A “new” exclusive report from NBC admits no voters were changed during the 2016 election.
The U.S. intelligence community developed substantial evidence that state websites or voter registration systems in seven states were compromised by Russian-backed covert operatives prior to the 2016 election — but never told the states involved, according to multiple U.S. officials.
Top-secret intelligence requested by President Barack Obama in his last weeks in office identified seven states where analysts — synthesizing months of work — had reason to believe Russian operatives had compromised state websites or databases.
Three senior intelligence officials told NBC News that the intelligence community believed the states as of January 2017 were Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Texas and Wisconsin.
The officials say systems in the seven states were compromised in a variety of ways, with some breaches more serious than others, from entry into state websites to penetration of actual voter registration databases.
While officials in Washington informed several of those states in the run-up to the election that foreign entities were probing their systems, none were told the Russian government was behind it, state officials told NBC News.
Here comes the big admission
All state and federal officials who spoke to NBC News agree that no votes were changed and no voters were taken off the rolls.
This isn’t the first time that NBC has broke a story like this. As we have previously reported they helped push the false 21 States were hacked story months ago.
Here are our articles surrounding this:
SHOCKER: DHS says Russia didn’t hack Wisconsin voting system, experts were wrong
Top Election Official Found ‘No Credible Evidence of Election Tampering’
WATCH:
NBC continues to push misleading story about Russia hacking election https://t.co/eaVN8dlvSX
— Jacob Palmieri (@jakepalmieri) February 28, 2018
