Hastur wrote:
Yep, that's from Levin's article from Bannon's Breitbart. Any other references than the one?
And it seems that people here seem to forget the whole picture here.
In july this mess was already everywhere. Wasserman Schultz had resigned, the accusations of DNC hacks had been made way earlier. The FBI was already looking into it. At the same time, just to look at another timeline here:
July 24: DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigns amid the controversial fallout from the email dump.
July 25: The FBI announced it was investigating the DNC hack and stated that "a compromise of this nature is something we take very seriously." That same day, The Daily Beast reported: “The FBI suspects that Russian government hackers breached the networks of the Democratic National Committee and stole emails that were posted to the anti-secrecy site WikiLeaks on Friday. It’s an operation that several U.S. officials now suspect was a deliberate attempt to influence the presidential election in favor of Donald Trump, according to five individuals familiar with the investigation of the breach.”
July 26: Intelligence officials inform the White House that they have “high confidence” that Russia is behind the DNC hacks.
July 27: Trump calls on Russia to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails from the private server she used as secretary of state “I will tell you this, Russia: If you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” Trump said at a news conference. “I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”
Pence releases a statement the same day, which his staffers say was drafted before Trump’s comments.
“The FBI will get to the bottom of who is behind the hacking,” Pence said. “If it is Russia and they are interfering in our elections, I can assure you both parties and the United States
government will ensure there are serious consequences.” But he went on to say there should be increased focus on the contents of the hacks and what they exposed about the Democratic Party.
Obama, in an interview with NBC, says of the DNC hacks: “I know that experts have attributed this to the Russians.”
July 31: An interview airs on ABC in which Trump says of Russia’s annexation of Crimea: "But you know, the people of Crimea, from what I've heard, would rather be with Russia than where they were. And you have to look at that, also." Trump also says in the interview that he was not involved in efforts to defeat an amendment to the Republican platform that would have added more aggressively pro-Ukraine language.
In an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Paul Manafort says that the effort to block the pro-Ukraine amendment “absolutely did not come from the Trump campaign. … No one, zero.”
Aug. 12: Guccifer 2.0 releases the cellphone numbers and email addresses of almost all of the Democrats in the House of Representatives, apparently with documents stolen from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
The digital security firm ThreatConnect announces that day that another site posting leaked documents, DC Leaks, appears to be linked to Russian intelligence services. The site’s documents also mostly targeted Democrats, but it also had emails stolen from campaign staffers for noted Russia hawks GOP Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham.
Aug. 14: The New York Times publishes an exposé on Ukrainian documents that appeared to show that $12.7 million in cash was earmarked for Manafort by the Russia-aligned Party of Regions.
Aug. 17: Trump receives his first classified intelligence briefing. It is later reported by NBC that Trump received information at the briefing about “direct links” between the Russian government and the email hacks. Trump names Kellyanne Conway as his campaign manager and Steve Bannon as campaign chief executive in a move that appears to push Manafort to the background.
Aug. 19: Manafort resigns.
Aug. 21: Long-time Trump friend and confidant Roger Stone writes on Twitter: “Trust me, it will soon the Podesta's time in the barrel. #CrookedHillary”
Sept. 5: The Washington Post reports that U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies are investigating “a broad covert Russian operation in the United States to sow public distrust in the upcoming presidential election and in U.S. political institutions.”
Obama holds what he calls a “candid, blunt and businesslike” meeting with Putin at the G-20 Summit in China. The two meet for about 90 minutes, and Obama says afterward: "We've had problems with cyber intrusions from Russia and other countries in the past." But he declines to comment on “specific investigations.”
Sept. 7: Clapper reiterates Obama’s point that experts believe Russia is behind the DNC hack.
Trump praises Putin at an NBC forum, saying Putin had an 82 percent approval rating in Russia and adding: “He’s been a leader far more than our president has been a leader.”
Trump also once again noted that Putin had complimented him.
“I think when he calls me brilliant I’ll take the compliment, but it’s not going to get him anywhere,” Trump said.
Sept. 8: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says Moscow is watching the presidential campaign closely and is willing to improve ties with the U.S. whoever wins, but says, in reference to Trump’s praise, that Russia will wait to see the winner’s rhetoric “after they are elected.”
"We hope that after the end of the [U.S.] election campaign, we will see Washington’s political will towards building good relations," he said. The government-owned Russian News Agency TASS also reported on Peskov’s comments: “He also said the Kremlin paid more attention to the statements made by the candidates than to those of the outgoing president.”
Sen. Jeff Sessions, a prominent Trump surrogate, meets in his Senate office with Kislyak.
Trump tells the Kremlin-backed Russia Today in an interview that “it’s probably unlikely” Russia is interfering in the election.
“I think maybe the Democrats are putting that out,” Trump says. He adds that foreign interference in the election would be “inappropriate.”
In an interview with CNN, Pence says that “it's inarguable that Vladimir Putin has been a stronger leader in his country than Barack Obama has been in this country.”
Sept. 26: Foreign policy adviser Carter Page steps down from the Trump campaign.
At the first presidential debate, Trump tries to cast doubt on reports that Russia was behind the DNC hacks. He says: “I don't think anybody knows it was Russia that broke into the DNC. She's saying Russia, Russia, Russia, but I don't — maybe it was. I mean, it could be Russia, but it could also be China. It could also be lots of other people. It also could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds, OK? You don't know who broke into DNC. But what did we learn with DNC? We learned that Bernie Sanders was taken advantage of by your people, by Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Look what happened to her. But Bernie Sanders was taken advantage of. That's what we learned. Now, whether that was Russia, whether that was China, whether it was another country, we don't know, because the truth is, under President Obama we've lost control of things that we used to have control over.”
Oct. 3: Stone writes on Twitter: “I have total confidence that @wikileaks and my hero Julian Assange will educate the American people soon #LockHerUp”
Oct. 4: Julian Assange makes a 3 a.m. EST announcement via video saying WikiLeaks will publish new information on the presidential election “every week for the next 10 weeks.”
Oct. 7: WikiLeaks dumped a trove of emails hacked from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s personal email account. The release came just hours after a tape emerged in which Trump bragged about groping women by the genitals. The emails were widely covered in the American media, and the Republican National Committee touted them as evidence of “who Hillary Clinton really is.”
The Obama administration accuses Russia of deploying hackers to interfere in the presidential election. A statement from Clapper, the director of National Intelligence, says hacked documents posted on DC Leaks, Guccifer 2.0 and WikiLeaks appear linked to Russian intelligence and accuses “Russia’s senior-most officials” of directing the hacks.
