Intelligence agency reportedly believes individuals acting for Moscow hacked Democratic party emails and gave them to WikiLeaks

US intelligence agencies have concluded that Russia interfered in last month’s presidential election to boost Donald Trump’s bid for the White House, according to reports.

A secret CIA assessment found that Russian operatives covertly interfered in the election campaign in an attempt to ensure the Republican candidate’s victory, the Washington Post reported, citing officials briefed on the matter.

A separate report in the New York Times said intelligence officials had a “high confidence” that Russia was involved in hacking related to the election.

The revelations came after the US president, Barack Obama, ordered a review of all cyberattacks that took place during the 2016 election cycle, amid growing calls from Congress for more information on the extent of Russian interference in the campaign.

According to the Washington Post, individuals with connections to Moscow provided the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks with emails hacked from the Democratic national committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign chief, among others.

Those individuals were “one step” removed from the Russian government, consistent with past practice by Moscow to use “middlemen” in sensitive intelligence operations to preserve plausible deniability, the report said.

“It is the assessment of the intelligence community that Russia’s goal here was to favour one candidate over the other, to help Trump get elected,” a senior US official briefed on an intelligence presentation last week to key senators was quoted as saying. “That’s the consensus view.”

CIA agents told the lawmakers it was “quite clear” that electing Trump was Russia’s goal, according to officials who spoke to the Post, citing growing evidence from multiple sources.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/10/cia-concludes-russia-interfered-...

Obama purged the CIA of competent leadership and the political flunkys in there now will come to any conclusion they are told to.

The Russians had nothing to do with the outcome of our election.

Only the vote of the Citizens overcame the incredible forces to elect Hillary Clinton.

Assange has already said he got his recent dumps, including CIA assessments during Hillary's time as Secretary of State, from Russian sources. All he says is they weren't Russian government sources.

Russia has been conducting this sort of espionage for years, as every schoolboy knows. China too. While China's targets are largely corporate, Russia likes to go for the government.

And Uncle's spooks go for both. The difference with Uncle and China is they don't usually give it all to Wikileaks - especially not Uncle. They've been at war with Assange since Hillary was Secretary of State - hence Assange's joy at getting Hillary back. Russia, of course, are still taking care of Edward Snowden.

Yes, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. And there are not many greater enemies to the Amerikan people than Donald J Trump.

mothra wrote on Dec 10^th, 2016 at 10:32pm:


More FAKE news from the CIA.

- Osama Bin Laden orchestrated 9/11 from a cave in Afganistan.
- Suddam Hussein had nuclear weapons.
- Vietcong attack in the Gulf of Tonkin

And now Russia interfered with the elections. Truth was Hillary's largest enemy.

Well played CIA,, WTF were you doing at the time?

rhino wrote on Dec 10^th, 2016 at 10:54pm:



The CIA factbook website is not run by or created by the CIA. It is some numbskulls idea of a joke to suck in the ignorant and gullible.

This election mired in deceit and corruption..they need to kick the Bloviator to the curb and do the right thing...he is a toe rag.

mothra wrote on Dec 10^th, 2016 at 10:32pm:


Edward Snowden is a former CIA employee who gave classified information to WikiLeaks then fled to Russia and claimed asylum to escape the consequences of his actions.