Ratcliffe declassified Russian intelligence assessment that claims Hillary was setting up a plan to connect Trump campaign to Russian hacking

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In late July 2016, U.S. intelligence agencies obtained insight into Russian intelligence analysis alleging that U.S. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had approved a campaign plan to stir up a scandal against U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump by tying him to Putin and the Russians' hacking of the Democratic National Committee. The IC does not know the accuracy of this allegation or the extent to which the Russian intelligence analysis may reflect exaggeration or fabrication.
According to his handwritten notes, former Central Intelligence Agency Director Brennan subsequently briefed President Obama and other senior national security officials on the intelligence, including the "alleged approval by Hillary Clinton on July 26, 2016 of a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services."
On 07 September 2016, U.S. intelligence officials forwarded an investigative referral to FBI Director James Corney and Deputy Assistant Director of Counterintelligence Peter Strzok regarding "U.S. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's approval of a plan concerning U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections as a means of distracting the public from her use of a private mail server."
So this is some real 4D chess stuff.

The claim now is Russia tried to frame Hillary of trying to frame Donald Trump of colluding with Russian
 

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Pfft. That's nothing! I heard Trump tried to frame Obama for trying to frame Russia for trying to frame Hilary for trying to frame Biden for trying to frame Russia for trying to frame Trump for trying to frame Hilary for trying to frame Obama for trying to frame Biden for trying to frame Russia for trying to frame Russia for colluding with Russia.

At this point its been so long and so many fingers have edited, omitted, destroyed, rewritten and falsified evidence I don't think we'll ever know what happened. Worse I don't think Americans care anymore.
 
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This is what the future is guys: politicised releases of rumours from the intelligence services to serve party politics.
 
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Let me spoil it for you: Russia screwed around with both the public news and the intelligence community. Neither party asked them to do this. The end.
Also, it never had as significant an impact as the mainstream media portrayed given all the other screwing around done by various wealthy interests and countries that gets routinely ignored.
 

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Oh, this hasn't already been happening?
Given the much-investigated and well-substantiated evidence of Russian interference in favour of Trump, declassifying the feeblest of rumours gratifying the opposite idea just to feed the right-wing conspiracy theory mill is particularly pathetic.
 
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Given the much-investigated and well-substantiated evidence of Russian interference in favour of Trump, declassifying the feeblest of rumours gratifying the opposite idea just to feed the right-wing conspiracy theory mill is particularly pathetic.
To be fair, more or less this same allegation was also in "Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign". Although I guess they dated it later.
 

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Here's a hot take for you: there's nothing wrong about anyone, including a foreign entity, releasing truths during an election. Releasing real materials isn't screwing with an election, and hoping for the release of real materials isn't immoral. The problem isn't Russia caring about the US election, the problem is the lies.
 

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So the claim is that Hillary tried in July of 2016 to blame Trump for Russian Hacking AFTER Trump publicly asked Russia to hack Clinton, a protected US official, former first lady, former senator and former secretary of state which they actually tried after he asked them to? For anyone to hack Clinton at all would be an attack on the US government. Trump asked Russia to do so in front of the world, it is no secret, and they complied. THIS after Russia had already hacked the department of defense, the electric grid, numerous hospitals, numerous senators and other government officials.. so Trump publicly asking Russia to attack a protected US official is actually treason, and Some how Clinton thinking they should go after Trump for that is somehow in the wrong for doing so now? LMAO talk about some mental gymnastics here. This after everything that had just happened is supposed to be news? You gotta be kidding right? Suffering from short term memory loss of the timeline of events that happened just before this? I am guessing that is what they are counting on here.

No 4d chess to say, hey Trump just told Russia to Hack Clinton in front of the world, and then they actually tried immediately after so Clinton says, Trump is involved in the Russian hacking and should be accountable for it, is no some elaborate plan here? ... Too funny.

I have to wonder if they are just counting on everyone to forget what actually happened at the time this was said.
 
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Given the much-investigated and well-substantiated evidence of Russian interference in favour of Trump, declassifying the feeblest of rumours gratifying the opposite idea just to feed the right-wing conspiracy theory mill is particularly pathetic.
It was more than that, Trump had just asked Russia to hack Clinton in front of the entire world so Clinton saying he should be held accountable is somehow an unexpected action now? ROFL.

And this was AFTER what had just happened in June and WikiLeaks and Trump had been going on and on about it prior to blatantly outright asking Russia to hack her that day.
 

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So the claim is that Hillary tried in July of 2016 to blame Trump for Russian Hacking AFTER Trump publicly asked Russia to hack Clinton, a protected US official, former first lady, former senator and former secretary of state which they actually tried after he asked them to? For anyone to hack Clinton at all would be an attack on the US government. Trump asked Russia to do so in front of the world, it is no secret, and they complied. THIS after Russia had already hacked the department of defense, the electric grid, numerous hospitals, numerous senators and other government officials.. so Trump publicly asking Russia to attack a protected US official is actually treason, and Some how Clinton thinking they should go after Trump for that is somehow in the wrong for doing so now? LMAO talk about some mental gymnastics here. This after everything that had just happened is supposed to be news? You gotta be kidding right? Suffering from short term memory loss of the timeline of events that happened just before this? I am guessing that is what they are counting on here.

No 4d chess to say, hey Trump just told Russia to Hack Clinton in front of the world, and then they actually tried immediately after so Clinton says, Trump is involved in the Russian hacking and should be accountable for it, is no some elaborate plan here? ... Too funny.

I have to wonder if they are just counting on everyone to forget what actually happened at the time this was said.
No the claim is she was blaming Trump for them for the DNC hack not hacking her email private server that had no protections on it really at all.
 

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No the claim is she was blaming Trump for them for the DNC hack not hacking her email private server that had no protections on it really at all.
You know that was proven to be 100% false right? Her sever was never actually hacked because it was actually protected. Russia TRIED and failed to hack her. Stop believing Trump tweets. If he tweets it, chances are it is a lie.

She was blaming Trump for telling Russians TO hack her, since the same Russians who were trying to do so at his request were ALSO the same ones who hacked the DNC, the Department of defense, the US electrical grid, hospitals.. Trump encouraging them to hack US officials is actually treason. Also, China didn't hack her either.
Tried =\= successful because her server actually WAS protected, unlike what misinformation you may have read.
 

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You know that was proven to be 100% false right? Her sever was never actually hacked because it was actually protected. Russia TRIED and failed to hack her. Stop believing Trump tweets. If he tweets it, chances are it is a lie.

She was blaming Trump for telling Russians TO hack her, since the same Russians who were trying to do so at his request were ALSO the same ones who hacked the DNC, the Department of defense, the US electrical grid, hospitals.. Trump encouraging them to hack US officials is actually treason. Also, China didn't hack her either.
Tried =\= successful because her server actually WAS protected, unlike what misinformation you may have read.

The claim was Russia.

Two of the specific sources you just cited say no evidence China hacked it.

Specificity is rather important here.

The claims were about Hillary planning to blame Trump for Russian interference according to intercepted Russian intelligence from LateJuly.

The final source you used claims Russians weren't even trying to hack into Hillary's server until the 27th of July

The leaked DNC emails came out June & July 2016 and were published by wikileaks July 22nd 2016.


Security experts such as Chris Soghoian believe that emails to and from Clinton may have been at risk of hacking and foreign surveillance.[71] Marc Maiffret, a cybersecurity expert, said that the server had "amateur hour" vulnerabilities.[72] For the first two months after Clinton was appointed Secretary of State and began accessing mail on the server through her BlackBerry, transmissions to and from the server were apparently not encrypted. On March 29, 2009, a digital certificate was obtained which would have permitted encryption.[12]
Former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency Michael T. Flynn,[73] former United States Secretary of Defense Robert Gates,[74][75] and former deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency Michael Morell[76][77] have said that it is likely that foreign governments were able to access the information on Clinton's server. Michael Hayden, former Director of the National Security Agency, Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency said "I would lose all respect for a whole bunch of foreign intelligence agencies if they weren't sitting back, paging through the emails."[78]
During 2014, Clinton's server was the target of repeated intrusions originating in Germany, China, and South Korea. Threat monitoring software on the server blocked at least five such attempts. The software was installed in October 2013, and for three months prior to that, no such software had been installed.[81][82]
 

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The claim was Russia.

Two of the specific sources you just cited say no evidence China hacked it.

Specificity is rather important here.

The claims were about Hillary planning to blame Trump for Russian interference according to intercepted Russian intelligence from LateJuly.

The final source you used claims Russians weren't even trying to hack into Hillary's server until the 27th of July

The leaked DNC emails came out June & July 2016 and were published by wikileaks July 22nd 2016.

You looked at the sources, correct? The DNC hack was not involving Clinton's sever, Russia never breached Clinton's server, they have repeatedly stated there was NO EVIDENCE Clinton's server was ever breached by anyone. DNC=\=Clinton server. DO not conflate them as being the same thing. There is NO evidence anyone hacked Clinton's server. Hacking aides and others =\= Clinton's server. In addition, those hacked were using the government servers they wanted Clinton to use, where if she had, she likely would have been hacked.

"No public evidence has emerged to indicate that hackers compromised Clinton’s private server, although the FBI did determine that some of the messages she sent from the server were exposed when someone hacked her aides’ personal email accounts. "

Misrepresenting speculation as fact is still just misinformation. Also, Clinton not saying what security was used does not mean there wasn't any. Read the sources, they have no evidence it was hacked+ the AP was just not aware of what security was being used at the time of writing that article, not that none existed.
 
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You know that was proven to be 100% false right? Her sever was never actually hacked because it was actually protected. Russia TRIED and failed to hack her. Stop believing Trump tweets. If he tweets it, chances are it is a lie.

She was blaming Trump for telling Russians TO hack her, since the same Russians who were trying to do so at his request were ALSO the same ones who hacked the DNC, the Department of defense, the US electrical grid, hospitals.. Trump encouraging them to hack US officials is actually treason. Also, China didn't hack her either.
Tried =\= successful because her server actually WAS protected, unlike what misinformation you may have read.
Was that the server that was allegedly setup inside a house with bog standard locks and stuck in a cupboard?

Because if it was, that server had fuck all protection at both the virtual and physical level.
 

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You looked at the sources, correct? The DNC hack was not involving Clinton's sever, Russia never breached Clinton's server, they have repeatedly stated there was NO EVIDENCE Clinton's server was ever breached by anyone. DNC=\=Clinton server. DO not conflate them as being the same thing. There is NO evidence anyone hacked Clinton's server. Hacking aides and others =\= Clinton's server. In addition, those hacked were using the government servers they wanted Clinton to use, where if she had, she likely would have been hacked.

"No public evidence has emerged to indicate that hackers compromised Clinton’s private server, although the FBI did determine that some of the messages she sent from the server were exposed when someone hacked her aides’ personal email accounts. "

Misrepresenting speculation as fact is still just misinformation. Also, Clinton not saying what security was used does not mean there wasn't any. Read the sources, they have no evidence it was hacked+ the AP was just not aware of what security was being used at the time of writing that article, not that none existed.

yeh and the specifics of this intelligence stuff was not related to Clinton's server but the DNC hack and claims of Russian interference which the claim for was picked up being pushed round by Russian intelligence in late July.

Those hacked were using government servers, but had people phish their passwords lol.

Again security experts said there was obvious vulnerabilities and little protection on her private server. Which is an issue but the argument she was just using her server to claim the Russians were interfering is nonsense and info leaked by Russians had already happened and seemed to harm the DNC.
 

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Here's a hot take for you: there's nothing wrong about anyone, including a foreign entity, releasing truths during an election. Releasing real materials isn't screwing with an election, and hoping for the release of real materials isn't immoral. The problem isn't Russia caring about the US election, the problem is the lies.
What truth was that?