Two years after the Department of Homeland of Security revealed that 21 states were cyber-targeted by Russia, the federal government has released its first account detailing what those hacking attempts looked like.
âThe account comes in the form of the Senate Intelligence Committeeâs report on election security, the first volume of the panelâs Russia report.â
And after the GOP Senate shot down election security legislation twice in 24 hours. I guess the report says all is well and donât you worry that you have no paper receipt because those voting machines werenât hacked or just plain rigged to give Trump your votes, we promise.
And the trump campaign actively engaged Russian efforts
Nothing impeachable here
Recommendations? Huh. If only there was a bill already passed by the House the Senate could vote on to address some of their concerns.
MSM: No optics? Losers! What a waste of time! We wonât report on this!
So this report uber-exonerates Dotard?
andâŚwhat will McConnell allow anyone to do about preventing future attacks on our democracy?
Not a fucking thing?
Which state is âState 6â and why the FUCK are they treating them anonymously? Was it OH or PA? I trust âstate officialsâ to react accordingly in a state with a GOP legislature about as far as I can piss up a wall with no hands.
So all 50 states were targeted, 21 successfully, but we have no right to know which onesâŚ
Clearly, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Florida are on that list.
The big folk know that weâve got an illegal president.
Well, theyâve looked into it, nothing more to worry about. I feel a lot better nowâŚ
If Vladimir Putin ordered GRU and SVR to infiltrate US elections systems, do we really think he wouldâve done so if he didnât feel like he had a reasonable chance to succeed at achieving the holy grail of altering vote totals? If he did succeed, how would we know? Do we even have the tools to make this assessment?
âWhile the Committee does not know with confidence what Moscowâs intentions
were,â
VERY FIRST THING THEY SAY IS A WHITEWASH.
Except we do know what Moscowâs intentions were. The intelligence community and Mueller have told us very very VERY clearly that the intention was to help Trump get elected. Itâs not fucking debatable.
Imagine that, a US Senate report on Russian active measures in the 2016 election that has zero references to âTrumpâ.
Remember when the Repubs used to paint the Dems as sympathetic to the Ruskies, wearers of pink underwear, in bed with the Communists, and unpatriotic?
âAging voting equipmentâŚâ
Yeah, so we better buck up and buy some new ones from the company that the Trumps are deeply invested in, right?
I am not a conspiracy type⌠but you would have to go a long way to tell me that experienced Russian hackers couldnât penetrate the election infrastructure of the states. How credible is that?
Interesting read on the Recommendations P54 onwardsâŚ
We need the federal AND state government to be very pro-active about cyber attacks/espionage/sabotage to keep the integrity of our election system, and for that we need more security funding and more security enforcement guidelines/transparency/accountability!
More important, we need to have PAPER BALLOTS!
McConnell who is NOT allowing a vote on election security funding is clearly DERELICT of DUTY and is violating his oath of office to support/defend the USC against all enemies, foreign and domesticand to faithfully discharge the duties of the office!
Going forward, it is critical for Ds/Is to win more seats in the Senate.
The use of âRussianâ and âTrumpâ in the same report would be considered redundant.
Theyâre now wholly interchangeableâŚ