“We have 17, 17 intelligence agencies, civilian and military who have all concluded that these espionage attacks, these cyber attacks, come from the highest levels of the Kremlin. And they are designed to influence our election. I find that deeply disturbing,” Clinton said during
Wednesday's presidential debate in Las Vegas."
Yes, 17 intelligence agencies really did say Russia was behind hacking
The question is:
Are these the same intelligence agencies that said Saddam Hussein had WMDs and Clinton voted for the Iraq war based on that?
17 intelligence agencies and still no proof. None.
Putin: This is my response to the hacker attacks.
What are we witnessing? Some hackers published information about the unseemly conduct of
Ms Clinton’s campaign headquarters – supporting one candidate for the party nomination at the expense of the other.
Hysterical accusations that this is in Russia’s interests were made.
But there is nothing in Russia’s interests there. They freak out about it
to distract the attention of the American people from the importance of what was published by the hackers. And the importance is that public opinion is being manipulated, but nobody talks about it. Everyone is talking about who did it, but is it so important who did it? What is important is the content of this.
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Reality Winner leaked memo
The former Air Force linguist is accused of sending a top-secret National Security Agency memo to The Intercept.
The memo, which the publication described Monday in a report, details a Russian cyberattack on a U.S. voting software supplier before the election,
and states that Russian intelligence services also gained access to “multiple U.S. state or local electoral boards.”
However, the memo shows no evidence that the Russian cyberattacks directly altered any votes.
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Just a few days ago:
Megyn Kelly: But all 17 of the United States’ intelligence agencies have concluded the Russians did interfere with our election, Are they all wrong?
Vladimir Putin: Have you read these reports?
Megyn Kelly: I have read the non-classified version.
Vladimir Putin: A non-classified version means no version. Now you also say, “a non-classified version.”
I have read these reports. There is nothing specific in these reports. There is only supposition and inference in those reports. That is it. To reiterate, this is bringing domestic political squabbles in the US out into the world arena.
It is an attempt to address a domestic political issues with foreign policy tools.
Megyn Kelly: They say it is the forensics, it’s the digital fingerprints, it’s the IP addresses, the malware, the encryption keys, the specific pieces of code – that all of them, all of them, point to Russia and none of them points to anyone other than Russia.
Vladimir Putin: What fingerprints? IP addresses can be simply made up. Do you know how many such specialists there are? They will organise everything to look like it was your three-year old daughter who carried out the attack.
There are such IT specialists in the world today and they can arrange anything and then blame it on whoever.
This is no proof.
It is an attempt to lay the blame at someone else’s door. This is not our problem. The problem is in US politics.
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Megyn Kelly: President Putin, you have repeatedly and passionately denied that Russia was behind the interference with our American presidential election. But the consensus view in the United States is that you did. That's what the 17 intelligence agencies have said. Are they all lying?
President of Russia Vladimir Putin: I have not once seen any direct proof of Russia's interference in the presidential election in the USA.
Today's technology is such that the final address can be masked and camouflaged to an extent that no one will be able to understand the origin of that address. And, vice versa, it is possible to set up any entity or any individual that everyone will think that they are the exact source of that attack.
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