Russia withheld hacked RNC emails to help Trumps campaign: report

[kpete]

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A report affirming the intelligence community’s consensus that Russia hacked the U.S. election in an attempt to sway the results in favor of Donald Trump was bolstered Friday by a conclusion that Russians hacked the Republican National Committee—then sat on the information.

The New York Times Friday, citing american intelligence agencies, revealed that in addition to attacks on Democratic organizations, the Russians also accessed sensitive RNC information but declined to release the documents to the public.

Negating WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s claim that “no state parties” provided the transparency organization with damning emails stolen from Hillary Clinton aide John Podesta, the Times reports, “Intelligence agencies have concluded that the Russians gave the Democrats’ documents to WikiLeaks.”

“We now have high confidence that they hacked the D.N.C. and the R.N.C., and conspicuously released no documents” from the RNC, one senior administration official told the Times.

The Times writes:

“In briefings to the White House and Congress, intelligence officials, including those from the C.I.A. and the National Security Agency, have identified individual Russian officials they believe were responsible. But none have been publicly penalized.”

A report released Friday by the Washington Post revealed that a CIA assessment concluded Russia’s interference in the election was prompted not by a desire to undermine the U.S. electoral system, but to specifically elevate Trump to the presidency.



http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/russia-withheld-hacked-rnc-emails-to-help-trumps-campaign-report/
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/us/obama-russia-election-hack.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share

Read this entire thread (go to @20committee's timeline to do so). When a President goes to war with his IC, the IC always wins-Always:
https://twitter.com/DemFromCT/status/807571699868778496

[Abu Pepe]

1. The RNC hacks are being held for blackmail of the Trump admin. nt

[shraby]

2. You beat me to it.

[Dustlawyer]

3. The Intelligence agencies need to read the RNC emails to see what possible

blackmail material may be in the emails. What if McConnell or Ryan was complicit and thus they had more motivation to keep the hack secret before the election? This needs to be looked at to see who has been compromised by the Russians.

[KittyWampus]

4. This is a big fucking deal. And O'Donnell's guests said as much last night.

[uponit7771]

5. +1, Corn said he did a report on an FBI agent that reported to Comey that the Russians were involved

... in this election and it looks like Comey ignored him.

This election is all kinds of fucked up... no conspiracy theory shit... just all kinds of fucked up on its face

[kydo]

6. And blackmail

I am sure some, both in the press and rethug side were blackmailed by both orange man and the russians. orange man owns hotels. Hotels are were affairs and other bad habits happen. The russians just hacked emails and got what they wanted to blackmail.

The traitors were either being blackmailed to go along. Or they went along knowingly. Or both.