Russian hacking

Late 19th century British prime minister Lord Salisbury reportedly said, “The commonest error in politics is sticking to the carcass of dead policies.”
What he said about politics then, is not only very true today, but can be extended to the media: their commonest error (or at least worst) is sticking to the carcass of dead stories.
One would think the rotten, putrid, disintegrating corpse of the “Trump is a Russian agent” story (similar to the “Russia hacked the election” story) would be ready for the garbage heap by now.

While there is still no shortage of stories in the media attacking President Donald Trump (one might say, it has become their raison d’etre), the narrative to do with Russia has begun to drop from front pages.
If there were any concrete evidence revealing Donald Trump or members of his administration to be agents of Russian influence, we would have seen it long ago.
When MSNBC host Rachel Maddow tried to hawk the Russian conspiracy story recently, she took a huge hit in ratings.

Holland was smart. They chucked their electronic voting system this week and everyone voted using paper ballots after Fancy Bear and Cozy Bear were caught trying to hack into electronic voting equipment the way they did in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Florida and Ohio, putting Trump over the top.

By Richard Falk
When the Clinton campaign started bitching about Russia interfering in US elections by hacking into the DNC I was struck by their excesses of outrage and the virtual absence of any acknowledgement that the United States has been interfering in dozens of foreign elections for decades with no apparent second thoughts.

One of the most refreshing things about Wikileaks is that they offer concrete information to back up what most clear thinking individuals believe to be true from the start.
Many believed that the US coalition had committed war crimes in Iraq and Wikileaks provided the evidence.
Many also felt that the DNC was a corrupt organisation, Hillary Clinton was a megalomaniac and that Bernie Sanders was going to be cheated one way or another, irrespective of the votes. Wikileaks proved this to be the case.

CIA org chart from the WikiLeaks cache (click to enlarge). "The organizational chart corresponds to the material published by WikiLeaks so far. Since the organizational structure of the CIA below the level of Directorates is not public, the placement of the EDG [Engineering Development Group]and its branches ... is reconstructed from information contained in the documents released so far.

Now that the election in the USA is over, it's worth looking back on that hacking meme. And it is "safe" to do so…
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Why isn't anybody talking about this?

Like I've been saying for months, we'll never really know-- not definitively-- the extent of Russia's interference in the 2016 election.

The same group questioned the US' intel prior to the Iraq War.