Leaked Snowden Document Hints At Why Feds Are So Sure Russia Hacked Election

[still_one]

U.S. intelligence officials appear certain that Russia was responsible for interfering in the presidential election — though they haven’t fully detailed how they know. But a classified document leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden reveals that they’ve tracked Russian hacking before and that the information they gleaned may have helped this time around.


Russian hacking also occurred in the case of Russian journalist and American citizen Anna Politkovskaya, who was gunned down in 2006 in her Moscow apartment after writing articles critical of the Kremlin and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Five men were convicted of her murder, but it’s still a mystery who ordered the killing.


A year before she was murdered, Politkovskaya’s email was hacked by Russian intelligence using malicious software not publicly available, according to an NSA document leaked by Snowden to The Intercept. Not only does the document reveal that U.S. intelligence knew about the hacking of Politkovskaya’s email, it also shows that the NSA is adept at tracking cyberattacks by Russian intelligence.


The classified internal NSA entry indicates that the NSA was able to use “intercept signals” to pinpoint the source of the attack. The attacks on Politkovskaya’s email account resemble the hacks of Democratic National Committee emails during the campaign that were damaging to Hillary Clinton, and the NSA could have used the same tactics to track the source as it did in Politkovskaya’s case.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/edward-snowden-leak-russian-election-hacking_us_5865cec6e4b0eb586488e782

[TheBlackAdder]

1. Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, that enters/leaves the 50 States + Territories is captured.

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The NSA collects everything reaching our shores or leaving it, and I mean everything.

The problem is, there is so much information they need to pinpoint the target or source.


The NSA, FBI & CIA have the destination and source information, so they have everything that was sent.

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[LiberalLovinLug]

2. I wonder why Obama admin doesn't release all of this evidence.

And shut up Trump and all his sycophants that are crying its all made up. I suppose they may claim it to be a matter of national security, but the overall goal of the bigger picture national security seems to 'trump' that. As the new President will quash all of this on day one and then we will never know.

[Cryptoad]

3. Noticed quite a quantum leap for Russia since,,,,

Comrade Snowden crossed over!

[gulliver]

4. Nice job, Snowden!

What a piece of shit he is. For this alone he deserves life in prison.

[SticksnStones]

5. If the election was hacked why are the results valid?

Say it over and over and over again...

[still_one]

6. Because the constitution doesn't address that. Trump can be removed from office

but the normal lines of succession would take effect