CIA Found Putin's Direct Order to Help Trump

JosephDredd

Gold Belt
@Gold
Joined
May 29, 2013
Messages
21,005
Reaction score
2
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/world/national-security/obama-putin-election-hacking/

Early last August, an envelope with extraordinary handling restrictions arrived at the White House. Sent by courier from the CIA, it carried “eyes only” instructions that its contents be shown to just four people: President Barack Obama and three senior aides.

Inside was an intelligence bombshell, a report drawn from sourcing deep inside the Russian government that detailed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s direct involvement in a cyber campaign to disrupt and discredit the U.S. presidential race.

But it went further. The intelligence captured Putin’s specific instructions on the operation’s audacious objectives — defeat or at least damage the Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, and help elect her opponent, Donald Trump.

At that point, the outlines of the Russian assault on the U.S. election were increasingly apparent. Hackers with ties to Russian intelligence services had been rummaging through Democratic Party computer networks, as well as some Republican systems, for more than a year. In July, the FBI had opened an investigation of contacts between Russian officials and Trump associates. And on July 22, nearly 20,000 emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee were dumped online by WikiLeaks.
It took time for other parts of the intelligence community to endorse the CIA’s view. Only in the administration’s final weeks in office did it tell the public, in a declassified report, what officials had learned from Brennan in August — that Putin was working to elect Trump.

Over that five-month interval, the Obama administration secretly debated dozens of options for deterring or punishing Russia, including cyberattacks on Russian infrastructure, the release of CIA-gathered material that might embarrass Putin and sanctions that officials said could “crater” the Russian economy.

But in the end, in late December, Obama approved a modest package combining measures that had been drawn up to punish Russia for other issues — expulsions of 35 diplomats and the closure of two Russian compounds — with economic sanctions so narrowly targeted that even those who helped design them describe their impact as largely symbolic.

Obama also approved a previously undisclosed covert measure that authorized planting cyber weapons in Russia’s infrastructure, the digital equivalent of bombs that could be detonated if the United States found itself in an escalating exchange with Moscow. The project, which Obama approved in a covert-action finding, was still in its planning stages when Obama left office. It would be up to President Trump to decide whether to use the capability.

In political terms, Russia’s interference was the crime of the century, an unprecedented and largely successful destabilizing attack on American democracy. It was a case that took almost no time to solve, traced to the Kremlin through cyber-forensics and intelligence on Putin’s involvement. And yet, because of the divergent ways Obama and Trump have handled the matter, Moscow appears unlikely to face proportionate consequences.

Those closest to Obama defend the administration’s response to Russia’s meddling. They note that by August it was too late to prevent the transfer to WikiLeaks and other groups of the troves of emails that would spill out in the ensuing months. They believe that a series of warnings — including one that Obama delivered to Putin in September — prompted Moscow to abandon any plans of further aggression, such as sabotage of U.S. voting systems.

Some interesting reading. And Trump is trying to undo the sanctions Obama put in place against Russia, though I believe congress recently voted to maintain them.
 
1. big surprise that coordinated attempts to meddle in a foreign election, especially in the US presidential election, don't happen without the knowledge of Wladimir Putin just because he said he knows nothing about it in an interview
2. 'CIA found X' is arguable a worse source than 'anonymous sources say...'
3. The sanctions damage US relations to important European allies far worse than anything Trump has ever said or done
 
How long until these psychos declare the election invalid because muh russia?
 
Is this more anonymous sources? Don't even want to read anything unless someone is putting their name behind it.
 
image_zpsyyqweoso.jpg
 
..." unnamed Officials said " .

Good read, not quite in the Clancy realm, but good fiction nonetheless.
 
Despite the dire warnings, there were no meltdowns in the United States’ voting infrastructure on Nov. 8, no evidence of hacking-related fraud, crashing of electronic ballots or manipulation of vote counts.

So in reality - the sanctions against Russia are in response to Assange releasing some of the DNC's & Podesta's e-mails?
 
1. big surprise that coordinated attempts to meddle in a foreign election, especially in the US presidential election, don't happen without the knowledge of Wladimir Putin just because he said he knows nothing about it in an interview
2. 'CIA found X' is arguable a worse source than 'anonymous sources say...'
3. The sanctions damage US relations to important European allies far worse than anything Trump has ever said or done

CIA written report from the Washington Post

GTFO

How long until these psychos declare the election invalid because muh russia?

Is this more anonymous sources? Don't even want to read anything unless someone is putting their name behind it.

..." unnamed Officials said " .

Good read, not quite in the Clancy realm, but good fiction nonetheless.

gdGmlOy.jpg
 
..." unnamed Officials said " .

Good read, not quite in the Clancy realm, but good fiction nonetheless.

There we go more #fakenews. Maybe Comey will come out and debunk this as well.
 
>june of 2017
>still believing washington post when they cite anonymous sources about trump

giphy.gif
 
Let's say this claim is 100% true. Still don't see any evidence that Trump has done anything illegal. Unless Trump asked or helped Putin in some way to perform the cyberattack, he hasn't done anything illegal or worth impeachment.
 
"Unnamed official"


Official of what? Are they at least going to tell you what department this guy is in or are we suppose to believe this because the John Podesta led Washington Post says so?


BTW Comey said under oath that alot of these stories on Trump and Russia are completely false, is he's suddenly wrong now?
 
Well is the CIA's own paper says so, it must be true.
 
Is this more anonymous sources? Don't even want to read anything unless someone is putting their name behind it.

>june of 2017
>still believing washington post when they cite anonymous sources about trump

giphy.gif

"Unnamed official"


Official of what? Are they at least going to tell you what department this guy is in or are we suppose to believe this because the John Podesta led Washington Post says so?


BTW Comey said under oath that alot of these stories on Trump and Russia are completely false, is he's suddenly wrong now?

So you guys just legitimately don't understand how journalism works?
 
Back
Top