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President Trump Misses 90-Day Deadline To Appoint a Cybersecurity Team After Alleged Russian Hacking (politico.com)
From a report: President-elect Donald Trump was very clear: "I will appoint a team to give me a plan within 90 days of taking office," he said in January, after getting a U.S. intelligence assessment of Russian interference in last year's elections and promising to address cybersecurity. Thursday, Trump hits his 90-day mark. There is no team, there is no plan, and there is no clear answer from the White House on who would even be working on what. It's the latest deadline Trump's set and missed -- from the press conference he said his wife would hold last fall to answer questions about her original immigration process to the plan to defeat ISIS that he'd said would come within his first 30 days in office. Since his inauguration, Trump's issued a few tweets and promises to get to the bottom of Russian hacking -- and accusations of surveillance of Americans, himself included, by the Obama administration.
I guess "the Cyber" is actually hard, huh? Kind of like Health Care, or North Korea?
Who knew?
Trump got into power by nothing but bluster. He isn't going to be able to deliver on more than 5% of what he promised on the campaign trail. With a Republican majority in the Senate and the House of Representatives he STILL couldn't repeal Obamacare. With the deck stacked entirely in his favor he still can't deliver.
America, you've been had.
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rediculous.
There is not a single person, anywhere, who actually expected him to even begin to deliver on this promise. He says whatever the hell he feels like saying in the moment and has absolutely no interest whatsoever in actually doing the work of running a country--then or now.
Please stop pretending otherwise. Things are bad enough without this layer of affectation.
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You really expected these people to keep their promises? Does everybody vote for them just so they can have something to complain about? Don't expect to be taken seriously when you consistently reelect over 95% of them. You reward them for lying, so I hope you don't expect them to stop doing so.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Continuous behaviors of ineptitude in the highest office of this land. With precedents like this being put in place, all of our future POTUS' don't even need to worry about lifting a finger in Washington.. You can just work on your golf game for four years on the taxpayer dime.
At last, we finally have undeniable proof that Donald J. Trump is a deep cover Russian agent sent here decades ago to hand the U.S. over to Russia! And to think, they called us all delusional, hysterical crackpots, with zero critical thinking skills, all throwing childish temper tantrums because our candidate lost a close election. The fools! Vindication is now ours!
Get me that egghead Bill Gates on the line.
We don't ordinarily allow criticism of a republican on the front page here; could this be from someone who is trying to get us to like Mike Pence in case he ascends to POTUS after Trump resigns?
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
#winning
No one sent him a tweet reminding him of his promise. Not that he'd read it, or care.
Daesh, not ISIL. Should always use Daesh since they hate being called that.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
Trump? Plan? Surely you jest.
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Oh, I'm not saying stop -fighting-. I'm saying "stop pretending that his policy suggestions are serious, because they never came from a serious place in the first place."
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I say you're probably a troll.
For every dollar spent investigating a corrupt oligarch-led culture that has successfully compromised the integrity of the world's most powerful nation we buy a small semblance of continuity with the ideals to which we should adhere whether a con-man usurper has taken the highest seat in the land or someone who merely sent emails.
When T proclaimed, "Nobody knew healthcare could be so complicated", I could hear the sound of 100-million face-palms. Foreheads all over had finger marks the next day.
Table-ized A.I.
I say for every dollar wasted on this whole Russia BS, two dollars get used for obummer and Hitlery investigation of corruption.
So considering all the money spent investigating Hillary (Benghazi, email, et. al) We should only need to spend another 2 billion or so by your math investigating trump.
Show of hands, who's actually shocked by this news?
Trump is full of all talk, little action, and most of that is misguided. He doesn't seem to have the first clue as to what he's doing, and his administration is either following that lead, or following Trump's only other plan, which is loot as much as possible before leaving office.
Mr. Hu is not a ninja.
Nothing says taking the fight to the enemy like calling them a term they don't like being called.
I can only imagine how the Germany & Japan took to being called 'Jerries' & 'Japs', probably won the wore more than anything else.
Help Brendan pay off his student loans
There is no team, there is no plan, and there is no clear answer from the White House on who would even be working on what.
I get the feeling that we're going to hear this alot over the next four years
The guy is no longer president, what administration are they talking about? To the best of my knowledge, since leaving office, Barack Obama seems to be taking a bit of a breather from politics for at least the time being. Sounds like baseless finger-pointing, if you ask me.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
Trump wouldn't have needed Congressional approval, Senate confirmation, even a budget hearing. Just ask his Chief of Staff to hire some people. That's it. Done. Simple, promise kept, cross it off the list (uhh, is there a list?) Instead, he tweeted a lot of nonesense, rubber-stamped a bunch of stuff from Ryan and the Generals, and played golf at his estate on weekends at taxpayer expense.
Ok, I get it that some people just hate Dems, foam at the mouth and all. But this guy is doing a lot of nothing, all the while his hotels and other properties mop up the bucks (STAY at the "official" Hotel of the Prez-Z-Dent!!! Sweet Deal! Get a Free Hat if you book the PrezeeDential Suite!) while he gives his entourage free miles on Air Force One (plus secret service details). I guess none of that counts, as long as you keep hating Dems?
Take it easy, Charlie, I've got an Angle...
You're using words that no one outside of extremist websites use in real life. That leads us to a couple possible conclusions, neither of which speak very highly of your character.
More like news for people who aren't paying attention.
The administration is way behind on filling much more important positions than this. Last month suddenly reversed themselves on the US attorneys staying on until there are replacements... fine, but as of today there aren't any nominees for any of the 93 prosecutor positions, because they haven't filled the undersecretary level positions that do that. Justice is also missing a number of key appointees for national security positions.
There's the same story at state, where over half of the high level appointees have yet to be named, including officials to oversee the Middle East or nuclear anti-proliferation.
The confusing situation with the USS Vinson might well have something to do with the fact that a number of important second and third tier DoD positions haven't been filled, and the same at the Executive Office of the President. A lot of what those people a teir or two below the top do is make sure the right hand knows what the left is doing.
Cybersecurity is an important issue, but the administration doesn't have the people in place to set up and run such a team yet.
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This is one of the last places we can read technology without the empty vessels making noise about their political views. They don't belong here. There are plenty of places to voice political opinions - slashdot is not one of those. @slashdot - political vitriol should not be allowed.
Mhmmmm sure .... Just be glad those chem trails haven't gotten you yet. This does prove what I've suspected all along though. Putin loves Americans but hates black people! Just like George Bush and his manufactured Katrina hurricane produced by the CIA's super secret huricaner conflagulation device.
Not a single thing you said makes any sense.
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when he bombed Syria & Afghanistan. "Look the other way everyone" was the answer. Now stop asking questions. We've always been at war with Eurasia.
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right up until "Deep Cover". Nobody in Deep Cover would be this obvious about it. My 4 year old could hide stolen cookies better than Trump hides his Russian ties.
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That (a series or network of tubes) was actually a pretty good analogy to describe internet and its data flow to lay people.
Bandwidth, latency etc can be well understood with this analogy.
I think the people who laughed at this description of the Internet are severely imagination-deficient. And no, I have no idea what political side the guy who described the net thus is on, so I have no axe to grind either way.
Explaining by good analogy is actually an intellectual skill and a gift. Kind of like a box of chocolates...
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
Cutting red tape to ribbons is an intrinsically easier job than building up effective layers of regulation that prevent the public interest being bent over a barrel, while the longest of all possible rubber gloves rummages around for the better part of a trillion dollars.
Evidently, no money was harmed in the operation.
The job, as I see it, is a little harder to accomplish, once you concede that there is such a thing as effective regulation, though it's yet far from a science; science also being a discipline where time after time ones best efforts fall short, and yet one perseveres.
In the best case scenario, even after regulation becomes more of science, it will still be double hard: hard to do and hard on the ego.
Kind of makes a guy want to double down on only caring about money, setting oneself up on a lavish private beach, and watching the glorious Egos soar.
Maybe he hasn't appointed a task force to look into Russian hacking because he can't find anyone who can lie convincingly about the subject to actually fool anyone?
Meanwhile there's an ongoing independent investigation into possible Russian tampering with the November election. Oh, and by the way: Russian has also been tampering with elections in other countries, too, and Russia appears to be where much of the cyber-hacking in the world originates from. Not like this idea came out of nowhere.
Worst case scenario: Trump and/or his staff are discovered to have been complicit in tampering with the election, and the election is declared null-and-void, Trump is removed from office. Where, then, do we go from there? Is Pence then installed as President, or is he tossed out on his ear, along with the rest of the Trump Cabinet? If this were a TV show, that'd be damned interesting to watch, but here in the Real World, I can't see it as anything other than a complete disaster for the United States. The last thing we need in this country right now, considering the socio-political climate of the entire planet, is a power-vacuum. However if that's what the conclusion of the investigation revealed, what else could we do?
It's just bad all around. None of this should have happened. Trump never had any business being elected President. Hillary Clinton should never have been the Democratic candidate. Vladimir Putin should never have been allowed to rise to power in Russia. North Korea. China. Islamic State. It's just bad all over, none of it is funny, not before, not now, and in the end everybody loses in one way or another. Many Conservatives who voted for Trump are now regretting it, seeing what it is they've bought into. There is now a greater chance of getting into an armed conflict with North Korea, and Kim Jong Un is batshit-insane and would use a nuke if you poked him enough. The world is painting itself into a corner and I don't know how or if we'll manage to fix all this.
Well there were a few holidays, weekends and trips to Mar-a-lago in there, so maybe it was 90 working days.
Democrats aren't going to persecute themselves genius.
Did you just call Chaffetz a democrat?
Yeah, "series of tubes" wasn't a a bad analogy in itself, but there were many terrible analogies and hilarious falsehoods in the rest of the infamous rant surrounding it.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
Interrupt his golf game for something as nebulous as cybersecurity? You must be joking.
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
... They had moles in the FBI, DoJ as well as the White House. Hence the meet between Clinton & Lynch on the airport tarmac when the two don't even know each other. Coincidence? Not likely. Rigging/payoff...
I think Comey's sudden announcement of more Emails to investigate nearly on the eve of the election, on a Friday Afternoon, seems way more influential and suspicious than the crap fake news you quoted. You could see a 10 point swing in the polling numbers after that.
to head that team is Jared Kushner.
It's not like he has anything better to do.
but the more I think about it, I believe you're closer.
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
Show of hands, who was sitting on their hands, waiting for the incoming administration to ramp up a cyber security team to help democrats secure their private, non-government email servers? In providing guidance to geniuses like Jpn Podesta to NOT use 'password' as the password on your work GMAIL account?
Seriously, Democrats ignored warnings from FBI that they were being targeted by hackers, the Republicans heeded the warning, with predictable results in both cases.
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You do realize the Russia thing was an attempt by Obama to cover up his spying on a political opponent's campaign? While attempting to prove it they couldn't find anything.
Susan Rice unmasked all conversations between Trump people and any foreigners they talked to. It was even mentioned she told spy agencies to spy specifically on Trump known associates to help her out.
They requested a FISA warrant on Trump in June before the election, so blatant it was the 11th ever turned down in the 27 years of the FISA court.
They GOT a FISA warrant on Carter Page, a Trump advisor, just before the election on evidence that failed to produce any kind of prosecution, showing that they lied to get it or found a corrupt judge.
No, the Russia thing is an EMBARRASMENT for Obama and showed his spying on campaigns. You are supposed to drop the issue, in case you haven't noticed all the news agencies dropped the issue like a hot potato once it was obvious Obama's administration was breaking the law by spying on US citizens, specifically political campaigns.
Now tell me again, what did Nixon do that people didn't like? I can't seem to find a liberal that can answer that one any more.
Well the team and the evidence exist in the same state.
i.e. they don't
You're right about the SoS. But the current head of Exxon is asking the former head of Exxon for a waiver of sanctions so they can make money with Russian oil companies.
But I'm sure you don't think that is corruption. Unless it was Hillary, then ITS THE WORST!
He's been a Democrat before he was a Republican?
He promised to pay back loans and contractors and then didn't?
He was for virtually everything until he was against it?
I mean, he's been sooo consistant and open throughout his life that this New Trump must be some sort of aberration.
The one thing that has never wavered is Trump does what is best for Trump and screw the rest of you.
I'm a consultant - I convert gibberish into cash-flow.
to know what all this influence was. Do they mean something like Radio Free Europe...
As of this posting I cannot find
Globalist, Soros, NWO, MSM, Islam, Cuck, Antifa, MAGA, Zionist, Jews, ((())), kek, Pepe, gay frog, Bankster, WWIII, Feminazi
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Elites, Trump, Obummer. Liberal, Policy, Banks
On the basis of this information I conclude that there are more intelligent people on Slashdot than on most internet forums. Though if I had wanted a floating box docked to the top right of the screen obscuring what I was reading I would have fcuking asked for it.
Facts are history now plebs have politics for religion on social media.
Trump meant 90 _working_ days. Once you take off weekends, Mar-a-largo holidays, golf days and campaigning for 2020 days he is up to about day 12 now.
You will see that in his first 100 days (working days) he will have done more than any President has done in their whole term. Of course he may never get to 100 days if he isn't re-elected in 2020.
At least no more than usual, certainly none that had any direct influence in the US election. No evidence has been found, the narrative is being pushed by the Hillary camp and MSM.
http://thefederalist.com/2016/11/14/election-marks-end-americas-racial-detente/
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7268
(Apologies for the mangled characters. I just don't care enough to fix them today. Click the links if they bother you.)
See that "Preview" button?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/p...
Jill Stein and husband together: 302,258
http://money.cnn.com/2014/04/0...
It takes "at least $389,000 to make the club".
It's funny to think that in 50 years trolls are still going to be shouting that while their eyes whirl around in their heads.
You think Republicans don't have moles in those origanizations?
Republicans-in-power tend to be less for-the-people and more pro-company / pro-money. They tend to be fine with companies throwing shit into the water (see coal mining regulations, trying to throw out FDA's report due to chemical company lobbying) and letting companies get away with it.
I would expect MORE Republicans to be in higher positions since they're usually the ones with the money, and have less scruples as long as it makes them rich and powerful.
The fact that nothing has come about from "leaks" by replublican aligned agents indicates there's nothing here.
Unless, of course, you're saying republicans are shit at this political stuff, because the democrats have all the power for some reason =P
"President Trump Misses 90-Day Deadline To Appoint a Cybersecurity Team After Alleged Russian Hacking"
That's because he's an imbecile, and because he doesn't want anyone looking into Russian hacking connections, because who knows what they might find.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
All presidents are encumbered; our system is designed to do that. Trump has had it easier than previous presidents with his party in control of just about everything; including strong support from police and won thanks to the FBI (and just about anything else given how thin the victory was.) Before you say the Supreme Court does not count realize that the court rarely responds to anything quickly and by the time most anything reaches them he already has appointed his party control over it.
Trumps problems largely have been of his own creation; not a result of the opposition. He has had less trouble picking people and they hype what they can but he's not even picked people to even be attacked at a normal pace. So that too his his fault.
Trumps "slow down" is completely his own fault. He isn't a black man who actually was blocked at every turn and filibustered more than anybody in history.
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Trump got in to office by being lucky enough to run against Hillary Clinton. A huge part of the FULL electorate (Dems and Republicans) would vote for a ticket of Kim Jong-Un with Mahmood Ahmedinejad just to keep someone named Clinton out of the white house..
Democrats voted in overwhelming numbers for a full out Socialist over Clinton.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
Yes, but he had all the undersecretary positions filled at Justice by early March, and these are the people who do the legwork in finding and vetting the US attorney candidates. They're not going to find themselves.
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Except he wasn't making an analogy. Thus the mocking.
Trump lied?
Really?
Isn't that something that you people said was the reason to never vote for Hillary?
It's amazing how partisan this place became last year.
The same reason Powell, Rice and all the others were not prosecuted.
Different rules for people in the office versus people in the field.
It sucks, but it's been entrenched for a long time and it's kind of funny how it was blown up into a massive thing by the same people who suggested that it was OK for Petraeus to swap secrets for sex.
Nope. Mishandling classified evidence is mishandling classified evidence - just ask any whistleblower prosecuted for it, or former high level officials like Sandy Berger or David Petraeus.
You going to give Trump a free pass on everything, because there's even less to the Russian conspiracy theory than there is for anything on Benghazi (aside from a CIA black site, of course) using the same reasoning? The story that Russia hacked power companies fell apart within a day, so Trump didn't really say he liked grabbing women by their private parts. Because....reasons.
Oh, wait, there's MORE work to do? Work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work. (Hey, come to think of it, Governor LePetomane would probably do as good a job . . .)
News for nerds or news for really dumb shits? There was no hacking, if anyone would know, that's nerds. Breaking into Podesta's account using the password of password isn't hacking. There is nothing to show anything was done with any election process in any state to help Trump. We know thanks to Stein that Trump is very likely missing votes because when she did a recount he ended up with a lot more. We know from Obama's own best help he had that there was no Russian connection. In fact we know his people didn't take that bait. On the other hand we know Hillary received money from Russia, gave them around 1/3 of our Uranium while she was Scty of state and Podesta receive hundreds of thousands of bucks from them, as an illegal unregistered foreign agent. Lots of ties from Russia to the Democrats.
Again - what hacking?
Not even a talking point, it's just outright lies.
So you actually think Trump in showmanship mode is "proof" that he is not able to form complete thoughts?
Where I am we had a politician up until the late 1980s who spoke like Trump. It was a tactic of speaking utter nonsense (eg. "you can't walk on both sides of a barbed wire fence") for long enough to confuse a journalist and at that time keep it up until a film change was needed (only a few minutes with the small portable cameras used for TV news) and the journalist needed to start again. Others use tricks along those lines.
He's a creature of "reality TV" these days. Postures and sound bites instead of anything concrete. I don't think he ever had his mind in a better state so I don't think you have Trump being declared non compos mentis and a President Pence to look forward to.
Stevens said "it's like a series of tubes". That is exactly what an analogy is.
Okay. I am convinced now. Impeach Trump.
Self-importance and self-indulgence is the root of ALL evil.
Yes,because Obama was also a warmongering neoliberal freakshow, and didn't want to prosecute the previous administration least he be prosecuted himself for his own war crimes and criminality.
Who was actually prosecuted for mishandling classified evidence - which just reinforced the point that Comey should be thanked by Hillbots for being her BFF, not thrown under the bus.