«The Russian attacked Clinton's campaign headquarters and The New York Times», — why FBI credits «Putin's hackers» with fantastic achievements (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
31.08.2016 - 20:11
In the recent days hundreds FBI officers have been trying to find evidences of Russian cyber attack on The New York Times reporter’s private mail but in vain.
Despite the facts that even NYT staff members are not certain about who suffered from cyber attack and what data was stolen Washington has already screamed loudly about Moscow’s attempt to affect running poitical processes in the USA. Though it is not the first time.
Clinton’s campaign headquarters «attack»
Efforts to find Russian trace in the attempt to «main values of the American democracy» are not original anymore. Some time before the US authorities blaimed “Russian hackers” for US DNC network penetration and stealing private data of its most affluent members.
It goes without saying that hoax about «Moscow’s attempt to destabilize US political system» and «its urge to affect poitical election process» stirred American society but there were no real evidences of Kremlin involvement shown to public.
However Clinton and Democratic party managed to draw some attention and boost ratings.
On the 22 of July this year Wikileaks published more than 19 thousand electronic mails of DNC. The documents witness that party’s management ignored any ethical issues and tried to discredit Bernie Sanders and promote Hillary Clinton by all possible means.
These newly discovered evidences agitated public opinion and made Clinton team members search for excuses though way out was found quite soon — all the responsibility was laid upon the omnipresent Russian special services.
Clinton’s team member Robby Mook blaimed «KGB agents» for trying to help another candidate for presidency — Republican Donald Trump.
In his interview to CNN Mook also told that Trump’s presidential campaign was becoming more and more “pro-Russian” having added that «this was a disturbing situation and the voters should think about that».
On 31 of July the same was told by Hillary Clinton herself. According to her «we (Democratic party election campaign team) know that the Russian intelligence services with president Vladimir Putin behind them penetrated DNC server and we know that they organized that e-mail leakage».
Despite the absurdity of the statements it must be admitted that the American voters were quite impressed becasue of heavy cold war style propaganda they have been showered with recently.
The «Russian government influence agent» a. k. a. Donald Trump derided the Democrats’ version in his Tweet:
«The new joke in town is that Russia leaked the disastrous DNC e-mails, which should never have been written (stupid!), because Putin likes me».
What about New York Times?
But let’s get back to recent story with cyber attack on The New York Times. On 24th of August this incident was reported by CNN, another influential American news agency.
According to news channel reporter Ivan Perez «those penetrations and cyber attacks let us know that Russian intelligence could try to get access to Washington’s organizations connected with US political system.
That is why the hackers don’t limit themselves with conditional attacks on American governmental agencies. Analytial centrse have become their target», — the reporter’s analytical skills are just striking.
From that point it becomes quite explainable why American propaganda appointed The New York Times staff as an object for «attack of the Russians».
The second-big newspaper in the country published since 1851 has become one of the most-read editions of the world. According to independent statistic data the newspaper’s web-site is rated as one of the most visted news portals with monthly numbers of 30 million.
No doubts that «The New York Times» is one of the key instruments of social conscience moulding in the US and their publications mean a lot for American political elite especialy on the verge of presidential elections.
It’s quite interesting that «Russian hackers» and «intelligence services» «launched attack» on The New York Times just after the edition published another material dedicated to necessity of abandoning doctrine of preventive nuclear strike on Russia and China.
Detailed study of reasons why FBI decided to «find» Russian hackers attack exactly on The New York Times — in the next part of «Russian Spring» investigation.
