- Joined
- Nov 18, 2016
- Messages
- 48,141
- Reaction score
- 25,393
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Liberal
The US intelligence community has strong evidence that there was active and very elaborate meddling in the current US presidential election by the highest reaches of the Russian government. The Russians seemed to have been strongly attracted to Trump's claims that "NATO is obsolete", and wanting to weaken or disband it. Russia would love to see the western coalition weakened or completely unraveled, as well as to plant doubts into the minds of citizens living under western style democracies about the legitimacy of their governments.
Despite the red flags and alarms raised by the intelligence community, Mr. Trump appears not only not interested in pursuing any further investigation, but it seems he would be willing to actively obstruct any attempts at further investigation. After all, why go after the guys who helped get you elected, right?
"Republican and Democratic lawmakers say they plan to investigate Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, including the hacking of emails from Democratic political organizations and Hillary Clinton’s campaign staff. But their efforts face a strong headwind from President-elect Donald Trump, who has continued to deny that there is proof of Russia’s involvement.
U.S. intelligence and homeland security officials said in a rare public statement in October that the computer intrusions were directed by “Russia’s senior-most officials” in an unprecedented effort to interfere with the election. For some lawmakers, significant questions remain about how the Russian government transferred stolen emails to WikiLeaks, where they were published in the homestretch of the campaign, as well as Moscow’s role in the production of fabricated news stories that have littered the internet and appear intended to mislead voters...
A spokesperson for Mr. Lindsey Graham (R., SC) said he soon would join fellow GOP Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.) in visiting Eastern European countries whose elections Russian hackers also are believed to have targeted. U.S. intelligence analysts have closely tracked those efforts, which included a proliferation of fake news sites, and now see the U.S. election hacking as part of a pattern of a broader campaign by Russia to interfere in the democratic process in the west...
But U.S. efforts to publicly probe what intelligence officials have called an “active measures” campaign by the Kremlin face an uncertain future. The bill to create an independent commission has no GOP sponsors. And it would have to be signed by a President Trump, who this week reiterated his statement that Russia wasn’t involved in the cyber campaign.
“I don’t believe they interfered,” Mr. Trump said in an interview with Time magazine, which chose him as its Person of the Year... Privately, U.S. intelligence officials have fumed at Mr. Trump’s refusal to acknowledge what they see as proof of a Russian hand...
Officials and congressional staff said there was some urgency in disclosing further details about the hacks, if possible, before Mr. Trump is inaugurated in January, when any further investigation might actively be blocked by the whitehouse..."
Congressional Calls Grow for a Probe of Russian Hacking in U.S. Election - WSJ
Despite the red flags and alarms raised by the intelligence community, Mr. Trump appears not only not interested in pursuing any further investigation, but it seems he would be willing to actively obstruct any attempts at further investigation. After all, why go after the guys who helped get you elected, right?
"Republican and Democratic lawmakers say they plan to investigate Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, including the hacking of emails from Democratic political organizations and Hillary Clinton’s campaign staff. But their efforts face a strong headwind from President-elect Donald Trump, who has continued to deny that there is proof of Russia’s involvement.
U.S. intelligence and homeland security officials said in a rare public statement in October that the computer intrusions were directed by “Russia’s senior-most officials” in an unprecedented effort to interfere with the election. For some lawmakers, significant questions remain about how the Russian government transferred stolen emails to WikiLeaks, where they were published in the homestretch of the campaign, as well as Moscow’s role in the production of fabricated news stories that have littered the internet and appear intended to mislead voters...
A spokesperson for Mr. Lindsey Graham (R., SC) said he soon would join fellow GOP Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.) in visiting Eastern European countries whose elections Russian hackers also are believed to have targeted. U.S. intelligence analysts have closely tracked those efforts, which included a proliferation of fake news sites, and now see the U.S. election hacking as part of a pattern of a broader campaign by Russia to interfere in the democratic process in the west...
But U.S. efforts to publicly probe what intelligence officials have called an “active measures” campaign by the Kremlin face an uncertain future. The bill to create an independent commission has no GOP sponsors. And it would have to be signed by a President Trump, who this week reiterated his statement that Russia wasn’t involved in the cyber campaign.
“I don’t believe they interfered,” Mr. Trump said in an interview with Time magazine, which chose him as its Person of the Year... Privately, U.S. intelligence officials have fumed at Mr. Trump’s refusal to acknowledge what they see as proof of a Russian hand...
Officials and congressional staff said there was some urgency in disclosing further details about the hacks, if possible, before Mr. Trump is inaugurated in January, when any further investigation might actively be blocked by the whitehouse..."
Congressional Calls Grow for a Probe of Russian Hacking in U.S. Election - WSJ
Last edited:
