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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsClint Watts on Burisma hack: "No surprise. To be expected."
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Clint Watts ✔ @selectedwisdom
No surprise. To be expected. As discussed with our #FIE2020 - Russia hacking probability vis-a-vis Biden. #1 Ukraine-Burisma-Hunter Biden #2 Biden healthhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/13/us/politics/russian-hackers-burisma-ukraine.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Offices in Kiev of a subsidiary of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma. Security experts suggest the hackers may have been looking for damaging information on Joe Biden.
Russians Hacked Ukrainian Gas Company at Center of Impeachment
The timing and scale of the attacks suggest the Russians may be looking for the same kind of damaging information on Joe Biden that President Trump wanted from Ukraine, security experts say.
Clint Watts ✔ @selectedwisdom
Russias decision of who and when to hack (Biden - top priority) can be measured and mitigated, based on the frequencies & narratives Kremlin discusses. Heres an estimate of their hacking decision - 29 Dec 19
https://www.fpri.org/fie/russia-hacking-election-2020/
7:14 PM - Jan 13, 2020
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Clint Watts on Burisma hack: "No surprise. To be expected." (Original Post)
Dennis Donovan
Jan 2020
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TheRealNorth
(9,500 posts)1. Even if Putin didn't find anything...
Wikileaks or whatever Trump-allied portal will be sure to make things up should Biden win the nomination.
It will be impossible to stop that, but what we have to do is fight against anyone in the media (MSM AND Social media) that perpetuates the misinformation.
FormerOstrich
(2,703 posts)2. Maybe intent was not to find..
but to place something to be found.
TheRealNorth
(9,500 posts)3. That could be possible too
They are actually talking about that now on Lawrence O'Donnell
bdamomma
(63,941 posts)4. K&R
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