UK intelligence gave US key tipoff about Russian hacking, report says

[inanna]

Source: The Guardian

Saturday 7 January 2017 17.04 GMT

British intelligence reportedly provided a vital tipoff to the US in 2015 about the extent of Russian hacking on the presidential election.

The report on the UK’s involvement came after US intelligence agencies published an unclassified version of their finding that Vladimir Putin ordered a multi-pronged operation to interfere in the election in favour of Donald Trump.

The New York Times, citing “two people familiar with the conclusions” of the report, said British intelligence was “among the first” to raise the alarm in autumn 2015 that Moscow had hacked the computer servers of the Democratic National Committee.

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Over the course the campaign, British officials were as alarmed as their US counterparts over the extent of contacts between Trump advisers and Moscow and by Trump’s consistently pro-Russian stance on a range of foreign policy issues.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/07/russia-us-election-hacking-uk-intelligence

[ffr]

1. I'm more interested in the mechanisms involved with Kremlin headlines on RW media, like Fox

Who was involved and to what extent. What was the process coming from the Kremlin to coordinate attacks on Clinton and broadcast whatever propaganda on American television and radio.

That's what I want to know.

[BadgerMom]

5. Me, too

Getting the news lineup from Moscow to RT and Sputnik is easy. From there my curiousity is piqued. Has Fox regularly monitored these Russian sponsored outlets for news? Did that monitoring only begin in 2015 or 2016? If so, why? On whose suggestion? Fox is supposed to be a news organization. Is there not one ambitious young journalist there ready to build a resumé who might look into this? (Right. Probably not.)

[Igel]

8. RT's a mixed bag.

Often it reports Western stories a day late if the stories fit the frame that RT likes. How do I know? Because in '14 and '15 when the active hostilities in Crimea and Ukraine were a hot topic certain DUers would link to RT. While at RT, I saw other headlines. But I was familiar with US headlines and stories before I went to RT, and often RT's headlines were simply stale.

Less often--and principally when it involves something much closer to home, in Russia or in Russia's near abroad, they get the story before US papers run with it.

We see RT's headlines. We see that American papers ran similar headlines.

What's missing is the explicit statement with evidence that the US papers ran those stories and headlines after RT did.

If Fox ran an inflammatory story that bashed HRC, RT would be all too happy to mimic it.

[Turbineguy]

13. But then, you would want that.

It was like the Enigma in WWII. They could not let the Nazi's know the Enigma had been cracked. So RT published a day late rather than a day early.

[denbot]

12. I think you are asking the right questions.

I wonder if anyone cared where they were getting their talking points from, and if so, did they know it was sourced from a hostile regime. I believe that would be subornation of treason.

[Scurrilous]

2. K & R

[JHan]

3. K&R!

[UCmeNdc]

4. Trump's campaign made massive payments to data collection companies located in London.

Over the course the campaign, British officials were as alarmed as their US counterparts over the extent of contacts between Trump advisers and Moscow and by Trump’s consistently pro-Russian stance on a range of foreign policy issues

[many a good man]

6. Evidence of collusion???

Why isn't this the biggest headline?????

I want to know more about "the extent of contacts between Trump advisers and Moscow." Is this detailed in the Top Secret report given to both Obama and Trump? Trump should not be sworn in until we can analyze his financial ties and obligations to Russia.

[BainsBane]

11. The article doesn't claim collusion

But it must be investigated.

[elmac]

7. Our so called intelligence agency

was too busy salivating over Clintons email to notice that putin was putin moves on the US election.

[TheBlackAdder]

9. Which PDB was that mentioned in?

[lsewpershad]

10. Wait for it

The dumkoft will threaten to break (brexit) Britain.