U.S. intelligence agencies: Putin ordered intervention in presidential election
Source: The Washington Post
By Greg Miller January 6 at 3:53 PM
Russia carried out a comprehensive cyber campaign to upend the U.S. presidential election, an operation that was ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin and aspired to help elect Donald Trump by discrediting his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, U.S. intelligence agencies concluded in a report released Friday.
The report depicts Russian interference as unprecedented in scale, saying that Moscows assault represented a significant escalation in directness, level of activity, and scope of effort beyond previous election-related espionage.
The campaign was ordered by Putin himself and initially sought primarily to undermine public faith is the U.S. democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton and harm her electoral prospects. But as the campaign proceeded, Russia developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump and repeatedly sought to elevate him by discrediting Secretary Clinton and publicly contrasting her unfavorably to him.
The document represents an extraordinarily direct and detailed account of a longstanding United States' adversarys multi-pronged intervention in a fundamental pillar of American democracy.
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Putin Ordered Influence Campaign Aimed at U.S. Election, Report Says
By DAVID E. SANGERJAN. 6, 2017
WASHINGTON American intelligence officials have concluded that Russias president, Vladimir V. Putin, 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 Friday afternoon. Its main conclusions were described to Donald J. Trump by intelligence officials earlier in the day, and he responded by acknowledging that Russia sought to hack into the Democratic National Committee, but said nothing about the conclusion that Mr. Putin had sought to aid his candidacy, other than that it had no effect on the outcome.
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 aspired to help President-elect Trumps election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton and publicly contrasting her unfavorably to him.
The report described a broad campaign that included covert operations, including cyberactivities, with trolling and fake news.
In the unclassified version of the report, the intelligence agencies also concluded with high confidence that Russias main military intelligence unit, the G.R.U., created the persona called Guccifer 2.0 and a website, DCLeaks.com, to release the emails of the Democratic National Committee and the chairman of the Clinton campaign, John D. Podesta.
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mahatmakanejeeves
(57,712 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,163 posts)US faith "is" the democratic process? How about "in"?
Girard442
(6,087 posts)Quick, call up the crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald and give them a weather report and warn the Titanic to slow down in the ice field.
LisaM
(27,848 posts)Too little, too late, if DT is sworn in.
elmac
(4,642 posts)we could tell General Washington not to bother with that revolution thing.
busterbrown
(8,515 posts)Sad...Sarcasm is perfect though.
Stuart G
(38,454 posts)Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)I sure am proud we had FREE & FAIR elections this time around. You just have to believe that the impeding of voting for minorities, the innocent souls with similar names that were handed worthless "provisional" ballots, the hand ballot counts that didn't happen and the shit dribbling of Wikileaks and Comey were just figments of imagination. Yeah - how's come WE didn't get to dip our fingers in purple ink???
mobeau69
(11,167 posts)Fuck this shit.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Says the news.
No one is proposing any action on that, either.
Then they wonder why the hell people do not vote.
neohippie
(1,142 posts)I personally believe Comey's actions were the icing on the cake to help Trump ensure victory
True_Blue
(3,063 posts)IMO Putin is either blackmailing him or bribing him.
Hugin
(33,222 posts)I hope he's reminded of that every day from here on.
Perseus
(4,341 posts)What are the authorities going to do about it? Enough proof that trump's win is not legitimate...now what???
I am fed up of hearing/reading about this but this crazy guy being sworn in is getting closer.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,375 posts)And now the Republicans will run roughshod over our rights, our healthcare, our retirements, our education, our public lands.
Historic NY
(37,457 posts)Jacob Boehme
(789 posts)Stuart G
(38,454 posts)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 aspired to help President-elect Trumps election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton and publicly contrasting her unfavorably to him. .............
Putin himself was in charge.........he ordered it, and supervised it.....................
INCREDIBLE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Little Tich
(6,171 posts)won so big.