Russia's Last-Minute Hacking Was Meant to Burn President Hillary
Russian hacks sought to undermine Hillary Clinton and cast doubt on the legitimacy of American democracy. Now President Trump is struggling with the validity of his win.
CLINT WATTS
06.07.17 1:00 AM ET
“Did Russia change my vote?”
Yesterday’s leak of a classified NSA document detailing how the Kremlin’s military intelligence, the GRU, targeted election officials and breached some voter rolls brought back many Americans worst post election fears- Putin changed their vote for Donald Trump.
At the same time, the dumped intelligence report offered some of the best confirmation of Russian meddling in the U.S. election, providing more evidence to tamp down the claims of President Trump and his legions that it was China or a guy in a basement that hacked the DNC and many other current and former American officials.
The techniques targeting election officials—spam that redirects recipients to false email login pages yielding passwords to Russian hackers—appear eerily familiar to those used by the GRU against many other American targets in 2015 and 2016.
To the disappointment of Trump’s biggest haters, the NSA leak provides no evidence that Russia changed any votes. And that makes sense, as Russian altering of the tally in favor of their preferred candidate Donald Trump would be sufficient justification for war—one Russia would lose against the U.S.
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