Taking a good guess on this - Russia's hack (confirmed?) will cast a really dark shadow on Trump's first 4 years, meaning Russia (Puttin effectively) will do no wrong no matter what. I think it's a shame really. Worse still It gotten to the extent that Trump is even undermining US intelligence agency in this matter. Unprecedented for a president-elect

Gen Clapper told a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered the hack, and said the motive would be revealed next week.

And how does a briefing to the President-elect from an Intelligence-agency he doesn't trust, on a news-intelligence he doesn't agree with, work?

Well,from what I heard, others already had access and the password on the email account was "password".

If this is also true, it's not like it even needs a foreign power to hack into it and someone needs lessons in IT security...

Taking a good guess on this - Russia's hack (confirmed?) will cast a really dark shadow on Trump's first 4 years, meaning Russia (Puttin effectively) will do no wrong no matter what. I think it's a shame really. Worse still It gotten to the extent that Trump is even undermining US intelligence agency in this matter. Unprecedented for a president-elect

Gen Clapper told a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered the hack, and said the motive would be revealed next week.

And how does a briefing to the President-elect from an Intelligence-agency he doesn't trust, on a news-intelligence he doesn't agree with, work?

Well, the people who already hated him will hate him even more, while the people who love him will continue to believe he can do no wrong, cause the media's rigged, the system's rigged, and only Trump and his lunatics are right anyways. Its a dark period in American history right now. There's nut jobs on both sides doing dumb shit, so the situation is becoming tougher to resolve as it is.

So in short, it's only going to make a difference for people who never bought Trump's bullshit to begin with. What I wonder now is how long will it be before the bubble of Trump support will burst.

I didn't vote, as I couldn't cast a vote for any of the three clowns running. That being said, I find this whole "Russia hacked the election..." nonsense a bit irritating. Even if they did hack the DNC's servers, all they did was to release emails showing unethical and potentially illegal behavior on the part of key members of the Democratic party. What happened was wrong, but it is a lie to say that Russia hacked the election. The democrat's dirty laundry was aired and they're mad. Understandable, but let's at least talk about what happened without all of the rhetoric. The DNC was hacked, not the election, and if anyone changed their vote based on the released details, it should be a wake up call for the democrats. When you cover up wrongdoing, you will eventually be exposed. Don't blame someone else for your failing when that happens.

I disagree with this logic. Yes what the DNC did was wrong. No question. But that does not change the fact that a foreign power did try to influence the election to get a guy who they like more, who is a lunatic. This is a foreign power that does not hold the American people's interests at the highest priority. This was not some charity hack so that Americans could choose the right guy. This was a deliberate attempt to harm America, or to make America a vassal state.

What about all the wrongdoing of Trump? Plenty there. And let's assume for a moment the DNC had done nothing (just imagine for a minute). Do you really think Russians would've been like "oh well, nothing here, let's move on. They'd keep digging. They'd make shit up and make it look real. They'd plant shit there then release it. There's still a lot of shit that they can almost certainly do, but it just so happens they found compromising stuff on the DNC. I personally hope this is the last we ever see of the Clintons and that the democrats get their shit together during the midterm elections so that this lunatic and his cronies don't damage the US further.


You're also talking about Vladimir Putin, who is not a shining example of democratic values, etc and whose aims have been very much to undermine the West for a long time.

That should be concerning.

Russia's hack (confirmed?)

The idea that Russia is hacked the DNC / the Hillary campaign in order to expose their corruption in order to sway the election towards Trump is a completely laughable insane conspiracy theory / propaganda campaign.
What on earth makes you take it seriously?

The fact that so many people are taking such obvious propaganda as fact, without any evidence whatsoever, is itself extremely troubling. Just as troubling as the fact that Trump is now president :P