U.S. intelligence officials say they're confident that Iran was responsible for the hack of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, casting the cyber intrusion as part of a brazen and broader effort by Tehran to interfere in American politics and to undermine faith in democratic institutions.
Iran, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the dozens of classified documents that are missing that Trump took. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. Let’s see if that happens.
Do we think they're just remotely watching the hackers' screens as they send phishing emails, shouting at the void 'don't click that' and trying to find a phone number for whoever is in the middle of clicking on it?
I do find it interesting how much press it gets. Especially since Iran is quite capable of hiding their tracks better.
I think the goal of Iran was to get caught, so that if the election is close, one side will accuse the other of the election being stolen through help of Iran.
It might even be Russia or China framing Iran to be honest.
And I think the US is widely sharing this information to beat the war drums and have cause to attack Iran for election interference.
Maybe Iran was using this as a way to blackmail whatever candidate gets elected, and the reason there's so much press is to get ahead of that so their blackmail is useless