Posted on 10/12/2016 10:18:33 PM PDT by Perseverando
Concerns about Russian hacking into the November 8 election have now reached the Pentagon where the military's top cyber official has outlined a plan to help the FBI and Department of Homeland Security to track an election altering attack.
What's more, Adm. Michael S. Rogers, commander of U.S. Cyber Command, has added his voice to that of Homeland Secretary Jeh Johnson who is considering whether the election system is critical infrastructure, like the power grid and financial sector, and subject to federal oversight.
"What is critical infrastructure in this digital age? Data, I would argue, is taking on a very different value in and of itself. And the ability of individuals to harness the tools of big data analytics now make access to large data concentrations...very attractive," Rogers said at Harvard University this month in a video released Wednesday.
"I look at the election sequence for example, as an example of, 'Do we need to step back and reassess this? Hey, look, this really is part of our critical infrastructure?" he said.
Rogers, at an event sponsored by Harvard's Institute of Politics speaker program, quickly added that the military is and won't be involved in elections, but instead in tracking foreign attackers if there are any.
"What we do is we are trying to understand the actions of foreign actors as they are trying to approach the network, if you will," he told the student audience.
Rogers said that there is an advantage to having 50 separate state election systems instead of a national one that would be an easier target. But he noted that one state could make a difference if results are manipulated.
If a probe were required to determine if the election was hacked, he said Homeland would take the lead.
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The Russian boogie man is very, very real but there’s more than just the Russians wanting to manipulate things. The idea hat pootie Poot hates Obama... why would he hate his own agent?
This is how they will steal the election.
If 0bama hadn't replaced all the America Loving Patriots in the Defense Department with his own Pet Progressive Perfumed Princes, this wouldn't bother quite as much.
But even if They were all Pattons and Pershings, with maybe even a few Eisenhowers thrown in, it would still bother me. When you have the Pentagon involved in conducting elections, you have a dictatorship, not a Republic.
I see this as a positive sign. I trust the Pentagon much more than I trust Homeland Security, and I actually see this as a warning to Homeland not to try any monkey business. Maybe the FBI interest is the same. Anyhow, with three different agencies watching, there is less chance that anyone is going to try something.
I’m sure George Soros will make sure everything is on the up and up.
Last time that happened, Freepers were out in force, surrounded the Vice Presiden't mansion, and were screaming "Get out of Cheyney's house!" all night at Al Gore. This time we may have to be bigger, badder, and ruder to keep the republic.
What’s that line from the matrix.....
What will really bake your noodle is who is more anti-American Putin or Obama?
Actually that’s an easy one. Who is more anti-American, Hillary or Putin?
Some dingleberry “former intelligence agent” (yeah, “former”, right) is blabbing on Coast to Coast right now about how Putin supports Trump, Putin did the hacking, etc. etc.
Hillary is playing very very dirty—never seen anything like it.
I think it is her view that Americans hate Russia so much that they can smear Trump as pro-Russian and hurt him as a candidate.
The world has changed—and we are no longer the “good guys”.
We can be, but we are not at this moment.
Hillary and her handlers believe we can’t handle the truth—we will find out...
TRUMP MUST TRiUMPh
Switch to paper ballots.
Have two teams, with equal numbers of democrats and republicans supervising the voting and the counting.
Have voter ID cards for everyone. If a poor country like India can do it with a population of 1.2 billion, so can we.
One of the tricks of seeing through confusing propaganda is the reversal principal.
Listen to what the “establishment” says and imagine what the opposite would like.
So what is the opposite of Russian hackers?
The loon on Coast to Coast is arguing that it is Russian Intelligence that has a special group doing the hacking, sort of “the opposite” of our NSA.
Wait a minute—NSA.
Who has more access to US computers, backdoors, then anyone else?
NSA.
They have to be the first suspect in any hacking.
It could be renegade employees.
It could be a battle within the NSA.
But if you see domestic hacking you have to look at NSA first.
The Debbie Wasserman Schultz effect.
Plus, the hackers are giving America some very much needed truth.
Ya know, we have a temp worker on our team who just became naturalized a month ago. He’s from India.
He told us tonight that in India, they do the purple ink on the pinky finger for voters there, and asked why we don’t do it here.
I told him clearly that it’s to ensure massive voter fraud.
The look on his face was very sad. The guy absolutely loves America.
I just realized it—the author of the article is the same guy who slandered Terry Reed for Time Magazine back in the 1990s.
Omigod.
It looks like the Intelligence Community is recycling its old operatives in the media.
The plot thickens....
There is a massive conflict of interest here. These are the people we’re trying to vote out!
“There is a VERY good chance this election is not going to end with someone conceding”
Yes, Clinton’s answer to the last question of the first debate on will you accept the outcome of the election (Trump simply said “yes”:), however Clinton along the lines...”I’ll accept the will of the people”
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