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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]
The report contains no "assertion", much less facts of any kind, much less proof, that the Russians:  1) hacked the election  2) affected the outcome of the election in any way by hacking of a "political party"; 3) intended to affect the outcome of the election by the hacking of a political party; 4) affected the outcome of the election in favor of a particular candidate; 5) intended to affect the outcome of the election in favor of a particular candidate.

No assertions of 1 - 5 AT ALL.  Those aren't even in issue any longer.  Complete leftist fantasy.  Obama fed it to you.  You fell for it.  Fess up.[/quote]

Assertion: "This activity by RIS is part of an ongoing campaign of cyber-enabled operations directed at the U.S. government and its citizens."

Assertion: "The U.S. Government confirms that two different RIS actors participated in the intrusion into a U.S. political party."

Assertion: "In summer 2015, an APT29 spearphishing campaign directed emails containing a malicious link to over 1,000 recipients, including multiple U.S. Government victims."

Assertion: "In spring 2016, APT28 compromised the same political party, again via targeted spearphishing."

Assertion: "Actors likely associated with RIS are continuing to engage in spearphishing campaigns, including one launched as recently as November 2016, just days after the U.S. election."

There are plenty of assertions.  I agree that the report lacks supporting evidence. This report does not address, nor was it meant to, whether the Russians "hacked the election". I don't know why you keep bringing that up. This report addresses whether a US political party was hacked by the Russians. The report asserts, without evidence, that this is the case. Anything beyond that is out of scope.

Again, I agree that the report does not provide evidence to support its assertions. But, as I said before, the lack of such evidence does not mean the assertions are false.

If you bother to reply, please skip the FUD about affecting the outcome and so on. That has nothing to do with this report.

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O.K. so we're in agreement that there's no allegation or evidence that the Russians attempted to affect the election's outcome by favoring Trump.  That was the whole point of all this, if you recall, Jeff.

You just can't admit you were dead wrong.  LOL.[/quote]

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