Posted on 01/01/2017 7:36:12 AM PST by Rusty0604
There’s no standing allegation by U.S. officials that the Russians (or anyone else) “hacked” into our elections system or altered vote counts.
So what are the allegations and facts as we know them?
The FBI and DHS released a brief joint report Thursday describing “Russian Malicious Cyber Activity.” It doesn’t include forensic proof of Russian government involvement in hacking efforts, but the administration is rushing a detailed, classified report to be delivered, at President Obama’s request, prior to President Trump taking office January 20.
The joint report can be summarized this way: •The U.S. believes two hacking groups tied to the Russian government are involved.
Most of the 13-page joint report provides advice on how to secure computer networks...
1. The claim that the “election was hacked” is a bit of a misnomer. There’s no standing allegation by U.S. officials that the Russians (or anyone else) “hacked” into our elections system or altered vote counts... . U.S. officials have not alleged that anyone falsified the emails provided to WikiLeaks.
3. U.S. intel officials have named the Russian hacking campaign “Grizzly Steppe.”
4. It seems a difficult task to prove the hacks somehow “affected the election” or “helped Donald Trump win.” For example: •One would have to show that tens of thousands of Trump voters were planning to vote for Clinton but changed their mind based solely on the WikiLeaks emails. •One would have to believe the emails somehow managed to only affect the electoral vote but not the popular vote (which Clinton won). •One would have to believe the emails somehow selectively swayed voters in key swing states, but not voters in states where Clinton won.
(Excerpt) Read more at sharylattkisson.com ...
Russia has not been identified as having any involvement:
Obonics: The election was hacked.
English: Fake News.
Yep pure utter BS perpetrated as facts when it is only political posturing and promoted as evidence by a media that has become as corrupt as the Democrat Party.
More like bear scat if you aks me.
Bingo.
The last believable reporter?
“Russian Hacks” = Usual and customary Washtngton BULLSHIIT/LIES.
The Democratic Party is simply looking for talking points to keep their base from running far far away. The Democratic Party has two major talking points about the election. 1) Hillary won the popular vote. 2) The election was hacked by the Russians. We will be hearing these two points over and over from the Party loyalists, who need to blame losing the election on something. They cannot seem to blame a flawed candidate or flawed Obama Policies of 8 years. They want to “Keep Hate Alive” toward the new President, when all hope is gone!
Big Ping to Sharyl’s List Upchuck!
True and NOT fake.
Fact 9: Obama has mislead the people so often that half the voters believe an enemy over him.
During the cold war, the Soviet Union (Russians) spent 85% of their intelligence budget in the use on “Agents of Influence”.
Their goal was long term, to move us toward socialism and to weaken our cultural defenses.
It is reasonable to assume that much of that money was spent promoting sympathetic media, church and political figures, as well as helping foment racial divisiveness.
They left totally poo-pooed that effort.
The communist party endorsed Barack Obama.
Sad to say that, at this point, no amount of objective, factual information will sway the Kool-Aid drinkers in the Democrat Party/MSM.
Until the end of time, the mantra will be that the Russians “hacked” the 2016 election and stole it from Hilliary!.
And obozo for this steaming pile of nonsense expels diplomats because folks like Podesta and Clinton click on phishing scams and run unsecure servers
One thing for certain is that the recounts proved that our system is broken and a perfect environment for cheating and probably by the Democrats because at every turn they fight all voter id laws. It is very believable that a large percentage of CA votes were illegal.
Is there still a department in charge of coming up with catchy names for military operations? This sounds like one of those things where somebody in a backroom had to come up with an operation name that started with the letter "G" and the letter "S".
In that case, I'll bet "Gassy Stool" was the runner-up.
Now that’s just plain funny
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