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Jeh Johnson testifies DNC rejected DHS help on hack, Russia meddling did not alter ballots
Fox News Politics ^ | 21 June 2017 | Barnini Chakrabotry

Posted on 06/21/2017 10:19:34 AM PDT by blueplum

Former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson testified Wednesday that the Democratic National Committee last year turned down his agency's offer to help protect its network despite being warned about a hack.

He also confirmed that while Russia, at the direction of President Vladimir Putin, orchestrated cyberattacks on the United States to influence the 2016 presidential election, Moscow was unable to actually alter ballots.

“To my current knowledge, the Russian government did not through any cyber intrusion alter ballots, ballot counts or reporting of election results,” Johnson said during his opening statement before the House Intelligence Committee.

Johnson, who served in the Obama administration from December 2013 to January 2017, said his concerns about a cyberattack against the U.S. election systems intensified last summer. He added that he and his counterparts “sounded the alarm but that the press and voters were focused on a lot of other things”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cloudstrike; cyberattack; dhs; dnc; dncserver; fbi; gowdy; hacking; jehjohnson; johnson; russia
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To: Fred911

.....and in other news, a couple million illegal aliens voted in our last election......crickets.


This is the number one ongoing issue in this country right now.

Everything else is second to this.


21 posted on 06/21/2017 10:57:19 AM PDT by samtheman (Trump++)
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To: thinden

And Jeh knows that “fact” by not inspecting the DNC server?


22 posted on 06/21/2017 10:58:14 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: blueplum

could that have been one of the Awan brother’s sitting behind trey gowdy during the hearings?


23 posted on 06/21/2017 10:59:07 AM PDT by thinden
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To: samtheman

it sure needs to be fixed. The only way that Hillary garnered a majority vote had to be illegals because in general the Bernie people stayed home or wrote Stein/Bernie in


24 posted on 06/21/2017 11:06:31 AM PDT by blueplum ( ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017))
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To: heights
And they denied inspection of their servers because it would have shown no ‘Hacking’ was involved, but instead a USB stick was used to remove files.

Plus they would not want the feds to discover evidence of DNC crimes.

25 posted on 06/21/2017 11:11:41 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Why didn't the FBI examine DNC servers?)
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To: blueplum

Almost all of Hillary’s supposedly higher popular vote margin came from one state:

California


26 posted on 06/21/2017 11:13:00 AM PDT by samtheman (FAIL = FAIL Always Involves Liberalism)
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To: lee martell
I actually think Johnson is telling the truth here. For once!

Maybe not completely true.

He also confirmed that while Russia, at the direction of President Vladimir Putin, orchestrated cyberattacks on the United States to influence the 2016 presidential election

What "cyberattacks?" Oh yeah, that's classified.

27 posted on 06/21/2017 11:19:17 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Why didn't the FBI examine DNC servers?)
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To: blueplum

And yet CNN had a headline earlier, “DHS officials: 21 states potentially targeted by Russia hackers pre-election”. That qualifier, “potentially” is really important. Didn’t Obama tell the nation in October that our elections couldn’t be hacked and to “stop whining”?


28 posted on 06/21/2017 11:43:18 AM PDT by JWNM
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To: JWNM
Didn’t Obama tell the nation in October that our elections couldn’t be hacked and to “stop whining”?

Yes, but that was when they were sure Hillary was going to win. "Situational truth."

29 posted on 06/21/2017 11:47:00 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Why didn't the FBI examine DNC servers?)
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To: goldstategop
The mean those same Russophobes that were Russophiles until about July or so of 2016 when the “conspiracy talk” began?
30 posted on 06/21/2017 11:50:02 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: blueplum

I think the lack of forensics around the DNC hack really should be followed up on by our side. This whole Russian conspiracy theory is all based on a crime that the “victims” showed zero interest in having investigated.


31 posted on 06/21/2017 12:05:07 PM PDT by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: Behind the Blue Wall

NSA servers probably scooped up all the online network data from/to DNC but even if they agreed to disclose it what investigators at DOJ would see would be “redacted” at best.


32 posted on 06/21/2017 12:40:42 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Why didn't the FBI examine DNC servers?)
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To: blueplum

bkmk


33 posted on 06/21/2017 12:49:08 PM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: blueplum

IIRC, the DNC was notified that as least 5 State actors had gotten their data. FBI or DHS told the DNC.

The DNC did nothing.


34 posted on 06/21/2017 12:53:05 PM PDT by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! And please, God, bless the USA again.)
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To: combat_boots
IIRC, the DNC was notified that as least 5 State actors had gotten their data. FBI or DHS told the DNC. The DNC did nothing.

The only one we hear about is Russia!Russia!Russia!

35 posted on 06/21/2017 12:57:14 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Why didn't the FBI examine DNC servers?)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Yeah maybe, but in the “report” they issues in January, there were no indications given that they had precisely tracked the hack via NSA data, and given the alternative possibility (a leak), it would seem that at some point in the process a forensic examination of the actual server would be necessary, if only to eliminate that possibility.


36 posted on 06/21/2017 1:01:51 PM PDT by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: Behind the Blue Wall
I believe Assange that it was a leak, not a hack. But this is what the media does:


37 posted on 06/21/2017 1:21:29 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Why didn't the FBI examine DNC servers?)
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To: blueplum

Any Live video available of that open hearing?

Haven’t seen any notice that it was, or will be, televised on FR, that’s for sure. No side bar, no nothing.

What’s going on around here.


38 posted on 06/21/2017 2:01:46 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public Education/Academia are the farm team for more Marxists coming... infinitum.)
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To: RitaOK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=686HoM3VCo0


39 posted on 06/21/2017 2:05:56 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: RitaOK

one video, coming right up!

FULL: Jeh Johnson Testifies on President Trump & Russia Investigation at Intelligence Hearing (2 hrs 24ish minutes)

DONALD TRUMP SPEECHES & PRESS CONFERENCE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I86OMMdOSx8


40 posted on 06/21/2017 10:17:17 PM PDT by blueplum ( ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017))
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