“If Russia hacked the #DNC, they should be condemned for it,” Snowden wrote on Twitter on Monday, with a link to a 2015 report on the U.S. government, is Edward Snowden, the former Central Intelligence Agency technician and National Security Agency whistleblower who exposed the extent of mass surveillance and has been given temporary asylum in Russia. One expert in the field, who is well aware of the evidence-gathering capabilities of the U.S. Since very few of us are cybersecurity experts, and the Iraq debacle is a reminder of how dangerous it can be to put blind faith in experts whose claims might reinforce our own political positions, there is also the question of who we can trust to provide reliable evidence. Later on Monday, Trump himself then attributed the attack on the DNC to “China, Russia, one of our many, many ‘friends,'” who “came in and hacked the hell out of us.”
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“Both China and Russia have the full capability to do this,” he said. Flynn, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, told Bloomberg View that he “would not be surprised at all” to learn that Russia was behind the breach of the DNC network. Unhelpfully for Trump, his most senior adviser with knowledge of the world of hacking, retired Lt. “We strongly suspect that your account has been the target of state-sponsored actors,” the warning from the email service security team read.) Paul Manafort, who is directing Trump’s campaign and was for years a close adviser of a Putin ally, former President Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine, called the theory that Trump’s campaign had ties to the Russian government “absurd.” (On Monday, Michael Isikoff of Yahoo News reported that a DNC researcher looking into Manafort’s ties to pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine in May had been warned that her personal Yahoo email account was under attack. “We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.”
told a real estate conference in 2008, the Washington Post reported last month. “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets,” Trump’s son Donald Jr. Since Trump has refused to release his tax returns, there are also questions about whether or not his businesses might depend to some extent on Russian investors.