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Originally posted by rburg:
I guess the next question will be do the Ruskies know things the FBI doesn't? Or won't release? I just can't imagine career FBI and DOJ workers continuing to work when they know how corrupt the government is. I've read a few suggestions that if the request goes over to DOJ and the Lynch broad refuses, there will be a mass resignation.

I personally don't want to read the classified BS. I am happy to trust the FBI in their analysis.

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Originally posted by p.d.:
The Russians probably believe as I do that you can buy a Clinton but the SOBs won't stay bought.

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Originally posted by signewt:
breaking news?

Saudi princess pays 20% of Clintons campaign costs?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/...-crown-prince-claims

How many shoes does have to drop before the 'other one' does too?

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Originally posted by signewt:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/...-crown-prince-claims

"Saudi Arabia always has sponsored both Republican and Democratic Party of America and in America current election also provide with full enthusiasm 20% of the cost of Hillary Clinton's election even though some events in the country don't have a positive look to support the king of a woman for presidency."

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One of the evidentiary problems with a case like they are trying to put together when classified evidence is a key part of the evidence is whether to use it and expose it in open courso sensitive that you really don't want it out there, it's often better to hold off, make a deal, and sometimes not bother depending.

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Originally posted by oldRoger:
I don't really see what is in it for Putin though.

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Princess?

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Originally posted by lastmanstanding:
I'm hoping Putin and Wikileaks come trough with all their bluster and threats. I remember the guy who claimed to have all the deleted emails and wanted to sell them for a hundred grand or something. He had nothing.

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Chicago Tribune: Hackers targeting Clinton aides struck across US

Michael Riley and Jordan Robertson, (c) 2016, Bloomberg(c) 2016, Bloomberg

The Russian hackers who hit the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's campaign burrowed much further into the U.S. political system, sweeping in law firms, lobbyists, consultants, foundations and the policy groups known as think tanks, according to a person familiar with investigations of the attacks.

Almost 4,000 Google accounts were targeted in an elaborate "spear phishing" campaign -- intended to trick users into providing access so that information could be gleaned from personal and organizational accounts -- from October through mid-May, according to the person, who asked not to be identified discussing confidential information.

The sweeping scope of the spying on the U.S. political establishment suggests an information dragnet far larger than previously reported and one meant to gather a near-encyclopedic understanding of the next president and those who will influence his or her thinking. Based on data now being analyzed, various security researchers believe the campaign stems from hackers linked to Russian intelligence services and has been broadly successful, extracting reams of reports, policy papers, correspondence and other information.

"These foreign governments are negotiating machines" with much to gain from a U.S. politician's priorities and weaknesses, said John Prisco, chief executive officer of Rockville, Maryland-based security company Triumfant. "Understanding the possible next president at the depth that the DNC does will help them enormously if they have to deal" with the winner in the White House.

In the past week, the Democratic National Committee disclosed that hackers had gained access to its servers, and CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm hired to combat that intrusion, said that groups it linked to the Russian government had managed to steal opposition research on Republican candidate Donald Trump. Then, SecureWorks, another cybersecurity firm, said it had evidence that Russian hackers had targeted aides in Clinton's campaign, although the campaign said it saw no sign that its system had been compromised.

On Saturday the hacker released a second set of documents purporting to be personal and financial information on DNC donors, fundraising spreadsheets and internal strategy memos.

"I absolutely rule out any possibility of any government or government structures' involvement in it," Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, said of the DNC hacking.

The data thefts are similar to a wave of attacks that preyed on high-level U.S. officials, military officers and spouses last summer. The newest wave includes some far-flung targets -- ambassadors and staff members at embassies around the world -- in addition to political figures in the U.S.

Among the policy groups targeted was the Center for American Progress, which has ties to Clinton and the Obama administration. "We are constantly reviewing our security and operations to prevent and thwart unauthorized activity," Liz Bartolomeo, a spokeswoman for the center, said in an emailed statement. "We have reviewed our systems and we believe our security measures have prevented unwanted access to our systems."

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Perhaps most important are voluminous "briefing books" of questions and answers to prepare candidates and their advisers on major issues, said Peter Singer, a consultant for the U.S. government on defense issues and a senior fellow at the New America policy center. These books help shape candidates' publicly stated positions and contain lengthy narratives reflecting advisers' private thinking about the issues, he said.

In 2008, Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain's campaigns were hacked, and the events delivered this memorable anecdote: Randall Schriver, one of McCain's foreign policy advisers on Asia, told NBC News that Chinese officials complained to him about the contents of a letter from McCain supporting Taiwanese military expansion that the candidate had drafted but not yet sent. Schriver didn't respond to a message from Bloomberg News. In 2012, Obama and Mitt Romney's campaigns were targeted.

"Everybody has to assume they're coming after you, especially if you're talking about politics and presidential elections," said Joe DeTrani, a former senior adviser to the U.S. director of national intelligence who's now president of Daniel Morgan Academy, a national security graduate school in Washington. "There are so many critical issues, and if it's touching the Russians -- it's not just Crimea, Ukraine and now the Middle East -- maybe they just want to prepare accordingly, given the two presidential contenders and what they're likely to confront. In some ways it's very logical."

The Russian hacking groups that CrowdStrike says were behind the DNC attacks operate independently and in unusual ways, often targeting personal accounts and private computers as a rich source of intelligence about their owners. The groups have been behind breaches of the White House, the State Department, the House of Representatives and a reporter at the New York Times.

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The second, more advanced group linked to the DNC hack, called APT 29, appeared in 2014 and was at first very selective, infecting only a few targets all year, but in 2015 "they went ballistic," infecting hundreds of European and U.S. organizations, Thakur said. The group has a signature move: It infects lots of computers, sending thousands of emails and going alphabetically through big groups of targets, a distraction as they steal data from one or two computers of high value, Thakur said.

There are signs of cooperation.

In early 2015, multiple Western European military customers of Symantec reported infections of APT 29 followed within a week or two by an infection by APT 28, possibly indicating a handoff, Thakur said. In most cases, they were the only two infections on a given machine, he added.

"You can clearly make out that whoever's behind all of this has no qualms about the repercussions that could come if someone found out whoever they are," he said. "These people are not the types who go around hiding their tracks so the victim doesn't know they've been compromised. They're very noisy, they come in and steal whatever they want. Eventually any network administrator will know they're there."

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as expected, Pagliano invoked the 5th 125 times to JD questions

The next Clinton aide to testify is Huma Abedin.

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Originally posted by entropy:
God, these people are evil...