The losing presidential candidate and the current President are claiming that hacking disrupted the presidential election. Interestingly, against the actual statements of the “Wikileaker”, they persist in blaming the nasty Russians for hacking.
What is the difference between leaking and hacking? Leaking comes from a source inside an organization. Hacking results from an attack from outside the organization. All of this constitutes a form of spying, and every country does it. (Cyber warfare spying is a worldwide phenomena and anybody who uses a computer is subject to it even with protective measures installed.)
As far as I can tell, the problem began with Hillary Clinton’s sloppiness in creating and widely using a private server for both personal business and governmental communications. This co-mingling of usage was both wrong and illegal, and it opened up her server’s content to anybody who wished to spy on her. Hillary Clinton was her own worst enemy and she is now trying to “pin her mistakes” on the Trump administration.
There is conflict within the US intelligence and investigative communities as to whether the now Wikileaks e-mail dumps came about as a result of a leak or a hack, and whether they had any impact on the election. Julian Assange has said that the Russians were not the source of the hack, so he is implying that some other country was involved or that he got his information via a leak. (My experience in the DOD arena leads me to believe that regardless of the eventual Russian involvement, the original assault was a leak by an insider who either despised Hillary or was concerned about the misuse of carefully protected national security information.)
The Obama administration and the failed Clintonites would like us to believe that the election is tainted. They have targeted the Russians who along with the Chinese and Iranians are the usual “go to” bad guys. Of course, they would like us to forget that their arrogant behavior led to this mess and with a compliant media, they are making some headway. I doubt that this will affect the Electoral College result or the Inauguration, but these global socialists will continue to attack both Trump and American populism with every tool at their command.
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The hypocrisy of it all is that the Democrats have no issue with their own manipulation of the media and yet they are outraged if the Russians attempt the same. Where was Democratic outrage when it was revealed without doubt that Clinton got debate questions before the debate? Was that not an attempt to sway the election by Democratic operatives?
Or how about knee-capping Bernie Sanders? Or, the hysteria about positive voter identification (since it cuts their illegal votes way down). I could go on forever about the unethical operations of the Democratic Party. Top this off with the out-and-out regime change (Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Libya, Iran, Cuba, Panama, Guatemala, etc. etc) where the USA has directly or indirectly killed off heads of state. There is no morale standard with Democrats and it is all relative to them. Whatever is good for them is “good” and whatever is bad for them is “bad.” The sour grapes sore losers have to pin their embarrassing failure on someone and that someone is now Russia. But, it is Never Hillary.
Instead, it’s a vast Russian-wing conspiracy!
Good points, Mr. D. Hillary gets the debate questions beforehand and that is perfectly kosher to the liberal media
Apparently, the US, somehow interfered in Putin’s 2011 election in some manner. What goes around comes around. Who cares?
People cannot afford healthcare. China and Mexico continue to suck us dry. Yet, you continue to recycle second rate BS into news.
“People cannot afford healthcare. China and Mexico continue to suck us dry.”
Whose fault is that again?
God forbid we actually blame people for their own failures. Healthcare is personal and everytime the government gets involved in it things get worse.
As far as China and Mexico, the people elected idiots who decided to make money selling the USA to foreign entities. George Washington warned about foreign entanglements – guess nobody with a 20th century brain listened and here we are.
Interesting article from Reuters, http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-intelligence-idUSKBN14204E