Russian Officials Celebrate Trump Win

[finehoe]

U.S. intercepts capture senior Russian officials celebrating Trump win

Senior officials in the Russian government celebrated Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton as a geopolitical win for Moscow, according to U.S. officials who said that American intelligence agencies intercepted communications in the aftermath of the election in which Russian officials congratulated themselves on the outcome.

The ebullient reaction among high-ranking Russian officials — including some who U.S. officials believe had knowledge of the country's cyber campaign to interfere in the U.S. election — contributed to the U.S. intelligence community's assessment that Moscow's efforts were aimed at least in part at helping Trump win the White House.

Other key pieces of information gathered by U.S. spy agencies include the identification of "actors" involved in delivering stolen Democratic emails to the WikiLeaks website, and disparities in the levels of effort Russian intelligence entities devoted to penetrating and exploiting sensitive information stored on Democratic and Republican campaign networks.

Those and other data points are at the heart of an unprecedented intelligence report being circulated in Washington this week that details the evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign and catalogues other cyber operations by Moscow against U.S. election systems over the past nine years.

The classified document, which officials said is over 50 pages, was delivered to President Obama on Thursday, and it is expected to be presented to Trump in New York on Friday by the nation's top spy officials, including Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. and CIA Director John Brennan.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-intercepts-capture-senior-russian-officials-celebrating-trump-win/2017/01/05/d7099406-d355-11e6-9cb0-54ab630851e8_story.html

[KenFSU]

Honest question:

Do we really a dozen separate threads on Trump and Russia cluttering up the front page? Why is it that we can keep posts on things like the Shipyards, or Hemming, or the Jaguars to one or two clean, catch all posts for years at a time, but every minor Trump story needs a new post?

Not trying to be that guy, but I just got the "Latest from the Forum" newsletter in my inbox, and for a site who's bread and butter, and primary value prop, is awesome local coverage, it's legit half hacking/Russia/Trump topics.

No partisanship intended, I hate Trump as much as the next guy, but it's honestly getting excessive. 

[tobot241]

The whole world is celebrating...why leave the Russians out of the party?

[fsquid]

I do not think it is any surprise that Russia hates Clinton.