Posted on 11/02/2013 9:33:24 PM PDT by Rabin
When Willard Romney, took on President Obama at the White House, the NSA had intercepted Will's "GOP Secure line", a feat the agency later reported as an “operational POC”, in a weekly internal brag sheet. We kept Romney campaign’s servers in a ha-cl-oud, the computers however, in the clean rooms were never connected to the Internet, so they were the exclusive province of NSA.
What NSA trying to learn from the Romney campaign? What able to extract, if anything? How much information NSA extract from targeting emails? Was the Secret Service or a U.S. agency such as the CIA involved? Were (they) also going after the phone-com in same fashion as well? It hard to imagine what edge this could have given Mr. Obama, if (he) even saw the N.S.A.’s modest scoop. (The White House won’t say).
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Rab
The links go to a page from 2012 about the debate. ???
Didn’t the GOP computers run into a major snafu on election day tracking returns and the GOTV efforts? How much do you want to bet that the NSA was involved?
Yes.
That was the entire point of what the NSA was doing.
As you no doubt can see.
ORCA, Mitt Romney’s high-tech get-out-the-vote program, crashed on Election Day
Online voter-turnout system failed Tuesday
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2012/president/candidates/romney/2012/11/10/orca-mitt-romney-high-tech-get-out-the-vote-program-crashed-election-day/gflS8VkzDcJcXCrHoV0nsI/story.html
Mitt Romney’s online voter-turnout operation suffered a meltdown on Election Day, resulting in a crucial 90-minute “buckling” of the system in Boston and the inability of some campaign workers across the country to use a vital smartphone program, according to campaign officials and volunteers.
Code-named ORCA, the program was kept secret until just before the election in order to prevent hacking of the system. It was then trumpeted by Romney’s aides as an unrivaled high-tech means of communicating with more than 30,000 field workers who were stationed at polling places on Election Day. Those volunteers were supposed to track who voted and to alert Boston headquarters if turnout was lower than expected at key precincts.
Will GOP Learn Its GOTV Lesson?
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/11/12/will-gop-learn-its-gotv-lesson/
On Election Day over 37,000 volunteers spent the day struggling with a flawed and crashing GOTV (get out the vote) computer program, instead of actually getting out the vote. Those volunteers were supposed to be reporting on voter turnout in swing states, and in many instances spent the day troubleshooting with overwhelmed Romney campaign staffers in Boston over a computer program that had never been stress tested.
Yep. The NSA killed ORCA and the IRS killed the Tea Party and the DOJ was spying on Fox News. And those are just the things we KNOW about.
If your point is that the main purpose of NSA spying is, contrary to the ideas of Ron Paul, to target the GOP, then it is correct.
We saw a great example of this when 0bummer knew that the GOP would fold like a cheap suit as the debt ceiling approached.
One would hope that “No-Brainer” Boehner would be aware of this fact going forward.
Xnihua may have pulled a bait and switch, or perhaps not.
Rab.
What difference would that make?
I wonder about the stuff we don’t know about.
Obviously they keep tabs on “political undesirables” like all two bit dictator tools do.
But just how far are they willing to go to stifle free speech and political dissent?
Electioneering and vote suppression/ fraud obviously for starters.
/ end random musings.
THe NSA is quickly becoming the most hated organization in America. FOr an organization whose very existance used to be denied by the powers that be, it's not a good sign.
To follow up on my post... I fully expect to see the powers that be come up with something soon to allow the NSA to save some face. Some kind of big “win” from their surveillance that will be used to quiet the bleating of the nervious sheep who have started to notice the dogs around them.
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