How Putin Weaponized Wikileaks to Influence the Election of an American President

[Tresha91203]

Assange is in exile due to rape charges in Sweden. He's holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. He's a fugitive from justice. He's a coward. He and Trump have much in common - rape charges.

Don't forget Bill!

Everyone knows the charges against Assange are bogus. It was clearly a setup to get their hands on him for prior leaks. When he and Trump get the number of complaints Bill got, I will pay attention. The left gave Bill a pass when there were women coming out of the woodwork accusing him of rape, molestation and harassment. Excuse me if I don't take a single, highly suspicious accusation seriously. After all, the left doesnt take rape seriously if its one of their own doing the raping.

Seriously, you want people to take a stand against rapists now ... after Bill? You want me to be concerned with Trump spilling national secrets ... after Bill (China) and Hillary (extremely careless)? Too funny!

I actually feel bad for the paid DNC shills. This is comical.

 

[kaz]

I see your point. If we assume Trump is guilty, then it's easy to prove he's guilty. Why would Putin give a shit about a real estate mogul or vice versa? Even in your paranoid delusional world? Because he's a Republican? OMG, Trump is a Jew, isn't he? That would explain it, wouldn't it Adolph?

To think Putin doesn't care who's in the oval office is pretty naive.

NATO has been a pain in the ass for every Russian leader from Stalin to Putin and up pops Donald Trump who thinks NATO has outlived it's usefulness and seeks less US support. With joint support for the Ukraine by NATO and the US, a friend in the oval office would be a welcome change for Putin.

There is certainly evidence of growing link between these these men. Putin called Trump “a colorful person, talented, without any doubt” and said: “It’s not our business to decide his merits, that’s for US voters, but he is absolutely the leader in the presidential race.” Last week, Aleksey Pushkov, the head of the Duma’s foreign affairs committee, tweeted: “Clinton’s credo is to strengthen US alliances against Russia; Trump’s credo is only to respond to real threats. Aggressive banality versus common sense.”
In turn, Trump has described Putin approvingly as a “strong leader” with whom he would have “a very good relationship”.

Then there's Paul Manafort, Trump's campaign manager who worked as an adviser to Viktor Yanukovych, former Ukrainian president and a Vladimir Putin ally ousted in a revolution. Yanukovych is now living in exit in Russia. And Carter Page, a Trump foreign policy adviser with a long history of financial ties to the Russian energy giant Gazprom.

Putin is surely backing Trump, whether or not Russia was behind DNC hack

Swish, I never said Putin doesn't care. Try reading more carefully.

That Hillary is the strong leader Putin fears is laughable, that's what I was mocking.

I mean duh

You raised the question, "Why would Putin give a shit about a real estate mogul or vice versa?"

Putin would certain give a shit about Trump because he is potentially the next president. Putin would love to see the US lessen support for NATO and adapt a more isolationist policy. A win for Trump would be a win for Putin.

My question was regarding BEFORE he ran for President. Why would Trump and Putin had a relationship when Trump was a real estate mogul in the US? They had no reason to work together. The ridiculous claim is that somehow they were in cahoots. Can we move past the obvious at some point?

It seems unlikely that Putin would have any interest in Trump before he decided to run. After he began his campaign, well that's a different story.

Which completely contradicts the story. The story is that Putin and Trump had a prior connection. Obviously as a politician, Putin would never want Trump over an Obama administration pussy

 

[HUGGY]

Even Donald Trump should denounce such Russian tactics. However, that is unlikely - since he never said anything about his adviser saying Hillary should be shot by firing squad.

Why do you hate the truth "kemosabe"?
Are you truly that dispicable of a human being"

Truth is fine - but sometimes one must also consider the motives of the source.

Errrrm.........no.

If the emails were not authentic the DNC would be all over the news saying that they are fake. So they are authentic and that is all that matters. The source is irrelevant.

Oh goodie! We now have the public thought police with their pitch forks and rakes screaming for "justice"..

Why does anyone, including the DNC have to start being PC with their personal e-mails? Fuck you people that take stolen e-mails and act like someone has done something wrong. Mind YOUR own business.

The first amendment includes e-mails you morons. I, you and THEY can say anything they want and it is nobodies business unless they are breaking the law. No laws have been broken except the theft of personal communications.

 

[Lakhota]

Even Donald Trump should denounce such Russian tactics. However, that is unlikely - since he never said anything about his adviser saying Hillary should be shot by firing squad.

Why do you hate the truth "kemosabe"?
Are you truly that dispicable of a human being"

Truth is fine - but sometimes one must also consider the motives of the source.

Errrrm.........no.

If the emails were not authentic the DNC would be all over the news saying that they are fake. So they are authentic and that is all that matters. The source is irrelevant.

Oh goodie! We now have the public thought police with their pitch forks and rakes screaming for "justice"..

Why does anyone, including the DNC have to start being PC with their personal e-mails? Fuck you people that take stolen e-mails and act like someone has done something wrong. Mind YOUR own business.

The first amendment includes e-mails you morons. I, you and THEY can say anything they want and it is nobodies business unless they are breaking the law. No laws have been broken except the theft of personal communications.

Exactly! Where are those RNC internal emails? With Trump's tax returns?

 

[Rustic]

Even Donald Trump should denounce such Russian tactics. However, that is unlikely - since he never said anything about his adviser saying Hillary should be shot by firing squad.

Why do you hate the truth "kemosabe"?
Are you truly that dispicable of a human being"

Truth is fine - but sometimes one must also consider the motives of the source.

Errrrm.........no.

If the emails were not authentic the DNC would be all over the news saying that they are fake. So they are authentic and that is all that matters. The source is irrelevant.

Oh goodie! We now have the public thought police with their pitch forks and rakes screaming for "justice"..

Why does anyone, including the DNC have to start being PC with their personal e-mails? Fuck you people that take stolen e-mails and act like someone has done something wrong. Mind YOUR own business.

The first amendment includes e-mails you morons. I, you and THEY can say anything they want and it is nobodies business unless they are breaking the law. No laws have been broken except the theft of personal communications.

Exactly! Where are those RNC internal emails? With Trump's tax returns?

Income tax is unconstitutional

 

[HUGGY]

Why do you hate the truth "kemosabe"?
Are you truly that dispicable of a human being"

Truth is fine - but sometimes one must also consider the motives of the source.

Errrrm.........no.

If the emails were not authentic the DNC would be all over the news saying that they are fake. So they are authentic and that is all that matters. The source is irrelevant.

Oh goodie! We now have the public thought police with their pitch forks and rakes screaming for "justice"..

Why does anyone, including the DNC have to start being PC with their personal e-mails? Fuck you people that take stolen e-mails and act like someone has done something wrong. Mind YOUR own business.

The first amendment includes e-mails you morons. I, you and THEY can say anything they want and it is nobodies business unless they are breaking the law. No laws have been broken except the theft of personal communications.

Exactly! Where are those RNC internal emails? With Trump's tax returns?

Income tax is unconstitutional

"Income tax is unconstitutional"

So is attacking free speech.

 

[Lakhota]

Damn, here is some more scary stuff about Trump and his Putin buddy. Also remember that Trump's foreign wife has a communist father with direct ties to communist Russia. Damn...

George Will raises possible Trump link to Russian oligarchs

 

[Lakhota]

When will accused rapist and fugitive from justice Julian Assange release Putin's hacked RNC emails? I want to see them! I want to see their personal diaries also!

 

[Two Thumbs]

when the people running the show are the same people that are supposed to be neutral, but then take a side and work behind the backs of the other competitors, thus rigging the outcome......


how can you be this shockingly dumb?

Nothing was "rigged". The DNC did the same thing to Hillary in 2008. Thumbs were on the scale for Obama. Nothing illegal - just a few rules bent and twisted. However, Hillary beat Bernie fair and square. Even he has stated that publicly. Just because Hillary was "favored" by DNC insiders didn't change the outcome. Parents even have favorite children. Shit happens...

so the fact that the person, 'bending and twisting' the fucking RULES, had to quit, and then got immediately hired by the person she helped

is meaningless to you, b/c it's normal, now


you leftist are pathetic.


Why even bother with a run off if you are just going to be told who is in charge of you?

Leftist? What a fucking joke. There is no left or right in this country. All our leaders and representatives get paid by the same corporations.

he's a leftist and you're a leftist.

close your eyes and hold your nose when you vote for hillary then lie and said you wrote in bernie.

And you're a fucking dummy, you don't need to close your eyes or hold your nose. Just do the same stupid fucking things you always do......dummy.

so you have not problem voting for hillary

telling

 

[Lakhota]

I wonder if Putin also hacked Trump's tax returns? I want to see them!

 

[Lakhota]

‘WORSE THAN WATERGATE’

Suspected Russian Hack Of DNC Emails ‘A Breathtaking Transgression Of Privacy’...

Putin ‘Treating American Democracy With The Same Respect He Accords His Own’...

DNC Hack ‘Far More Widespread Than Initially Thought’...

More Bombshells To Come?...

REPORT: Hacker ‘An Agent Of The Russian Government’...

‘Beyond A Reasonable Doubt’...

George Will On Trump Tax Returns: Could Show He’s ‘Deeply Involved’ With Russians...

Holy shit...

 

[IsaacNewton]

‘WORSE THAN WATERGATE’

Suspected Russian Hack Of DNC Emails ‘A Breathtaking Transgression Of Privacy’...

Putin ‘Treating American Democracy With The Same Respect He Accords His Own’...

DNC Hack ‘Far More Widespread Than Initially Thought’...

More Bombshells To Come?...

REPORT: Hacker ‘An Agent Of The Russian Government’...

‘Beyond A Reasonable Doubt’...

George Will On Trump Tax Returns: Could Show He’s ‘Deeply Involved’ With Russians...

Holy shit...

Yeah this may turn into something huuuuge.

 

[FA_Q2]

‘WORSE THAN WATERGATE’

Suspected Russian Hack Of DNC Emails ‘A Breathtaking Transgression Of Privacy’...

Putin ‘Treating American Democracy With The Same Respect He Accords His Own’...

DNC Hack ‘Far More Widespread Than Initially Thought’...

More Bombshells To Come?...

REPORT: Hacker ‘An Agent Of The Russian Government’...

‘Beyond A Reasonable Doubt’...

George Will On Trump Tax Returns: Could Show He’s ‘Deeply Involved’ With Russians...

Holy shit...

Only the left here would take an event that revealed people operating in secrete and lies and declare it worse than the government trying to cover up illegal activities.

It is almost like you prefer your leaders overtly lying to your face.

 

[Lakhota]

‘WORSE THAN WATERGATE’

Suspected Russian Hack Of DNC Emails ‘A Breathtaking Transgression Of Privacy’...

Putin ‘Treating American Democracy With The Same Respect He Accords His Own’...

DNC Hack ‘Far More Widespread Than Initially Thought’...

More Bombshells To Come?...

REPORT: Hacker ‘An Agent Of The Russian Government’...

‘Beyond A Reasonable Doubt’...

George Will On Trump Tax Returns: Could Show He’s ‘Deeply Involved’ With Russians...

Holy shit...

Only the left here would take an event that revealed people operating in secrete and lies and declare it worse than the government trying to cover up illegal activities.

It is almost like you prefer your leaders overtly lying to your face.

You're only pretending to be that stupid, right?

 

[FA_Q2]

Evidence suggests that a Russian intelligence group was the source of the most recent Wikileaks intel dump, which was aimed to influence the U.S. election.

Close your eyes and imagine that a hacking group backed by Russian President Vladimir Putin broke into the email system of a major U.S. political party. The group stole thousands of sensitive messages and then published them through an obliging third party in a way that was strategically timed to influence the United States presidential election. Now open your eyes, because that’s what just happened.

On Friday, Wikileaks published 20,000 emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee. They reveal, among other things,thuggish infighting, a push by a top DNC official to use Bernie Sanders’ religious convictions against him in the South, and attempts to strong-arm media outlets. In other words, they reveal the Washington campaign monster for what it is.

But leave aside the purported content of the Wikileaks data dump (to which numerous other outlets have devoted considerable attention) and consider the source. Considerable evidence shows that the Wikileaks dump was an orchestrated act by the Russian government, working through proxies, to undermine Hillary Clinton’s Presidential campaign.

“This has all the hallmarks of tradecraft. The only rationale to release such data from the Russian bulletproof host was to empower one candidate against another. The Cold War is alive and well,” Tom Kellermann, the CEO of Strategic Cyber Ventures told Defense One.

Here’s the timeline: On June 14, cybersecurity company CrowdStrike, under contract with the DNC, announced in a blog post that two separate Russian intelligence groups had gained access to the DNC network. One group, FANCY BEAR or APT 28, gained access in April. The other, COZY BEAR, (also called Cozy Duke andAPT 29) first breached the network in the summer of 2015.

Cybersecurity company FireEye first discovered APT 29 in 2014 and was quick to point out a clear Kremlin connection. “We suspect the Russian government sponsors the group because of the organizations it targets and the data it steals. Additionally, APT 29 appeared to cease operations on Russian holidays, and their work hours seem to align with the UTC +3 time zone, which contains cities such as Moscow and St. Petersburg,” they wrote in their report on the group. Other U.S. officials have said that the group looks like it has sponsorship from the Russian government due in large part to the level of sophistication behind the group’s attacks.

It’s the same group that hit the State Department, the White House, and the civilian email of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.The group’s modus operandi (a spearphishing attack that uploads adistinctive remote access tool on the target’s computer) is well known to cyber-security researchers.

In his blog post on the DNC breaches CrowdStrike’s CTO Dmitri Alperovitchwrote “We’ve had lots of experience with both of these actors attempting to target our customers in the past and know them well. In fact, our team considers them some of the best adversaries out of all the numerous nation-state, criminal and hacktivist/terrorist groups we encounter on a daily basis. Their tradecraft is superb, operational security second to none and the extensive usage of ‘living-off-the-land’ techniques enables them to easily bypass many security solutions they encounter.”

The next day, an individual calling himself Guccifer 2.0 claimed to be the culprit behind the breach and released key documents to back up the claim, writing: “Shame on CrowdStrike.”

More: How Putin Weaponized Wikileaks to Influence the Election of an American President

One would hope that most Americans would be smart enough not to take Putin's bait. We'll see...

I haven't seen any direct evidence Trump is in collusion with Putin on this but if it exists and comes to light this qualifies as treason. The real thing.

So you're not willing to say there is evidence linking Trump, but you are willing to jump to "treason?"

This dummy still pretends he can't read.

I see your point. If we assume Trump is guilty, then it's easy to prove he's guilty. Why would Putin give a shit about a real estate mogul or vice versa? Even in your paranoid delusional world? Because he's a Republican? OMG, Trump is a Jew, isn't he? That would explain it, wouldn't it Adolph?

To think Putin doesn't care who's in the oval office is pretty naive.

NATO has been a pain in the ass for every Russian leader from Stalin to Putin and up pops Donald Trump who thinks NATO has outlived it's usefulness and seeks less US support. With joint support for the Ukraine by NATO and the US, a friend in the oval office would be a welcome change for Putin.

There is certainly evidence of growing link between these these men. Putin called Trump “a colorful person, talented, without any doubt” and said: “It’s not our business to decide his merits, that’s for US voters, but he is absolutely the leader in the presidential race.” Last week, Aleksey Pushkov, the head of the Duma’s foreign affairs committee, tweeted: “Clinton’s credo is to strengthen US alliances against Russia; Trump’s credo is only to respond to real threats. Aggressive banality versus common sense.”
In turn, Trump has described Putin approvingly as a “strong leader” with whom he would have “a very good relationship”.

Then there's Paul Manafort, Trump's campaign manager who worked as an adviser to Viktor Yanukovych, former Ukrainian president and a Vladimir Putin ally ousted in a revolution. Yanukovych is now living in exit in Russia. And then there's Carter Page, a Trump foreign policy adviser with a long history of financial ties to the Russian energy giant Gazprom.

Putin is surely backing Trump, whether or not Russia was behind DNC hack

I find it interesting that this is now used as some sort of attack against Trump - the idea that Putin may prefer Trump as a president over Clinton.

It was 4 short years ago that the left was claiming the exact opposite with Obama and his asinine reset button. Then it was foolish for the right to advocate that Russia was an enemy and that Obama was so much better as he would build bridges with them. After all, the 80's called and wanted their FP back...

 

[kaz]

I haven't seen any direct evidence Trump is in collusion with Putin on this but if it exists and comes to light this qualifies as treason. The real thing.

So you're not willing to say there is evidence linking Trump, but you are willing to jump to "treason?"

This dummy still pretends he can't read.

I see your point. If we assume Trump is guilty, then it's easy to prove he's guilty. Why would Putin give a shit about a real estate mogul or vice versa? Even in your paranoid delusional world? Because he's a Republican? OMG, Trump is a Jew, isn't he? That would explain it, wouldn't it Adolph?

To think Putin doesn't care who's in the oval office is pretty naive.

NATO has been a pain in the ass for every Russian leader from Stalin to Putin and up pops Donald Trump who thinks NATO has outlived it's usefulness and seeks less US support. With joint support for the Ukraine by NATO and the US, a friend in the oval office would be a welcome change for Putin.

There is certainly evidence of growing link between these these men. Putin called Trump “a colorful person, talented, without any doubt” and said: “It’s not our business to decide his merits, that’s for US voters, but he is absolutely the leader in the presidential race.” Last week, Aleksey Pushkov, the head of the Duma’s foreign affairs committee, tweeted: “Clinton’s credo is to strengthen US alliances against Russia; Trump’s credo is only to respond to real threats. Aggressive banality versus common sense.”
In turn, Trump has described Putin approvingly as a “strong leader” with whom he would have “a very good relationship”.

Then there's Paul Manafort, Trump's campaign manager who worked as an adviser to Viktor Yanukovych, former Ukrainian president and a Vladimir Putin ally ousted in a revolution. Yanukovych is now living in exit in Russia. And then there's Carter Page, a Trump foreign policy adviser with a long history of financial ties to the Russian energy giant Gazprom.

Putin is surely backing Trump, whether or not Russia was behind DNC hack

I find it interesting that this is now used as some sort of attack against Trump - the idea that Putin may prefer Trump as a president over Clinton.

It was 4 short years ago that the left was claiming the exact opposite with Obama and his asinine reset button. Then it was foolish for the right to advocate that Russia was an enemy and that Obama was so much better as he would build bridges with them. After all, the 80's called and wanted their FP back...

In liberalism, all roads lead to stupid

 

[ShaklesOfBigGov]

I knew, like Obama, libs try to blame everyone else for THEIR incompetence, failure, and crimes, but this is a new low, even for them.

I love the smell of DNC desperation and panic.

They should have used Hillary's private server to hold all that information. Liberals are so proud of how an FBI investigation found Mrs Clinton's personal server to be completely secure, in keeping all that government sensitive information from going into the hands of ANY foreign government.

 

[Lakhota]

Are Trump and his communist wife Manchurian Candidates? Is Putin really that clever? I don't know...

 

[Lakhota]

WASHINGTON — American intelligence agencies have told the White House they now have “high confidence” that the Russian government was behind the theft of emails and documents from the Democratic National Committee, according to federal officials who have been briefed on the evidence.

NYTimes: Spy Agency Consensus Grows That Russia Hacked D.N.C.

Shame on Putin. Shame on Julian Assange.

 

[easyt65]

Dems going insane over their racist, sexist, despicable e-mails being released...

Guys, this is what happens when you don't encrypt your servers and store them in some small IT company's bathroom.