Wow. Where did you find that, IBH? Looks like you’re hacked off about something.
How much more time do you intend to spend on this word game today?
While you’re stewing, you may want to review this story about how Twitler handled the Russian hacking of the DNC. He denied it. His team did not.
Russian stooge in cahoots? Well that’s been the question all along.
I’m sure there are words in there that you find confusing, but let’s look beyond the standard Merriam Webster defense p,an and get to the root of everything.
Trump is a fucking liar. And we knew it from the beginning.
http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecur...igation-saying
Trump denies Russia behind attack, despite fed investigation saying otherwise
BY JOE UCHILL - 10/09/16 10:58 PM EDT 71
Republican nominee Donald Trump disputed that Russia was behind high-profile data breaches of Democratic groups during Sunday night's presidential debate, despite the intelligence agencies' investigation reaching the opposite conclusion.
“Maybe there is no
hacking,” Trump said.
On Friday, the Director of National Intelligence and Department of Homeland Security announced results of their joint investigation into hacks of the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. The group confirmed what most experts publicly believed and intelligence insiders privately espoused: Russian intelligence was behind the attacks.
Democrat Hillary Clinton referred to the findings during the debate while answering a question about new posts to WikiLeaks suggesting Clinton might take separate stances publicly and privately.
In his response, Trump addressed Russia’s connection to the hacks as Clinton’s conjecture.
“Anytime anything wrong happens they like to say, ‘The Russians! The Russians!' She doesn’t know that it’s the Russians doing the hacking,” he said.
“Maybe there is no hacking. And the reason they blame Russia is that they are trying to tarnish me with Russia.”
Trump did not mention the official investigation.
Trump’s stance puts him at odds with a number of his advisers. At a conference last week, retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn said he believed that Russia was behind the attack. House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) had been publicly demanding the Obama administration name Russia as behind the attacks and take some action against Moscow. Both McCaul and Flynn are on Trump’s national security advisory council.
The evidence in the public eye, uncovered by private security firms, includes the use of the same command and control servers, the same privacy protection services, the same email accounts and domain name registration services as attacks attributed to Russia in the past.
If the 2014 Sony hacks are any indication, there may also be evidence not being shared with the public. In that instance, the administration acknowledged it had withheld intelligence linking the attack to North Korea from its press releases. Lisa Monaco, a White House homeland security official, said of the Sony hack, people looking for inconsistencies in the attribution “don’t have the information that the intelligence community and the FBI”
McCaul was not the only lawmaker who has long held that Russia was behind the attack. Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and others had also called for the administration to acknowledge Russian President Vladimir Putin’s responsibility.
After Friday’s announcement of the investigation’s results, Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) said he would introduce legislation that would call for “aggressive sanctions” in response to the attack.
“Russia’s interference with American democracy is a direct threat to our political process,” Gardner said in a press release.
The DCCC, a victim of the attacks, used Friday’s DNI and DHS joint announcement as a chance to chide Trump for denying Russia was behind the attacks at the first presidential debate.
“This verifies what cybersecurity experts have said about this attack, and with this acknowledgment, Republicans from Donald Trump to Speaker Paul Ryan must recognize this crime for the national security threat that it is, and respond appropriately,” said Meredith Kelly, of the DCCC.
