Report: Russian hackers said to be accessing email of liberal groups & demanding blackmail; Podesta-linked Center for American Progress said to be one ( pizzagate )

submitted by Psalm100

From Bloomberg: "Russian Hackers Said to Seek Hush Money From Liberal Groups"

In one case, a non-profit group and a prominent liberal donor discussed how to use grant money to cover some costs for anti-Trump protesters. The identities were not disclosed, and it’s unclear if the protesters were paid.

At least some groups have paid the ransoms even though there is little guarantee the documents won’t be made public anyway. Demands have ranged from about $30,000 to $150,000, payable in untraceable bitcoins, according to one of the people familiar with the probe.

And:

The Center for American Progress, a Washington think tank with strong links to both the Clinton and Obama administrations, and Arabella Advisors, which guides liberal donors who want to invest in progressive causes, have been asked to pay ransoms, according to people familiar with the probes.

The Center for American Progress declined a pre-publication request for comment. "CAP has no evidence we have been hacked, no knowledge of it and no reason to believe it to be true. CAP has never been subject to ransom,” Allison Preiss, a spokeswoman for the center, said in a statement Monday morning.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-06/russian-hackers-said-to-seek-hush-money-from-liberal-u-s-groups

The direct link to pizzagate here is through the claims that Russian hackers are doing this, and that one liberal group which was reportedly subject to a blackmail attempt is The Center for American Progress, which was founded by John Podesta, and still has very close ties to him.

This story seems to raise all sort of possible implications for the pizzagate scandal - like could there be blackmail over child sex abuse going on - and strangely the mainstream media is hardly covering it.

bucketoftea

LOL. I am suspicious of claim that CIA "lost control" of their tech, too. That will be all the blatantly criminal stuff?

madhatter67

If they have got nothing to hide there is nothing to blackmail

Don-Keyhote

Post Soviet disastrous redistribution of economy was a u.s. endeavor and they rightfully hate us for it. Needs PG connection methinks

Don-Keyhote

You probAbly tAke issue with liberal orgs being targeted and think this is 5050 right left, so your understanding of the world does far greater damage

Rangers_justice

Now that portions of Vault7 are out we know the CIA has capability to do this. We know Podesta is involved with the CIA. This smells of stinky psyop directly from the Agency to push their narrative.

chordwonder

OR.....the CIA hacked them & made it appear like it was Russian hackers. We'd never know the difference if not for vault 7. And they could use it against Trump. Now that we know, they're not going to admit being hacked.

zzvoat

From the wikileaks Vault 7 release yesterday, we now have confirmation that it's an easy and frequently employed technique to create email that traces back to any country or person the sender want to use.

To me, the days of saying, assuming, or even trying to prove that any email came from this or that country, this or that business, this or that government, etc. is at all relevant.

In many ways still unfolding, parts of our world changed overnight.

Psalm100

The Russian hacking story has always seemed so contrived, and this Wikileaks vault 7 release just confirmed that.

SuperJohnWayne

More "supporting" stories for the Russia fake narrative promulgated by the Jewstream media.

The_Kuru

This is a very strange report and I think it's bs and they are trying to set up a desperate defense if anything comes out against them. If you pay ransom and then admit you paid some ransom for some unknown thing, then do you expect that to help your case if some news comes out about your misdeeds? The only point I can see in the report is that they fear their skeletons will come falling out of the closet and all they can think of is a fake "I already paid a ransom to those dastardly Russians for this, so don't be harsh in your punishment because I've already been punished!" defense. Something similar to that. Because there will be a juror who needs that excuse to clear you.

GeorgeHodelDidit

If they didnt want to be blackmailed they shouldnt eat kids....

pizzaequalspedo

Very likely fake news, setting the stage for their coverup.

SIMONBARROW

Why would it be 'Russian' hackers? Why not Albanian or Sengalese?

pizzaequalspedo

Obviously you know this but it's because Russia is currently the CIA/Dem/Globalist boogeyman used as propaganda.

SayWhatNOWAY

I am calling BS on this! Elites trying to validate the fake Russian ploy! Nice try Podesta freak!

reasonedandinformed

BTW, the DNC actually refused to allow the FBI to look at their server which was "hacked." it would've been much harder to manufacture the fake story about Russian hacking if they allowed them to look at the computer forensics. The fact is that a hack never occurred and that the data got to wikileaks through a leak by Seth Rich, who paid with his life.

Psalm100

Something else interesting is that only these two liberal organizations are named, and Arabella Advisors says there was an attempted blackmail attempt while the Center for American Progress says the report is wrong. And the report is said to be based on statements from unnamed FBI sources.

Psalm100

The reports say that up to a dozen liberal groups have been targeted, and at least two paid the ransom. And only two groups have actually been named as targets, the Center for American Progress and Arabella Advisors, which is a company that apparently brings together wealthy liberal donors and foundations.

carmencita

Hooray for You! I agree. They are on the Russian Bandwagon again. I am so sick of it.

reasonedandinformed

Agreed.