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kleinbl00  ·  2506 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: House majority leader to colleagues in 2016: ‘I think Putin pays’ Trump

I read this and have been reflecting on how I, personally, and all my friends will feel when they find out that the leak on this one was the Russians.

I've been dithering on this one too long, though. I've decided I need to print me up some patches:

Except instead of "Федеральная служба безопасности" I want

It's probably too subtle by half but that's how I roll.





b_b  ·  2506 days ago  ·  link  ·  

How do you figure? You think someone had this as a file that was then hacked by the Russians?

kleinbl00  ·  2506 days ago  ·  link  ·  

MEANS

The Russians have shown themselves capable of surveillance in places we don't expect. They're also good at it. That assumes of course that they had a bug wherever Ryan, McCarthy and McMullin et. al. had their conversation. They probably didn't. Maybe someone had a pearlcorder going, or their iphone on or whatever. Maybe the Russians had someone's phone compromised using NSA tools, or tools of their own. Maybe someone had that recording in their files and the Russians hacked them. None of these are a reaching.

MOTIVE

Occam's Razor on the Russian hacking was not to instill a puppet, but to maximize chaos within the federal government. Now that it starts to look like they've gotten all the mileage they can out of Trump, it's time to start new fun.

OPPORTUNITY

This one kinda speaks for itself.

I am not saying that of course the Russians did this. I'm saying that it could be the Russians, because they definitely benefit from all this.