{"id":284530,"date":"2016-12-14T18:03:57","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T17:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/questions-for-the-electors-on-russian-hacking\/"},"modified":"2016-12-14T22:34:57","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T21:34:57","slug":"questions-for-the-electors-on-russian-hacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/questions-for-the-electors-on-russian-hacking\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions for the Electors on Russian Hacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>It is being reported that John Podesta, Chairman of the defeated $1.2 billion Clinton presidential campaign, is supporting the call by various officials, including at least forty Electors, that the members of the Electoral College be given a classified intelligence briefing on the alleged Russian hacking before the College votes on December 19.<\/p>\n<p>In the event such a briefing comes to pass, it might be helpful if the Electors had some informed questions to ask the CIA.<\/p>\n<p>1\/ The DNC hackers inserted the name of the founder of Russian intelligence, in Russian, in the metadata of the hacked documents.\u00a0 Why would the G.R.U., Russian military intelligence do that?<\/p>\n<p>2\/ If the hackers were indeed part of Russian intelligence, why did they use a free Russian email account, or, in the hack of the state election systems, a Russian-owned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0805099263\/counterpunchmaga\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2015\/01\/killchain21.jpg\" alt=\"killchain2\" width=\"175\" height=\"268\"\/><\/a>server?\u00a0 Does Russian intelligence normally display such poor tradecraft?<\/p>\n<p>3\/ Why would Russian intelligence, for the purposes of hacking the election systems of Arizona and Illinois, book space on a Russian-owned server and then use only English, as documents furnished by Vladimir Fomenko, proprietor of Kings Servers, the company that owned the server in question, clearly indicate?<\/p>\n<p>4\/ Numerous reports ascribe the hacks to hacking groups known as APT 28 or \u201cFancy Bear\u201d and APT 29 or \u201cCozy Bear.\u201d But these groups had already been accused of \u00a0nefarious actions on behalf of Russian intelligence prior to the hacks under discussion.\u00a0 Why would the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2016\/12\/14\/questions-for-the-electors-on-russian-hacking\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is being reported that John Podesta, Chairman of the defeated $1.2 billion Clinton presidential campaign, is supporting the call by various officials, including at least forty Electors, that the members of the Electoral College be given a classified intelligence briefing on the alleged Russian hacking before the College votes on December 19. In the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-284530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}