emails, too. I hope they do,” he said during a July press conference. “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”
One of Trump’s first campaign managers, Paul Manafort, used to work for pro-Putin politicians in Ukraine.
Although Manafort would eventually be asked to resign from the Trump campaign (in part because of the backlash over his Russia connections), this doesn’t change the fact that the campaign manager Trump chose to replace Corey Lewandowski had a long history of ties to pro-Putin politicians in Ukraine. This included President Viktor Yanukovych, who had to flee to Russia after Ukraine waged a revolution in 2014 — the same year that Russia invaded that country now that its puppet was out of power.
Despite taking little interest in the Republican National Convention’s official platform, Trump and Manafort did push for one issue — appeasing Russia.
Although the Trump campaign reportedly had little interest in shaping their party platform during the Republican convention in July, they spent a disproportionate amount of time softening the language of a plank that condemned Russia for its invasion of the Ukraine. Most glaringly, it replaced the call for “providing lethal defensive weapons” to Ukraine with one merely asking for “appropriate assistance.”
Trump’s incoming national security adviser, retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, has dined next to Putin.
The man Trump has appointed as his national security adviser, retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, has a lot of unsavory connections to the Putin regime. These include doing a paid series of events in Moscow including a paid speech, an appearance at an anniversary for the state-funded TV network, RT, and sitting next to Putin during a subsequent dinner party. Flynn has made several appearances on RT since then and has repeatedly advocated that America align its foreign policy interests more closely with Russia.
Trump’s incoming secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, has bragged about how close he is to Putin.
Aside from having no government foreign policy experience whatsoever, the most alarming thing about ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson’s nomination as secretary of state is that he has a disturbingly cozy relationship with the Putin regime. This includes bragging about having a “very close relationship with Putin” earlier this year and striking a $500 billion venture in 2011 with Rosneft, a Russian oil company that is majority-owned by the Russian governmen
Trump has innumerable business ties to Russia.
After major banks stopped lending Trump money due to his multiple bankruptcies, the desperate businessman started turning to Russian financial interests with close ties to the Putin regime in order to continue funding his various business ventures. Projects from Trump Soho to Trump’s first real estate project in Toronto were subsequently revealed to have been tied to shady Russian business interests.
The Kremlin has been defending Assange for a very long time.
In 2010, an anonymous Russian official suggested that Assange be given the Nobel Peace Prize; on the very next day, Putin himself came forward to claim that the rape charges against Assange in Sweden were politically motivated. This happened after it was alleged that Israel Shamir, a former WikiLeaks employee, was discovered to have shared sensitive do ents with Belarus (a nation aligned with Putin) that allowed them to repress pro-democracy dissidents. Assange denounced Shamir.
Assange specifically requested protection from Russian security once he started living in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.
As Focus Ecuador reported in August 2015:
“In some instances, the ‘guest’ requested that he be able to chose his own Security Service inside the embassy, suggesting the use of Russians. For the SENAIN agents, such choice would have meant, among other problems, the loss of control of the Embassy itself leaving the ‘guest’ free access to control and manage the flow of information. The report even asserts that it would have been the equivalent of ‘a coup in the embassy.'”
Assange hosted his own talk show on RT.
While Flynn can at the very least claim he has only made appearances on RT, Assange actually started hosting his own show on the network. RT is not some Russian equivalent to NPR or PBS, but a Kremlin-financed news network that exists for the primary purpose of advancing a pro-Putin agenda. It is impossible to sincerely believe that Putin would allow Assange to have a show on his network if he didn’t believe the WikiLeaks founder was an ally.
Assange claims to have convinced Edward Snowden to flee to Russia.
“I thought, and in fact advised Edward Snowden, that he would be safest in Moscow,” Assange told Democracy Now. In another interview with the Times, Assange elaborated:
“Snowden was well aware of the spin that would be put on it if he took asylum in Russia. He preferred Latin America, but my advice was that he should take asylum in Russia despite the negative PR consequences, because my assessment is that he had a significant risk he could be kidnapped from Latin America on CIA orders. Kidnapped or possibly killed.”
Assange hypocritically denounced the Panama Papers because they made Russia look bad.
One of the most common defenses of Assange is that his goal is to undermine all repressive governments, causing him to view no distinction between a member of the American political establishment like Hillary Clinton and other state establishments elsewhere. This would be believable if he didn’t attempt to discredit the Panama Papers, which alleged corruption among many of Russia’s political and financial elites (including a $2 billion overseas account owned by Putin), as an American plot — without the slightest shred of evidence.
http://www.salon.com/2017/01/07/dona...d-an-election/
read for yourself here:
http://do ents.latimes.com/read-us...ssian-hacking/
Not a single mention on whether or not the three US intelligence agencies were allowed into the DNC servers to run analytics. I think they based this entire report off of the DNC hired CrowdStrike report. It will be interesting to watch the private security sector experts tear apart this report much like they did the JAR report.
point by point analysis here:
https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/01/0...n-hack-report/
from the comments:
If you think about it, and it takes an awful lot of poring through pages of guff and fluff before one can, what the CIA and FBI are saying is “We have our own little racket here in election years: the oligarchs buy a couple of candidates and platforms then they decide which one will serve them best and the media takes it over, telling the Rubes where to mark their ballots. And suddenly the Russians come along and give platforms to people criticising the media-just like Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty al Hurra etc etc etc- and questioning the policies the oligarchs want. Who does Putin think he is? An American? …”
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