Obama signs executive order requiring POTUS to be a taxpayer

[maineman]

What a plebian semi upper class elitist response.HEY HEY Caligula

ad homs will not win you any points.... Trump voters deserve the $#@! they will be forced to eat. I will be better off financially under Trump than I would have been under Hillary..... I will RELISH the schadenfreude. Every bite.

[waltky]

Granny thinks the Russkies threw the `lection...

CIA says Russia intervened to help Trump win White House: Washington Post
December 9, 2016 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The CIA has concluded that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help President-elect Donald Trump win the White House, and not just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system, the Washington Post reported on Friday.

Citing U.S. officials briefed on the matter, the Post said intelligence agencies had identified individuals with connections to the Russian government who provided thousands of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and others, including the chairman of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, to WikiLeaks. The officials described the individuals as people known to the intelligence community who were part of a wider Russian operation to boost Trump and reduce Clinton's chances of winning the election. "It is the assessment of the intelligence community that Russia’s goal here was to favor one candidate over the other, to help Trump get elected," the Post quoted a senior U.S. official as saying. "That's the consensus view."

Julian Assange, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of WikiLeaks speaks via video link during a press conference on the occasion of the ten year anniversary celebration of WikiLeaks in Berlin

The Post said the official had been briefed on an intelligence presentation made by the Central Intelligence Agency to key U.S. senators behind closed-doors last week. The CIA, in what the Post said was a secret assessment, cited a growing body of evidence from multiple sources. Briefers told the senators it was now "quite clear" that electing Trump was Russia's goal, the Post quoted officials as saying on condition of anonymity. In October, the U.S. government formally accused Russia of a campaign of cyber attacks against Democratic Party organizations ahead of the Nov. 8 presidential election.

In this Dec. 1, 2008, file photo, then-President-elect Barack Obama, left, stands with then-Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., after announcing that she is his choice as Secretary of State during a news conference in Chicago. President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton campaign together next week for the first time this year, and their decision to meet up in Charlotte says a lot about how her campaign views her path to replace him in the White House. North Carolina is a prime spot for the party to expand into Republican territory against Donald Trump and build upon one of Obama's biggest triumphs in 2008.

President Barack Obama has said he warned Russian President Vladimir Putin about consequences for the attacks. But Russian officials have denied all accusations of interference in the U.S. election. A CIA spokeswoman said the agency had no comment on the report. Trump has said he is not convinced Russia was behind the cyber attacks. His transition team issued a statement on "claims of foreign interference in U.S. elections" on Friday but did not directly address the issue. The hacked emails passed to WikiLeaks were a regular source of embarrassment to the Clinton campaign during the race for the presidency.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, back, leads a meeting with officials in Moscow, Russia, Friday, July 8, 2016. The meeting focused on Russia's arms trade and its military ties with other nations.

The CIA presentation fell short of a formal U.S. assessment by all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies, the Post said. A senior U.S. official said there remained minor disagreements among intelligence officials about the assessment because some questions are unanswered, it said. Intelligence agencies did not have specific intelligence showing the Kremlin directed the individuals to pass the hacked emails to WikiLeaks, another senior official told the Post. The actors were "one step" removed from the Russian government rather than government employees, the official said. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has said in a television interview that the Russian government was not the source of the emails, the Post said.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/cia-says-...05.html?ref=gs

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Obama orders review into 'Russian hacking' before US election
Sat, 10 Dec 2016 - President Barack Obama orders a review of cyber-attacks, blamed on Russia, that shook the US election.

The hacks targeted emails at the Democratic Party and a key aide to presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. In October, US government officials pointed the finger at Russia, accusing it of meddling in the US vote. According to a secret CIA assessment reported by the Washington Post, Russia intervened to help Donald Trump win. The allegation was flatly dismissed by the transition team for Mr Trump, who will succeed Mr Obama in the White House next month. Russian officials have denied the hacking accusations.

'Sending a message' - BBC White House reporter Tara McKelvey

The "full review", as Lisa Monaco, Mr Obama's top counterterrorism adviser, described it during a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor, sounds impressive. It'll look at Russian efforts to sway the US presidential election. In fact, the report is likely to rely largely on work that FBI investigators and others have already done on the subject. It's also unclear which parts of the report, if any, will be shown to the public. In some ways, her announcement about the report - made only a few weeks before she and her colleagues leave office - seems to be part of an effort to burnish their legacy. Several days ago a counterterrorism report was released that was a compilation of previous legal and policy work by Obama administration officials - with few revelations.

The report on Russian hacking - like the recent one on counterterrorism - is likely to act more as a way to showcase the Obama administration's efforts, sending a message to the incoming administration about what they believe is important, rather than as a way to provide new information to the public. Democrats were enraged when hackers breached email accounts of the Democratic National Committee and Mrs Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta. State voter registration databases in Illinois and Arizona were also breached. The Podesta emails were revealed by Wikileaks and posted online.

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[resister]

ad homs will not win you any points.... Trump voters deserve the $#@! they will be forced to eat. I will be better off financially under Trump than I would have been under Hillary..... I will RELISH the schadenfreude. Every bite.

$#@! Samich?

[maineman]

$#@! Samich?

Watching you chow down on one will be pleasant, for sure.

[Peter1469]

The US has affected countless elections in other nations. I don't have any reason to believe the Russians actually affected the outcome in this election, but can we complain about the very thing we do?

Granny thinks the Russkies threw the `lection...

CIA says Russia intervened to help Trump win White House: Washington Post
December 9, 2016 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The CIA has concluded that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help President-elect Donald Trump win the White House, and not just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system, the Washington Post reported on Friday.


See also:

Obama orders review into 'Russian hacking' before US election
Sat, 10 Dec 2016 - President Barack Obama orders a review of cyber-attacks, blamed on Russia, that shook the US election.

[Bo-4]

All citizens should be taxpayers. If you don't pay federal income tax you should not be allowed to vote.

Hmmm, so if you're one of the working poor .. say a single Mom raising 3 kids because hubby scooted on out and is not paying child support ---

And you didn't make enough to have to pay federal income tax, then you don't get to vote?

Seems harsh Pete.

[Bo-4]

We won , you lost, tissue? cream?

No, Hillary won by 2.75 million votes and counting.

But we'll pry the vestige of slavery from your cold dead hands.

[Common]

It will be unsigned in a few weeks

[Beevee]

And the premise of the thread is goofy. Trump's corporations got a long period of no taxes because of capital losses. He would have paid something on his personal taxes. Even if it was at the reduced long-term capital gains tax rate.

Silly liberals need to take a break and focus on reality. Not their silly SJW universe.

He would have paid...?
Do you have access to the tax returns that have been denied to the other 299,999,999 Americans?

[Tahuyaman]

What a plebian semi upper class elitist response.HEY HEY Caligula

It's kind of funny when you consider that the man he calls his personal hero went public with his proclamation that he couldn't vote for Mrs.Clinton and was supporting Trump.