What The Intelligence Community Has On Russia Being Responsible For Hacking And Interfering With Our Election Process
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UPDATED: January 7, 2017 2:40PM EST
It seems that the only thing President-elect Trump is concerned with over Russia hacking and interfering with our election process, our political process, and our democracy, is his election being delegitimized. Hours before he received the classified briefing from the intelligence community he said "it's a political witch hunt" referring to the investigation of just what Russia did. Afterwards he said the briefing was "constructive" but was still refusing to agree with the conclusions of the NSA, FBI, CIA, DNI, and the entire 17 intelligence agencies. This being the case, again, because he is saying that democrats are trying to delegitimize his being elected. He doesn't see the big picture in that our country was attacked and our election and political process was influenced.Trump's Response To The Briefing Is To Outright Lie About What The Report Actually Said! - Knowing Full Well That A "Declassified" Version Was Going To Be Released
"This publically available report made available yesterday, this "declassified" report, if accurate, it taught us all a great deal about what the Russians did to influence our election this past year, and why they did it which is very dramatic, why Putin had this grudge dating back to a specific thing that happened in 2011, why he wanted to destroy her, where that came from, fascinating" says Rachel Maddow (The Rachel Maddow Show/MSNBC January 6, 2017). She entices you to read the report saying that if you don't want to read the annexes, the evidentiary, technical stuff, it's only 5 pages long, which is true, I read it, it really didn't hurt that much. She went to say that there was one other thing that the report taught us, that our President-elect was willing to flat out lie to us, to our faces, and even put it in writing, even when we can check for ourselves, that he is blatantly lying about a really big thing. He apparently will just brazenly lie to us, even about really important, national security stuff, and we learned that today even if we didn't know it before she said. She then pointed out that on the top of every single page of the report there is a box, that box says "This report is a declassified version of a highly classified assessment; it's conclusions are identical to those in the highly classified assessment but this version does not include the full supporting information on key elements of the influence campaign." It is literally printed on the top of every single page but doesn't have the sources and methods that would screw with our spies or whatever. The highly classified assessment that President Barack Obama ordered was given to the president yesterday and then given to the President-elect. Right after that, right after the President-elect came out of that briefing he put out a statement about what he learned in the briefing, and he blatantly, overtly, bluntly, simply lied about what is in the report, right before this report got publically released, so we can check for ourselves, and see that he was lying. January 6, 2017: President-elect Donald J. Trump released the following statement at the conclusion of the meeting with Intelligence Community leaders: "While Russia, China, other countries, outside groups and people are consistently trying to break through the cyber infrastructure of our governmental institutions, businesses and organizations including the Democrat [sic] (should be Democratic) National Committee, there was absolutely no effect on the outcome of the election..." so he's saying after getting briefed, reading the report, meeting with the Director of the CIA, FBI, DNI, and NSA, he can tell you, the American people, that there was absolutely no effect on the outcome of the election," that's what he tells us. Well, here's what is actually in the report: "We did not make an assessment of the impact that Russian activities had on the outcome of the 2016 election." So, our President-elect is lying to us, he says that the report concludes that the Russian hacking had "absolutely no effect on the outcome of the election" but that is NOT what the report says. The report did NOT conclude that, you can read it yourself Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent U.S. Elections . He tells other lies as well, he also said in his statement "There were attempts to hack the Republican National Committee, but the RNC had strong hacking defenses and the hackers were unsuccessful." REALLY?! That's what the report says, says Rachel Maddow, I can look at the report myself now, and it doesn't say that! At all! What the report says is "Russia collected on some Republican-affiliated targets but did not conduct a comparable disclosure campaign." So Russia WAS successful in stealing data and documents from the Republicans, they just didn't blast it back into the United States as propaganda and stuff because they wanted Trump to win the presidency. The President-elect lied to us today about that as well. Either the President-elect thinks we're idiots or he didn't know they were going to release the report yesterday. Rachel Maddow warns us to "Don't believe a word the President-elect says on this topic, until at least they correct the overt lies that they told about the report yesterday. Most of this article has been taken from The Rachel Maddow Show aired on January 6, 2017.So, it appears that our Executive Producer of a reality show (that he bashes the new host of - Arnold Schwarzenegger, while claiming to be "the ratings machine - DJT") and part-time President-elect thinks he's always talking to his gullible, ignorant, low-information, supporting base. I wonder how many will even look at the report, see that he overtly lies about something so important, and can be so easily verified, and that he has absolutely no problem lying anyway.
Many times when I post something that I think is very dangerous about our President-elect, about him truly being unfit to be our Commander-in-Chief, about his ignorance to run this country as far as foreign policy or anything else, people assume I'm for Hillary. Let me set the record straight one more time. I do think that if Hillary was elected that it would be a less dangerous place that we would be in, then we are now. Only because she has extensive experience in foreign relations, protocol, and politics and how things need to run. I believe that we could have somewhat kept a close eye on her and had some influence in the path she took for our country. I think we could have held her feet to the fire on progressing with all the things Bernie Sanders (I-VT) forced her to put in the Democratic Platform. The fact that, not only do we have an unfit, narcissistic, racist, sexist, ignorant, demagogue in the White House, who has picked billionaires (to complete the oligarchy and plutocracy that exist already) for his cabinet, like Scott Pruitt (R-OK) a climate denier, for Director of the EPA, Rex Tillerson (CEO of Exxon/Mobil) for Secretary of State, who happens to have a great, cozy, relationship with a President of a foreign nation who just hacked and interfered with our election and political processes, and our democracy (what is left it anyway,) Republicans now get to nominate the next U.S. Supreme Court Justice after simply refusing to do their jobs by not giving Merrick Garland even a hearing for over a year. Republicans also now have control of ALL three branches of Government, The Executive Branch (The White House,) The Judicial Branch (U.S. Supreme Court,) and The Legislative Branch (U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives {Congress}.) In addition to that they now control 32 State Legislatures by way of Governorships and/or State Legislators. Finally, on Hillary, I remember seeing a case just about one year ago, where a soldier who "accidentally" took home classified information on his laptop, and even though the military was able to confirm he had no malice or intent, and there was confirmation that the information had not been compromised or released or seen by anyone, he was indicted, convicted, given a court martial, and sent to the brig, for FAR LESS than what Hillary has done, in MANY situations. I believe she should be in prison, and that she never should have been available to run a campaign for President, or conspire to ruin Bernie Sanders chances of being our next President, whom incidentally, I believe wholeheartedly would of beat the crap out of Trump. So what do we do now in the face of such danger?
So What Can WE Do You Ask? There Is Something
Just last week we witnessed the power of the people. When Republicans decided that their very first action with the 115th Congress was going to be to gut the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE), an independent committee to oversee congressional behavior, and put it under the control of the House of Representatives, themselves, as in the fox in charge of the hen house, people got angry and took action. They "flooded the phone lines" of their U.S. Senators and Congressmen and women. By the next morning the MSM was trying to give the credit for making them withdraw the bill to President-elect Trump because he made a tweet at 10:03AM but that didn't fly either. Too many representatives had already gone public with the fact that their phones were "swamped" with constituents calling them to object to the bill. People do have power, but must get involved in ways that make a difference. I've signed online petitions for years and don't see any results. The only time I can recall any petition make a difference is when the people of Wisconsin worked very hard and got a million signatures to call for a recall of their newly elected Governor,Scott Walker (R-WI) after he took away their collective bargaining rights to break unions soon after getting into office. But amazingly enough, he won the recall election because of an unprecedented amount of dark money, and outside money from the likes of the Koch brothers. Contacting your Representatives is a good way to make them respond, but it only works when a lot of people do it at the same time, and in a timely manner. Please SEE: Indivisible - A Practical Guide To Resist The Trump Agenda which I posted on Thursday, January 5, 2017. Please DOWNLOAD the guide HERE and SHARE the post and the guide as much as you can. When Ezra Levin appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show last Wednesday he said that in the 24 hours leading up to his appearance there had been 600,000 page views and over 135,000 downloads of the guide. The guide is written by three ex-Hill Congressional aides that took a close look at the Tea Parties strategies and which ones worked. Remember that the Tea Party started out with a lot of very small groups, groups of 4-5 people, but by 2010 they were able to take over the House of Representatives. It shows how we can use those same successful strategies to get back control of all the State Legislatures, Congress, and the U.S. Senate. LET'S GET INVOLVED, NOW! LET'S TAKE OUR COUNTRY, AND DEMOCRACY BACK! We currently live in an oligarchy and Plutocracy, let's take back democracy, and let's take it back starting RIGHT NOW!---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Original post on January 6, 2017
"Similar Tactics" "Techniques" Where's The Proof?
So a friend of mine, very knowledgeable in computers, hacking, programming, etc., finally got through my thick head that you're never going to "catch" a hacker by "footprints" or "malicious code" that they leave. If they're any good anyway. It took awhile and I appreciate the knowledge that he gave me although I'm sure that's just basics. I also believe that the e-mails that were hacked from the DNC and Podesta were mostly, if not 100% genuine, and not altered. I also believed that they must of had something to bring to the table when they presented their conclusion to the White House in October, as a group. Although at that point they weren't in agreement as to the motive (the CIA said it was to help elect Trump, the FBI wasn't so sure) they did present classified information to convince all Democratic leaders, and a vast majority of Republicans, (all but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)) that it was the Russians that hacked the DNC and Podesta. I understand from my friend that the DNC is also at fault since their security was totally incompetent. But as previews of the information starts coming out today about what they have about not only the Russians being responsible, but in fact, their motives, and more. It's early yet but it appears the Russians were congratulating themselves "on their success" of helping Trump get elected which the intelligence agencies intercepted. The intelligence agencies also intercepted, from what I'm hearing, actual proof of the hacked e-mails being delivered. I believe over the next few days we will be given much more of what they have. Again, this doesn't take away what was in the e-mails and all the corrupt, disgusting, things the DNC, Debbie Wassermann-Schultz, and the criminal Hillary did during the campaign, but it will, I believe, stop the notion that we were not attacked (as I'm sure we do to other foreign nations) by the Russians and need to retaliate. It should also stop our Executive Producer of a reality show and part-time President-elect from embarrassing our nation by supporting the monster that is Putin and discrediting our intelligence community.
Former CIA Director, Ambassador James Woolsey, Intelligence Officials, Senators from both parties are convinced Russians were culprit behind hacks and were in an "organizing role" rather than a "participant role." The proof and specifics are likely classified.
Trump is Briefed, Declassified Report is Released
President-elect Donald Trump receives briefing from intelligence community today and still isn't ready to point the finger at Russia for election related cyber hacking.Hours after calling the intelligence community's assessment that Russia interfered with the election a "political witch hunt" Trump was briefed by the heads of The National Security Agency (NSA), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Although he complimented those who gave him the briefing and called the meeting "constructive" he still isn't willing to agree with their findings. It seems clear, from his reaction and statements, that narcissistic, egomaniac, Trump, is more concerned with his delusional "landslide" electoral win (that was actually ranked 46th) being delegitimize than our country's vulnerability from cyber hacking. He's willing to embarrass America by having its President-elect discredit the people of these agencies. Earlier this week he said he trusted Julian Assange more than he trusted men and women who put their lives in danger gathering intelligence in the intelligence community. He said he knew things about hacking that "no one else" knew. Seems we heard that record before, when he said he had investigators in Hawaii digging up proof that President Obama's birth certificate didn't exist or was fake and said "they're digging up a whole lot, wait until you see all the stuff, there's a lot." Just more delusional thoughts like "I know more about ISIS than the General do." I swear, I don't understand how almost half of the American people can be so gullible, so blind, as to his lies, delusions, and megalomania.Also The Office of the Director of National Intelligence released an Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) Statement on "Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions In Recent U.S. Elections" hours ago. In an Official Statement on December 29, 2017, A Joint DHS, ODNI, FBI Statement on Russian Malicious Cyber Activity the DHS, ODNI, and FBI, said that "On October 7, 2016 Secretary Johnson and Director Clapper issued a joint statement that the intelligence community is confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of e-mails from persons and institutions, including from U.S. Political organizations, and that the disclosure of alleged hacked e-mails on sites like DCLeaks.com and WikiLeaks are consistent with the Russian-directed efforts. The statement also noted that the Russians have used similar tactics and techniques accross Europe and Eurasia to influence public opinion there." It goes on to say "Today {December 29,2016} DHS and FBI released a Joint Analysis Report (JAR) which further expands on that statement by providing the tools and infrastructure used by the Russian civilian military Intelligence Service (RIS) to compromise and exploit networks and endpoints associated with the U.S. election, as well as a range of U.S. Government, political, and private sector entities. The U.S. Government is referring to this malicious cyber activity by GRIZZLY STEPPE. The 13 page report then goes into the technical information that I am not qualified to assess but hope that a friend like mine will assess it and give me his conclusion on it's merits.
Report: Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent U.S. Elections
You can read the entire report here; Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent U.S. Elections .
Erin Burnett, (Outfront with Erin Burnett/CNN,) interviewed a bitter opponent to Vladimir Putin, and someone who has done massive business with Donald Trump, the former President of Georgia, and is Opposition Leader in Ukraine, who has seen the intelligence report and has actually has experienced being hacked by Russia and Vladimir Putin, Mikheil Saakashvili. She stated to him that "The report concludes that quote "we assess Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered these efforts to influence the U.S. election." This is the Putin you know." His response was "Well he certainly heavily influenced our election in Georgia and tried to influence the Ukrainian election, you ask the leadership and they will tell you how he interfered. In 2008 we were one of the first of their cyber attacks where they basically attacked all of the government computers just before the military attack, so cyber war is part of general warfare." He continued on with how Putin tapped into phone calls then played them at opportune times.
I will update this post after taking in the response to the report throughout tonight and tomorrow morning.
