Obama Administration Rushed to Preserve Intelligence of Russian Election Hacking
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[quote]WASHINGTON — In the Obama administration’s last days, some White House officials scrambled to spread information about Russian efforts to undermine the presidential election — and about possible contacts between associates of President-elect Donald J. Trump and Russians — across the government. Former American officials say they had two aims: to ensure that such meddling isn’t duplicated in future American or European elections, and to leave a clear trail of intelligence for government investigators.
American allies, including the British and the Dutch, had provided information describing meetings in European cities between Russian officials — and others close to Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin — and associates of President-elect Trump, according to three former American officials who requested anonymity in discussing classified intelligence.
Separately, American intelligence agencies had intercepted communications of Russian officials, some of them within the Kremlin, discussing contacts with Trump associates.[/quote]
SOURCE: [url]https://nytimes.com/2017/03/01/us/politics/obama-trump-russia-election-hacking.html?_r=0&referer=&referer=[/url]
Understandable, considering that the Trump admin would be likely to try and destroy the evidence.
[editline]2nd March 2017[/editline]
[quote]Mr. Trump has denied that his campaign had any contact with Russian officials, and at one point he openly suggested that American spy agencies had cooked up intelligence suggesting that the Russian government had tried to meddle in the presidential election. Mr. Trump has accused the Obama administration of hyping the Russia story line as a way to discredit his new administration.[/quote]
Trump lying his ass off again. Connections between his campaign and Russia have already been proven via Flynn, Manafort and others.
personality cult defense force in t-dd. /s
Really though, it doesn't surprise me that they feared the new administration would work to cover it up if it were true. Obvious really.
No doubt Russia's goal is to tear the united states apart from its status as a "global power".
This is all very worrying. I don't mean to sound conspirital here but there is obviously nothing but malintent here with the Russians and the US
Yes why would Russia want a weakened enemy nation with polarized views. It's absurd to think that Trump being in office would create a divide in America causing it to eventually weaken internally and become less able to respond to imminent threats.
[QUOTE=Derpmonster;51898290]No doubt Russia's goal is to tear the united states apart from its status as a "global power".
This is all very worrying. I don't mean to sound conspirital here but there is obviously nothing but malintent here with the Russians and the US[/QUOTE]
Not just the US, Europe as well. Putin wants nothing more than to see Soviet Union 2.0 be a thing, but that's kinda hard to do when you have to contend with NATO and the EU. Split those two apart, however... Makes things much simpler.
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