At the very least, it will shine some light on why Putin wants to help Trump Make America Great Again.

Looking back on who has been quickest to misdirect the blame to Putin could be of interest. Who pushed the Putin narrative? Trump? From what I've gleaned, the IP in Russia was used by hackers before. How that fingers Putin I'm uncertain. Is Putin responsible for everything any hacker using a computer in Russia does? Or do hackers covering their tracks use computers in Russia. I think the latter is historic fact. Hackers are trying to not be detected and not get caught if detected.

Please do enlighten us with some proof instead of repeating a Republican talking point.

Not sure what you meant. You do understand security experts were given permission to release a public report on the Clinton campaign hacking. I believe the report.

the interpretation of that evidence. You do realize which server we are talking about at that IP, one used by hackers to hide their identity?

Watch the other hand applies when someone is running a con. If their spying is as all-encompassing as ours, the Russians know who used that server from where. If the hacker had used a server in the USA, we would be able to follow the evidence. With Russia and the leaker (if they are distinct parties) likely knowing who the hacker was, this could get real interesting before the election.

I don't think it has sunk in how big a deal this political spying is. It reveals the corrupt people opposing Clinton and the Dems. The big issue of political liberty under threat and the rule of the majority being criminally interfered with is what some of the distraction is all about, and blaming Putin is the perfect distraction. Don't expect Fox to focus on the crime as "political spying on Democrats" when they can run with Russian spying and Hillary's email. How many millions have Republicans spent trying to derail Hillary? ... but they can't be suspect in this, give me a break.

He's a commie!!!

'bout time for some payback...

What country does he want to serve? He better make up his mind. I don't think voters take kindly to a traitors.

Party's emails. Sorry I wasn't as specific in the first place. I thought it was understood.

Given that Trey Gowdy has squandered tax payer $$$$ on endless Benghazi/email hearings that went absolutely nowhere -- I am SURE the republicans with their great concern about the ethics of our candidates will be very eager to conduct a hearing and/or encourage the FBI to investigate Trump's obvious Russian ties and the issue of the Russian hacker who broke into the DNC system but just by chance (?) didn't break into the RNC or Trump campaign

A thorough investigation is reasonable and appropriate considering all the things Trump has said.

There so much projection within Republicans that if they state that Democrats will be doing some heinous act it's often a signal that the Republican has done or is about to do the same.

a connection could be established directly between the russian hackers and dipshit donnie. But the investigation might turn up more about what his financial ties to russian entities. But that is all according to if the FBI does do a investigation. Also how long it would take. He may have time to leave the country and move in with his buddy asshinge.

directly established. Of course it wasn't because the lackeys had to take the fall after they got caught committing the crimes. Well, the hacker was caught in the act, knew the hack had been terminated, and thereafter there was an effort to claim responsibility by an anonymous party posing as a known Russian hacker and that story fell apart on closer scrutiny.

What I find interesting is the overzealous appetite for investigating Hillary will suddenly transform into abject dismissal of the idea that any Republican should be investigated. Nevertheless, who of all players in the world had the motivation to spy on the Dem campaign, and the means. Big hints, not Bernie Sanders, and not Jill Stein. The likeliest suspect to be spying on the Dem candidate and the DNC is grossly obvious, the Republican Party.

We know who has the motivation. Who had the connections and the means?

Are the hacker and the leaker the same person? Did the leaker seek to either expose the hack or to cover-up who did the hack by turning it into a leak?

Instead of repeating the whole thing I also had the same question brought up below.

First, you'd have to produce the hackers, which Russia is extremely unlikely to do. Given the fact that those hackers have probably used their skills in other state sponsored activities that Russia doesn't particularly want to come to light.

Then they'd have to say that they had no earthly desire to hack the DNC or Hillary Clinton or anything associated with our elections until they heard Donald Trump say something on tv about it.

Assuming, of course, that Russians actually did the hack, and not someone using TOR and a cloned server somewhere in Russia to launch their attack, which is like Hacking 101 stuff.

tRump is a selfish, egomaniacal dipshit; but the idea that he came up with the idea to use an international hacking ring (with flawless Opsec), and then use Wikileaks to distribute all his illegally obtained data is crazy. and then to think that once he did all that stuff, he'd go on tv and announce that he needs more information and that they should do more.

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I did say in the course of the investigation they may be able to turn up info on his financial ties to Russian entities and if any of that is illegal could also be turned up. It's all according to which end they looked at first. If they first looked at financial ties and to whom then looked for ties from them to hackers possible illegal finances could be uncovered.


Edit: I'm going to add this. Personally I don't think that chasing after Russian ties would help that much. There can be a smoking gun, one might be from the taxes side. But one item that I think is something fairly easy to start with dipshit is the modeling agency. They already have at least 3 models who worked for the agency coming out on the practices used. It looks like it would not only be immigration law violations, but also labor law violations. Another thing would be the waivered H1B visas for his country club. Those since approved may go nowhere, but I wonder if there were labor law violations.

It's crazy how the Clinton email investigation blew up and still makes headlines after the investigation concluded, yet this gets put on the backburner. His main man for much of his campaign had direct verifiable ties to, and a working relationship with, a hostile foreign government. It's insane to me that this isn't the top story on every major network. Liberal media bias, my ass.

"I will tell you this, Russia. If you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing," Trump said at a news conference last month.
"I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press."
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/democrats-fbi-connection-trump-cyberattacks-227555

They can be so transparent and yet no one sees thru them.

If only they would devote even half the amount of time they spent investigating Hillary Clinton.

I can only imagine the shit they'd dredge up.

because he's too busy writing tomorrow's Hillary hate piece...

And now that he has the new thing going, expect to hear far more from him.

https://theintercept.com/staff/glenn-greenwald/

My tolerance level of his selective journalistic outrage is only so high...

Last I checked, he was still calling anyone reporting about Russian hacking+ties to Assange a "Neo-McCarthyite"

whether Sec. Clinton lied to Congress when she was asked if she had a hang nail in 1958!

I don't think this will go anyplace. I pray I'm wrong.

IMHO, FBI director James Comey increasingly has been using his office to politicize the Clinton emails (He's a GOP guy), so I really don't think this request, which COULD be legitimate, is going anywhere unfortunately.

Seems like they would have been all over this a few weeks ago!