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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele]Regarding the disclaimer, that is really not worth arguing about. It is standard boiler plate and simply meant as CYA incase you configure your IDSs with their rules and blow it up. 
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OK, putting the disclaimer aside as you suggest, then that means we need to take the content, such as it is, at face value; and unless additional info is presented via a subsequent supplemental release, that all the relevant info is contained in what we've been given.

There's nothing in there about hacking multiple political parties, just one.  There's nothing in there about hacking the election or even any assertion that the hack of the political party in any way influenced the election.  There's nothing in there attributing a motive to the Russians to influence the election by hacking a political party.  There's nothing in there attributing a specific motive of aiding Trump to win the election.  Nothing at all, and it's not even close.

And it's because this hacking wasn't specifically targeted at the election or the political parties.  This was a mass spearfishing, probably of the type that goes on all the time and we are never told about.  And out of 1,000 hacking targets, or spearfishing targets, it sounds like maybe less than a dozen or about one percent were foolish enough to fall victim to it.

Nothing in the report supports the Obama administration and HRC propaganda campaign against Trump w/r/t to the Russian hacking allegations.

Yet, you have posters in this thread deliberately making up "quotes" from the report that simply aren't there.  The left is completely off the charts delusional.  If and when we get any more info from DHS it'll be time to re-evaluate, but for now.....Dems, give it up already.[/quote]

I am part of "the left" so unless you are saying that I am delusional -- you certainly wouldn't be the first -- the left is not completely delusional. The report neither confirms nor refutes that the Russians were behind the hack. There is simply not enough information to know either way. 
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Well to clarify:  this report does state clearly that the Russians did it. You, Jeff, don't believe that.  (Which is fine, totally respect your point of view.)[/quote]

The report states that the Russians spearfished about 1000 targets, only a few of which fell for the scam, one of which was "a political party."    It doesn't say DNC but that's what I'm guessing based on what we know independent of this report.

There is no use of the word  "election" anywhere in the report.  There is no contention or even suspicion noted that the Russians "hacked the election,"  "intended to hack the election," had any "effect on the outcome of the election," nor that the motive in doing so was to aid a particular candidate.

This report is a complete repudiation of those aspects of the left's, and the Obama administration's, false claims to the contrary.[/quote]

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