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'The United States is under attack': Intel chiefs say Russia targets midterm election
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| February 13th, 2018
| Dylan Stableford
Posted on 02/13/2018 10:51:10 AM PST by Mariner
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From the source reference, the Worldwide Threat Assessment deliver to the Senate:
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/os-dcoats-021318.PDF
Russia and Influence Campaigns Influence operations, especially through cyber means, will remain a significant threat to US interests as they are low - cost, relatively low - risk, and deniable ways to retaliate against adversaries, to shape foreign perceptions, and to influence populations . Russia probably will be the most capable and aggressive source of this threat in 2018, although many countries and some no nstate actors are exploring ways to use influence operations , both domestically and abroad. We assess that the Russian intelligence services will continue their efforts to disseminate false information via Russian state - controlled media and covert online p ersonas about US activities to encourage anti - US political views. Moscow seeks to create wedges that reduce trust and confidence in democratic processes, degrade democratization efforts, weaken US partnerships with European allies, undermine Western sanct ions, encourage anti - US political views , and counter efforts to bring Ukraine and other former Soviet states into European institutions. F oreign elections are critical inflection points that offer opportunities for Russia to advance its interests both over tly and covertly. The 2018 US mid - term elections are a potential target for Russian influence operations . At a minimum, we expect Russia to continue using propaganda, social media, false - flag personas, sympathetic spokes people , and other means of influenc e to try to exacerbate social and political fissures in the United States
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posted on
02/13/2018 10:51:10 AM PST
by
Mariner
To: Mariner
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posted on
02/13/2018 10:52:44 AM PST
by
mplc51
To: Mariner
It’s time to close down the “intelligence community”. Could we not survive with just military intelligence?
To: Mariner
This “threat” gets 2 paragraphs and 2 bullet points in a 28 page Assessment.
And US Intelligence continues to assess the dissemination of information as a “threat to US interests”. And this in the biggest open market of ideas the world has ever known.
I thought Trump was going to run the Neocons out of town?
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posted on
02/13/2018 10:53:41 AM PST
by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
To: Mariner
Russia again? the same intel agencies that did their darn best to make sure Trump wasn’t prez.
To: Mariner
So why wasn’t the CPUSA’s endorsement of H->! checked out?
More widely touted by the LSM?
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posted on
02/13/2018 10:54:14 AM PST
by
Paladin2
To: Mariner
Here we go again. So if the dems lose we get another special prosecutor?
To: Mariner
The IC is actively lobbying for funding.
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posted on
02/13/2018 10:54:51 AM PST
by
Paladin2
To: Mariner
If we had a functioning news media that had some small semblance of objectivity, the Russian “threat” would be a joke.
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posted on
02/13/2018 10:55:46 AM PST
by
brownsfan
(Behold, the power of government cheese.)
To: Mariner
divide and conquer!
...and the U.S. mainstream media are the unwitting pawns spewing the divisive rhetoric incessantly, are so self absorbed and assume they are far too sophisticated to get played
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posted on
02/13/2018 10:55:55 AM PST
by
z3n
To: Mariner
So FIX IT ... go to paper ballots and if the damned millennials can’t wait 24 hours for the results, let them play their video games instead. Paper ballots make sense in this day and age for a list of reasons too long to list!
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posted on
02/13/2018 10:56:45 AM PST
by
ThePatriotsFlag
(We are getting even more than we voted for!)
To: Mariner
Russia has a long way to go to negatively influence elections if they want to compete with Comey and Obama.
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posted on
02/13/2018 10:57:59 AM PST
by
1Old Pro
To: Mariner
No doubt the Russians would rather have treacherous and easily bought off Democraps.
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posted on
02/13/2018 10:58:24 AM PST
by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: Mariner
I've yet to see it mentioned here on FR in any thread that talks about Russian propaganda (read that: "election tampering, LOL!")
VOICE OF AMERICA.
What does anyone think the Russians considered VoA "back in the day" blaring at Cuba 24x7? Or in the Middle East?
To say that we ourselves don't engage in a propaganda war (or counter-propaganda war) would be kidding ourselves.
Obama meddled in BREXIT, Netanyahu's election, Libya, Iraq, Iran and more.
C'mon folks - the Russians aren't doing anything we aren't.
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posted on
02/13/2018 11:00:05 AM PST
by
usconservative
(When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
To: Mariner
Russians attempting to influence US elections or policy? Been happening at least since the 1930s.
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posted on
02/13/2018 11:00:25 AM PST
by
ealgeone
To: Mariner
We are more under attack from the RAT Party and their vote fraud.
The most vicious attack is from Mexico!
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posted on
02/13/2018 11:00:30 AM PST
by
Redleg Duke
(Build KateÂ’s Wall! Never Forget!)
To: mplc51
🙀🤔. No doubt in "cahoots" with DJT to undermine the (democracy) [s]elections for control of the house. So, how in the heck have we allowed the U.S. to be referred to as a democracy? No more civics classes? Hmmmm. I'm sure it wasn't planned. Right? 🐂💨💩. 🍿🍻🇺🇸
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posted on
02/13/2018 11:01:00 AM PST
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: mplc51
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posted on
02/13/2018 11:02:21 AM PST
by
b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
To: Mariner
We're in MORE DANGER FROM THE DemocRATS, than the Russians !
Watch the LIVE VOTE RETURNS.
IF THE LIVE VOTE COUNT TOTALS START GOING
DOWN, YOU KNOW
"FRACTION MAGIC" IS BEING USED !
DemocRATS will NEVER leave elections in the hands of the voters again, after Trump won !
STEALING ELECTIONS WITH COMPUTERS and
Technology Cybercrimes, watch Bloomberg's
Digital Defense November 3, 2016 (19:40).
![](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51D26P68WCL.jpg)
To better understand
"THE MASTER KEY" to stealing elections with computers, watch:
I'LL
NEVER TRUST ANOTHER COMPUTER COUNTED ELECTION AGAIN !
Things have changed!
Bennie Smith, a Memphis computer programmer, discovered HOW this is done through a
" ... a GEMS tabulatorfor Global Election Management Systemwhich is a personal computer installed with Diebold software that sits in a windowless room in the countys election headquarters.
The tabulator is the brains of the system.
It monitors the voting machines, sorts out which machines have delivered data and which havent, and tallies the results.
As voting machines check in and their votes are included in the official count, each machines status turns green on the GEMS master panel.
A red light means the upload has failed.
At the end of Memphiss election night in October 2015, there was no indication from the technician running Shelby Countys GEMS tabulator that any voting machine hadnt checked in or that any votes had gone missing, according to election commission e-mails obtained by Bloomberg Businessweek.
Yet as county technicians followed up on the evidence from Smiths poll-tape photo, they discovered more votes that never made it into the election night count, all from precincts with large concentrations of black voters. ... "
Diebold Election Systems changed its name in 2006 to
Premier Election Solutions.
Bloomberg's article titled
How to Protect Against Election Day Hacking gives more proof of this by Memphis computer programmer Bennie Smith.
"... The method Smith used to catch the problem should be a playbook for any candidate, party or concerned citizen worried about the accurate tallying of their votes:Smith snapped some pictures of printed voting tallies (known as poll tapes) at a high-turnout polling location and then compared the results there to the electronic tabulations.
This is a very good, if labor-intensive, way to check to ensure that votes are being counted correctly.
Smith has created a proof-of-concept program called Fraction Magic, showing how corrupt officials could tamper with GEMS to manipulate election outcomes.
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posted on
02/13/2018 11:03:24 AM PST
by
Yosemitest
(It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
To: mplc51
This is from “Yahoo news” terms that are mutually exclusive.
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posted on
02/13/2018 11:03:25 AM PST
by
pfflier
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