Posted on 10/31/2016 12:47:30 PM PDT by Be Careful
Just when it looked like Hillary Clinton was poised to win the 2016 election, the FBI has thrown a gamechanger into the mix. On Friday, FBI Director James Comey announced that his agency has discovered new emails related to Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of classified information that they had not previously seen. According to the Associated Press, the newly discovered emails “did not come from her private server”, but instead were found when the FBI started going through electronic devices that belonged to top Clinton aide Huma Abedin and her husband Anthony Weiner. The FBI has been looking into messages of a sexual nature that Weiner had exchanged with a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina, and that is why they originally seized those electronic devices. According to the Washington Post, the “emails were found on a computer used jointly by both Weiner and his wife, top Clinton aide Huma Abedin, according to a person with knowledge of the inquiry”, and according to some reports there may be “potentially thousands” of emails on the computer that the FBI did not have access to previously. Even though there are less than two weeks to go until election day, this scandal has the potential to possibly force Clinton out of the race, and if that happens could Barack Obama delay or suspend the election until a replacement candidate can be found?
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I think hilarity DID make deals w china “land for debt”.....so china has been behind her for yrs.....now 3 wks ago china state tv.........syas the American media is bias ....against Trump....
what does that mean? They think shes gonna start a war?
Is the mathews Trump endorsement video real?....
very strange things are goin on here...
Anyone know about this stuff?
i meant obama didn’t attack comey.
but you probably figured that out :)
She is dying and has not dropped out.
Pennywise?
what Matthews trump endorsement?
“She is dying and has not dropped out.”
And she’s dying a bit faster each day.
That’s the Democrat Party’s problem. It has nothing to do with the government. There are three other candidates to choose from.
And that isma good point, jill,stein and some gary guy are running for libs and greens on most/all stages, so there still are other folks,to vote for, besides write ins.
Yes he does under the Emergency Powers, he could do it as a continuity of government issue. But then again this issue may have been planned for all along. I posted about it earlier today.
With the GOP-e not supporting Trump, they won’t bother to stop Obama.
Yes he does under the Emergency Powers, he could do it as a continuity of government issue. But then again this issue may have been planned for all along. I posted about it earlier today.
With the GOP-e not supporting Trump, they won’t bother to stop Obama.
Yes he does under the Emergency Powers, he could do it as a continuity of government issue. But then again this issue may have been planned for all along. I posted about it earlier today.
With the GOP-e not supporting Trump, they won’t bother to stop Obama.
I was agreeing. :)
Obama has NO AUTHORITY to do it.
The Democrats don’t get a “do over” because they put a total criminal as the nominee.
“Will Barack Obama Suspend The Election If Hillary Is Forced Out By The New FBI Email Investigation?”
It’s certainly an easy enough option if necessary. All obama has to do is mobilize the U.S. military to occupy the capital buildings and state houses of all 57 states as well as arrest all 57 governors and all 57 state Secretary of States.
No power to suspend any election. Each state conducts the election.
No federal judge would try. One of him, millions of us.
Write-in? Bernie is a certified write-in here in Mexiforina
Yes, he does.
The federal government can intervene in this upcoming election if they deem there has been a cybersecurity breach of our voting systems, since they are considered part of this nation’s Critical Infrastructure.
Obola’s 2013 Executive Order 13964 permits DHS intervention for cyber attacks affecting critical infrastructure.
https://fcw.com/articles/2016/07/29/voting-systems-protection.aspx?m=1
Cybersecurity
Should election systems be considered critical infrastructure?
By Mark Rockwell
Jul 29, 2016
The specter of a foreign government hacking into U.S. election systems has been given new emphasis because of recent remarks by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. The issue has a long list of former federal officials and lawmakers concerned.
In late July after the Democratic National Committee’s databases were hacked and DNC members’ private email messages released by WikiLeaks, Trump said Russia should help find Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s lost email messages from her time as secretary of State.
The DNC breach has been ascribed to hackers with ties to the Russian government, but U.S. federal law enforcement has made no official attribution yet. Some political operatives in the DNC have alleged the data dump was meant to embarrass Clinton and push voters toward Trump, who has expressed admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The imbroglio has raised concerns among many former DHS officials and lawmakers about foreign influence in the U.S. election process. In a July 28 statement, 32 members of the Aspen Institute Homeland Security Group said that if the DNC hack is found to have been backed by Russia, it constitutes an attack on “the integrity of American democracy.”
The group’s members include former DHS Assistant Secretary for Policy Stewart Baker; New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton; former DHS Inspector General Clark Ervin; former National Counterterrorism Center Director Michael Leiter; former National Security Agency Director Michael Hayden; and former Sen. Jane Harman (D-Calif.), who now serves as president, director and CEO of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
The group is urging the White House and Congress to get to the bottom of the DNC hack and identify who the attacker was.
Furthermore, election officials at the federal, state and local levels should regard the hack as evidence that “our electoral process could be a target for reckless foreign governments and terrorist groups,” according to the organization’s statement.
The group is also calling for voting processes and results to receive the same kind of security attention that is extended to the electrical grid, water systems and other critical infrastructure.
Political parties and the federal government “bear special responsibility for helping to prevent such intrusions in the future,” the group said. “Just as the federal government offers, and candidates routinely accept, Secret Service protection for their candidates, so too should campaigns and candidates be offered and accept assistance in securing their communications.”
Meanwhile, in a July 27 Washington Post column, security technologist Bruce Schneier stressed the need to provide federal cyber protection for voting systems. He argued that such systems, which are generally maintained by state and local governments, are part of the country’s critical infrastructure.
However, Nathaniel Gleicher, former director for cybersecurity policy at the White House’s National Security Council, told FCW that providing critical infrastructure protection to voting systems is not as straightforward as it seems, in part because each state takes its own approach.
When it comes to pursuing a hacker, “it might be possible to sanction someone for voting machines, but one would have to show that their activities met the standards set by” Executive Order 13694, said Gleicher, who joined Illumio in January as head of cybersecurity strategy.
The order, issued by President Barack Obama in 2015, gave certain federal leaders new authority to respond to threats by malicious cyber actors, the kind who present “serious economic and national security challenges” to the country’s critical infrastructure, economic resources, trade secrets and personal data.
Gleicher said the standards in the order were intentionally set high, but a blatant attempt by a foreign government to influence the outcome of a presidential election could meet those standards. However, he added, applying the order to an attack on critical infrastructure would depend on the facts surrounding the attack.
For instance, Gleicher said anyone who perpetrates an attack on voting machines must be proven to be an integral part of the attack or to have provided assistance that materially contributed to a significant threat to U.S. national security, foreign policy, economic health or financial stability.
Hacking election machines to influence a major U.S. election could certainly clear the “significant threat” threshold, but pursuing an attacker based on critical infrastructure protections would be trickier.
“One would have to argue that entities that provide voting are in a critical infrastructure sector and that the service they provide was compromised by the hack,” he said.
Voting systems are not explicitly named in DHS’ 16 categories of critical infrastructure, however.
And Gleicher said attackers don’t actually have to attack voting systems, and he offered this scenario: “What if someone were to announce, shortly after a very close election, that they had hacked enough voting machines in a swing state to change the result? Technical analysis of the systems in question provides some evidence that they may be telling the truth, but it’s inconclusive. The winning candidate declares it’s a desperate move by the loser to overturn the will of the people. The losing candidate calls for a revote. What do we do?”
In other words, a simple alternative to an actual cyberattack on election systems might simply be the claim of a cyberattack, he said.
Exactly right. Incredible there are so many stories that begin with the false notion that Hillary was about to win.
Wrong read post #58.
We’ve been “Fundamentally Transformed”.
Like it or not.
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