Pence says evidence points to Russia in email hacks

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

POLITICS | Sun Oct 16, 2016 | 12:21pm EDT

Pence says evidence points to Russia in email hacks

By Emily Stephenson | WASHINGTON

Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence said evidence implicates Russia in recent email hacks tied to the U.S. election, contradicting his running mate, Donald Trump, who cast doubt on Russia's involvement.

Pence said in an interview aired on "Fox News Sunday" that Russia or any other country involved in hacking should face "severe consequences." The disagreement with Trump, the Republican nominee for the Nov. 8 election, came after the pair also publicly disagreed about U.S. policy toward Russia in Syria.

U.S. intelligence officials believe Russia is behind recent email hacks targeting Democratic Party officials, including the continuing dumps by Wikileaks of documents stolen from the email account of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta.

"I think there's no question that the evidence continues to point in that direction," Pence said. "There should be severe consequences to Russia or any sovereign nation that is compromising the privacy or the security of the United States of America."

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-idUSKBN12G0PO

[Foggyhill]

1. I wonder why Ttunp has not beat up Pence sinc he keeps contradicting him?

[RKP5637]

2. I'm certainly not a Pence fan, but I don't see how Pence tolerates Trump. Pence is

rational in some ways, but Trump is a lunatic.

[Zambero]

3. What happened to the fat 400 lb guy in his bedroom?

The severe consequences Pence is referring to should extend to those in his campaign who are aiding and abetting the espionage. Unless the Trump campaign / RNC are concurrently releasing their own confidential emails (they aren't), grabbing and politicizing hacked emails not only provides nodding approval to a grave security threat, but affirms that the perpetrators are doing Trump's business for him. He did advocate Russian hacking of a political opponent during at a press conference weeks ago. Watergate's misdeeds were committed in-country. Enabling a contentious foreign power to do ones dirty work for him is in fact far worse.

[Ghost Dog]

4. What specific evidence, please?

I have seen none published.