*****BREAKING*****U.S. intercepts capture senior Russian officials celebrating Trump win

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Senior officials in the Russian government celebrated Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton as a geopolitical win for Moscow, according to U.S. officials who said that American intelligence agencies intercepted communications in the aftermath of the election in which Russian officials congratulated themselves on the outcome.

The ebullient reaction among high-ranking Russian officials — including some who U.S. officials believe had knowledge of the country’s cyber campaign to interfere in the U.S. election — contributed to the U.S. intelligence community’s assessment that Moscow’s efforts were aimed at least in part at helping Trump win the White House.

Other key pieces of information gathered by U.S. spy agencies include the identification of “actors” involved in delivering stolen Democratic emails to the WikiLeaks website, and disparities in the levels of effort Russian intelligence entities devoted to penetrating and exploiting sensitive information stored on Democratic and Republican campaign networks.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-intercepts-capture-senior-russian-officials-celebrating-trump-win/2017/01/05/d7099406-d355-11e6-9cb0-54ab630851e8_story.html?utm_term=.b53f4ba5b83f

[lark]

1. Dictators of a feather, flock together.

[blue neen]

2. Holy cow.

How is the Groper in Chief going to deny this one?

[2naSalit]

35. He'll make up some word salad BS

and his followers will eat it up.

[triron]

55. So will the media

[LaydeeBug]

59. yep

[TubbersUK]

3. Possibly related - Woolsey quits Trump transition

Jeremy DiamondVerified account
?@JDiamond1
Wow. Former CIA director James Woolsey splits with Trump transition:

https://twitter.com/JDiamond1/status/817147384056676352

[tblue37]

16. Did he quit, or did Trump ditch him for daring to speak out yesterday? nt

[TubbersUK]

21. Haven't seen any details at this point, will update as and when n/t

[TubbersUK]

27. Flynn cut him out apparently

Philip RuckerVerified account
?@PhilipRucker
James Woolsey has resigned from Trump transition. Sources say he was cut out of intel talks w/ Trump & Flynn, grew uncomfortable. Story TK

https://twitter.com/PhilipRucker/status/817153621821452289

[Grey Lemercier]

42. Flynn is a true clear and present danger

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

43. Of course

?1479662336

[LovingA2andMI]

60. Woolsey Is Not A Fool...

And has PLENTY of connections in the C.I.A. He knows something is coming and wanted DISTANCE --- plenty of it, in fact.

[kennetha]

4. We have elected a 5th Columnist

What will Trump do when "brief" tomorrow.

I don't think this will be the usual presidential briefing. More like an intervention.

Wouldn't it be sweet if they were to water board him in order to get the truth out of him?

[ginnyinWI]

5. he doesn't know what truth is.

Habitual liars believe whatever they say is the truth.

[pangaia]

30. He doesn't lie. In order to lie, one must know the difference

between truth and falsehood.

He does not know the difference.

This is a primary symptom of Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

[ginnyinWI]

37. Yeah you said it better than me.

That's what I was trying to say. The acronym NPD needs to be used just about whenever we refer to him!

[Cracklin Charlie]

10. Can you give a little background on the Fifth Columnist idea?

I keep seeing this mentioned.

[tblue37]

14. That is when the enemy has its own agents operating from within our camp.

Trump and many of his inner circle are thus Fifth Columnists.

[mopinko]

18. not sure what the other 4 columns are, but

the expression is a ww2 thing. the reason japanese americans were interred is because they were thought to be advancing japan's cause here.
they were a "5th column" of the japanese army, even tho they mostly werent. they were just suspected because of their race.

it basically has come to mean support for the enemy from within the country being attacked.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

22. It wouldn't be du if we didn't learn something new today...

I never knew...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_column

Emilio Mola, a Nationalist general during the Spanish Civil War, told a journalist in 1936 that as his four columns of troops approached Madrid, a "fifth column" (Spanish: Quinta columna) of supporters inside the city would support him and undermine the Republican government from within.[1]:126–127 The term was then widely used in Spain. Ernest Hemingway used it as the title of his only play, which he wrote in Madrid while the city was being bombarded, and published in 1938 in his book The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories.[2]

Some writers, mindful of the origin of the phrase, use it only in reference to military operations rather than the broader and less well defined range of activities that sympathizers might engage in to support an anticipated attack.[a]

[Cracklin Charlie]

39. I love this place!

[LittleGirl]

63. me too! Love it. I learn something new every day! eom

[byronius]

61. +1

[LaydeeBug]

6. He will just tweet accordingly and Moscow Mitch will cover for him.

This is treason.

[Generator]

7. Moscow Mitch!

You made me smile!

[LaydeeBug]

9. Soviet Donald....taking Russia back to the USSR again

gettin' helped by Russian Ryan in the House.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

20. +1 nt

[triron]

56. or at least sedition

[Chasstev365]

8. STOP THE INAGURATION NOW!

[Plucketeer]

19. Between this and the electoral vote fraud

and the quashed vote recounts in WI, MI & PA ought to be enough to toss the whole gad damned bunch (including the Thug's Senate and Congress wins) out on their asses.

[2naSalit]

36. Wish we could....nt

[bdamomma]

45. Lets all think hard enough

maybe he will get indigestion from all the crap junk food he eats.

[Wellstone ruled]

11. Okay Con Job,what you got to say.

Woosley must have had that sit down with the Idiot Elect.

[CentralMass]

12. This coupled with Comey's $hitbomb the week before the election paints the picture..

Put me in the long line of people who have zero trust in the integrity of our governments and most of its mechsnisms.

I hope this adminsrtation is bogged down with as much political resistance that the Democrats and people can provide. This is an illegitimate government.

[lindysalsagal]

13. When people predicted the nastiest campaign ever, they never saw the Kremlin as the culprit.

We've been overthrown without a single bullet fired.

[ffr]

17. Election stolen by proxy.

Russia and the GOP (Comey and cronies) win!

[keithbvadu2]

34. Khrushchev: "History is on our side. We will bury you.

'Nikita Khrushchev told Western diplomats in November 1956, "History
is on our side. We will bury you."'
source: Foreign Affairs, 1990

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=258741

[bdamomma]

46. all cyber too

all the players are in place hopefully slowly things will continue to be leaked.

[sarcasmo]

54. Agreed, a slow trickle of leaks.

[ffr]

15. Anybody else feel like we're a pawn on Putin's global chessboard?

Where's the referee to throw the flag. We need an election recall. One we can have confidence in. Unprecedented times call for unprecedented measures. Our democracy demands it.

[harun]

68. We haven't lived in a Democracy for a long time

And yes Putin is winning.

[NightWatcher]

23. Where are the Statesmen who know this is bad and will put country over party?

McCain, Graham, I don't care who else but someone needs to step up and say enough is enough, trump cannot take the office.

[Chasstev365]

24. It's become a cult!

[NightWatcher]

25. Time for defenders of America to stand up against the trump cult

If you've been waving a flag or screaming about being an Oathkeeper or some other pro-USA group that has been hoarding guns, this is what you've been waiting for. Outside attackers have conducted a coup here.

[Chasstev365]

28. Yep!

[bdamomma]

47. We need to step up

no one is going to do it.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

53. McCain is such a cowardly piece of shit. He has absolutely nothing to

loose. Yet there he is, going "Thank you sir. May I have another!".

[triron]

57. People's revolution may be the

only way but Americans are too comfortable and ignorant.

[LuckyLib]

62. When McCain and Graham are the first thoughts for Statesmen we are in real trouble.

[harun]

69. +1

[NRaleighLiberal]

26. as I've been saying all along - this was an invalid election. Trump is not - never will be - my

president

[underpants]

29. Busted!!

[TonyPDX]

31. Nothing to see here-- move along, move along . . .

[keithbvadu2]

32. Trump supporters celebrate and are proud.

Trump supporters celebrate and are proud.

Not new... this is from 03 Dec

http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/news/blog.html?b=news.nationalpost.com/news/world/make-russia-great-again-if-trump-lifts-sanctions-putin-could-finally-establish-his-country-as-an-equal-to-u-s&pubdate=2016-12-03

"It turns out that United Russia won the elections in America," Viktor Nazarov, the governor of Omsk, Russia, declared in a radio interview.

[hexola]

33. Back in the USSA! (nt)

[Va Lefty]

38. I'm sure faux news will be all over this story

[ProudLib72]

40. Read the responses

in the article. Most of them are about WAPO being fake news. You know the three monkeys "hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil"? The rumpsters are perfectly content with the first two.

[progressoid]

49. Yeah, they have a really warped idea of what constitutes fake news.

There is no way to get through that wall of idiocy.

[meow2u3]

66. They think real news is fake and vice versa

That's how twisted and brainwashed they are. They're beyond deplorable--they're a hopeless cult of hate doomed to hell and are hellbent on taking America with them!

[dhill926]

50. their hatred of folks like us...

supersedes everything else...

[GoCubsGo]

77. Those morons don't even understand that the RNC was hacked, too.

And, that their own ratfuck party is now highly vulnerable to blackmail. And, what the Russians stole from their party's servers WILL be used against them and Dear Leader at some point, much to their detriment, and to the detriment of this country. The only thing they care about is that their "team" won. Even their Dear Leader thinks this is all nothing but a big sporting event. He's "a big fan" of the intelligence agencies. Jeezus. They have no fucking clue. Any of them.

[bucolic_frolic]

41. What are they saying? trump cheated?

[ailsagirl]

44. Dan Rather tweeted

Dan Rather
Verified account

?@DanRather
As someone who has been around news for a long time, I can tell you this feels big. The plot is beginning to thicken.

[AwakeAtLast]

51. Please make this an OP

Needs more eyes.

[ailsagirl]

71. You're right

Will do so sometime today-- at work

[hurple]

48. We need to...

Make the Trump - McConnell - Comey - Russia connection as pervasive to the oncoming administration as Beghazi and emails were to Hillary's campaign and Kenya was to Obama's administration.

Each and every time Trump's or McConnell's or Comey's name comes up we need to link it to Putin and Russia election interference, all the while inferring that Russia had a hand in changing the outcome of the election.

[Scurrilous]

52. K & R

[MontanaMama]

58. Is there not ONE

Investigative journalist that is willing and able to bust this whole thing wide open?? Seriously??? Anyone???? I hear crickets from the MSM.

[jack_krass]

64. Why would this come as a surprise?

It is welll known that Russians at all levels of government hate Bill and Hillary Clinton, especially Hillary, who tangled with Putin as SoS, and has been critical of Russian elections(most likely one of the motivation for the Russian hacking).

[Fla Dem]

65. Of course they are celebrating. Finally achieved what they have been trying to do since WWII.

Get a sleeper agent inside the US Government at the highest possible position. Manchurian Candidate x1000.

[harun]

70. Not a sleeper agent, just easily manipulated by them.

[rocktivity]

67. First Candidate for the 2017 "You Call This NEWS?" Award

Be on the lookout for the 2016 awards!


rocktivity

[sarcasmo]

72. Kick.

[FairWinds]

73. Agree with Da Rock that this is not news . .

When Bibi Neten-yahoo finally loses an election in Israel,
there will be plenty of easily intercepted celebrating in DC.

That WaPo story is non-news . .

And notice that the media almost never cover the
CONTENTS of the Podesta or DNC emails, which mostly show
politicians just being political.

We're supposed to think its a big deal when Donna B. gives
a single debate question to HRC in advance? Really?

The whole email hack story was pretty much fake news, a
distraction from campaign issues.

[War Horse]

74. Doesn't prove any hacking (yet) as such

at least not in the court of public sentiment.

But "Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton (is) a geopolitical win for Moscow"? Well, duh!

[pbmus]

75. The normalization begins

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028436645

[Initech]

76. It's official: we live in the Matrix.

[Scurrilous]

78. Boink!