Thursday, October 04, 2018

Russians are now finding it easier to hack computers and lie about doping than actually competing to win.

The greatest communist leader of all times anywhere on Earth, Vladimir Putin, is a CHEATER! Russia needs to be permanently suspended from international competition.


October 4, 2018
By Bart Jensen

Washington - Seven Russian GRU intelligence officers (click here) were charged with hacking computers associated with 250 athletes and anti-doping sports organizations in the USA and around the world, Justice Department officials announced Thursday.

According to the 41-page indictment, the criminal activity was retaliation against people and organizations who revealed Russia’s doping program for its athletes – revelations that led to the stripping of dozens of Olympic medals from Russian athletes and a ban on that country's athletes from the 2016 Summer Olympics.

The hacking that began in December 2014 and continued until at least May 2018 intruded into computers and networks of U.S. citizens and corporations and international corporations and their workers, the officials said.

“In other words, Russia cheated,” said Scott Brady, U.S. attorney for western Pennsylvania. “They cheated, they got caught, they were banned from the Olympics, they were mad and they retaliated. In retaliating, they broke the law, so they are criminals.”...