According to the Associated Press, the FBI sat on information for over a year that the Russian hackers, Fancy Bear, were targeting senior US officials email accounts. Furthermore, many officials were notified by the AP, rather than the FBI, that their accounts had been compromised. Frankly, I can’t believe the FBI is that incompetent. I’m going to call them Federally Bungling Investigators from now on.



Three people familiar with the matter – including a current and a former government official – said the FBI has known for more than a year the details of Fancy Bear’s attempts to break into Gmail inboxes. A senior FBI official, who was not authorized to publicly discuss the hacking operation because of its sensitivity, declined to comment on when it received the target list, but said that the bureau was overwhelmed by the sheer number of attempted hacks.

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