Dand wrote:The Podesta Wikileaks show Podesta being phished. Virtually anyone with enough knowledge to make a site that appeared to be a legitimate site could have gotten his username/password and accessed the emails that were leaked.
There is no evidence that some high tech super secret hacking took place. Podesta and staff are not computer savvy and he fell for a phishing site.
I think it's evident how simple the phishing method was. And these people just blabber everything in their emails and likely in their unsecure phonecalls (like during the Ukrainian revolution).
Yet there evidence of Russian
Active Measures, even assuming you don't trust your government and their intelligence services one bit, is there.
Not the evidence on that for some reason some Russian "dedicated professional internet debaters" got somehow in the summer very enthusiastic of Trump. See (from 27th July 2016)
It looks like Russia hired internet trolls to pose as pro-Trump Americans
Or here a story how these fake news happened:
The Daily Beast debunked a particularly widely read piece in an article that reached 1,700 Facebook accounts and was read online more than 30,000 times. But the PropOrNot researchers found that the version supported by Russian propaganda reached 90,000 Facebook accounts and was read more than 8 million times. The researchers said the true Daily Beast story was like “shouting into a hurricane” of false stories supported by the Russians.
See (24th November 2016)
Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news’ during election, experts say
Or then the proven fake Sidney Blumenthal email By Russian Sputnik media-site, just to give one specific example. See
Dear Donald Trump And Vladimir Putin, I Am Not Sidney Blumenthal
Or that an Russian official bragged that "“maybe we helped a bit with WikiLeaks.” See (November 10th)
Russian Government: Actually, We Were in Contact With the Trump Campaign
And before you launch into accusations that I'm anti-Trump and a sore Pro-Hillary loser clinging to some Obama operation, please understand that
Russia supports genuine political entities when it is in it's favour. Just to take other examples from not so long ago:
- Russia first supported Scottish Independence.
- Then Russia supported Brexit.
The Scottish SNP and some UKIP are totally on opposite sides, hence Russian support is opportunism, yet the logic is obvious: Scottish Independence would have weakened the UK, Brexit weakened EU. And it's not even worth mentioning which candidate in the US elections was worse for Russia.