FBI: Russia hacked DNC. US officials: Electing Trump, crushing Clinton was Putin's goal

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Because he’s having “all the funs”?

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https://twitter.com/darth/status/758488692105150464

https://twitter.com/darth/status/758417174931251200

https://twitter.com/darth/status/758387595323637761

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Although, interestingly:

Sure. If Trump had any brains, though, he wouldn’t allow himself to be first name on the ticket.

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Aah, the Logic of Lesser Evilism…here I cede the floor to Ted Rall.

darth’s been on fire the last few days, though they’re always awesome. I might be biased:

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Wheeler doesn’t address how Guccifer 2.0 isn’t a native speaker of Romanian and or that they used Russian VPN to communicate even though they claimed not to understand Russian (this was reported the day after she posted). Combined with the Russian metadata I’d say the evidence is very good that Guccifer 2.0 is Russian. That doesn’t prove it’s Russian intelligence, though I’d say that when a “Romanian” hacker pops up to claim a hack totally wasn’t done by the Russian government and they then turn out to actually be Russian themselves the situation is highly suggestive. I’ve also read (don’t have a link handy) that this is similar to Russian propaganda practices in Europe.

The Naked Capitalism article happens to be by people with an axe to grind and who get details wrong. The meat of it though are the quotes from Ed Snowden and William Binney. They both say that the NSA should be able to track who did the hack despite what people may claim in public. That actually makes me pay attention when the FBI says they think Russia is responsible, but YMMV. Binney also says that he’d want to eliminate the possibility of a third intrusion and/or some evidence Russia provided Wikileaks with the hacked data before blaming Russia. Those are good points.

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