Major report on Russian hacking to go public

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

WASHINGTON — The U.S. intelligence community will release a public report next week detailing Russia's attempt to use cyberattacks to influence the U.S. presidential election, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told a Senate panel Thursday.

Clapper told the Senate Armed Services Committee that a comprehensive report ordered by President Obama on Russian hacking will be ready next week, including an unclassified version that the public will be able to review. He said lawmakers will receive closed-door briefings on the classified portions of the report.

"Until then, I'm not really prepared to discuss this beyond our earlier statements," Clapper testified. The intelligence community has said that Russia hacked political party committees during the election in an attempt to influence the outcome of the election. The CIA and FBI have agreed that the interference was aimed at helping President-elect Donald Trump beat Democrat Hillary Clinton.

"There is actually more than one motive," Clapper testified. "That will be detailed in the report."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/major-report-on-russian-hacking-to-go-public/ar-BBxWidd?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=edgsp

[LaydeeBug]

1. This is easily the biggest story of our lifetime. nt

[AmericanActivist]

2. Yes it is the biggest story of our lifetime and MSM silence is

deeply disturbing and deafening, not to mention surreal.

[monmouth4]

3. We need to write to the "suits" who make the decisions not to mention this during their

newscasts. I'm sick of it and I want the honest to god news, no filters, the news. I don't care who they answer to they are doing this nation a huge disservice.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

4. In other news, the Weather Channel is predicting a Catagory 5 Tweetstorm....

.....to hit the US coast next week.

[japple]

5. Heh heh!!! Good one. Hope that poor Jim Cantore doesn't get

hit with that detail.

[ffr]

6. FIXED: Russia hacked political party committees during the election to arrive at this outcome

They didn't just hack the political messaging for the simple purpose of influencing the election, the purpose was to weaken the U.S.'s political institutions across the board. They accomplished this goal in hoodwinking ill-informed voters. Their intended result was to get as many republicans elected as possible, because they have a history of hurting America and its interests abroad.

Not clear enough? They did everything in their power to hurt America by helping tRump as much as they could. They hold blackmailing information against the RNC as well, which they'll use going forward to force their hand, out of embarrassment, at doing more to damage America.

It worked and we don't have any safeguards in place to do what's best for our country after the fact. The election was stolen by proxy. It was a gamble that's going to pay off handsomely for Putin. We have the worst possible incompetent candidate running the show; Putin's puppet government.

We are so fcuked!

And here's the kicker. There's every indication Putin's going after Canada and Germany next.

[Generator]

7. Not Canada!

I know about Germany. Good summary on the rest.

[bettyellen]

11. Oh yes putin wants that article oil too...

[LaydeeBug]

8. Yep. It's crazy.

[Skittles]

9. GET IT OUT THERE BEFORE THAT ORANGE FASCIST BECOMES PRESIDENT

[xor]

10. Does this change anything realistically? I see a lot of talk about what happened

but any ideas what this translates into? Obviously, if there's evidence of messing with the votes then that's something that is actionable. But if it's just a case of a massive propaganda campaign by the Russians, what happens? What can happen?

I guess we'll have to wait and see what's in the report.

[bettyellen]

12. The fact that they could be blackmailing the GOP or Trump is huge

As is that they were in touch w people working on Trumps campaign