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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow Russian intelligence officers interfered in the 2016 election
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russian-hackers-2016-election-democratic-congressional-campaign-committee-60-minutes-2019-11-24/Now the Justice Department has at least two open cases against Russian citizens for interfering with our presidential and congressional races, we decided to take a closer look at one of them - the case against 12 Russian military officers accused of breaking into the Democratic Party's computers, stealing compromising information, and selectively releasing it to undermine Democratic candidates. There's no evidence of similar operations against Republicans in 2016. With the 2020 election approaching, the story of "The Russian Hack."
Robert Anderson: The Russians never left. I can guarantee you in 2016 after this all hit the news, they never left. They didn't stop doing what they're doing.
Bill Whitaker: This wasn't just a one-time thing?
Robert Anderson: No way. Russia doesn't do it that way.
Robert Anderson should know. He spent 21 years inside the cloak and dagger world of spies and hackers overseeing the FBI's counterintelligence and cyber Divisions and tracking Moscow's spy agencies, an alphabet of artifice, the FSB, SVR, and, especially, the GRU.
Robert Anderson: The GRU is military intelligence. So when we look at the attacks that happened during our presidential races in 2016 you had military organizations inside of Russia attacking our infrastructure.
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How Russian intelligence officers interfered in the 2016 election (Original Post)
G_j
Nov 2019
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Kid Berwyn
(14,867 posts)1. Mueller reports they're still at it.
PutinPAC
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,320 posts)2. Moscow Mitch does not want you reading such reports
D_Master81
(1,822 posts)3. Yeah but what about?
What about Ukraine? You dont know they werent really behind it.