Dutch Spies Caught Russian Hacker Breaching Obama’s White House and Dem Party

[Tabby]

https://www.alternet.org/investigations/dutch-spy-agencies-watched-russian-hacker-breached-state-department-obama-white-house

Dutch spies alerted their American counterparts as early as 2014 about Russian hacking into State Department and White House computers and subsequent Russian hacking of the Democratic Party in the 2016 election, according to a series of reports in Dutch media.

The joint investigation by de Volkskrant newspaper and Nieuwsuur ("News Hour"), a current-affairs television program, describe how Dutch intelligence experts accessed the Russian hackers' computers and cameras in hallways at a university in Moscow. The Dutch spies watched a team of Russian hackers infiltrate the State Department, the White House and the Democratic Party to pilfer emails and electronic documents, including 2016 campaign emails later published by Wikileaks.

The disclosures add new details to Russian hacking of the 2016 presidential election, which, according to the Dutch reports, was part of a larger pattern of Russian meddling in Western elections. The reports also raise questions about why the Democratic Party did not sufficiently respond when alerted to the hacking, which shadowed the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

“In the summer of 2015, Dutch intelligence services were the first to alert their American counterparts about the cyber-intrusion of the Democratic National Committee by Cozy Bear, a hacking group believed to be tied to the Russian government,” Nieuwsuur’s report began. “Intelligence hackers from Dutch AIVD (General Intelligence and Security Service) had penetrated the Cozy Bear computer servers as well as a security camera at the entrance of their working space, located in a university building adjacent to the Red Square in Moscow.”

Makes you wonder what happens.

[Tony Light]

Did Hillary and her state department ever mess with Putins last election? Inquiring minds want to know.

[Plato Potato]

Everybody messed with Putin's last election, and most of them were working for Vladimir himself.

[countryguy]

We mess with everbody's elections -- that's hardly a secret.  The difference, here -- and the major concern -- is whether the Russian interference in last year's U.S. election was actually coordinated with and by the campaign of one candidate, in this case the Trump campaign.  That's the collusion that's the subject of the special investigation, and which is more than a tad bit illegal.  It also should be of concern to everybody - not just democrats and/or liberals - because it strongly implies a price to be paid for their "help".  Would you say, Tony, that conservatives would be happy to know that our president is deeply indebted to Putin's Russia?

Well, actually, there isn't a whole lot of doubt that they do already know it.  But, they've accepted so much of what they claim to be against, already, in order to support this clown, I guess a bit of treason doesn't seem all that much more of a stretch, does it?