Russian Charged With Treason Worked in Office Linked to Election Hacking

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

Source: msn

MOSCOW The authorities in Moscow are prosecuting at least one cybersecurity expert for treason, a prominent Russian criminal defense lawyer confirmed on Friday, while a Russian newspaper reported that the case is linked to hacking during the United States presidential election.
While surely touching a nerve in American politics, the developments in Moscow left a still muddled picture of what, exactly, a series of arrests by the security services here signifies.
But the virtually simultaneous appearance of at least four prominent news reports on the hacking and several related arrests, citing numerous anonymous sources, suggests that the normally opaque Russian government intends to reveal more information about the matter, though it is unclear why.
In the waning weeks of the Obama administration, American federal intelligence agencies released a report asserting the Russian government had hacked into the computers of the Democratic National Committee and the chairman of Hillary Clintons campaign, John D. Podesta, stealing and releasing to WikiLeaks emails intended to damage Mrs. Clinton and help President Trump win the election.
But the unclassified version of the report offered only thin corroborating information, many independent analysts have said. The treason arrests in Moscow hint at a possible human intelligence source in at least one hacking episode, the intrusion into state electoral boards in Arizona and Illinois.
The confirmation by the Russian lawyer, Ivan Pavlov, in written answers to questions from The New York Times, was the closest so far to a formal acknowledgment that the Russian government has detained suspected spies within the cyberbranch of its Federal Security Service, or F.S.B., the main successor to the K.G.B

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[orangecrush]

1. It doesn't take a rocket scientist

To figure out what happened

[Fantastic Anarchist]

2. I hope that when the People connect the dots ...

... the demand for impeachment will be so enormous that even the Republican Congress will have to buckle under the pressure.

[BadgerMom]

14. Me, too.

[tenorly]

3. Trump's right! There were a lot of illegal votes.

They came from a Russian hacker's computer.

[cstanleytech]

4. Part of the reason could be because a good lie includes part truth, a bad lie doesnt contain any and

thus whatever you are trying to hide risks being exposed.

[Dustlawyer]

5. Que Trump's excuse for lifting sanctions, "They caught the rouge agents who

perpetrated this behind Putin's back!"

This is a scam!!!

[notdarkyet]

7. So they caught our guys, and are probably going to kill him/them. So now

We need to find the spies in our country and put them in Guantanamo. Trump wants to keep it open for people like him. Traitors. And he's talking to putty tomorrow. Oh goody another jaw dropping day. I guess things can always get worse.

[BobTheSubgenius]

18. Things are never so bad...

...that they couldn't get worse.

[hollowdweller]

9. You KNOW that is how they are going to play it.

Either that or US is disrupting their spy network by making them go on a bunch of witch hunts.

[Eyeball_Kid]

21. IMO, this means that Steele's dossier on Trump was on the money.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

17. I may have misunderstood, but I think the Cyber-Security Expert wasn't helping Russia ...

... and so Russia is performing a display of arresting the criminal element for propaganda.

I think that the Cyber-Security expert was actually leaking information into Russia's involvement, and since Russia has been denying the accusations, they were actually eliminating the threat to their official stance.

That's how I'm perceiving it, though I could be wrong.

[sarah FAILIN]

19. That was my take too

4 US spies? Maybe.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

22. Possibly more ...

... who knows how this story will unravel?

[Ilsa]

26. Yeah, he was the leak to the MI6 spy, I bet.

One detail too many made it into his report. Putin knew he had a mole.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

28. I feel bad for the guy. nt

[Brother Buzz]

6. Did this cybersecurity expert, perchance, weigh 400 pounds?

[applegrove]

8. Surprised he's still alive.

[GliderGuider]

30. Not for long. There is a Tea Party in his immediate future, but not the American kind.

His will feature polonium tea.

[lutherj]

10. There was a reason all 17 branches of US intelligence were so confident Russia did it.

Now that source is silenced. I doubt that seasoned Intelligence types will stand by passively and watch valuable assets being burned. Things could get interesting fast.

All this syncs with Trump's order that all US ambassadors resign immediately at noon on Inauguration Day. Closing the barn door after the horses have fled.

[Eyeball_Kid]

23. If the Intel agencies believe that Trumpy is responsible for the outing of an asset... and/or

they all come to believe that Trumpy IS compromised, it doesn't bode well for Trumpy. The intelligence agencies will then be motivated to expose the fact that Trumpy is being blackmailed by Putin.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Well, yeah, looks like the CIA got it right. Also, the ex-KGB leaker of the Трампа dossier murdered

The Russians (and anybody else) don't assassinate people for making fake news.

So, the dossier is substantially TRUE. http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141681192

[cstanleytech]

12. Possible or its false and they are trying to make it look true when its not and yes

this type of thing does happen when one country wants to make false intel look real.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. You might be right if they had put it & vids out, BUT they are keeping it secret for now

If they had put out a false dossier (and the associated videos / audios) they might do that to prop it up.

But it is not out.

So it is information that the Russians wanted kept secret so they could get more leverage over Дональда Трампа now or later. Thus the killed the leaker because he greatly reduced the value of their property.

[cstanleytech]

15. Timing is everything. Take fishing, you will tend to have better luck in the morning than you would

at noon.

[ffr]

16. Stolen election. tRump is illegitimate.

All the evidence is building up to lead to that one inescapable conclusion.

Hillary Clinton should be our president, not this puppet.

[TomCADem]

20. Israeli intelligence fears Donald Trumps administration will funnel their secrets to Vladimir Putin

Maybe the Israelis were right about Trump funneling intelligence sources to Russia?

http://www.salon.com/2017/01/13/israeli-intelligence-fears-the-u-s-will-be-a-sieve-for-russia-under-donald-trump/

Israeli intelligence officials are reportedly concerned that any intelligence information shared with their American counterparts will eventually leak to Russia — thanks to the cozy relationship President-elect Donald Trump may have with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The fears stem from a reported recent meeting involving Israeli and American intelligence officials, according Israeli paper Yedioth Ahronoth. Those involved in the talks said that the Americans warned Israel to “be careful” starting Jan. 20, the day Trump takes over the Oval Office.

The American intelligence officials reportedly briefed their Israeli colleagues on the hacks targeting the Democratic National Committee, claiming they had “highly credible information” that Russian intelligence agencies conduct the cyberattacks and subsequently leaked the emails to WikiLeaks to undermine Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid.

According to the report, the Americans also informed Israeli officials that Putin had “leverages of pressure” over Trump. The Americans did not divulge what type of leverage Moscow had, but it was assumed they were referencing the 35-page memos collected by a former MI6 agent.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

24. That MI6 guy has now gone into hiding ...

... things are getting interesting.

[BumRushDaShow]

25. Bibi is in for a rude awakening

Drumpf is in hock to the man who is also supporting Israel's sworn enemy to the north - Assad. So if Bibi thinks that sucking up to Drumpf is going to solve all his problems, he may want to think again.

These evil men can keep playing the gotcha games but meanwhile, whole populaces will continue to suffer through this latest geopolitical nightmare.

[Renew Deal]

27. They got him before he got them.

It's about silencing him. That's what I always thought it was.

[GliderGuider]

29. Now the spotlight of suspicion on our side turns toward the man who outed him.

Mike Flynn.

[Raster]

31. Mike Flynn or Steve Bannon.