The Plot to Hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election


The Plot to Hack America: How Putins Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election
The Plot to Hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election

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ISBN: 978-1-510-72332-0
Год публикации: 2016
Ключевые слова: 21st Century Americas ARC Campaigns Elections Espionage Europe Executive Branch Federal Government Former Soviet Republics History Intelligence International and World Politics Politics Russia Social Sciences United States
Автор:
Malcolm W Nance

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Политика и дипломатия, Публицистика



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Malcolm Nance
THE PLOT TO HACK AMERICA
How Putin’s Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election Dedicated to Captain Humayun Khan, US Army FOREWORD The 2016 presidential election was already surreal—a former reality TV host fueled by white backlash had completed a hostile takeover of the Republican Party—before the bears emerged.
By the summer, as the campaign intensified, a WordPress page operated by someone claiming the mantle Guccifer2.0 was dumping embarrassing emails and memoranda stolen from the Democratic National Committee. When the anti-secrecy organization Wikileaks did the same thing, Guccifer2.0 claimed credit as the source; Wikileaks has kept its sourcing obscure. But the leaks showed the Democrats’ political apparatus to be petty, vindictive and determined to anoint Hillary Clinton as the Democratic nominee despite grassroots enthusiasm for challenger Bernie Sanders. Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned.
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