Happy About the Election Hacking of Your Presidential Vote?

Election Hacking Confirmed: The NSA, CIA and FBI have universally concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin interfered with and quite possibly changed the outcome of our Presidential election. Regardless of who you voted for, your vote has been hacked. If you are a Clinton supporter, you face the prospect of your candidate having lost the election due to manipulation. If you are a Trump supporter, it’s possible that our future President’s mandate and credibility have been significantly undermined and eroded.

This is a major loss for both sides of the political spectrum – it is a massive loss for America as voiced by politicians both Republican and Democrat. In case you haven’t had time to keep up with the findings of the Director of National Intelligence, here are the nuts and bolts of what the NSA, CIA and FBI agreed on unanimously and with high confidence (a nearly unprecedented occurrence in intelligence history).

As quoted or summarized from the non-partisan report:

“Putin ordered an influence campaign aimed at the US presidential election” in order to “undermine public faith in the US democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency.”
“Putin and the Russian Government aspired to help President-elect Trump’s election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton.”
Putin held a grudge against Clinton because he publicly blamed her for inciting mass protests against his regime in late 2011 and early 2012.
“Putin publicly pointed to the Panama Papers disclosure [which implicated many of his wealthy friends and political supporters] and the Olympic doping scandal [which embarrassed him publicly] as US-directed efforts to defame Russia.” [Explanatory emphasis mine]. The hacking of the US election is seen to be a retaliatory effort against those and other perceived slights against his leadership.
“Russian intelligence services collected [information] against the US primary campaigns, think tanks, and lobbying groups they viewed as likely to shape future US policies.”
The GRU [Russian military intelligence] used fake media outlets like DCLeaks.com to disseminate hacked emails from the DNC, Colin Powell and John Podesta [Clinton’s campaign manager] in a massive traditional media and social media campaign aimed at undermining the Clinton candidacy.
“Russian media hailed President-elect Trump’s victory as vindication of Putin’s advocacy of global populist movements – the theme of Putin’s annual conference for Western academics in October 2016 – and the latest example of Western liberalism’s collapse.

Trump has continued to downplay and even deny Russia’s role in influencing the election, despite overwhelming evidence from every American intelligence agency. Can you blame him? For Trump to give Russia or Putin credit would be to undermine his own legitimacy and claim to the presidency. After all, who wants to feel like they won the election as a byproduct of someone else cheating on their behalf?

This is where we get to see what Congress is made of. Will they bury the story to protect their new leader and risk the stability and credibility of our country? If not, Putin will have achieved his ultimate goal – significantly weakening our democracy.

Posted by Identity Theft Speaker John Sileo in Cyber Data Security and tagged Cyber Attack, Election Hacking, Presidential Election, Putin, Russian Hacking, Trump, U.S. Election, US Election.