The 2016 Presidential Election Trainwreck

[Northwestcoug]

I agree with this. America should definitely have a congressional investigation to find out what really happened because they always seem to get to the bottom of the mystery. Or they could save time and money and just ask know-it-all Jeff Lebowski.

Kidding aside, what else is there to do at this point? Trump is already dismissing the story; I assume he's taking it as a personal attack against his yuuuge victory. Other than the CIA/FBI publicly coming forward with the evidence, there needs to be some official hearing on it. Will congressional hearings also become a political circus? Maybe, but the evidence needs to be publicly aired.

[Uncle Ted]

Kidding aside, what else is there to do at this point? Trump is already dismissing the story; I assume he's taking it as a personal attack against his yuuuge victory. Other than the CIA/FBI publicly coming forward with the evidence, there needs to be some official hearing on it. Will congressional hearings also become a political circus? Maybe, but the evidence needs to be publicly aired.

I have little faith that the CIA or FBI will publish any kind of report on this subject publicly or any evidence will be shown. After Trump takes office maybe he should just say, "f*ck national security" and publish the CIA/FBI report on twitter. That would show Obama how government transparency really works.

[Walter Sobchak]

Yes. The Kremlin-sponsored rapist holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy said it's not true!

You missed the point. There is not a lick of evidence that the Russians, or anyone else, "hacked" the DNC/Podesta emails. They were accessed via phishing and leaked to Assange. It could have been Russia yes, but it could have anyone. It is nearly impossible to trace the source of a phishing attack. Just ask any cyber-security expert (such as UT).

Assange denies it was the Russians. Don't believe him, fine. Is the former UK ambassador referenced in the Guardian article also a Russian stooge? The truth is out there YO. Keep digging. Pass the tin foil.

A key element of this CIA campaign is that the same Russian spooks also "hacked" the RNC, yet nothing has been posted on Wikileaks. Why? Well, because "the truth is out there"... e.g. Russia wanted to rig the election. However, if this was the case, why were e-mails from Colin Powell posted on DC Leaks (which were highly critical of Trump) as well as other routine e-mails from various GOP operatives?

Because the CIA says "Russia!" and so everyone jumps. Don't be fooled.

[Uncle Ted]

You missed the point. There is not a lick of evidence that the Russians, or anyone else, "hacked" the DNC/Podesta emails. They were accessed via phishing and leaked to Assange. It could have been Russia yes, but it could have anyone. It is nearly impossible to trace the source of a phishing attack. Just ask any cyber-security expert (such as UT).

Assange denies it was the Russians. Don't believe him, fine. Is the former UK ambassador referenced in the Guardian article also a Russian stooge? The truth is out there YO. Keep digging. Pass the tin foil.

A key element of this CIA campaign is that the same Russian spooks also "hacked" the RNC, yet nothing has been posted on Wikileaks. Why? Well, because "the truth is out there"... e.g. Russia wanted to rig the election. However, if this was the case, why were e-mails from Colin Powell posted on DC Leaks (which were highly critical of Trump) as well as other routine e-mails from various GOP operatives?

Because the CIA says "Russia!" and so everyone jumps. Don't be fooled.

Nope, nope, nope... those Colin Powell emails obviously came from a RNC insider. The Ruskies would never give up emails that dis their boy, Trump.

[YOhio]

You missed the point. There is not a lick of evidence that the Russians, or anyone else, "hacked" the DNC/Podesta emails. They were accessed via phishing and leaked to Assange. It could have been Russia yes, but it could have anyone. It is nearly impossible to trace the source of a phishing attack. Just ask any cyber-security expert (such as UT).

Assange denies it was the Russians. Don't believe him, fine. Is the former UK ambassador referenced in the Guardian article also a Russian stooge? The truth is out there YO. Keep digging. Pass the tin foil.

A key element of this CIA campaign is that the same Russian spooks also "hacked" the RNC, yet nothing has been posted on Wikileaks. Why? Well, because "the truth is out there"... e.g. Russia wanted to rig the election. However, if this was the case, why were e-mails from Colin Powell posted on DC Leaks (which were highly critical of Trump) as well as other routine e-mails from various GOP operatives?

Because the CIA says "Russia!" and so everyone jumps. Don't be fooled.

So I just think there are some better arguments to be made, which you do very well, than referencing Assange. Also the UK Ambassador is a close associate of Assange so he is pretty horrible, too.

[Uncle Ted]

So I just think there are some better arguments to be made, which you do very well, than referencing Assange. Also the UK Ambassador is a close associate of Assange so he is pretty horrible, too.

Yeah, we need Colin Powell with that CIA report in hand in front of the UN to set the truth straight.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

John Podesta, the guy whose password was "pa$$word," has called for an intelligence briefing before the electoral college meets.

In other words, the big media push of this story happens to coincide with the Clinton people trying to muddle the electoral college when they meet. Also pretty funny is the fact that wikileaks showed how the Clinton people and the media got together on numerous occasions to screw Sanders, Jeb Bush, etc.

Is there any info now that's available that wasn't available before? As far as I can tell, the majority of those hacked emails came from John Podesta's account. Apparently, this nefarious intelligence gathering ability of the Russians includes logging into email accounts with dumb passwords.

There's no info on hacked voting machines. Is it just the wikileaks stuff? Sure the Russians are behind that, but what exactly are we supposed to do now? Pretend that the information was never released and tell everyone to forget about it and voted again?

[myboynoah]

Yeah, we need Colin Powell with that CIA report in hand in front of the UN to set the truth straight.

Yeah, we don't know what the CIA is saying, the conclusions they've drawn, and the information up which they base those conclusions.

Despite JL's name calling, YO pretty much nails it. Especially on how Obama has allowed the Russians to fill the void he left behind. Syria is full on mess and the Russians are now calling the shots. How pathetic.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Yeah, we don't know what the CIA is saying, the conclusions they've drawn, and the information up which they base those conclusions.

Despite JL's name calling, YO pretty much nails it. Especially on how Obama has allowed the Russians to fill the void he left behind. Syria is full on mess and the Russians are now calling the shots. How pathetic.

lol.

Snowflakes.

[myboynoah]

lol.

Snowflakes.

I don't know what that means.

[BlueK]

Yeah, we don't know what the CIA is saying, the conclusions they've drawn, and the information up which they base those conclusions.

Despite JL's name calling, YO pretty much nails it. Especially on how Obama has allowed the Russians to fill the void he left behind. Syria is full on mess and the Russians are now calling the shots. How pathetic.

Doesn't Trump want Russia to be calling the shots?

[wuapinmon]

I don't know what that means.

snowflakes is a polite way of calling people pussies.

[Walter Sobchak]

Doesn't Trump want Russia to be calling the shots?

Does anyone know what Trump wants?

I believe Trump has gone on record saying he opposes regime change in Syria. But Trump "on record" is practically meaningless; he could have just said that because Ms. Clinton was "for" it.

[YOhio]

lol.

Snowflakes.

This is a Hannity take.

[YOhio]

snowflakes is a polite way of calling people pussies.

Coming from JL it's like being called a pussy by this guy.