Quote Originally Posted by Fisherking View Post
You think that unlikely do you. The CIA consists of one part that gathers and annualises data but never reveals what it knows or how it knows it. Other parts are dedicated to misinformation, propaganda, and swaying public opinion. They are always ready to interject into politics, foreign or domestic.
to paraphrase a past director; When everything people believe is a lie, we will have done our job.
And you think it is unlikely that a nation that fakes its own elections, has ground down all political opposition, silenced all opposing media and is known to have heavily invested in IT education and knowledge would try to influence the elections of a rivalling, stronger nation in favor of a candidate who wants to abandon a lot of allies of the stronger nation which the first nation may want as convenient satellites or new territories?

I really can't see the motive either.
As for misinformation, propaganda and swaying public opinion, ever watched Russia Today?
To be clear, I don't doubt that the USA are an evil empire, that just doesn't make Russia's vest any whiter.