Posted on 08/30/2016 4:31:16 PM PDT by Hojczyk
"We should carefully consider whether our election system, our election process, is critical infrastructure like the financial sector, like the power grid," Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said.
"There's a vital national interest in our election process, so I do think we need to consider whether it should be considered by my department and others critical infrastructure," he said at media conference earlier this month hosted by the Christian Science Monitor.
DHS has a vital security role in 16 areas of critical infrastructure and they provide a model for what the department and Johnson could have in mind for the election.
DHS describes it this way on their website: "There are 16 critical infrastructure sectors whose assets, systems, and networks, whether physical or virtual, are considered so vital to the United States that their incapacitation or destruction would have a debilitating effect on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination thereof."
A White House policy directive adds, "The federal government also has a responsibility to strengthen the security and resilience of its own critical infrastructure, for the continuity of national essential functions, and to organize itself to partner effectively with and add value to the security and resilience efforts of critical infrastructure owners and operators."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
BOHICA! (Bend Over, Here it Comes Again)
Anyone have a problem with the Obama and/or Clinton administrations having control over election processing and machines?
I swear to God I never thought I’d ever hear this made as a possible action by the Feds.
It will be very interesting if Trump loses.
I don’t know what I’ll do, but it seems to me that exercising self-control will be low on the list. What the hell would be the point? The gloves come off and it’s Katy-bar-the-door. Because nothing will matter much.
This the beginning of the end. My freakin head is exploding. Drop dead Hillary. Drop dead Never Trumpers. They are stealing this election.
All paper ballots and proof of citizenship to vote.
This isn't the kind of a change you throw together in 9 or 10 weeks.
Exactly..
Ummm. No. C’mon.
This will only help Trump. Now he has proof the election is rigged.
I don’t think the actual voting is rigged near as much as the campaign. The MSM is being quite effective in helping Hillary by non-coverage of the news.
Hillary could slip on a bar of soap. Anything can happen to her. See it for what it is. This is being run out of the White House in the Chicago tradition. As Trump moves to the inner cities which is their base they are threatened. This is a direct response to his move.
Each state runs its own election.
The US is a union of states.
Civil war. The people would be revolting against an illegitimate leadership to restore constitutional governance. This as opposed to replacing the constitution outright, legitimate leadership or not, by force.
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DONE and forwarded
I don’t think so, fascists.
That’s all we need now is for those ham-handed jackasses counting our votes. I can envision resorting to pitchforks and torches if Trump is not elected and Hitlery is.
Except most of the public doesn't know that. The media will be there to propagandize the whole thing.
Congress will not intervene.
Remember, our Constitution is a living document, "living" being leftist Newspeak for "dead and irrelevant."
It would be a revolution of the communists against the Constitution.
The Civil War part will be us counter-revolutionaries against America's internal enemies.
Jeh is a Muslim
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