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President-elect Donald Trump lashed out at the media Wednesday over the sustained focus on Democratic rival Hillary Clinton’s popular-vote lead on Election Day, firing off a string of tweets reminding America that he campaigned specifically to “win the Electoral College.” ... Trump, though, said Wednesday he would have campaigned “differently” if the United States chose presidents based on the popular vote only.

GOP Rep. Peter King accused CIA Director John Brennan on Sunday of orchestrating a “hit job” against GOP President-elect Donald Trump. In an interview Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” King, a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said while he agrees there should be an investigation into Russian involvement in the election, there should also be an investigation into Brennan for the “hit job he seems to be orchestrating against the president-elect,” Politico reports. This hit job, according to King, has taken the form of Brennan allegedly leaking intelligence assessments to the press and circumventing Congress, in...

Liberals are condemning President-elect Donald Trump and his people for supposed links to Vladimir Putin, but there was a time when Democrats were ingratiating themselves to the autocratic Russian leader and his country’s money. Former President Bill Clinton, for example, took $500,000 in speaking fees in 2010 from a Russian finance company run by former KGB spies closely tied to Mr. Putin, a former KGB officer. At the same time, Hillary Clinton, as secretary of state, was leading the way in urging U.S.-Russia business expansion, complete with an American high-tech delegation to Moscow and U.S. investments in Russian cyberskills. “We...

Ransomware spiked 6,000% in 2016 and most victims paid the hackers, IBM finds Harriet Taylor 14 Dec 2016 Spam emails loaded with ransomware — malware that scrambles data and demands a ransom to decode it — increased 6,000 percent this year compared with 2015, a new study from IBM Security found. Ransomware was in almost 40 percent of all spam messages in 2016. The problem is, the business model works: 70 percent of business victims paid the hackers to get their data back, the study found. Of those who paid, 50 percent paid more than $10,000 and 20 percent paid...

Will somebody please explain to me how the Russians (or anybody else) altered the federal election by hacking the DNC or the RNC or ???

Confusion reigns supreme in the world today, especially in the ability to discern right from wrong. It seems that we are approaching the "Days of Noah (and) Lot" in that so many in positions of power are making decisions that will bring judgment on our nation, and the world. John, however, asserts that even Lot didn't have to deal with this level of depravity and he politely warns that judgment is coming for our blatant endorsement of immoral acts, including the approval of murder in the womb in the name of "choice." While it is a lightly worded title, this...

"They came after us absolutely every day until the end of the election. They tried to hack into our system repeatedly," Brazile told ABC's Martha Raddatz in an exclusive interview on "This Week" Sunday. Obama said at a press conference Friday that Russia's "tampering" with the U.S. election process stopped in early September after he spoke to Putin at an international conference.

Mr. Trump offered two tweets that for the first time accepted the possibility of politically-motivated Russian hacking.

Following Barack Obama’s vow to take action against Russia for its alleged hacking of the DNC and Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair John Podesta’s emails, WikiLeaks has suggested the president upload any documents to its whistleblowing site for verification. In a tweet on Friday from the WikiLeaks Twitter account, the whistleblowing website encouraged Obama to “submit any Putin documents” to them so they can “be authenticated to our standards if he wants them to be seen as credible.” The tweet comes only a day Obama told NPR, “there is no doubt that when any foreign government tries to impact the integrity...

Once again, the media and the Democrats are trying to intimidate the American people into allowing the disqualification of Trump for President.  They are insisting that Russia swayed our election, working for the Trump presidency. To fulfill the progressives agenda of delegitimizing the Trump presidency, all of the mainstream media and most of the progressives in Congress, including McCain and Graham, have  spent the weekend pursing a narrative that is inconsistent at best, and a total lie at worst. It is a murky story from “senior Administration” officials who are not named and won’t go on the record, but the...

President Obama warned Russia on Friday not to wage cyberwarfare against the United States, saying, “We can do stuff to you” as he defended his handling of Moscow’s alleged hacking of Democrats’ emails to influence the 2016 election. “Our goal continues to be to send a clear message to Russia or others not to do this to us, because we can do stuff to you,” Obama told reporters at his final press conference of 2016.

The radical left continues to try, at the least, to diminish Donald Trump's victory. Among the truisms overlooked in their now-relentless tactic of blaming Russia: If the United States media had done its job and reported fairly on Hillary Clinton's probable criminal activities, what was released by Wikileaks would have been largely anti-climactic. The information in those leaks don't begin to approach the magnitude of Clinton's lokely criminal activity. By the way, the electors vote in the electoral college on Monday. The House of Representatives doesn't count and register the vote until early January. Will we know on Monday how...

The FBI is supporting the CIA's conclusion that Russia interfered in the presidential election with the goal of supporting Republican candidate Donald Trump. In a message sent to employees, CIA Director John Brennan said he had spoken with FBI Director James Comey and James Clapper, the director of national intelligence. Brennan said in the message that "there is strong consensus among us on the scope, nature, and intent of Russian interference in our presidential election." A U.S. official who had seen the unclassified message from Brennan confirmed it to The Associated Press on Friday. President Barack Obama is promising that...

With the Russians demanding to see evidence that implicates them in cyber-attacks, President Barack Obama is vowing retaliation for hacking operations aimed at interfering with the U.S. election. “I think there is no doubt that when any foreign government tries to impact the integrity of our elections ... we need to take action. And we will — at a time and place of our own choosing,” the president told NPR on Thursday. “Some of it may be explicit and publicized; some of it may not be," he added. The Russians, meanwhile, are scoffing at the accusations as their spy-turned-president, Vladimir...

President Obama says the United States will respond to Russian cyberattacks that the intelligence community has concluded were part of an effort to influence the 2016 presidential election.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk2LVM4NZys

They're warning Yahoo "subscribers." Subscribers are cautioned to change passwords, etc. Could someone explain what that means? What's the benefit of having a Yahoo account? Does that mean that someone uses a Yahoo home page to log onto sensitive personal data?

Was Reince Priebus right all along? Leaks from the CIA allege that Russian hackers gained access to computer systems at both the DNC and RNC, but only chose to expose Democratic data in an effort to defeat Hillary Clinton. Outgoing RNC chair and incoming chief of staff Priebus denied that the RNC had been hacked at all, which would put a rather large dent in the story coming from anonymous sources at Langley.According to the Wall Street Journal’s sources, Priebus told the truth: Russian hackers tried to penetrate the computer networks of the Republican National Committee, using the same...

"We need to take action and we will," he told US radio station NPR. Russia stands accused by the US of hacking the emails of the Democratic Party and a key Hillary Clinton aide, which the Kremlin strongly denies. Republican president-elect Donald Trump has also dismissed the claim as "ridiculous" and politically motivated.

In 1977, Carl Bernstein published an exposé of a CIA program known as Operation Mockingbird, a covert program involving, according to Bernstein, “more than 400 American journalists who in the past 25 years have secretly carried out assignments for the Central Intelligence Agency.” Bernstein found that in “many instances” CIA documents revealed that “journalists were engaged to perform tasks for the CIA with the consent of the managements of America’s leading news organizations.” Fast-forward to December 2016, and one can see that there isn’t much need for a covert government program these days.

ATLANTA - Channel 2 Investigative Reporter Aaron Diamant has learned two more states’ election agencies have confirmed cyberattacks linked to the same U.S. Department of Homeland Security IP address as last month’s massive attack in Georgia. In the past week, the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office has confirmed 10 separate cyberattacks on its network were traced back to DHS addresses. In an exclusive interview, Secretary of State Brian Kemp confirmed the attacks of different levels on his agency’s network over the last 10 months. He said they all traced back to DHS internet provider addresses. "We're being told something that...