Putins Chekist Cover Has Been Blown Kremlins brazen interference in our politics has been exposed
Putins Chekist Cover Has Been Blown
Kremlins brazen interference in our politics has been exposedchanging the spy-game to Russias disadvantage
By John R. Schindler 03/22/17 1:45pm
(@20committee on twitter)
Mondays marathon Congressional session about Moscows clandestine machinations during our 2016 election was one for the books. The directors of the FBI and NSA hardly ever speak jointly in open session, so this was a truly special event, and what they had to say rocked American politics.
Together, the FBIs James Comey and NSAs Mike Rogers made it abundantly clear to the House Intelligence Committee that Russian spies interfered in last years presidential campaign, to the detriment of Hillary Clinton and the benefit of Donald Trump. Moreover, the new president and his team are under FBI counterintelligence investigation, and have been since last summer, in an inquiry thats attempting to get to the bottom of this unpleasant messincluding assessing if there was any clandestine collusion between the Kremlin and Team Trump.
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Just as unsubtle was the Kremlins use of Wikileaks to disseminate those purloined emails to hurt Democrats. Since Wikileaks has served as a front for Russian intelligence since at least mid-2013as was glaringly obvious to anyone acquainted with Kremlin espionage and propaganda techniqueshere, too, someone at the top in Moscow wanted us to be aware of who was pulling the strings.
At every stage of their secret operation to influence our 2016 election, Russian spymasters could have used more subtle methodsfor instance employing clean hackers who were unknown to Western counterspies or putting stolen emails online on a fresh new websiteyet chose not to. This smacks of bravado and more than a little confidence that Washington would do little if anything to push back against Moscowan assessment that proved sadly accurate.
More:
http://observer.com/2017/03/fbi-nsa-congressional-session-trump-putin-kremlin/