The FBI suspects Russian intelligence agencies directed the hacking of Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair’s emails, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
The Journal cited “people briefed on the investigations” who asserted that the FBI suspected Russia was behind the hack of John Podesta’s emails. The unnamed sources said the FBI also believed Russia was behind the hacking of a Florida contractor, which revealed voters’ personal data.
Last Friday, the United States formally accused Russia of hacking political organizations including the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. The statement blaming Russia for the hacks acknowledged that some states experienced “scanning and probing” of their election systems but stopped short of attributing that activity to the Russian government.
Meanwhile on Wednesday, the Journal reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin wondered aloud at an investors forum, “Everyone is saying, ‘Who did it?’. But does it matter that much? It’s what’s inside the information that matters.”
In an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov seemed to soften his position as well.
“We did not deny this,” he said of the hacks, adding “They did not prove it.”
On Tuesday night, Podesta, whose hacked emails are currently being released in installments by Wikileaks, said he suspected Trump confidante Roger Stone knew of the upcoming leaks. Stone called Podesta’s allegations “categorically false” and “without foundation.”
It’s peculiar that the Russians haven’t been able to cover their tracks on their hacking. But it does suggest that they fear Hillary more than anyone could have imagined before hearing this stuff.
Won’t affect the Putin/Breitbart/Trump/Jones/Hannity crowd. They’re down with it.
I say nuke their computers – hardware and programs. Bugs, bugs, bugs.
It’s not necessarily that they fear Hillary, so much as it is that they know how to manipulate Trump. If Trump were to become President, Putin would have both direct and indirect levers to use to push Trump to whatever action Putin wanted. Hillary is clearly her own woman and she won’t be pushed around by the likes of Vlad.
That’s because they didn’t do the hacking, for chrissakes. I can’t believe anyone actually thinks Kerry / Obama / us government has any credibility anymore. NO hacking by Russia, no evidence, all b.s. lies from this side of the ocean (which we’re destroying with pollution and ACD btw). This is a non-story like almost all of Obama’s / Kerry’s lies about Russia, all lies, everything they say is a lie, always has been since Obama turned the White House into the Black House of Evil Torture and Terrorism, a minute after he walked in.