Our Hacking Detected Their Hacking!

by | Jan 9, 2017

Note the unacknowledged irony in this New York Times story, “Putin Led a Complex Cyberattack Scheme to Aid Trump, Report Finds”:

“The public report lacked the evidence that intelligence officials said was included in the classified version… [including] the harvesting of computer data from ‘implants’ that the United States and its allies have put in Russian computer networks.” 

Why does the US government believe that the Russians hacked the DNC’s and John Podesta’s email accounts? Because US government hackers who have infiltrated Russian computers say so.

About Sheldon Richman

Sheldon Richman is the executive editor of The Libertarian Institute and a contributing editor at Antiwar.com. He is the former senior editor at the Cato Institute and Institute for Humane Studies; former editor of The Freeman, published by the Foundation for Economic Education; and former vice president at the Future of Freedom Foundation. His latest books are Coming to Palestine and What Social Animals Owe to Each Other.

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