The Plot to Hack America: How Putins Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election
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“Nance states that, by their choices, actions, and statements, ‘Trump and Pence chose Russia’s values over America’s.’” –Michael Lipkin, New York Journal of Books
Published a full month prior to the divisive Trump vs. Clinton 2016 presidential election, this book exposed the Russian hacking while the CIA was drafting their own report. In April 2016, computer technicians at the Democratic National Committee discovered that someone had accessed the organization’s computer servers and conducted a theft that is best described as Watergate 2.0. In the weeks that followed, the nation’s top computer security experts discovered that the cyber thieves had helped themselves to everything: sensitive documents, emails, donor information, even voice mails.
Soon after, the remainder of the Democratic Party machine, the congressional campaign, the Clinton campaign, and their friends and allies in the media were also hacked. Credit cards numbers, phone numbers, and contacts were stolen. In short order, the FBI found that more than twenty-five state election offices had their voter registration systems probed or attacked by the same hackers.
Western intelligence agencies tracked the hack to Russian spy agencies and dubbed them the “Cyber Bears.” The media was soon flooded with the stolen information channeled through Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. It was a massive attack on America but the Russian hacks appeared to have a singular goal—elect Donald J. Trump as president of the United States.
New York Times bestselling author of Defeating ISIS, Airey Neave Memorial Book Prize finalist for Hacking ISIS, career intelligence officer, and MSNBC terrorism expert correspondent Malcolm Nance’s fast paced real-life spy thriller takes you from Vladimir Putin’s rise through the KGB from junior officer to spymaster-in-chief and spells out the story of how he performed the ultimate political manipulation—convincing Donald Trump to abandon seventy years of American foreign policy including the destruction of NATO, cheering the end of the European Union, allowing Russian domination of Eastern Europe, and destroying the existing global order with America at its lead.
The Plot to Hack America is the thrilling true story of how Putin’s spy agency, run by the Russian billionaire class, used the promise of power and influence to cultivate Trump as well as his closest aides, the Kremlin Crew, to become unwitting assets of the Russian government. The goal? To put an end to 240 years of free and fair American democratic elections.
Malcolm Nance
Malcolm Nance is a globally recognized counterterrorism expert and intelligence community member who has been deployed to intelligence operations in the Balkans, the Middle East, and sub-Saharan Africa. He is the author of The Plot to Hack America and Defeating ISIS and he appears regularly on MSNBC. Nance lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Nance was named a Genius for the Third Annual MSNBC and 92Y “7 Days of Genius” Festival in March 2016.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I borrowed this book from the county library. The author, Malcolm Nance, often appears on MSNBC. I read some of the positive reviews on Amazon before writing this short comment. I thought the book was difficult to read, rather disjointed. It seemed poorly organized. There were numerous typos indicating a possible lack of professional editing. I think the letters "DNC" were used for both: The Democratic National Convention and the Democratic National Committee. The author used extensive footnotes throughout the book which would allow the reader to read more about the quotes in the book. The book is clearly a wakeup call to the dangers of the Internet and cyber warfare to our national security.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Essentially a detailed look the 2016 election, Russia's cyber attacks on countries, and Donald Trump. If someone paid very close attention to the news, there is little that is new. It is a very good and detailed summary of the events though. It also goes through the history of American politics, Russian politics, and key figures. Malcolm paints a pretty damning picture on how Russia sabotaged the election and essentially made Trump an unknowingly sock puppet. Whether it is all true or his interpretations are accurate is unclear, but overall it was good to get the information and even though the election is over it may be important to know for near future events.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I can't say I liked it, but the message should be heard by all U.S. Citizens who can then decide what they think and how they will react. As a citizen each of us has an obligation to consider all evidence and make and act on that evidence as we believe is appropriate.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is the ultimate spy drama in real life. The author makes an excellent case as to why the Russians would target a man like Donald Trump – he is susceptible to being manipulated by flattery, women and money – all of the favored methods of the KGB. The author also provides an excellent discussion on the specifics as to how the DNC and specific people were hacked and why – Putin’s historical hatred for Clinton provided the motivation. How and why Trump keeps claiming that Russia was not part of the 2016 election as well as its results is troubling, especially after reading this book.