Democratic House Candidates Were Also Targets of Russian Hacking

[workinclasszero]

Democratic House Candidates Were Also Targets of Russian Hacking
By ERIC LIPTON and SCOTT SHANEDEC. 13, 2016

Annette Taddeo lost a Democratic primary for a House seat in Florida after documents uncovered by Russian hackers were published by reporters and bloggers. Credit Scott McIntyre for The New York Times

WASHINGTON — South Florida has long been a laboratory for some of the nation’s roughest politics, with techniques like phantom candidates created by political rivals to siphon off votes from their opponents, or so-called boleteras hired to illegally fill out stacks of absentee ballots on behalf of elderly or disabled voters.

But there was never anything quite like the 2016 election campaign, when a handful of Democratic House candidates became targets of a Russian influence operation that made thousands of pages of documents stolen by hackers from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in Washington available to Florida reporters and bloggers.

“It was like I was standing out there naked,” said Annette Taddeo, a Democrat who lost her primary race after secret campaign documents were made public. “I just can’t describe it any other way. Our entire internal strategy plan was made public, and suddenly all this material was out there and could be used against me.”

The impact of the information released by the hackers on candidates like Ms. Taddeo in Florida and others in nearly a dozen House races around the country was largely lost in the focus on the hacking attacks against the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. But this untold story underscores the effect the Russian operation had on the American electoral system.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/us/politics/house-democrats-hacking-dccc.html?_r=0

[Kingofalldems]

1. A real investigation would also uncover GOP involvement.

Worse that Watergate.

[workinclasszero]

2. And now the media reports on it

They knew this shit was goin down during the election but all we ever heard then was...HILLARY'S EMAILS!!!1!!!!!11!!

Its too late now MF's!!!!!

Hitler got elected!

You can't tell me that the American news media was not a vital part of the Russian conspiracy to destroy our election system and install Putin's puppet!

[Hortensis]

5. I also suspect this conspiracy likely involved

active collusion from within some major media. Just take a look at the AP and its Comey-type hits on Hillary. A vicious 100% falsehood that blanketed the entire nation at the speed of light and was kept up for two weeks before being withdrawn, and there were others.

However, the MSM was already fat and profitable on Clinton blood and joining in the attacks had long been a requirement for admission to the insiders' group. And independent fake news here and from Russia were extremely active. Who orchestrated the massive increase in fake news would be worth finding out. That one guy who was immediately spotlighted is just a distraction.

[Hortensis]

3. May have bypassed the GOP. Comey colluding with string-pullers

in the background, for instance. Otoh, the GOP caucus contains a lot of Koch agents, just for one major puppeteer, and perhaps Ryan or another top figure was colluding.

Given the FBI's failure to make the DNC understand it was being hacked, even while it monitored the intrusions, it seems very possible that at least Comey, and perhaps a few others, was actively involved.

[Kingofalldems]

4. Agreed.