Russia accused of trying to help Trump win the presidential election !!

Russia accused of trying to help Trump win the presidential election !!

Russia has interfered in the US presidential election, the CIA said in a secret evaluation that the Washington Post echoed after Barack Obama ordered a report on computer hacking conducted during the campaign.

For the US authorities, the question is no longer whether Russia interfered in the presidential campaign, but to what extent. In a secret evaluation obtained by the Washington Post, the CIA estimates that people linked to Moscow have provided pirated emails to the WikiLeaks site from the accounts of former Democrat Hillary Clinton campaign director John Podesta, And the Democratic Party, among others. On Friday, US President Barack Obama ordered "a comprehensive review of what happened during the 2016 electoral process," according to his homeland security adviser Lisa Monaco.

"The intelligence community believes that Russia's goal was to favor one candidate over another, to help Trump to be elected," a senior official told the Washington Post. The daily notes, however, that the CIA's assessment is far from being a formal report and another official cited by the Post note that US intelligence has no evidence that Kremlin officials have "ordered "To intermediaries to transmit pirated emails to WikiLeaks.

According to the New York Times, Russian pirates also attacked the Republican party's computer system, but did not disseminate their findings on this target. For the newspaper, "it is not certain (...) that Russia's primary intention was to support Trump, and many intelligence officials - and former officials of Ms campaign team Clinton - believe that the primary objective of the Russians was simply to disrupt the campaign and undermine confidence in the legitimacy of the ballot''.

More than 20,000 published e-mails

The White House promised to share the findings of Obama's report with Congress officials, but said it was not "challenging the outcome of the election." The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Intelligence Directorate (DNI) had previously investigated and concluded that Russia had pirated the accounts of personalities and political organizations in order to "interfere in the US electoral process." Various Russian organizations, including Cozy Bear, the armed cyber-arm of the FSB, the successor to the KGB, and Fancy Bear, a relative of the Russian military intelligence services, were involved. Their raids resulted in the publication of 20,000 e-mails from the Democratic Party, and Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, then revealed more information about Hillary Clinton, including details about his paid speeches before Wall Bankers Street.

The hackers had also taken to the electoral registers of the States, but apparently with little result. According to the Time, they had managed to copy the coordinates of 85,000 voters in Illinois, but had failed when they attacked the servers of Arizona. Since the US system is a decentralized system, piracy requires attacks at the state level.

"Risible", according to Trump

The Trump team immediately rejected the CIA's findings, saying that the analysts who succeeded "are the same as those who said that [former Iraqi President] Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction." Donald Trump, who multiplied during the campaign flattering remarks to Russian President Vladimir Putin, has always claimed that he did not believe in a Moscow intervention to weaken his rival Democrat Hillary Clinton.

"I do not think they interfered," he said this week in an interview with Time magazine who named him "Personality of the Year" on Wednesday. And to the question of whether the conclusions of the intelligence agencies were politically motivated, the president-elect replied: "I believe so. It has become laughable (...) It could be Russia, China, or any type at home in New Jersey. "