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Iamaartist

(3,300 posts)
Sun Jul 24, 2016, 05:10 PM Jul 2016

Clinton's campaign manager: Russia helping Trump

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/24/politics/robby-mook-russia-dnc-emails-trump/

Hillary Clinton's campaign manager is alleging that Russian hackers are leaking Democratic National Committee emails critical of Bernie Sanders in an effort to help Donald Trump win the election in November.

It comes on the heels of "changes to the Republican platform to make it more pro-Russian," Robby Mook told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union" Sunday.

"I don't think it's coincidental that these emails were released on the eve of our convention here, and I think that's disturbing," he said.
The DNC has previously had its files hacked by an individual named "Guccifer 2.0" that may have had ties to the Russians.


Donald Trump is Crooked.....he will do anything to steal the election...
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Clinton's campaign manager: Russia helping Trump (Original Post) Iamaartist Jul 2016 OP
Nice to see this backfire. Cary Jul 2016 #1
Caught Them ......but what else hidden by him.....by them.... Iamaartist Jul 2016 #2
It ought to! Her Sister Jul 2016 #4
K & R SunSeeker Jul 2016 #3
It's more than "allegations". It appears that Guccifer was the distraction as they hacked the BlueCaliDem Jul 2016 #5
Thank-you for the information it's very helpful ,,,,, Iamaartist Jul 2016 #6
You're welcome, Iamaartist. eom BlueCaliDem Jul 2016 #7

BlueCaliDem

(15,438 posts)
5. It's more than "allegations". It appears that Guccifer was the distraction as they hacked the
Sun Jul 24, 2016, 07:14 PM
Jul 2016

DNC.

[center][font color="black" size="3" ]How Putin Weaponized Wikileaks to Influence the Election of an American President[/font][/center]
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. [font color="red"]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.[/font] 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.
Read more: http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2016/07/how-putin-weaponized-wikileaks-influence-election-american-president/130163/
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