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US Investigating Potential Covert Russian Plan To Disrupt November Elections (washingtonpost.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Washington Post: U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies are probing what they see as a broad covert Russian operation in the United States to sow public distrust in the upcoming presidential election and in U.S. political institutions, intelligence and congressional officials said. The aim is to understand the scope and intent of the Russian campaign, which incorporates cyber-tools to hack systems used in the political process, enhancing Russia's ability to spread disinformation. The effort to better understand Russia's covert influence operations is being coordinated by James R. Clapper Jr., the director of national intelligence. The Kremlin's intent may not be to sway the election in one direction or another, officials said, but to cause chaos and provide propaganda fodder to attack U.S. democracy-building policies around the world, particularly in the countries of the former Soviet Union. U.S. intelligence officials described the covert influence campaign here as "ambitious" and said it is also designed to counter U.S. leadership and influence in international affairs. One congressional official, who has been briefed recently on the matter, said "Russian 'active measures' or covert influence or manipulation efforts, whether it's in Eastern Europe or in the United States" are worrisome. It "seems to be a global campaign," the aide said. As a result, the issue has "moved up as a priority" for the intelligence agencies, which include the FBI and Department of Homeland Security as well as the CIA and the National Security Agency. Their comments came just before President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin talked privately about cyberspying and other matters on the sidelines of the Group of 20 talks in China.
NYT already pointed out how she made millions in bribes dealing with Russia while she was Secretary of State.
I'm a bit confused on why they keep saying Trump is working with them when they have already bribed Hillary. Her more important things is importing more potential terrorists for millions more in bribes to her. Don't worry, this time she will make sure no one finds out about the private email server.
"more important work to do." lols
Anyone with half a brain knows HRC is corrupt as fuck, and Trump is 100% unsuited for the office. FFS, the mainstream media has done a fine job of showing 2/3 of the electorate is aware of this is a fact, they're voting against someone instead of for someone.. Most of us don't think either one should be top dawg.
Mainstream media needs to start focusing on the alternatives, like Johnston and Stein, and quit telling us we're stuck with the two fuckwits we see on 99% of the news coverage.
or they can have martial law and make it so you can't vote.
This is Obama's backup plan to provide aid and comfort to the enemy known as ISIL/ISIS.
Why bother investigating? The overt stuff is bad enough.
It's as if Trump is ticking every box to do whatever he had ever accused someone else of doing.
The "truther" thing of 2011 was to imply that Obama was a "Manchurian Candidate" (watch the movie of that name if you haven't - good even if the science is wildly wrong) under the control of another power. So what does Trump do in 2016 - puts himself deep in debt with Russian banks tied very closely to Putin to theoretically put himself under the control of another power.
Trump is probably going to default on those loans and tell the Russians to piss off just like the US banks he's done the same to, but in some ways that's even worse.
Also Trump himself is already going on about how the election will be rigged - he's deliberately sowing distrust in the election.
Presumably, the same could also be said of Saudi Arabia and China.
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When a State can be basically decided by two cities (filithy-delphia and shits-burg) I completely agree with this effort. The urban dwellers have vastly different issues that rural/small towns that are still mainly based on farming.
The all or nothing approach disenfranchises a large % of the population. Seeing that most urban voters are poor and black they vote democratic... even though the democrats are in largely the reason they are poor.
And gerrymandering is done by BOTH sides.
Even though this election may be self-inflicted, Putin can take credit regardless, and use that to threaten other nations.
"If you don't do things our way, you'll end up with bozos in your election also."
That may be a more effective threat than nukes.
Table-ized A.I.
As a shill you are going to dislike this one, but fair is fair.
Clinton hasn't said if she loses the system must be rigged. That's Trump. Hillary has however been caught repeatedly lying to the public, Law enforcement, Congress, Senators, and has done so for decades.
Clinton hasn't benefited from Russian hackers. Hillary and the DNC did however blame the Russians and attempted to pin motive (unsuccessfully) on Trump.
Clinton isn't particularly approved by people like Putin and David Duke. That's Trump. Trump disavowed Duke long before the media made their claim, so it's a try hard line of shit. Hillary has demonstrated that she cares nothing for the US and it's allies, only her own. Being disliked and untrustworthy may be a good set of traits for politicians to you, but not to others. More failed propaganda brought about by media.
Clinton didn't win the lie of the year last year from politifact. That's Trump. In fact if you add up each of their true, mostly true and half of their half true statements, Clinton is at 61% compared to Trump's 22.5%, so Trump tells the truth about a third as often as Clinton does. Hahaha, too fucking funny. The corrupt media has repeatedly given Clinton max ratings for her lies and THEY GET PAID TO PANDER FOR HER!
Clinton didn't basically ask for foreign espionage to be done on Hillary Clinton to help his campaign. The DNC has however attempted to claim that a plain statement regarding Hillary's "lost" emails is the same thing as requesting the US be hacked. Yet another failed effort at propaganda.
Clinton didn't call most Mexicans rapists and criminals. People who can't read persist in believing a propaganda message making the claim that Trump did, but most people can read. More failed propaganda.
Clinton didn't make up medical problems about her opponent. That's Trump. This is different from Hillary and the Democratic party talking about McCain how exactly? Oh, it's the same thing but against your candidate so it's bad.
Clinton didn't change the core of her key policy proposals so many times that not even her surrogates can keep up. That is such a bold faced lie I don't know where to start. How about abortion, LGBT rights, the war on Drugs, and rape victims to start. You get the idea I'm sure.
Clinton didn't do his best to get the Central Park 5 killed, completely bypassing due process. That's Trump. (The turned out to be innocent.) Another WTF? Are you doing a poor job of attempting to divert people from investigating the Clinton's Body Count? Like the DNC staffer who was murdered right around the time of the DNC leaks, which was blamed on "robbery" within a day yet nothing was missing on him?
Clinton isn't the one that paid bribes That's Trump in Florida and texas. I'm sure you have criminal conviction to reference right? Oh no, you don't. Another propaganda claim.
Clinton isn't the one funnelling what money she can back into herself. Except for the currently being investigated Clinton Foundation right? Oh shit, another one you lie openly about.
Trump hasn't spent her whole life as a public servant, with a long record to show for it. That's Hillary. Trump just has multiple bankruptcies, failed businesses and ruined lives. Career politicians have done such a great job with our country over the last two hundred years they have proven that business people interested in preserving liberty can't do the job right? Except for the founding fathers, and Lincoln, and countless other people who were not career politicians but working people who took office trying to make the country better. That is probably your most useless piece of propaganda because Trump gains support because he is not a career politician. People are well beyond seeing through the guise.
Trump isn't the one with a charity that has saved million
It's in the US national spirit to distrust authority
You might be able to say that about the framers of the Constitution fleeing from British rule. However, the Silent Generation and the Baby Boomers sure don't see it that way. Have you had a Baby Boomer manager? The rhetoric is "trust me, do exactly what I say and I'll reward you appropriately." There is no better way to become the adversary of a baby boomer than expressing skepticism of their authority.
You're probably Generation X or younger. Generation X broke the trend of blind obedience and trust in government and social institutions. We had a lot of motivation like McCarthyism, Vietnam, etc. We looked at the horrors of the blind obedience to the Third Reich. In recent times, we've watched the US Chamber of Commerce buy our politicians to write pro Laissez Faire policies that benefit them without considering the (sometimes devastating) side effects of those policies. The Millenials have continued that trend. I understand your perspective and agree but regardless we need to acknowledge that we have quite a fragmented culture with wildly varying belief systems and this propaganda would be useful against certain segments depending on the agenda.
We'll make great pets