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Putin Ordered Influence Campaign Aimed at U.S. Election, Report Says - David Sanger, NYT
[font size="+1"]"The report, a damning and surprisingly detailed account of Russias efforts to undermine the American electoral system and Mrs. Clinton in particular, went on to assess that Mr. Putin had aspired to help President-elect Trumps election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton and publicly contrasting her unfavorably to him. "[/font]
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/06/us/politics/russia-hack-report.html
WASHINGTON American intelligence officials have concluded that the president of Russia, Vladimir V. Putin, personally ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the U.S. presidential election, and turned from seeking to denigrate Hillary Clinton to developing a clear preference for President-elect Trump.
The conclusions were part of a declassified intelligence report, ordered by President Obama, that was released on Friday. Its main determinations were described to Mr. Trump by the nations top intelligence officials earlier in the day, and he responded by acknowledging, for the first time, that Russia had sought to hack into the Democratic National Committees computer systems. But he insisted that the effort had no effect on the election, and he said nothing about the conclusion that Mr. Putin, at some point last year, decided to aid his candidacy.
[font size="+1"]The report, a damning and surprisingly detailed account of Russias efforts to undermine the American electoral system and Mrs. Clinton in particular, went on to assess that Mr. Putin had aspired to help President-elect Trumps election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton and publicly contrasting her unfavorably to him.[/font]
The report described a broad campaign that included covert operations, including cyberactivities and trolling on the internet of people who were viewed as opponents of Russias effort. While it accused Russian intelligence agencies of obtaining and maintaining access to elements of multiple U.S. state or local electoral boards, it concluded as officials have publicly that there was no evidence of tampering with the tallying of the vote on Nov. 8.
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[font size="+1"]The intelligence agencies also concluded with high confidence that Russias main military intelligence unit, the G.R.U., created a persona called Guccifer 2.0 and a website, DCLeaks.com, to release the emails of the Democratic National Committee and of the chairman of the Clinton campaign, John D. Podesta.[/font]
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Putin Ordered Influence Campaign Aimed at U.S. Election, Report Says - David Sanger, NYT (Original Post)
Bill USA
Jan 2017
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Skittles
(153,193 posts)1. even with the help of Russia, the FBI and voter suppression
Donald Trump STILL could not win the popular vote
he is VILE
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)4. Hillary did well considering what a propaganda empire "foreign & domestic" Republicans fund.
None of those people, not even the little 'fake news' thugs & especially people like, the Republicans hacker- Putin- work for free.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)2. k+r
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)3. putin is a lot like trump, & elephants- once someone is on their shit list......