Putin directly behind Russian hacking to help Trump win: US officials

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Russian President Vladimir Putin supervised his intelligence agencies? hacking of the US presidential election and turned it from a general attempt to discredit American democracy to an effort to help Donald Trump, three US officials said on Thursday.
US intelligence agencies? conclusion that Russia tried to influence the election by hacking people and institutions, including Democratic Party bodies, has angered President-elect Trump, who says he won the November. 8 vote fairly. Russian officials have denied accusations of interference in the election.

Separately, a senior White House official said on Thursday that Putin was likely to have been aware of the cyber attacks but he fell short of accusing the Russian president.

?If anything, given his background as a KGB officer, Putin has a much tighter grip on all Russian intelligence operations, civilian and military, foreign and domestic, than any democratic leader does,? one official said.

http://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2055088/putin-directly-behind-russian-hacking-help-trump-win

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What they are saying that if any country wants to win the election they should contact Putin for help, the country citizens going for the poll is thing of the past….

[GastonJ]

"Russia tried to influence the election by hacking people and institutions"

How do you hack people without using a cleaver or an axe? How would people who have been hacked influence the election, bleed all over the paperwork? Some Americans really are bad losers aren't they.

[clusters]

Just something new for the conspiracy theorists (nutjobs) to sink their teeth into. Guess they are getting tired of beating 911 to death.

[GastonJ]

Yeah their right arms must be very tired by now. Whether he really did win or not makes no difference any more, he's been declared the winner, will no doubt be impeached sometime soon and the republicans get their man Mike Pence in office. Job done.

[smirnoff_rules]

what will they think off next ....

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what will they think off next ....

[Wolfpack]

Trump won by the biggest margin in 80 years. America spoke and this is the beginning of the end for liberals. Even if the Russian thing was true do you think they would leave behind so called fingerprints behind? Even if the CIA had proof of them doing it. You think they would tip their hands and tell the world. Liberals were sore losers. Now all you Euros need to do is grow some balls and elect people who won't sell you national identity down the river. You Brits took a step in the right direction with Brexit but it's not enough. Time to ground Liberalism into dirt.

[ifred]

The so called american Institutions must of had broadband account with Talk talk and email with yahoo
Isnt the standard password in US "12345" or "password" if you a top security advisor

[nara]

Trump won by the biggest margin in 80 years.

That depends on how far you want to bend the truth.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank...lar-vote-ones/

[smirnoff_rules]

if you dont get of your arse and vote the other person wins simple .. 20 century has turned people into a load of wingers

[ifred]

Unfortunately a ballot paper never has a box for none of the above he or she would be a clear winner

[Lipsill]

if you dont get of your arse and vote the other person wins simple .. 20 century has turned people into a load of wingers

Well, it's really not that simple, is it? The US election-system makes it harder than it has to be for many people to actually vote and get their say.

[GastonJ]

58% of those eligible to vote did so, that's just under 140 million voters. Not bad going. Since the other 42% decided not to vote it meant that they left the people who did vote to make up their minds for them. I bet a lot of those who were protesting at the result were people who couldn't even be bothered to vote. They should have filled out a postal vote if they were too lazy to get off their ar$es to go vote on voting day.