That's not exactly true Pittalum; supposedly, the Russians, (just like China, Iran, and even Germany, the UK and even the United States with other Nations!) attempted to hack the RNC as well as other political organizations.
The RNC had invested in anti-hacking software and again, supposedly the Russians were unsuccessful: Russians Also Tried to Hack Republican National Committee, and Failed 425 <http://api.addthis.com/oexchange/0.8/forward/facebook/offer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fbig-government%2F2016%2F12%2F16%2Frussians-also-tried-hack-republican-national-committee-failed%2F&pubid=ra-536db77a775cf072&text=Russians+Also+Tried+to+Hack+Republican+National+Committee%2C+and+Failed> 2 <http://api.addthis.com/oexchange/0.8/forward/google_plusone_share/offer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fbig-government%2F2016%2F12%2F16%2Frussians-also-tried-hack-republican-national-committee-failed%2F&pubid=ra-536db77a775cf072&text=Russians+Also+Tried+to+Hack+Republican+National+Committee%2C+and+Failed> <http://api.addthis.com/oexchange/0.8/forward/twitter/offer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fbig-government%2F2016%2F12%2F16%2Frussians-also-tried-hack-republican-national-committee-failed%2F&pubid=ra-536db77a775cf072&text=Russians+Also+Tried+to+Hack+Republican+National+Committee%2C+and+Failed&shortener=bitly> [image: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is seen on the television at the Republican National Committee (RNC) before a news conference about the GOP's success on Election Night, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)] AP / Alex Brandon by JOHN HAYWARD <http://www.breitbart.com/author/john-hayward/>16 Dec 2016 417 <http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/12/16/russians-also-tried-hack-republican-national-committee-failed/#disqus_thread> SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER - The *Wall Street Journal <http://www.wsj.com/articles/republican-national-committee-security-foiled-russian-hackers-1481850043> *reported on Friday that, according to anonymous U.S. officials (who are still driving the entire “election hacking” story with unsubstantiated leaks, on a daily basis), Russian hackers tried to hit the Republican National Committee as well as the Democrats, but were foiled by superior RNC security. The Journal then quotes *another *group of anonymous “people close to the investigation” who said the hackers’ failure to penetrate RNC servers “indicated a less aggressive and much less persistent effort by Russian intelligence to hack the Republican group than the Democratic National Committee.” In the end, the hackers were able to harvest only a single email from a “long-departed RNC staffer.” This analysis doesn’t sit well with recent revelations that Clinton campaign chief, and alleged cybersecurity expert, John Podesta was tricked with an incredibly simple phishing scam <http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/12/16/critics-say-russian-hacking-story-driven-hidden-agendas-unsupportable-claims/> – a single email that told him to click on a bogus button to change the password on his email account. That didn’t really take a huge amount of effort. We’ve also long known that the DNC’s system had weak passwords <http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/25/lets-be-honest-the-dnc-asked-to-be-hacked-with-passwords-this-dumb/>, which they handled in an absurdly sloppy manner <http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2016/07/25/dnc-employee-emailed-passwords-twice-hacked-server/>. The Russians even mocked the DNC <http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/06/16/putin-internet-adviser-didnt-hack-dnc/> for its poor password security in some of their early responses to accusations they were behind the raid on the Democratic National Committee. Presumptions that the hackers made some sort of extraordinary effort to penetrate the DNC system, while their heart wasn’t really in the attempted RNC hack, is difficult to square with public knowledge about the case. “The possibility that Russians tried and failed to infiltrate the RNC doesn’t necessarily conflict with the CIA’s conclusion. A senior U.S. official said analysts now believe what started as an information-gathering campaign aimed at both parties later took on a focus of leaked emails about Mrs. Clinton and Democrats,” the *Wall Street Journal *adds later in its article, without making it clear which anonymous official offered that opinion. Even if that analysis is accurate, we might ask if the relatively easy success of the DNC raid inspired more follow-up activity, rather than a political agenda. *Autoplay:* On <http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/12/16/russians-also-tried-hack-republican-national-committee-failed/#> | Off <http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/12/16/russians-also-tried-hack-republican-national-committee-failed/#> As the *Wall Street Journal *goes on to report, the RNC was targeted with the *exact same kind *of phishing emails that worked on the DNC, but RNC security dealt with them so effectively that staff members “didn’t realize they had been the target of spies until June, after Democratic committee leaders revealed that hackers had successfully gained a foothold inside their networks.” The RNC’s filters shot those phishing emails down before staffers even saw them. The *WSJ* also notes that Obama administration officials “warned for months that Russian hackers had tried to interfere with U.S. elections, and intelligence agencies issued an unusual public assessment in October warning Russia was behind the cyberattack.” This only makes it more suspicious that a full-blown media frenzy didn’t erupt until after the election was over. Democrats, most assuredly including Barack Obama, put very little effort into cybersecurity until they were personally victimized by hackers. Obama treated every security incident as an annoyance to be finessed with a speech or two, clearly more concerned about poor media coverage of his administration than the actual damage inflicted by hackers, even after the enormous Cyber Pearl Harbor of the Office of Personnel Management attack. Is it too much to say that the Obama administration treated these alleged assaults on our electoral system as a minor issue, to be handled more by media spin doctors than security agencies, because they thought Hillary Clinton had the election in the bag? As a matter of fact, yet another anonymous official said *exactly that *to NBC News <http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/why-didnt-obama-do-more-about-russian-election-hack-n696701> on Friday: “They thought she was going to win, so they were willing to kick the can down the road.” On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 2:40 PM, Pittalum <[email protected]> wrote: > Not exactly. > > It appears that we were aware of some Russian cyberactivities targeting > mostly Democratic political organizations occurring at the same time phone > conversations were frequent between Flynn and Manafort and some routinely > monitored Russians - and all in the home stretch of a presidential election. > > I got no problem looking a bit further into it. I say, release the > transcripts. > > What do you say? > > > On Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at 2:18:42 PM UTC-5, btdt100 wrote: >> >> To clarify the context you are describing, you are saying that the leaked >> information from the NSA/CIA was obtained when the NSA/CIA was >> investigating leaked information? >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at 10:32:18 AM UTC-6, Pittalum wrote: >>> >>> Just so we have some basic context to what's being looked at: >>> >>> "Both the frequency of the communications during early summer and the >>> proximity to Trump of those involved "raised a red flag" with US >>> intelligence and law enforcement, according to these officials. The >>> communications were intercepted during routine intelligence collection >>> targeting Russian officials and other Russian nationals known to US >>> intelligence. >>> >>> The extensive contacts drew concerns of US intelligence and law >>> enforcement officials in part because it came at a time of Russian >>> cyberactivities targeting mostly Democratic Party political >>> organizations >>> <http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/07/politics/us-blames-russia-for-targeting-election-systems/> >>> ." >>> >>> http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/14/politics/donald-trump-aides-ru >>> ssians-campaign/index.html >>> >>> It's not like your boys Flynn and Manafort were being closely monitored >>> or anything like that. They were busted talking, and frequently at that, to >>> people that WERE being monitored. >>> >>> I can only imagine the *convulsions* cons would be *contorting* themselves >>> into had this been Hillary's aides talking to (insert your favorite >>> intelligence agency)' monitored Russians while said Russians were bugging >>> and releasing damaging information from Republican political organizations!! >>> >>> >>> On Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at 10:04:01 AM UTC-5, OhioMark wrote: >>>> >>>> We know his people were behind this. They illegally recorded a >>>> citizen's conversations, then illegally released these illegal recordings >>>> to the press. >>>> These traitors need to be hunted down, prosecuted and tossed in a deep >>>> dark hole. >>> >>> -- > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > * It's active and moderated. 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