普丁果真是川普的超级助选员？

公孙明 12.11.2016

美国国务卿是落实美国外交决策的执行者，在美国行政系统中是“天下第一部”。国务卿也是美国权力的第四顺位，次于总统，副总统，众议院议长，其重要性可想而知，而前三者均属民选，独国务卿不然。

川普政的内阁人选大致定夺，惟有国务卿一位难产。前此，川普一直在六人身上打转，他们是前美国驻联合国大使波顿（John Bolton）、现任参议员库克（Bob Corker），前纽约市长朱利安尼（Rudy Giuliani，已退出），前驻北京大使洪博培（Jon Huntsman Jr.）、和前中情局局长裴卓斯（David Petraeus），前麻州州长罗姆尼（Mitt Romney）等。但近日突然又新加两员，一是福特汽车公司（Ford Moto）的前执行长莫拉利（Alan Mulally），另一则是艾克生-美孚石油公司（Exxon Mobil Corp）的现任执行长提尔森（Rex Tillerson）。

其中最引人注目的是这个艾克生-美孚石油公司（Exxon Mobil Corp）的现任执行长提尔森（Rex Tillerson），因为这个人不但操控全世界最大的石油开发与买卖的头头，也是俄国总统普丁的老友记，两人一向过从甚密；而普丁；正也是掌握俄国庞大石油业的厉害人物。这两个人的兴趣和利益是一致的。

川普舍前六人不顾（或被动地）而再考慮提尔森，如果孤立地来看，或许是个用人的技术问题，但我们如果把它跟昨天的一则新闻（见下附文）连结起来，结论将是很可观的了。

为此，美国中央情报局已公开扬言要调查此事，未来发展，仍待观察。

问题是如果川普真的采取联俄以制中的伎俩，中国军民两方面都要依靠的能源就有大问题，如果普丁改变原来石油和天然气输入中国的立场，而代表西方原油市场的财团也跟进，於中国的未来是大大的不利的，即使借此勒索中国，提高油价，中国也是吃不消。

西方财团投资中国发展世界工厂数十年，将中国的经济命脉放在输入能源的节骨眼上，而时移世转，在尽情剥削中国劳工和资源把中国搞得疲惫不堪之后，再来一个过河拆桥，让中国进退两难，的确是个狠毒的招数。

Russia intervened to help Trump win election: intelligence officials

By John Walcott

ReutersDecember 10, 2016

By John Walcott

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence analysts have concluded that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help President-elect Donald Trump win the White House, and not just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system, a senior U.S. official said on Friday.

U.S. intelligence agencies have assessed that as the 2016 presidential campaign progressed, Russian government officials devoted increasing attention to assisting Trump's effort to win the election, the U.S. official familiar with the finding told Reuters on Friday night, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The president-elect's transition office released a statement that exaggerated his margin of victory and attacked the U.S. intelligence community that Trump will soon command, but did not address the analysts' conclusion.

"These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction," the statement said. "The election ended a long time ago in one of the biggest Electoral College victories in history. It's now time to move on and 'Make America Great Again.'"

Democrats and some Republicans in Congress are calling for a full investigation into Russia's election year activities.

"Protecting the integrity of our elections is hindered when President-elect Trump and his transition team minimize or dismiss the intelligence assessments themselves," Representative Adam Schiff of California, the ranking Democrat on the House intelligence committee, said in a statement issued on Saturday.

Citing U.S. officials briefed on the matter, the Washington Post reported on Friday that intelligence agencies had identified individuals with connections to the Russian government who provided thousands of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and others, including the chairman of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, to WikiLeaks.

U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered intelligence agencies to review cyber attacks and foreign intervention into the 2016 election and deliver a report before he leaves office on Jan. 20, the White House said on Friday.

Obama's homeland security adviser, Lisa Monaco, told reporters the report's results would be shared with lawmakers and others.

"The president has directed the intelligence community to conduct a full review of what happened during the 2016 election process ... and to capture lessons learned from that and to report to a range of stakeholders, to include the Congress," she said during an event hosted by the Christian Science Monitor.

As summer turned to fall, Russian hackers turned almost all their attention to the Democrats. Virtually all the emails they released publicly were potentially damaging to Clinton and the Democrats, not Republicans, the official told Reuters.

"That was a major clue to their intent," the official said. "If all they wanted to do was discredit our political system, why publicize the failings of just one party, especially when you have a target like Trump?"

A second official familiar with the report said the intelligence analysts' conclusion about Russia's motives does not mean the intelligence community believes that Moscow's efforts altered or significantly affected the outcome of the election.

Russian officials have denied all accusations of interference in the U.S. election.

A Central Intelligence Agency spokeswoman said the agency had no comment on the matter.

The hacked emails passed to WikiLeaks were a regular source of embarrassment to the Clinton campaign during the race for the presidency.

U.S. intelligence analysts have assessed "with high confidence" that at some point in the extended presidential campaign Russian President Vladimir Putin's government had decided to try to bolster Trump's chances of winning.

The Russians appear to have concluded that Trump had a shot at winning and that he would be much friendlier to Russia than Clinton would be, especially on issues such as maintaining economic sanctions and imposing additional ones, the official said.

Moscow is launching a similar effort to influence the next German election, following an escalating campaign to promote far-right and nationalist political parties and individuals in Europe that began more than a decade ago, the official said.