After months of ever growing allegations that Russia “hacked the election,” President Obama is facing growing pressure from both supporters and detractors to actually release some evidence supporting the claims. This is doubly true because Russia denies involvement in any such thing.
That the allegations have been non-stop for nearly half a year without any concrete evidence released is adding fuel to the belief that there isn’t any, At the same time, several top Democrats have accused the administration (and the FBI particularly) of having a bunch of evidence that is conclusive, and withholding it all for some unknown reason.
This has Obama rushing to get all the intelligence agencies to come up with something, though again, administration officials are tempering expectations, insisting that such a report, if it did exist, would contain “classified information” that couldn’t be made public.
Today’s joint FBI/DHS release seems to fit into the long-standing policy of continuing to repeat the allegations as unquestioned fact, while at the same time offering no evidence. The “joint report” is mostly an advisory letter on how to avoid certain types of cyberattacks, but includes a few page narrative of what happened, again attributing everything to Russia but not backing up those assertions.
Perhaps the most interesting part of the “joint report,” beyond what it didn’t include, is that it echoed Democratic Party allegations that they were being hacked through the end of the election, in direct contradiction to President Obama’s claim he ordered Russia to “cut it out” in September and they stopped completely.
The continued insinuations that evidence exists, when from the impression we’ve gotten publicly there isn’t any, along with officials saying that there might be “classified” details they keep secret, is likely to keep the accusations flowing well into Trump’s Administration.
I read that new “report.” It elaborates on the statement released in October that alleged cyber intrusions were “consistent with” other Russian intelligence activities, the identity and evidence for which were themselves not provided. The report does aver, for the purposes of providing the lapdogs in the media a headline, “The U.S. Government confirms that two different RIS [russian intelligence] actors participated in the intrusion into a U.S. political party.” The “two different” actors, however, are only descriptions of types of cyber attacks (“advanced persistent threats”) without evidence or detail tying them specifically to any Russians or Russian agencies. The report does nothing to exclude as culprit the slob of the couch in New Jersey with the bag of Cheetohs and a laptop–or anyone or thing else on planet earth. Also note the report’s following statement: “In some cases, RIS actors masqueraded as third parties, hiding behind false online personas designed to cause the victim to misattribute the source of the attack.” There is no indication in the report whether that was the case here and, if so, how the sleuths at DHS and FBI (the report’s join authors) nevertheless figured out it was the Russkies. On the other hand, if that was not the case, then the report doesn’t explain why the Russians would be so stupid. These evasions follow from the report’s basic failure to state the evidence that shows that the Russians did these alleged hacks/attacks.
Plus let’s get into WHY all the smoke blowing and the slime attached to the DNC and Clinton . . .
Its just as likely that ‘third parties’ masqueraded as RIS.
Another script that fits the facts is that it was all masterminded by China who would like nothing better than the US and Russia beating each other to a pulp and leaving the world for the Chinese.
China might not be able to collect on its markers from US government and corporations, but that’s a small price top pay to take over the globe without firing a shot.
These days, its easy to see why a jack@$$ is the symbol of the Democratic Party.
— Polls are saying 70% of the American people don’t believe them. If the electorate is split roughly 50-50, that means about 40% of Democrats don’t believe them.
— This goes along with post-election leaks from insiders that the higher-ups in the Clinton campaign ignore reports coming back from the field of discontent and weak support in favor of high-priced consultants who told them they were certain to win.
— There seems to be no recognition at all in the top Dem circles that their aggressive pro-war stance and their embrace of the BushCheneyClinton neocons did them no good at all. Having Kissinger and Wolfowitz and Cheney endorse the Clinton campaign produced no noticeable bump.
The American people finally got a chance to say NO to more war and endless wars and regime-changes the worldwide. That may turn out to be as much BS as Obama’s change-and-hope schtick turned out to be, but when the American people got a chance, they plainly said no.
So far, not only are the Democrats showing no sign of hearing this and returning to their anti-war base, but they show all the signs of putting their fingers in their ears and chanting “Russians, Russians, Russians…” to make sure they stay completely disconnected from the people.
“That the allegations have been non-stop for nearly half a year without any concrete evidence released is adding fuel to the belief that there isn’t any.”
Yep.
Neither Russia or anyone else “hacked the elections.” As Jill stein’s spurious recount proved, the votes were accurately recorded and reported without interference. There was no hacking at the election boxes. Someone did cause relevant information about Lady McDeath and the democratic party insiders to be revealed to the voting public. As of now it is as likely, maybe more so, that the information was leaked by an insider as it was hacked by an unknown outsider.
There were also video tapes made of democratic party workers bragging about their interference in the election process as well as a video made by a Panders supporter at the democratic convention showing how the Lady McDeath pro war global capitalists rigged the seating, the noise, and the environment inside the hall to benefit Lady McDeath and her supporters.
The U.S. has been rigging elections, engaging in coups, and overthrowiing governments rather consistently and whenever necessary to protect the growth of global capitalist expansion. Neither obamanothercountry or anyone else with dirty hands has cause to complain. All of this feels like another poorly played out failed coup.
…. in other news , the NSA is hard at work fabricating , I mean locating the evidence of the “Russian” hack…
the Ditz again shows why he can’t get a job writing for any publication that is read by rational, educated grown-ups.
this is as third-rate and brainless as most everything this fool writes and this site publishes.