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FBI Initiated 3 Probes seeking into Russian Hacking in the U.S Election
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FBI Initiated 3 Probes seeking into Russian Hacking in the U.S Election

Feb 20, 2017
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There is not any secret that the U.S federal agency FBI has been investigating the alleged Russian bid to effect the U.S Presidential Election 2016 through hacking. Now we can consider in making it clear that how deep this investigation would be. Reuters indicated that there are more than 3 FBI probes into the hacking and each of them is being focused on a separate aspect for breaching and targeting the officials of Democratic Party. The field office of the Pittsburgh needs to mention the original person or persons behind those influences. The office of the San Francisco also needs to mention the people behind alleged “Guccifer 2.0”, it was specifically credited with major leaks and linked many times to the government of Russia. The 3rd investigation in the Washington, DC is taking place with a counterintelligence campaign. It is based on interrupted foreign communications and tips from informants.

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The Washington team is focusing on various financial deals between Russia and companies having links to Trump’s associates. The team is also seeking into time to time contact between these Trump associates including members of his presidential campaign and their links before the months of the U.S presidential election with the senior intelligence officials of Russia. The New York Times also reported that the initial details regarding the contact on 14th February 2016. The spokesperson of the White House didn’t make any kind of direct comment regarding the investigation, but it is important that Trump made comment during election campaign and said “it was Russia” behind the hacking. He also suggested that there might be other countries and people involved in the hacks.