Posted on 01/05/2017 4:36:00 PM PST by drewh
American intelligence agencies intercepted communications that show senior officials in the Russian government celebrating Donald Trumps election victory and congratulating themselves for helping him win.
It was this reaction, in part, that allowed the intelligence community to come to the conclusion that the Russian government was involved in efforts to influence the election to assist Trump. Other information in the intelligence report includes Russias use of actors to provide hacked information to WikiLeaks.
It was noted that this report was delivered to President Barack Obama today and will be presented to President-elect Donald Trump in his meeting with intelligence leaders tomorrow.
Officials wouldnt indicate if these communications were contained in the report delivered to Obama. However, one WaPo source had the following to say about the Russians actions.
The Russians felt pretty good about what happened on Nov. 8 and they also felt pretty good about what they did, a senior U.S. official said.
The Senate held a hearing with intelligence heads today to get more information about Russian hacking efforts. During the hearing, James Clapper indicated that Russia was also behind the dissemination of a lot of fake news.
Trump has been reluctant throughout to accept the assessments of the intelligence community, calling them ridiculous and seemingly siding with WikiLeaks Julian Assange over Americas intelligence agencies.
I voted for Trump without Russian help.
lol, well done proust!
Why on earth would the Russians prefer a strong-on-defense team like Trump-Pence over a weak one like Hillary-Obama? Plus it was the Soros-supported Obama-Hillary admin who significantly strengthened the Russians with their treasonous missile defense and nuke deals, including the Iran nuke deal which Putin loves and takes large credit for. This while they (the Obama-Hillary admin) practically decimated OUR OWN military. A strong American military is the last thing the Russians want or need at this critical time when theyre in the process of basically restoring the evil empire that was the Soviet Union.
But ISIS the Saudis and Chinese were in mourning
MAGA
Pretty flimsy.
Democrats look for excuses not remedies.
Soo? This is the stupidest crap, as bad as the Benghazi lies. I bet Merkel was bummed Trump won, does that mean she was fixing the election for Hillary? I was celebrating so I must have been one of the hackers.
With a new president coming in this public release of partisan “intelligence” is a total indictment of the intelligence community. The friggin CIA decided the public needed to know something between administration’s? ?
The kenyan gave Putler everything he wanted. Putin is just a pot stirrer. There is no reason for him to prefer Trump or Obama. He wants his enemies distracted sp he can advance his agenda and increase Russian influence.
Frustrated Obama might still have war with Russia. Why are we rushing troops to Russia’s border? Obama tried to defeat Netanyahu with taxpayer dollars, no less. I can’t get too worried about Russia except to thank them for helping stop the menace of Hillary (that is if the story happens to be remotely true about Russian hacking).
I was way more happy Trump won than they were.
So did everyone on the planet who has a moral conscience or doesn’t want to die in a NeoCon global nuclear war.
This is what US “intel” comes up with? If you put on Russian TV, you would have seen Russian govt officials happy that a non-psychopath won. If this is US “intel”, it should be COMPLETELY SHUT DOWN and a new intel agency with intelligence can start working.
And no doubt senior Iranian officials celelbrAted in 2008 and 2013
Makes a big difference who is in charge of the US military. Trump-Pence want to rebuild it significantly. Obama did all he could to decimate it. This while he made the Russian's hand much stronger.
No,no. We hacked the Russians and found them drinking vodka like Bolsheviks.
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To be honest, I celebrated Trump’s victory too.
Of course they celebrated when Trump won. As did at least a billion other people on the planet. Assange publicly stated that he thought Hillary would win. That was about one to two weeks before the election. Russians thought Hillary would win. That was why they ramped up the siege of Aleppo and sent their only aircraft carrier to the coast of Syria just days before the election. These intelligent agencies are retarded.
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