Russia: The Real Story

American Spectator ^

[detective]

Obama left the country vulnerable to massive Russian hacking.

The real story with Russia was not the series of stupid meetings between Trump campaign officials and diplomats who were trying to set them up, playing on Trump’s admiration of Putin. The story that should have been all over the front pages then, and now, is the complete lack of security infrastructure across our government, President Barack Obama’s complete inability to protect the country from cybersecurity threats, and the way Russians were able to easily take advantage of all our vulnerabilities throughout the last eight years to make a series of devastating blows that are only coming out to public awareness now.

Many of these issues came up during the last two years of the administration when Obama was busy crying “Russian hackers,” while Russian hackers were having a ball right under his nose. This combination of lack of situational awareness, recklessness, arrogance, and ignorance of even the basic factors to take into consideration was evident in Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s watch at the DNC, among Democratic Congressmen in the Pakistani IT staffer scandal, with Hillary’s various misuses of email, with John Podesta falling easy bait to a phishing trick, and so much more. But all of that turned out to be just the tip of the iceberg, as we are now learning, mere red flags compared to the utter disaster that was taking place behind closed doors, with Edward Snowden being but the first red flag and warning sign of just how unprepared was our counterintelligence for the combination of cybersecurity threats and social media engineering from Russians and other actors.

[detective]

This is a good article though I disagree with some points.

The author says the Obama administration was incapable of preventing Russian infiltration and hacking due to "a combination of lack of situational awareness, recklessness, arrogance, and ignorance of even the basic factors."

I think the Obama administration wasactively working with the Russians. I think the false accusations against Trump for colluding with Russia by Obama administration officials, the Democrats and the media are to cover up Obama's bad acts and to prevent them from being investigated.

[marron]

They are acting like they are shocked! shocked! at Russian hacking, because they are using that as cover for Obamist illegal surveillance of their political opposition.

They, frankly, surveil everyone all the time. Obama historically always has the goods on his opponents. He has wiretapped congressmen and journalists that we know of. His opponents’ sealed records unseal themselves. This is his modus operandi.

So it would only be a surprise if he didn’t wiretap Trump and his campaign. “Russia!” is cover, and wouldn’t have mattered much except that now, they have to find something or the people involved face legal jeopardy for their complicity in an illegal operation. So they will investigate and investigate and investigate until they find something, anything. And as Scooter Libby can attest, you can bet the farm they will find something if its the last thing they do.

[McGruff]

...massive Russian hacking...

If you repeat a lie enough times people will come to believe it.

[spintreebob]

The Bush Admin also was guilty of the same. The fact is that a big bureaucracy is very slow to move. Technology moves very fast. A big, slow bureaucracy will never be totally secure.

The best it can do is kill the idea of “interoperability”. and isolate big systems into many isolated small systems. Then each small system has the opportunity to secure itself and not wait from orders from above to apply the patch announced 2 years previously.

Of course, another option is to reduce the role of government so there is less to protect.