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Former FBI Director Predicts Russian Hackers Will Interfere With More Elections (nytimes.com)
An anonymous reader quotes the New York Times:
James B. Comey, the former director of the F.B.I., testified that the Russians had not only intervened in last year's election, but would try to do it again... Russian hackers did not just breach Democratic email accounts; according to Mr. Comey, they orchestrated a "massive effort" targeting hundreds of -- and possibly more than 1,000 -- American government and private organizations since 2015... As F.B.I. director, he supervised counterintelligence investigations into computer break-ins that harvested emails from the State Department and the White House, and that penetrated deep into the computer systems of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Yet President Barack Obama's administration did not want to publicize those intrusions, choosing to handle them diplomatically -- perhaps because at the time they looked more like classic espionage than an effort to manipulate American politics...
Graham Allison, a longtime Russia scholar at Harvard, said, "Russia's cyberintrusion into the recent presidential election signals the beginning of what is almost sure to be an intensified cyberwar in which both they -- and we -- seek to participate in picking the leaders of an adversary." The difference, he added, is that American elections are generally fair, so "we are much more vulnerable to such manipulation than is Russia," where results are often preordained... Similar warnings have been issued by others in the intelligence community, led by James R. Clapper Jr., who has sounded the alarm since retiring in January as director of national intelligence. "I don't think people have their head around the scope of what the Russians are doing," he said recently.
Daniel Fried, a career diplomat who oversaw sanctions imposed on Russia before retiring this year, told the Times that Comey "was spot-on right that Russia is coming after us, but not just the U.S., but the free world in general. And we need to take this seriously."
Graham Allison, a longtime Russia scholar at Harvard, said, "Russia's cyberintrusion into the recent presidential election signals the beginning of what is almost sure to be an intensified cyberwar in which both they -- and we -- seek to participate in picking the leaders of an adversary." The difference, he added, is that American elections are generally fair, so "we are much more vulnerable to such manipulation than is Russia," where results are often preordained... Similar warnings have been issued by others in the intelligence community, led by James R. Clapper Jr., who has sounded the alarm since retiring in January as director of national intelligence. "I don't think people have their head around the scope of what the Russians are doing," he said recently.
Daniel Fried, a career diplomat who oversaw sanctions imposed on Russia before retiring this year, told the Times that Comey "was spot-on right that Russia is coming after us, but not just the U.S., but the free world in general. And we need to take this seriously."
SO far they claimed Russia hacked the 2016 election but yet not 1 piece of proof has shown that to be true, only so called "hack" that happened on elections was by the DNC rigging the primaries as well as in states like California letting people vote that don't even hold US citizenship.
There should be no fuzz on this whatsoever, Mr. Comey said. The Russians interfered in our election during the 2016 cycle. They did it with purpose. They did it with sophistication. They did it with overwhelming technical efforts. And it was an active-measures campaign driven from the top of that government. There is no fuzz on that.
I call bullshit. How? Give an example of how the Russians 'interfered' in any real demonstrable way with the last US election. They changed the votes? If so how? I guess they could try to buy votes or even more effectively perhaps bribe the electors whose votes actually matter. Of course if our electors are buyable we really only have ourselves to blame for being so easily corruptible and by having a system that is so easy to influence with money. But is there any evidence the Russians or anyone actually did this? I'd like to see the evidence rather than vague and essentially meaningless anti-Russian propaganda. If they want to hack insecure email systems I say good for them. It has no direct connection to US elections and I am totally cool with it. Improve the security of email rather than whining about it like little bitches. Also for those of you who want to go back to the Cold War just because you don't like the current president, fuck you. Stop picking fights with the Russkies. If you want to saber rattle at them it had better be for a damned good reason and email hacking does not qualify. How the fuck has the American Democratic party become war mongers?
Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.
Don't try to hide the only strategic analysis of revealed Russian aggression. They must be fought directly and quickly or the losses will be even greater.
I see. So you want to go to war with Russia? Would that be a land war? That worked out so well for Hitler and his minions. I'll tell you what. How about YOU go to war with them. Go over there. Bring a gun. Declare war against them. Let us know how it works out for you, chicken hawk war monger. I have no problem with the Russians. I like them. I don't want to fight them.
I guess the problem with the new Millennium and Globalism or whatever you call it is the lack of villains. We don't have anyone to fight against. No real villains. I mean yeah we have North Korea I guess. Kim Jong-Un is a kind of Clown-Villain and he might be worth going to war with, but aside from the powder keg in the middle east I can't really think of anyone else at the moment. So if you have such an itchy trigger finger and are target seeking maybe try aiming your weapon at a real villain rather than an imaginary one.
Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.
The NY Times has gone downhill. Nowadays, whenever I see a link to them I think to myself, "What are they trying to get me to believe now?" This is not limited to the Donald Trump / Russia stuff though that's been their main beat since the inauguration.
For example:
Prozac Nation Is Now the United States of Xanax. Basically a drug ad for Xanax. The 90s were about Prozac! The 21st century is about Xanax!! Everybody go pop them pills!
I could find more, but it's pretty obvious that it's a PR rag for a very narrow agenda to anyone who's paying attention. Their modus operandi is to pick a narrative and publish lots of stories that reinforce their narrative by taking any little bit of information, anonymous sources, overheard gossip, basically whatever confirms it and repeat it over and over to a national audience.
Perhaps it wouldnt, I seriously doubt Russia's meddling in our elections is a protest movement against our past sins.
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