Random Politics & Religion #17

Also have you tried looking on snopes?

Haven't you heard? Snopes is now part of the liberal agenda with a fact checking bias. Conservapedia is where you can find the real truth nowadays.

This is one of those situations where people like KN think they are entitled to see proof of a CIA investigation because they are Americans and they have rights and whatever. Because so many CIA investigations are released to the public.

The CIA and FBI shared the results of their investigations with the President and WH, with Congress, with the President-elect (if he decided to pay attention) and thats the list. If you don't have security clearance you don't get to see it. Its why Snowden is a traitor, you don't share information with the entire world.

They promised retaliation for all of the sanctions that Obama hit them with over the last two years. Can you summarize what they did? It won't take very long.

We don't care if Russia is angry at us.

This is the guy who broke the Trump charity stories and the pussy tape. He is one of the few doing real journalism.

Recommended reading even if you are a Trump fan.

David Fahrenthold tells the behind-the-scenes story of his year covering Trump
WaPo

You kindof want to have evidence presented to the public if you are going to do something that may lead to a world war.

I wouldn't be surprised if King Obama declares war on Russia before Saturday night, just because he has to do something. Like how Russia crossed that red line in the sand....

But hey, anything that your lord and savior Obama does is ok with you, right?

Real journalism isn't making the ***he did though. Real journalism isn't also being so blatantly biased towards one candidate that you have to try so hard to find any little thing about one person while completely ignoring the other's dirty laundry, like he and his ilk have done all of 2016.

Obama slapped russia firmly on the wrist!

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. on Thursday released its most detailed report yet on Russia’s efforts to interfere in the U.S. presidential election by hacking American political sites and email accounts.

The 13-page joint analysis by the Homeland Security Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation was first such report ever to attribute malicious cyber activity to a particular country or actors.

It was also the first time the U.S. has officially and specifically tied intrusions into the Democratic National Committee to hackers with the Russian civilian and military intelligence services, the FSB and GRU, expanding on an Oct. 7 accusation by the Obama administration.

The report said the intelligence services were involved in “an ongoing campaign of cyber-enabled operations directed at the U.S. government and its citizens.” It added, “In some cases, (the Russian intelligence services’) actors masqueraded as third parties, hiding behind false online personas designed to cause the victim to misattribute the source of the attack.”

Over the summer stolen emails from Democrats were posted by an online persona known as Guccifer 2.0, believed by U.S. officials to be linked to Russia. Outrage over documents that appeared to show favoritism for Hillary Clinton forced the DNC’s chair, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, to resign.

The U.S. released the report as President Barack Obama sanctioned the GRU and the FSB, the GRU’s leadership and companies which the U.S. said support the GRU.

Thursday’s sanctions were the administration’s first use of a 2015 executive order for combatting cyberattacks against critical infrastructure and commercial espionage. Because election systems aren’t considered critical infrastructure, Obama amended the order Thursday to allow for sanctions on entities “interfering with or undermining election processes or institutions.”

The retaliation against Russia, just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, culminated months of political handwringing about how and whether to respond to Moscow’s meddling. U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that Russia’s goal was to help Trump win — an assessment Trump has dismissed as ridiculous. Trump said Thursday he would meet with the intelligence community’s leaders next week for an update on the situation.

The report did not go far beyond confirming details already disclosed by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, which was hired to investigate the DNC hacks.

It described the intelligence services’ use of “spearphishing” — fake emails intended to trick victims into typing in their user names and passwords. At least one person opened attachments with malicious software. The report noted that actors “likely associated” with Russian intelligence services are continuing to engage in spearphishing campaigns, including one launched just days after the U.S. election.

The DNC was infiltrated by the FSB in summer 2015 and again by the GRU in spring 2016 using spearphishing emails that often appeared to come from legitimate or official organizations, the report said.

Russian officials have denied any involvement in hacking U.S. political sites and emails.

The report provides clues for cybersecurity workers in the private sector to identify compromised systems and prevent more intrusions. The Homeland Security Department said it has already included this information within its own cyber threat information-sharing program, which automatically flags threats in real time for participating companies and agencies.

U.S. officials also provided antivirus vendors with two malicious software samples used by Russian intelligence services.

What is your solution then? Let them mess with your democratic process? Let them do as they wish because you fear retaliations? Is America the new Canada?

Italy just expelled the fattest terrorist ever



I think this guy skipped a few ramadan!

I'm curious what degree of foreign intelligence you feel you are entitled to. The Grizzly Steppe document King linked and likely didn't read identifies the particular Russian groups involved, their phishing methods, and their signatures.

It's genuinely amazing to see the BSAB argument being used to defend Russia.

I'm curious what degree of foreign intelligence you feel you are entitled to. The Grizzly Steppe document King linked and likely didn't read identifies the particular Russian groups involved, their phishing methods, and their signatures.

It's genuinely amazing to see the BSAB argument being used to defend Russia.

This Joint Analysis Report (JAR) is the result of analytic efforts between the Department of
Hom
eland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). This document
provides technical details regarding the tools and infrastructure used by the Russian civilian and
military intelligence Services (RIS) to compromise and exploit networks and
endpoints
associated with the U.S. election, as well as a range of U.S. G
overnment, political, and private
sector entities.
The U.S. Government is referring to this malicious cyber
activity by RIS as
GRIZZLY STEPPE.
Previous JARs have not attributed malic
ious cyber activity to specific countries or threat actors.
However, public attribution of these activities to RIS is supported by technical indicators from
the U.S. Intelligence Community, DHS, FBI, the private sector, and other entities. This
determination expands upon the Joint Statement
released October 7, 2016, from the Department
of Homeland Security and the Director of National Intelligence on Election Security.
This activity by
RIS is part of an ongoing campaign of cyber
-enabled operations directed at the
U.S. government and its citi
zens
. These cyber operations have included spearphishing campaigns
targeting government organizations, critical infrastructure
entities
, think tanks, universities,
political organizations, and corporations leading to the theft of information. In foreign countries,
RIS actors conducted
damaging and/or disruptive cyber-attacks, including
attacks on critical
infrastructure
networks.
In some cases
, RIS actors masqueraded as third parties, hiding behind
false online personas designed to cause the victim to misat
tribute the source of the attack
. This
JAR provides technical indicators related to many of these operations, recommended mitigations,
suggested actions to take in response to the indicators provided, and information on how to
rep
ort such incidents to the U.S. Government.

GRIZZLY STEPPE – Russian Malicious Cyber Activity
JOINT ANALYSIS REPORT, NCCIC & FBI

The whole thing in a PDF so pardon the lame formating which I amn't going to fix. Its more readable in the orignal anyway.

P1 of 13, Summary:

GRIZZLY STEPPE – Russian Malicious Cyber Activity
JOINT ANALYSIS REPORT, NCCIC & FBI

The whole thing in a PDF so pardon the lame formating which I amn't going to fix. Its more readable in the orignal anyway.

P1 of 13, Summary:

This is the guy who broke the Trump charity stories and the pussy tape. He is one of the few doing real journalism.

Recommended reading even if you are a Trump fan.

David Fahrenthold tells the behind-the-scenes story of his year covering Trump
WaPo