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NSA Chief: Nation-State Made 'Conscious Effort' To Sway US Presidential Election (aol.com)
The head of the US National Security Agency has said that a "nation-state" consciously targeted presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, in order to affect the US election. From an AOL article:Adm. Michael Rogers, who leads both the NSA and US Cyber Command, made the comments in response to a question about Wikileaks' release of nearly 20,000 internal DNC emails during a conference presented by The Wall Street Journal. "There shouldn't be any doubt in anybody's minds," Rogers said. "This was not something that was done casually. This was not something that was done by chance. This was not a target that was selected purely arbitrarily. This was a conscious effort by a nation-state to attempt to achieve a specific effect." Rogers did not specify the nation-state or the specific effect, though US intelligence officials suspect Russia provided the emails to Wikileaks, after hackers stole them from inside DNC servers and the personal email account of Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, John Podesta. At least two different hacker groups associated with the Russian government were found inside the networks of the DNC over the past year, reading emails, chats, and downloading private documents. Many of those files were later released by Wikileaks.Further reading: Quartz and MotherJones.
That being said, however....if Hillary hadn't been such a weak candidate, and not had so many skeletons in her closet, and hadn't been involved with SO many shady things over her career, then none of her staff would have been talking about all this on those emails that were leaked, and there wouldn't have been so much dirt on her to be leaked.
While I detest the meddling in our country's election, regardless of the source....this info DID come strait from the Democrats showing their dirty laundry and underhanded tricks, being in bed with much of the main stream media.....and from the Clinton campaign where her staff was rightfully worried about all the baggage she carried and how poorly she was adept at handling it and not causing more problems for herself and public image.
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No you didn't; I owned one of those, way back in the day (was connected to the much-upgraded COSMAC ELF microcomputer trainer, that I added 8KB of static RAM to, a serial interface, and 2KB integer BASIC in 2708 EPROMs. A Model 33ASR Teletype was uppercase-only, at a blazing 10cps. Fully electro-mechanical, the keyboard had a 1-key rollover, so if you were a good typist, you'd have pressure on the next key before the TTY had finished transmitting the last one over the 20-milliamp current-loop interface.
So, it's ok for him to say racist & misogynistic stuff
No it is no "ok", but it also doesn't necessarily mean he is racist. If I was running for president, would I want David Duke to vote for me? YES, I would. Every extra vote helps. If I was asked by a reporter if I wanted David Duke to vote for me, what would I say? I would say "NO", because that is the politically correct thing to say, and too many Americans are too stupid to understand the difference between desiring someone's vote and agreeing with them. Since Donald doesn't filter what he says through political correctness (or rational analysis) he didn't disavow David Duke. But, to his credit, he did try to weasel out of it later by blaming it on a bad earpiece.
Tossing around insults like "racist", "misogynist" and "fascist" doesn't help to win elections. Instead, the Democrats should have talked about what they could do to help working class people. They abjectly failed to do that. It is ironic how the Republicans are perceived to be the party of the working class, while the Democrats are seen as controlled by the elite.