Posted on 10/31/2016 12:54:04 PM PDT by ColdOne
FBI Director James Comey argued privately that it was too close to Election Day for the United States government to name Russia as meddling in the U.S. election and ultimately ensured that the FBI's name was not on the document that the U.S. government put out, a former FBI official tells CNBC.
The official said some government insiders are perplexed as to why Comey would have election timing concerns with the Russian disclosure but not with the Huma Abedin email discovery disclosure he made Friday.
In the end, the Department of Homeland Security and The Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued the statement on Oct. 7, saying "The U.S. intelligence community is confident that the Russia
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Wait, didn’t Hillary tell us that all 17 agencies of the Intelligence Community attributed the hacking to Russia...? Isn’t the FBI one of those 17 agencies and aren’t they one of the primary agencies involved in cyber crime?
You mean she lied????
For one thing, the report I heard was that while the agencies thought that Russia had done the hacking, they weren’t completely certain and in addition, it was probable that Russia wasn’t the only hacker involved - and it seems to me the Julian Assange said months back the emails Wikileaks was going to be releasing were not from Russia, and in fact hinted that they might have come from within the Democrat party itself - of course all that didn’t stop NPR’s Mara Liason from talking about the clear link between Trumps’ campaign and the Russian hackers tonight on Fox.....
The 17 agencies lie was a huge Clinton gaffe that the media ignored. Among the 17 agencies are Coast Guard Intelligence, Marine Corps Intelligence and the Department of Energy. Any moron would realize that not every one of the 17 agencies has even the slightest ability to investigate and reach an opinion on this issue.
The Abedin email discovery is evidence, "methods and motivations" is not.
DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
WASHINGTON, DC 20511October 07, 2016
Joint Statement from the Department of Homeland Security
and Office of the Director of National Intelligence
on Election SecurityThe U.S. Intelligence Community (USIC) is confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of e-mails from US persons and institutions, including from US political organizations. The recent disclosures of alleged hacked e-mails on sites like DCLeaks.com and WikiLeaks and by the Guccifer 2.0 online persona are consistent with the methods and motivations of Russian-directed efforts. These thefts and disclosures are intended to interfere with the US election process. Such activity is not new to Moscow—the Russians have used similar tactics and techniques across Europe and Eurasia, for example, to influence public opinion there. We believe, based on the scope and sensitivity of these efforts, that only Russia's senior-most officials could have authorized these activities.
Some states have also recently seen scanning and probing of their election-related systems, which in most cases originated from servers operated by a Russian company. However, we are not now in a position to attribute this activity to the Russian Government. The USIC and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) assess that it would be extremely difficult for someone, including a nation-state actor, to alter actual ballot counts or election results by cyber attack or intrusion. This assessment is based on the decentralized nature of our election system in this country and the number of protections state and local election officials have in place. States ensure that voting machines are not connected to the Internet, and there are numerous checks and balances as well as extensive oversight at multiple levels built into our election process.
Nevertheless, DHS continues to urge state and local election officials to be vigilant and seek cybersecurity assistance from DHS. A number of states have already done so. DHS is providing several services to state and local election officials to assist in their cybersecurity. These services include cyber “hygiene” scans of Internet-facing systems, risk and vulnerability assessments, information sharing about cyber incidents, and best practices for securing voter registration databases and addressing potential cyber threats. DHS has convened an Election Infrastructure Cybersecurity Working Group with experts across all levels of government to raise awareness of cybersecurity risks potentially affecting election infrastructure and the elections process. Secretary Johnson and DHS officials are working directly with the National Association of Secretaries of State to offer assistance, share information, and provide additional resources to state and local officials.
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