NEW YORK (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin personally took part in the use of sensitive Democratic Party e-mails obtained by hackers to undermine Hillary Clinton's campaign, according to a new report from NBC News.
The report quoted unnamed US intelligence officials as saying that diplomatic sources and spies working with US allies were able to "confidently" determine that Putin personally supervised the leaking of e-mails seized and used in other jobs to undermine Clinton and disrupt the presidential election. United State.
Putin's involvement is believed to have been an attempt to avenge Clinton's role in condemning Russia's parliamentary elections in 2011. Western critics of Russia accused Putin at the time of rigging elections by participating in a large-scale fraud campaign. Clinton, as secretary of state Then one of the active members of that group.
Since then, Putin's vengeance has evolved into what NBC News sources say his mission has become "a schism between US allies by creating the image that makes other nations not dependent on the United States as a reliable global leader anymore."
This information sheds new light on the extent of the ability of the Russian spy tactics of the last unprecedented, as well as how Putin was deeply involved in determining how to use stolen data to harm the enemies of his country.
It is widely believed that pirates linked to the Russian government were responsible for the infiltration of both the National Democratic Committee and the e-mail account of the president of the Clinton campaign, John Podsta, in an attempt to undermine Clinton's chances of winning. However, the question remains that Russia has done so deliberately to promote the chances of President-elect Donald Trump disputed in the US intelligence community.
A report by The Washington Post last Friday, quoting unidentified CIA sources, was the first to report on intelligence officials that Russia's activities were designed to harm Clinton and help Trump win the election.
The New York Times reported on Friday evening that intelligence officials had found evidence that both the National Democratic Committee and the Republican National Committee had been infiltrated by Russian pirates.
However, those officials said that Russia had decided not to hand over the Republican National Committee's data to the famous leaks website, Wikileaks, as it did with the Democratic National Committee and Podesta's e-mails.
For its part, the FBI questioned the interpretation of Russian activities, but did not deny that Russia was involved in the intrusions. Instead, the FBI believes that the overall goal of the operation is to undermine the entire American political system.
Regardless of Russia's ultimate goal, it is believed that the new disclosure of Putin's personal involvement in the e-espionage process will inevitably increase tensions between the United States and Russia.
At the same time, President-elect Trump and his transition team strongly attacked the findings of the intelligence services, claiming in interviews that CIA reports were to some extent a product of the Democrats' shame over their loss of election.
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