Help Trump: Putin led the campaign effects on elections, US intelligence
Help Trump: Putin led the campaign effects on elections, US intelligence
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The Kremlin gave priority to Trump during American elections.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has tried to contribute to the victory in US elections is Donald trump.
These are the conclusions of the report of American intelligence, reports the BBC.Ukraine.
The declassified report says that the Russian President personally ordered the launch campaign, which was aimed at the influence on U.S. elections.
The report was declassified right after the chiefs of the intelligence services briefed on their findings, the President-elect of Donald trump.
“We also believe that Putin and the Russian government has sought to increase the chances of the election of Donald trump to the fact that where possible, discredited Hillary Clinton and made public, the comparison is not in favor of it,” – said in the report.
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The newly elected President of the United States Donald trump’s doubts that Russian hackers involved in hacking computer networks of political organizations in the United States during the election campaign.
We will remind, in the end of 2016, the US imposed new sanctions against Russia in connection with cyber attacks that affected the election of the President of the United States.
In the list of sanctions – the head of the Main Directorate of the General staff of the armed forces (GRU) Igor Korobov, his deputies Vladimir Alekseev, Sergey Lisunov and Igor Kostyukov, and hackers Bilan, Alexey and Evgeniy Bogachev.
In addition, the US has expelled 35 Russian diplomats and their families. Also, the U.S. government shut down two of the Russian diplomatic mission in new York and Maryland on suspicion of espionage.
Previously, the CIA said that Russia is deliberately carried out attacks during the election race, to help Donald Trump win the election, not in order to undermine the credibility of the electoral process of the country. In the investigation established the identity of those who were closely associated with the Russian government and WikiLeaks leaked thousands of messages of Democrats, including mail to the Chairman of the election campaign of Hillary Clinton.
The Chairman of US National intelligence said that Russia is a threat to the national interests of the States
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Russia is a threat to the national interests of the United States because of the aggressive cyber program, said James Clapper before the armed services Committee of the U.S. Senate. He stressed that the Kremlin’s meddling in the American presidential elections – unprecedented. But said: to answer they can not only sanctions.