Senate Intelligence Committee leaders: Russia did interfere in 2016 elections
The leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday largely endorsed the findings of the intelligence community that Russia sought to sway the 2016 U.S. elections through a hacking and influence campaign, and they called for a “more aggressive, whole-of-government approach” to ensure future elections aren’t similarly compromised.
“There is consensus among members and staff that we trust the conclusions of the ICA,” Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), the committee’s chairman, said at Wednesday news conference, referring to the intelligence community’s assessment that Russia was behind hackings of the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton campaign director John Podesta’s email account, and had attempted to exploit public opinion by sowing false information, much of it through fake social media accounts. “But we don’t close our consideration of it,” he added.
Burr also stressed that “the issue of collusion is still open,” and would not be resolved until the committee’s work was done. He said that a deadline for the committee was the looming start of the 2018 primary season. “We’ve got to make our facts, as it related to Russia’s involvement in our election before the primaries getting started in 2018,” Burr said.
“You can’t walk away from this and believe that Russia’s not currently active,” he added.
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Meaning, they have no evidence and are still chasing their tails.
The only people who even investigated the Russian hacking was a private company called CrowdStrike.
So essentially this whole proof of Russian hacking is based on the expertise of a private company that was paid by the DNC.
Asking private firms to investigate security incidents is often beneficial—it’s possible (likely even) that CrowdStrike has resources and technical expertise that the FBI does not. But turning over an entire law enforcement investigation to the private sector is a serious mistake. Companies have very different agendas and motivations from those of law enforcement agencies—companies want to raise their own profiles, satisfy their clients, and draw new customers, while law enforcement agencies aim to identify criminals and hold them accountable. Especially when the government is going to justify an accusation by urging citizens to trust its judgment, it matters that they have actually conducted an investigation themselves and drawn their own conclusions based on a first-hand examination of the available evidence.
So if the FBI didn’t ask for access the DNC’s servers out of laziness or negligence, it certainly should have. And if the DNC denied them that access for fear of being embarrassed by what they might find, or because they had more faith in CrowdStrike than the FBI, then it served only to undermine confidence in the ultimate results of the investigation and give the impression of having something shameful to hide. Neither the DNC nor the FBI should have been satisfied with an investigation that did not involve the FBI conducting a first-hand look at the compromised systems. And all of us should be concerned about the seeming acceptance of both parties to let a private company singlehandedly carry out an investigation with such significant political consequences.
So they are as reliable as Bill Cosby as a bartender.
Pretty much.
The irony in all of this is that no one is actually denying that Russia tried to influence the election...EVERY country tries to influence the elections of other countries with any sort of elected body to get people sympathetic to them elected. The issue is whether or not Trump actively pursued Russian assistance, of which there is ABSOLUTELY ZERO EVIDENCE of.
Those Russians are really good at it. They were able to determine which areas to target without any help from an American. Imagine that - the Trumps fully admit that "anyone would take that meeting", and exclaim "I love it!" when offered the opportunity of an assist from a foreign adversary, and then the Trumps didn't even need to help because Russia knows as much about our election demographics as we do! Man, they are good. I wonder how many Americans would know how to pull off such a stunt in Russia?
Intelligence Committee?
Was that suppose to read make up our facts?
Sorry I could not resist .. this is a serious subject, that I am not taking very seriously at the moment. What Russia did is unacceptable, yet I also find it ridiculous to have a committee confirm what is already known .. at the same time a special prosecutor has been assigned .. things must be slow in DC and peeps are looking for things to do? I can make a few suggestions......
Frankly from the reports I have been reading, Seems Mueller is going WAAAAY beyond what he was appointed to do. He is digging into things that shouldn't have any bearing at all on collusion. He is stretching his authority beyond "facts" that need to be "uncovered" to prove said collusion.
I have read a couple of things regarding that subject, but nothing in depth. Seems Mueller is hounding the Presidents finances, it is doubt there would be any trail there that leads to collusion. Guess we shall see...
This mess is far from the Presidents first rodeo .. his money is well guarded (me thinks tis a bit of a witch hunt)
That part of it is very well known, but what never gets mentioned is how much the mainstream media also tried to influence the election via leaks, surprise sex tapes and daily negative reporting against one candidate.
I agree Vic .. and you will never hear about it, because that is supposedly the medias job. The night before, or a few days before the election in 1999 .. suddenly a DUI was discovered that then candidate Bush had gotten in or around college. (yeah right, it was just discovered - like the sex audio was 'just discovered') - in presidential politics timing is everything is it not?
These things always take place - but they seemed to be magnified during 2016 because of who the candidates were.
Lol, ya, I do remember that. You are quite right, the dumpping of the info is always well timed
Rather certain 'Russia' and Wikileaks know all about this timing thing as well : ) yet, timing of released information is why there must be collusion?
I have had a serious head shaking problem since the night of November 8th .. and it just seems to keep getting worse, looks like there may never be a cure! HA!
Personally I think trump was smart enough to not get himself dirty, but it would not surprise me if he didn't at least encourage others to do so on his behalf.
The stuff on the DNC server wasn't "false information". The Democrats never even tried to deny the leaked emails- except for Donna Brazile who eventually admitted to giving out questions to Hillary for a town hall meeting.
So, Russia, a major power on Earth, tried to exert some influence on the presidential elections of the most powerful nation on earth, and this is earth shattering news to, who?
Good God, our last President tried to start a war to influence Israels last election... lol.
H. Clinton?