Isikoff: Last July, Putin's FBI tried to hack a DNC staffer who was investigating Paul Manafort

[StrictlyRockers]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-hacked-emails-of-dnc-oppo-researcher-point-to-russians-and-wider-penetration-154121061.html

Michael Isikoff
Chief Investigative Correspondent
July 25, 2016

Just weeks after she started preparing opposition research files on Donald Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort last spring, Democratic National Committee consultant Alexandra Chalupa got an alarming message when she logged into her personal Yahoo email account.

“Important action required,” read a pop-up box from a Yahoo security team that is informally known as “the Paranoids.” “We strongly suspect that your account has been the target of state-sponsored actors.”

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Asked about charges by Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook that “Russian state actors” hacked the DNC in order to help Trump, who has made sympathetic comments about Russian President Vladimir Putin, Manafort on Sunday dismissed the charges in multiple television interviews as “absurd” and “crazy.” The claims are “pure obfuscation on the part of the Clinton campaign,” Manafort said on ABCs “This Week.” “What they don’t want to talk about is what’s in those emails.”

In mid-June, Democratic Party suspicions about the hackers seemed to be confirmed when CrowdStrike, an outside security firm retained by the DNC, reported that it traced the hackers to two separate units linked to Russia’s security services: the FSB, Russia’s equivalent of the FBI, and GRU, the country’s military intelligence agency. The company noted strong similarities between the attack on the DNC by the suspected GRU hackers and previous cyberintrusions of unclassified systems at the White House, the State Department and the offices of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (After discovering the data breach, a DNC security source said its cyberexperts noted that the hackers’ exfiltration of files took place “9 to 5, Moscow time.”) An FBI official confirmed that the bureau has been investigating the breach for some time, and, according to one source familiar with the matter, Director James Comey has been personally briefed.

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There are also signs that the Obama administration is taking the matter more seriously. The Washington Post reported Monday that White House officials convened a high-level security meeting last Thursday, hours before WikiLeaks began posting the emails, to review information about the DNC attack. Party officials are privately pushing the White House to publicly blame the Russians in the same way it blamed North Korea for the cyberattack on Sony and China for intrusions into U.S. companies. “The last time somebody broke into the DNC, it led to the resignation of a president,” said the Democratic Party security source, referring to the Watergate scandal. In some ways, the source insisted, the current cyberheist — what some in party circles are already calling a “21st century Watergate” — is even more sinister, the source said. “This is the Russians screwing with the integrity of our election process.”
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Manafort's response? You guessed it - "But, but, but Hillary's emails!"

And Trump has been encouraging this kind of thing in his campaign speeches. I mean...this is just incredible. This is going to blow up. This is undeniable corruption. It's going to occupy the news cycle for at least the next week! The deeper you dig, the more sh*t you find.

[kysrsoze]

1. I think this is the final nail in dRumpf's campaign coffin. A definitive link...

from the DNC hacking to dRumpf's campaign; through Russia. No explaining this away.

[StrictlyRockers]

2. Well, this plus the new revelations by the NYT about Manafort accepting payment

directly from Putin's Russia for several years...

Many people are saying that this does not bode well for Trump's campaign.

[Scarsdale]

3. Special Committee

Call Issa, call Cotton, call Gowdy. This information needs to be investigated, PRONTO. Oh, wait, never mind this is connected to a gop candidate. Meanwhile tRump's daughter is vacationing in Europe with Wendy Deng, ex wife of Rupert Murdoch, current girlfriend of Vladimer Putin!! The plot thickens. Too bad $arah PayMe did not run this time, Vlad could have manipulated her even easier than tRump.

[Sanity Claws]

4. Wendi is Putin's gf?

She had the hots for Tony Blair.
I have to keep up with the latest gossip.