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Website targeting U.S. election officials draws attention of intelligence agencies
Reuters ^ | 10 Dec 2020 | Andy Sullivan, Brad Heath, Mark Hosenball

Posted on 12/10/2020 5:02:12 PM PST by blueplum

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The harassment campaign against U.S. election officials following President Donald Trump’s defeat took an ominous turn on Thursday after a website surfaced that accused them of “treason” and included photographs and home addresses, drawing the attention of U.S. intelligence agencies....

... Cybersecurity experts helping with election security said one of the pages was hosted in Russia, and some records include accounts registered through Yandex, a Russian email platform. Those links do not necessarily mean that the Russian government is behind the effort, the experts said....

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: andysullivan; bradheath; christopherkrebs; elections; hosenball; jimwalden; jordanfuchs; krebs; markhosenball; parler; russia; spies; spooks
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mentioned in the article, Parler folks take note.
1 posted on 12/10/2020 5:02:12 PM PST by blueplum
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To: blueplum

Anyone know the URL? Not in the story.


2 posted on 12/10/2020 5:06:40 PM PST by E Pluribus Bellum
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To: blueplum
This is another of the one trick pony democrats "Russia, Russia, Russia" frauds.
3 posted on 12/10/2020 5:07:24 PM PST by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: blueplum

Before reading it, if Reuters is reporting this, I’m guessing that it is Dem officials getting doxed. Personally, I think that’s only fair given the open and overt doxing and harassment of Trump supporters.


4 posted on 12/10/2020 5:09:07 PM PST by calenel (Tree of Liberty is thirsty.)
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To: calenel

dems and reps. What is curious is, this incident of doxing excites the ‘intelligence agencies’ but the doxing of Trump supporters and of police and other notables over the summer was met with an enormous yawn. Seems to me it’s more of an excuse to shove their snouts into the parler website.


6 posted on 12/10/2020 5:14:21 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: blueplum
Wonder which cia intel agency cia set the web page up cia to frame conservatives?
7 posted on 12/10/2020 5:15:47 PM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
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To: ghannonf18

The leftists pour gasoline all over everything, light a match, hold up the match and say, “Time to heal!”


8 posted on 12/10/2020 5:16:13 PM PST by BusterDog
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To: BusterDog

+1


9 posted on 12/10/2020 5:17:49 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: blueplum

I’m so sick of the theatrical horror and outrage from the leftists. They have been rioting, burning, looting, and targeting Trump supporters for years now and barely anything is said or done, but some photoshopped pictures appear on the internet and they gasp and prattle.

Steal an election, what do you expect?

They use stuff like this to try to silence us. They can stuff it you know where.


10 posted on 12/10/2020 5:24:15 PM PST by itzmygun (Elitism + Hatred of Mankind = Today's "Liberalism")
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To: blueplum; piasa
The attorney quoted in the article trying to blame Trump for this, Jim Walden, has represented some curious clients:

"While a partner at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Walden, along with F. Joseph Warin, successfully represented Joseph Cassano, the CEO of AIG's Financial Products unit, for his alleged role in the 2008 financial crisis. . .In 2003, Walden represented Lloyd Silverstein, who was charged in Federal Court along with a number of other executives, with financial mismanagement at Computer Associates. . .In 2013, Walden negotiated a voluntary settlement with New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman on behalf of CareCredit LLC, a subsidiary of GE Capital Retail Bank.[43] At the time of the inquiry, CareCredit was the largest issuer of consumer health care financing in the United States, with approximately 160,000 providers nationwide.[43] The company was under investigation for alleged deceptive business practices. . .Walden represents Brittany Kaiser, the former director of business development for SCL Group, the parent company of Cambridge Analytica. . .She is alleged to have discussed the 2016 US Presidential Election with Julian Assange of Wikileaks in 2017, which Walden denies. . .Walden was the attorney for Grigory Rodchenkov, the former director of Russia's national anti-doping laboratory. Rodchenkov's role as a whistle-blower helped expose Russia's state-sponsored doping system. . .Rodchenkov's work is detailed in the Netflix documentary Icarus which includes a brief appearance by Walden discussing how Rodchenkov's life is in danger following his revelations about Russian doping. . ."

11 posted on 12/10/2020 5:24:22 PM PST by Fedora
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To: blueplum

One coauthor of the article, Mark Hosenball, was deported from Great Britain for conspiring with Soviet intelligence in the 1970s; he was active in perpetrating the Russia dossier hoax.


12 posted on 12/10/2020 5:26:39 PM PST by Fedora
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To: Rashputin

Amen! This is another of the one trick pony democrats “Russia, Russia, Russia” frauds.

It is really the left over Clintons and their ChiCom buddies.


13 posted on 12/10/2020 5:35:48 PM PST by Grampa Dave (A society's first line of defense is not the law but customs, traditions & moral values. W. Williams)
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To: Fedora

Walden is representing fired DHS official Christopher Krebs in a defamation suit against Trump and diGenoa.


14 posted on 12/10/2020 5:37:33 PM PST by Fedora
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To: Fedora

Krebs was responsible for election cybersecurity and was fired after he dismissed election fraud allegations.


15 posted on 12/10/2020 5:39:07 PM PST by Fedora
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To: Fedora

good catch!!


16 posted on 12/10/2020 5:56:07 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: blueplum

Where can I get a Hallmark thank you card in Cyrillic?


17 posted on 12/10/2020 7:04:30 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
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To: DesertRhino

Hosenball! lol.

also -

additional reporting by Christopher Bing and Joseph Menn; Editing by Scott Malone and Daniel Wallis

globalist Reuters is the worst of the worst.


18 posted on 12/10/2020 7:09:02 PM PST by MAGAthon
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Tweet: Jan Wolfe, Reuters
In an alarming statement, Chris Krebs’s lawyer says a “shadow group” is advocating “the assassination of various Republican and Democratic leaders.”
The lawyer add: “If blood is spilled, it is on the hands of the president.”
LINK Jim Walden (representing Christopher Krebs) document:
(excerpt) “a shadow group has aunched a campaign on a website called ***’enemies of the people’...
9 Dec 2020
https://twitter.com/JanNWolfe/status/1336869440470855681

also quoted in article:

Heidi Beirich | Southern Poverty Law Center
Heidi Beirich leads the SPLC’s Intelligence Project, which publishes the award-winning Intelligence Report and the Hatewatch blog...

Tweet: Heidi Beirich, Co-Founder // Chief Strategy Officer Global Project Against Hate and Extremism @globalextremism Expert on right-wing extremism.
Just want to point out that this site wouldn’t be up if it wasn’t for @Cloudflare. Nice to be in @reuters, but sadly for one of the most disgusting things I’ve seen online.
LINK Reuters
10 Dec 2020
Website targeting U.S. election officials draws attention of intelligence agencies
https://twitter.com/heidibeirich/status/1337140341191938048

also from article:

Georgia’s deputy secretary of state, Jordan Fuchs, likewise pointed the finger at the president.
“Trump and U.S. senators have refused to condemn these death threats,” she told Reuters. “In fact, he continues to support those who are actively calling for elections officials to be shot.”...
Fuchs said Georgia officials had reported the site to law enforcement...

Deputy Secretary Jordan Fuchs Appointed to Electronic Registration Information Center Board of Directors
https://sos.ga.gov/index.php/general/deputy_secretary_jordan_fuchs_appointed_to_electronic_registration_information_center_board_of_directors

Fuchs is a media darling - CNN especially.


19 posted on 12/10/2020 7:45:31 PM PST by MAGAthon
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To: MAGAthon

10 Dec: Washington Times: Election officials, FBI director among targets shown in crosshairs in online ‘Enemies’ list
by Andrew Blake
The FBI said Thursday it was aware of several current and former state and federal government officials being targeted online as traitors for purportedly helping to rig the recent presidential race.
FBI Director Christopher A. Wray is among more than a dozen individuals accused of treason, a capital punishment, by whoever is running the recently launched ***“Enemies of the People” website...
The FBI told The Washington Times it was aware of the site but declined to comment further...
Mr. Walden said he learned about the site a day after filing a lawsuit on behalf of Mr. Krebs in light of a lawyer for the Trump campaign, Joseph diGeneova, saying his client should be shot...

The Washington Times found a website matching the description given by Mr. Walden. It remained online Friday after an earlier iteration had recently vanished from another web address.
The site alleges the people listed committed a crime punishable by death for purportedly having a part in Mr. Trump recently losing his race for reelection to Democratic challenger Joseph R. Biden.
“Changing votes and working against the President is treason and patriotic Americans should never forget those who helped overthrow our democracy!” it says.
In addition to Mr. Krebs, the former head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, and Mr. Wray, the site lists various state officials and employees of a company that makes voting machines.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/dec/10/election-officials-fbi-director-among-targets-show/


20 posted on 12/10/2020 7:53:04 PM PST by MAGAthon
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