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I can imagine this going like this:

1. They extradite this guy to USA

2. Accuse him of hacking and offering him a plea and full protection if he says that Putin was the one who sponsored these attacks

3. Guy says whatever they want him to say

4. USA has now "solid" evidence that Putin hacked them

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People can imagine all sorts of things, but the US already has solid evidence that Russia is behind a number of US hacks. Not only that, but the US has already said Russia is behind those attacks; it would actually harm their argument if they built a giant PR campaign around this dude, because it would call into question the previous attribution.

I can imagine this going like this:

1. They extradite this guy to the USA.

2. They indict him for hacking, try him, and find him guilty.

3. He serves 4.3 years in federal prison.

4. He is released, returns to Russia, and we never hear about him again.

> "Not only that, but the US has already said Russia is behind those attacks; it would actually harm their argument if they built a giant PR campaign"

Did not US said that Iraq had a weapon of mass destruction and invaded them with a huge PR campaign?

It was not my claim that the US doesn't run PR campaigns, just that the one you propose doesn't make sense.

You whole argument is based on what US said and that they would not lie because it would ruin their PR campaign. US can say whatever they want so do Russia, but so far none of them showed any proof that hackers were sponsored by Russian gov.

That claim is also factually inaccurate.

And Iraq actually had weapons of mass desctruction.

well if you're going to go there... there's a great Bill Hicks sketch about how we knew the Iraqis had WMDs, we had the receipts!

Please share this solid evidence, we've all been looking for it but can't seem to find it anywhere.

I shared some of it on a previous thread, which you can find with the search thingy at the bottom of the page.

> People can imagine all sorts of things, but the US already has solid evidence that Russia is behind a number of US hacks.

And the proof is?

There's a bunch of information on the evidence that is out there, along with external citations in this article:

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/all-signs-point-to-russia-b...

That seems highly unlikely.

It doesn't even have to be malicious. The US could offer him a plea deal for information that they think that he has, and he just tells them what they want to hear. It's entirely possible that the US authorities are so convinced that it was Russian-sponsored that they will eat it up (because they don't want to consider the possibility that it wasn't Russian-sponsored).

It's not like such things haven't happened before.

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