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Burisma Hacked: Joe Biden Faces Potentially Damaging Document Dumps
PJ Media ^ | 01/14/2020 | Matt Margolis

Posted on 01/14/2020 7:30:08 AM PST by SeekAndFind

The New York Times reported on Monday that hackers from the Russian military intelligence unit known as the GRU succeeded in hacking Burisma, the Ukrainian natural gas company that Hunter Biden sat on the board of, and that Joe Biden protected from investigation by withholding $1 billion in aid unless Ukrainian officials fired the prosecutor investigating the company.

GRU is responsible for other high-profile hacks of the DNC and John Podesta. Seven GRU officers were indicted in 2018 for conspiring to interfere with the 2016 election.

The hacking attempts against Burisma began in early November, as the Democrats' impeachment efforts increased the profile of the company and Biden's conflict of interests.

It is not yet known what the hackers found or what they were looking for. The New York Times says that "experts say the timing and scale of the attacks suggest that the Russians could be searching for potentially embarrassing material on the Bidens."

The GRU hackers succeeded in attacking the company through a phishing scam that sent their employees to bogus login pages, from which the employees' login credentials could be obtained.

So what does this mean? Scott Rosenburg of Axios believes that awareness of the hacks "cuts both ways politically." There are huge negative implications for Joe Biden and his presidential campaign, since "it means document dumps could happen at any time, with accompanying media frenzy and potentially damaging revelations." Many on the left still believe—despite all evidence to the contrary—that Trump colluded with Russia in 2016, so Russian involvement with the hacks "means that any such revelations will come pre-tainted with a Russian label," according to Rosenburg.


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; US: Delaware
KEYWORDS: burisma; clowncar; delaware; hacking; hunterbiden; joebiden; joeclowncarbiden; russia; ukraine
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1 posted on 01/14/2020 7:30:08 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

The source of this article is the NYT. Fake news.


2 posted on 01/14/2020 7:32:12 AM PST by Spruce
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To: SeekAndFind

Maybe the Nigerians hacked it and sold the information to Russia.


3 posted on 01/14/2020 7:32:41 AM PST by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: SeekAndFind

More Russian collusion?


4 posted on 01/14/2020 7:32:47 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: SeekAndFind

The groundwork is already being laid for: “RUSSIAN ELECTION INTERFERENCE!”

I don’t trust the timing of this at all. Something is going to come out against Biden soon and the NYT apparently knows it... probably leaked from the deep state to the Biden campaign or the DNC, or perhaps to NYT direct.

They need to frame the bad info about Biden as election interference.


5 posted on 01/14/2020 7:33:56 AM PST by z3n
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To: SeekAndFind

“The New York Times reported on Monday that hackers from the Russian military intelligence unit known as...”

Why would anyone believe the New York Times on this.

They’ve already fostered one Russian hoax on us. Why should anyone think they aren’t lying here?


6 posted on 01/14/2020 7:34:02 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: SeekAndFind

You can already see the narrative. Anything released that is damaging to Biden must, therefore, be collusion with the Russians.


7 posted on 01/14/2020 7:35:45 AM PST by monkeybrau
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WATCH: Joe Biden Brags About Rigging The Ukranian Political System

WATCH: Joe Biden Brags About Rigging The Ukranian Political System

8 posted on 01/14/2020 7:36:37 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
The New York Times says that "experts say the timing and scale of the attacks suggest that the Russians could be searching for potentially embarrassing material on the Bidens."
Gosh, what could be in there that's embarrassing, since according to the Partisan Media Shills (including the Slimes), the Bidens have done nothing wrong? /s

9 posted on 01/14/2020 7:36:44 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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HAT TIP JOHN SOLOMON
Ut, oh, the Senate might even have all the official govt documents from 2015-16 concerning the decision by the
Obama State Dept’s foreign aid funding arm, USAID, to pursue a joint project with Burisma Holdings.
<><> Did Hunter Biden or his American business partner Devon Archer have anything to do with seeking the project?
<><> What caused its abrupt end?
<><> What issues were identified as concerns,
<><> Who was alerted in the Obama White House, Obama State Dept, or other Obama agencies?

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The Senate might even have official govt documents, cables, memos showing Obama's State Dept’s dealings with Burisma reps in 2015-16.
Ukrainian PTB escalated investigations of Burisma Holdings in Feb 2016---raiding the company’s owner, Mykola Zlochevsky's home.
<><> Burisma’s American reps were now frantically pressing the Obama State Dept to end corruption allegations against them,
<><> Burisma’s American reps were now geting their money's worth---pressing the State Dept for help invoking Hunter Biden’s name.
<><> What did Obama's State Dept officials do after being pressured by Burisma?
<><> Did the US embassy in Kiev assist Burisma’s efforts to settle the corruption case against it?
<><> Who else in the Obama government was being kept appraised?

10 posted on 01/14/2020 7:37:09 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Wasn’t a son of Nancy Pelosi on that board as well?


11 posted on 01/14/2020 7:38:44 AM PST by matthew fuller (America's Dark Age-2009-2016.)
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To: z3n

The groundwork is already being laid for: “RUSSIAN ELECTION INTERFERENCE!”

I don’t trust the timing of this at all. Something is going to come out against Biden soon and the NYT apparently knows it... probably leaked from the deep state to the Biden campaign or the DNC, or perhaps to NYT direct.

They need to frame the bad info about Biden as election interference.

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hey! why not?

it always worked for hildabeast.


12 posted on 01/14/2020 7:39:15 AM PST by thinden
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To: SeekAndFind

I believe Hillary is behind these leaks from Ukraine. That she has the most to benefit from Creepy Uncle Joe being thrown under the bus.

Hillary will undermine Bernie (again) next. Then Fauxcahauntas.

Click my screen name. Hillary will be the Rat nominee this year.


13 posted on 01/14/2020 7:44:23 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (As a matter of fact, I DID only read the excerpt. OK, I intended to. Next time for sure.)
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To: Cowboy Bob
Maybe the Nigerians hacked it and sold the information to Russia.

While I think Russia has better hackers than Nigeria, Nigeria has more email scams. Could Biden have given up personal information to a Nigerian prince? /S

14 posted on 01/14/2020 7:49:11 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: SeekAndFind

Looks like the DeepState is planning Russian Collusion v2.0 to try and shield Biden from all his corruption.


15 posted on 01/14/2020 7:49:39 AM PST by KyCats
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To: SeekAndFind

The story about the alleged Russian phishing attack on Burisma that was pitched by Area 1 Security and promoted by the NYT is intended to accomplish one or all of the following objectives.

1) To promote a pissant computer security firm that is run by progressive Democrats.

2) To deflect from the onslaught of adverse publicity regarding the Biden family’s dealings with Burisma that would certainly arise during an impeachment trial in the Senate.

3) To reinforce the idiotic Russian conspiracy theories that the Deep State and their propaganda ministers in the corporate media have spun for the past three years.


16 posted on 01/14/2020 7:53:53 AM PST by Skepolitic
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To: z3n

They need to frame the bad info about Biden as election interference.

Yup. From the article.

“...any such revelations will come pre-tainted with a Russian label.”


17 posted on 01/14/2020 7:54:08 AM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: Spruce

Yep,they’re trying to preemptively “shoot the messenger”,facts be damned.


18 posted on 01/14/2020 7:57:24 AM PST by SanchoP (Yippy,the next generation search engine.)
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To: z3n

It is possible that something new will emerge about the Biden family business of corruption.

It is metaphysically certain that public awareness about Biden family corruption will grow enormously if the Senate has an impeachment trial with witnesses.

The corporate media may be using this story to influence Democrats and other Russian conspiracy theorists to tune out any factual news about Biden, regardless of whether it is old or new.


19 posted on 01/14/2020 8:00:58 AM PST by Skepolitic
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To: Spruce

The question no one seems interested in asking is whether the information, whether “hacked” or not, is factual.

Is Biden corrupt?


20 posted on 01/14/2020 8:10:54 AM PST by seowulf
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