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 ...
Pushed by George W. Bush
I’m pretty sure Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick of Texas will have something to say about this if they indeed move forward.
Posted by BlueYonder from the locked thread. You maybe on to something. They'll claim some nebulous voting irregularities and push it to the courts. They've got most of their communist agenda enacted by the courts.....why stop now?
This shows us that that the results of the election were already predetermined and that the the federal ogliarchs and Soros, Inc are using whatever underhanded tactics they can use to keep Trump out of the WH....To do this they would have already run the numbers and know what the outcome would be. This is their shot across the bow.
Homeland security. The manpower of the Marine corps, TWICE the budget, and a name right out of the third Reich. Now wants to make deep order changes in how our elections are run.
Soapbox, ballot box, ammo box. In that order.
Unlike the Obamacare website, this might be important enough to them to enlist the help of their Google and Facebook friends to get it done.
This is a typical trial balloon from Obozo and his muslim insiders.
If they say this and we don’t raise hell, they might just do it.
Raise hell and let them know from Obama to this fat assed Muslim, this will not be tolerated.
Final note, their inside polls and focus groups are showing a Trump landslide, and they are scared and will try anything to derail Trump.
So this is how the Democrats steal the election. No one will be allowed to verify the validity of the FBI’s claims. This is definitely a coup. Sad, sad day in America.
JEH
name of a female demon in a small number of Zoroastrian Middle Persian texts. The name of Jeh is commonly, but with little justification, translated as “whore.”
http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/jeh
Asking Congress to fix this is like asking the fox to fix the hole in the hen house.
Didn’t Obama say just a couple weeks ago that there is nothing to worry about with the election? What is with all of the back and forth from the White House?
A revolt.
This is outrageous. Trump was right we he says the election is rigged.
Knew it, as soon as I heard the Feds say it might be the Russians in two states then I knew this could be an excuse to have the Feds come in to the states and rig the machines.
the never Trumpers are merely left wing scum bags
Say it is the Russians hacking and then use it as an excuse to rig the election even more than dead people and people voting more than once , along with illegals voting.
BOy they must be desperate in their internal polling.
I love this nation. I fought for it. However, I believe we are way past the tipping point, and I don't see the ship righting itself.
Today, I walked past a TV on my way to a meeting, and saw that cowardly b@stard Comey on the screen. I wondered why. Then, the news anchor said Comey was warning about "foreign influence and attempt to corrupt our election system." What a joke. Foreign influence? Obama took millions in foreign money in 2008 and 2012, and the Clinton Crime Foundation was all about foreign money and corruption. Now, now the FBI cares?
Our last free election was 2004. I firmly believe that. Yes, there was fraud like always. But now it is institutionalized, weaponized, and irrevocable. Obama does not run a government, but a crime syndicate.
Many of the machines are already hacked. The media know it, and even Trump knows it. Congress had years to deal with this problem. Instead, our GOP saviors were more interested in getting rich off of insider trading.
Global tyranny is coming.
"The board is set, and the pieces are moving."
Gandalf the Grey
You got that right!
That would buy enough time for Obama's flying monkeys to install a federally controlled interweb election system as a solution to hacking attacks for the "good" of us all.
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