Abe calls for postwar peace treaty with Russia

The scariest thing about the alleged Russian hacking attacks against the Democratic National Committee is not the apparent partisan nature of the attacks but that the data USA government agencies and private analysts say was taken by Russian intelligence services belonged to one of the two major US political parties and that the data were then publicly released through WikiLeaks.

“(D) oes it even matter who hacked this data”, he asked?

In an interview with Bloomberg news agency before he met Abe, Putin indicated he would not contemplate giving up territory. “The important thing is the content that was given to the public”, he said. A hacker who goes by the moniker Phineas Fisher claims he conducted the Turkish hack. The release led to the resignation of top DNC officials and became a distraction for Clinton just before the Democratic convention in July.

Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned as the DNC chair after the hacks revelations. “I will reformulate it again in different words”.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton pins blame for the DNC Hacks squarely on Russian Federation. “But. they’ve gazed into the magic crystal of national interests and understood it their way – now that the Soviet Union has fallen apart, we need to finish Russian Federation off”, Putin said.

Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who exposed USA surveillance secrets, said on Twitter last month that Russian Federation, where he lives in exile, may have been behind the hack of NSA-linked malware that was made public. Other nations like America, France, Germany and the United Kingdom may think otherwise.

The prolonged slump in crude prices has been battering the economies of Russian Federation and other producers, giving the oil-market rivals reason to cooperate.

With world leaders en route to China’s Hangzhou city for Sunday’s opening of the G20 summit, a senior Chinese diplomat announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin would be the number one guest. Putin clearly doesn’t believe campaign rhetoric is worth much – to him, these are just unseemly mutual attacks rather than policy statements.

In its warning, the Federal Bureau of Investigation did not name the states where it had detected cyber intrusions, but election officials in IL and Arizona acknowledged that their systems had been hacked. So we have got to step up our game. The most recent attempt occurred in 2014, but that was derailed as well because Japan had to withdraw because of global sanctions imposed on Russian Federation, after Russia invaded and annexed Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula.

The question of how to best respond to cyberattacks on important institutions and critical infrastructure is a thorny one.

“He views everything through the prism of how he’s treated”, an anonymous source close to Assange told The New York Times.

Investors were looking to non-farm payroll data later in the day for a further steer on the US economy, with a strong reading seen as boosting the chance of a Federal Reserve rate rise soon.

Regardless of party affiliation, American voters should be concerned when we have a foreign government trying to affect the democratic process.