“Sometime in 2016, I became aware of a hack into systems of the Democratic National Committee,” Johnson said. “… I pressed my staff to know whether DHS was sufficiently proactive, and on the scene helping the DNC identify the intruders and patch vulnerabilities. The answer, to the best of my recollection, was not reassuring: the FBI and the DNC had been in contact with each other months before about the intrusion, and the DNC did not feel it needed DHS’s assistance at that time.”
Every last thing the Clintons are involved with smells like last week’s fish guts. Everything.
Wow, really? They knew it was Bad Vlad?
Was there a guy in the room with him? Got some sigint that shows that?
Or is it just a Rat Propagandist sticking to the narrative?
#SETHRICH
So Johnson confirmed Trump won the election fair and square and Russia had nothing to do with it.
America’s Russophobes owe Putin an apology but fat chance it will ever happen.
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.
Reminds me of the old joke:
Q: “How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb?”
A: “Only one, but only if the light bulb really wants to change.”
I actually think Johnson is telling the truth here. For once!
There were Clinton factions conspiring against Obama factions during that rocky campaign.
could that have been one of the Awan brother’s sitting behind trey gowdy during the hearings?
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”?
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.
bkmk
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.
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.
Why?
#1. Because the Russians were trying to help Hillary666 win and Hillary666 didn't want to run the risk of it being found out.
#2. If the Russians failed to help Hillary666 win, she could use that evidence of Russian hacking and claim Trump won because he was colluding with the Russians.
ping to 39 and 40 for link to video, then mark 2hours 5 minutes, I couldn’t read of the name of the (tx?) Congressman questioning, but he raised what I think is one of the questions of the day:
“Why would you think a hostile actor like the Russians would be trying to hack systems where the information is publically available through a portal available to the public?”
Line of questioning:
Congressman: “ ‘Scanning and Probing’. Could you maybe give us a quick explanation what that is?”
JOHNSON: “When I started addressing this publically, somebody said to me, ‘you know, Jim Comey made a statement publically that there was scanning and probing of voter registration systems,’ and I said, that’s a good phrase, let’s use that phrase because I thought it captured what we saw. And eventually what we saw was success in infiltrating voter registration databases which I reported publically. But scanning and probing is basically looking into a locked box to see what’s inside.
Congressman: Or, it’s a passive tool that happens millions of times across the United States every single day. Would you agree with that?
JOHNSON: It can, yes. I don’t know if I would describe it as passive, but, yes.
Congressman: The voter registration data bases that we’ve talked about. Isn’t the information that’s contained within the voter registration databases publically available information?
JOHNSON: Not necessarily. It may depend on each state.
Congressman: “ ‘cause in Texas you can go down to the county office and get that information. And I’m curious as to why our hostile actors were, (and I definitely know that the financial systems, whether it’s on the federal level, that is, through FEC websites, every state has this information made available). Why would you think a hostile actor like the Russians would be trying to hack systems where the information is publically available through a portal available to the public?
JOHNSON: “I don’t know that in every case and in every state the information that was examined was publically available. My concern was that if a bad actor is doing this, it might be a prelude to wiping out or eliminating voter roles or altering them in some way.”
Congressman yields.
The Dimms will rue the day they started this false narrative.