If the FBI is investigating the Russian involvement in the hacking of the US election and have this kind of evidence, why haven't this been brought to light but has rather been shrouded in so much secrecy.
It was brought to light.
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It was brought to light.
If the FBI is investigating the Russian involvement in the hacking of the US election and have this kind of evidence, why haven't this been brought to light but has rather been shrouded in so much secrecy.
Oh boy, oh boy oh boy 
Well, beyond the great many things that have happened recently, one of the least deadly yet most interesting events recently has been the Intercept leak of classified NSA documents detailing interference by Russia.
https://theintercept.com/2017/06/05/top-secret-nsa-report-details-russian-hacking-effort-days-before-2016-election/
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... they identified the leaker almost immediately, mostly because the journalists who published the leak aren't too bright.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/intercept-leaker-arrest-resulted-from-a-search-warrant-for-podcast-transcripts-not-classified-documents/
According to the application, the FBI was alerted to the dissemination of classified information after a reporter for The Intercept contacted a separate contractor for the U.S. Government, asking to verify the authenticity of the leak. Included in the reporter’s request was information related to the leaker’s location (Augusta, Georgia), and a photo of the document, which the contractor then forwarded to the FBI. In its application, the FBI maintains a “crease” in the document led the government to realize only one of six people had accessed the documents.
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Winner is charged with removing classified material from a government facility and submitting it to a news outlet. She faces prosecution under the Espionage Act.
In a statement Monday, Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein praised the “exceptional law enforcement efforts” that allowed the FBI to “quickly to identify and arrest the defendant.”
As everything currently, interesting to say the least. Wonder if this has anything to do with the 'bombshell' that's supposedly going to be dropped on Wednesday (besides Comeys testimony).
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Well, beyond the great many things that have happened recently, one of the least deadly yet most interesting events recently has been the Intercept leak of classified NSA documents detailing interference by Russia.
https://theintercept.com/2017/06/05/top-secret-nsa-report-details-russian-hacking-effort-days-before-2016-election/
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... they identified the leaker almost immediately, mostly because the journalists who published the leak aren't too bright.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/intercept-leaker-arrest-resulted-from-a-search-warrant-for-podcast-transcripts-not-classified-documents/
According to the application, the FBI was alerted to the dissemination of classified information after a reporter for The Intercept contacted a separate contractor for the U.S. Government, asking to verify the authenticity of the leak. Included in the reporter’s request was information related to the leaker’s location (Augusta, Georgia), and a photo of the document, which the contractor then forwarded to the FBI. In its application, the FBI maintains a “crease” in the document led the government to realize only one of six people had accessed the documents.
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Winner is charged with removing classified material from a government facility and submitting it to a news outlet. She faces prosecution under the Espionage Act.
In a statement Monday, Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein praised the “exceptional law enforcement efforts” that allowed the FBI to “quickly to identify and arrest the defendant.”
As everything currently, interesting to say the least. Wonder if this has anything to do with the 'bombshell' that's supposedly going to be dropped on Wednesday (besides Comeys testimony).
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Sometimes criminal prosecution may be the only answer. In this case the reporter did jeopardize his source, and that did result in likely putting her in harm's way via prosecution. Should the reporter be prosecuted? Tough call.
This looks like another case of a carefully crafted leak.
Remember Bradley Manning.
1) The NSA realizes it is having trouble with leaks, so top executives there decide to "discredit leaking" by engineering a leaker who they can paint as personifying leaking as negative.
2) They search through personnel files for a young man with a disorder that would appear unattractive to mainstream types with classified access.
3) They eventually settle on Manning. A psychiatrist reviews his history and Manning is told that he has been selected to work with highly classified information.
4) He is carefully guided into a dilemma that will oblige him to publicize classified info.
5) Then his psychological history is utilized and while under 24 7 control of handlers his conflicts are cultivated until he decides he is a woman trapped in a man's body. The rest is herstory.
This leaker is probably closer to Manning than Snowden. Her language skills give credibility to her classified access, but it looks like the specific material fed to her was intended to induce a leak.
Surprised y'all didn't bite on this one. There are a great many champions of freedom of information here, to the point of fault, in my opinion. Also surprised I'm not hearing from the 'deep state' set, this actually has some rhetorically exploitable holes in it for the Breitbart Ian mind to dwell on (is it a deep state leak?) I uses to be one of the former, someone who believes that information should flow as freely as water, that the truth should never be hindered despite how ugly it is. Then, I grew up and saw how stupid a lot of folks were. I'm thinking folks can't handle the truth, as a leveled sample. Knowledge is power, but knowledge is also a curse.
Anyway, just another Russian interference tidbit I wanted to leave here, it's tasty as usual:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/06/politics/russian-hackers-planted-fake-news-qatar-crisis/index.html
Washington (CNN)US investigators believe Russian hackers breached Qatar's state news agency and planted a fake news report that contributed to a crisis among the US' closest Gulf allies, according to US officials briefed on the investigation.
The FBI recently sent a team of investigators to Doha to help the Qatari government investigate the alleged hacking incident, Qatari and US government officials say.
Intelligence gathered by the US security agencies indicates that Russian hackers were behind the intrusion first reported by the Qatari government two weeks ago, US officials say. Qatar hosts one of the largest US military bases in the region.
The alleged involvement of Russian hackers intensifies concerns by US intelligence and law enforcement agencies that Russia continues to try some of the same cyber-hacking measures on US allies that intelligence agencies believe it used to meddle in the 2016 elections.
Which is interesting, considering this:
On Tuesday, Trump tweeted criticism of Qatar that mirrors that of the Saudis and others in the region who have long objected to Qatar's foreign policy. He did not address the false news report.
"So good to see the Saudi Arabia visit with the King and 50 countries already paying off," Trump said in a series of tweets. "They said they would take a hard line on funding extremism, and all reference was pointing to Qatar. Perhaps this will be the beginning of the end to the horror of terrorism!"
In his tweet, Trump voiced support for the regional blockade of Qatar and cited Qatar's funding of terrorist groups. The Qataris have rejected the terror-funding accusations.
Hours after Trump's tweets, the US State Department said Qatar had made progress on stemming the funding of terrorists but that there was more work to be done.
US and European authorities have complained for years about funding for extremists from Saudi Arabia and other nations in the Gulf region. Fifteen of the 19 9/11 hijackers were Saudi citizens.
Isn't it soooo weird how Trump always has an opinion when the Russians are meddling in the affairs of foreign governments?
Meh.
Anyway, just another Russian interference tidbit I wanted to leave here, it's tasty as usual:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/06/politics/russian-hackers-planted-fake-news-qatar-crisis/index.html
Washington (CNN)US investigators believe Russian hackers breached Qatar's state news agency and planted a fake news report that contributed to a crisis among the US' closest Gulf allies, according to US officials briefed on the investigation.
The FBI recently sent a team of investigators to Doha to help the Qatari government investigate the alleged hacking incident, Qatari and US government officials say.
Intelligence gathered by the US security agencies indicates that Russian hackers were behind the intrusion first reported by the Qatari government two weeks ago, US officials say. Qatar hosts one of the largest US military bases in the region.
The alleged involvement of Russian hackers intensifies concerns by US intelligence and law enforcement agencies that Russia continues to try some of the same cyber-hacking measures on US allies that intelligence agencies believe it used to meddle in the 2016 elections.
Which is interesting, considering this:
On Tuesday, Trump tweeted criticism of Qatar that mirrors that of the Saudis and others in the region who have long objected to Qatar's foreign policy. He did not address the false news report.
"So good to see the Saudi Arabia visit with the King and 50 countries already paying off," Trump said in a series of tweets. "They said they would take a hard line on funding extremism, and all reference was pointing to Qatar. Perhaps this will be the beginning of the end to the horror of terrorism!"
In his tweet, Trump voiced support for the regional blockade of Qatar and cited Qatar's funding of terrorist groups. The Qataris have rejected the terror-funding accusations.
Hours after Trump's tweets, the US State Department said Qatar had made progress on stemming the funding of terrorists but that there was more work to be done.
US and European authorities have complained for years about funding for extremists from Saudi Arabia and other nations in the Gulf region. Fifteen of the 19 9/11 hijackers were Saudi citizens.
Isn't it soooo weird how Trump always has an opinion when the Russians are meddling in the affairs of foreign governments?
Meh.
Oh boy, oh boy oh boy
Well, beyond the great many things that have happened recently, one of the least deadly yet most interesting events recently has been the Intercept leak of classified NSA documents detailing interference by Russia.
https://theintercept.com/2017/06/05/top-secret-nsa-report-details-russian-hacking-effort-days-before-2016-election/
RUSSIAN MILITARY INTELLIGENCE executed a cyberattack on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and sent spear-phishing emails to more than 100 local election officials just days before last November’s presidential election, according to a highly classified intelligence report obtained by The Intercept.
The top-secret National Security Agency document, which was provided anonymously to The Intercept and independently authenticated, analyzes intelligence very recently acquired by the agency about a months-long Russian intelligence cyber effort against elements of the U.S. election and voting infrastructure. The report, dated May 5, 2017, is the most detailed U.S. government account of Russian interference in the election that has yet come to light.
But anywho, unlike the myriad other leaks plaguing the gov ATM, they identified the leaker almost immediately, mostly because the journalists who published the leak aren't too bright.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/intercept-leaker-arrest-resulted-from-a-search-warrant-for-podcast-transcripts-not-classified-documents/
According to the application, the FBI was alerted to the dissemination of classified information after a reporter for The Intercept contacted a separate contractor for the U.S. Government, asking to verify the authenticity of the leak. Included in the reporter’s request was information related to the leaker’s location (Augusta, Georgia), and a photo of the document, which the contractor then forwarded to the FBI. In its application, the FBI maintains a “crease” in the document led the government to realize only one of six people had accessed the documents.
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Winner is charged with removing classified material from a government facility and submitting it to a news outlet. She faces prosecution under the Espionage Act.
In a statement Monday, Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein praised the “exceptional law enforcement efforts” that allowed the FBI to “quickly to identify and arrest the defendant.”
As everything currently, interesting to say the least. Wonder if this has anything to do with the 'bombshell' that's supposedly going to be dropped on Wednesday (besides Comeys testimony).
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/nsa-director-mike-rogers-poised-to-drop-a-bomb-on-trump-admin-during-wednesday-testimony-msnbc/
Atlantic magazine writer Steve Clemons said during a Saturday panel on MSNBC’s “The Point with Ari Melber” that National Security Agency (NSA) Director Michael Rogers “may have a bomb to drop” on the Trump administration.
Rogers will testify Wednesday before the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is currently investigating whether President Donald Trump’s campaign colluded with Russian officials to sway the results of the 2016 election. .
This is getting real bigly real quick
Well, beyond the great many things that have happened recently, one of the least deadly yet most interesting events recently has been the Intercept leak of classified NSA documents detailing interference by Russia.
https://theintercept.com/2017/06/05/top-secret-nsa-report-details-russian-hacking-effort-days-before-2016-election/
RUSSIAN MILITARY INTELLIGENCE executed a cyberattack on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and sent spear-phishing emails to more than 100 local election officials just days before last November’s presidential election, according to a highly classified intelligence report obtained by The Intercept.
The top-secret National Security Agency document, which was provided anonymously to The Intercept and independently authenticated, analyzes intelligence very recently acquired by the agency about a months-long Russian intelligence cyber effort against elements of the U.S. election and voting infrastructure. The report, dated May 5, 2017, is the most detailed U.S. government account of Russian interference in the election that has yet come to light.
But anywho, unlike the myriad other leaks plaguing the gov ATM, they identified the leaker almost immediately, mostly because the journalists who published the leak aren't too bright.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/intercept-leaker-arrest-resulted-from-a-search-warrant-for-podcast-transcripts-not-classified-documents/
According to the application, the FBI was alerted to the dissemination of classified information after a reporter for The Intercept contacted a separate contractor for the U.S. Government, asking to verify the authenticity of the leak. Included in the reporter’s request was information related to the leaker’s location (Augusta, Georgia), and a photo of the document, which the contractor then forwarded to the FBI. In its application, the FBI maintains a “crease” in the document led the government to realize only one of six people had accessed the documents.
..
Winner is charged with removing classified material from a government facility and submitting it to a news outlet. She faces prosecution under the Espionage Act.
In a statement Monday, Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein praised the “exceptional law enforcement efforts” that allowed the FBI to “quickly to identify and arrest the defendant.”
As everything currently, interesting to say the least. Wonder if this has anything to do with the 'bombshell' that's supposedly going to be dropped on Wednesday (besides Comeys testimony).
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/nsa-director-mike-rogers-poised-to-drop-a-bomb-on-trump-admin-during-wednesday-testimony-msnbc/
Atlantic magazine writer Steve Clemons said during a Saturday panel on MSNBC’s “The Point with Ari Melber” that National Security Agency (NSA) Director Michael Rogers “may have a bomb to drop” on the Trump administration.
Rogers will testify Wednesday before the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is currently investigating whether President Donald Trump’s campaign colluded with Russian officials to sway the results of the 2016 election. .
This is getting real bigly real quick
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