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Valuable Republican Donor Database Breached -- By Other Republicans (politico.com)
Politico reports:
Staffers for Senate Republicans' campaign arm seized information on more than 200,000 donors from the House GOP campaign committee over several months this year by breaking into its computer system, three sources with knowledge of the breach told Politico... Multiple NRSC staffers, who previously worked for the NRCC, used old database login information to gain access to House Republicans' donor lists this year. The donor list that was breached is among the NRCC's most valuable assets, containing not only basic contact information like email addresses and phone numbers but personal information that could be used to entice donors to fork over cash -- information on top issues and key states of interest to different people, the names of family members, and summaries of past donation history... Donor lists like these are of such value to party committees that they can use them as collateral to obtain loans worth millions of dollars when they need cash just before major elections...
"The individuals on these lists are guaranteed money," said a Republican fundraiser. "They will give. These are not your regular D.C. PAC list"... The list has helped the NRCC raise over $77 million this year to defend the House in 2018... Though the House and Senate campaign arms share the similar goal of electing Republican candidates and often coordinate strategy in certain states, they operate on distinct tracks and compete for money from small and large donors.
Long-time Slashdot reader SethJohnson says the data breach "is the result of poor deprovisioning policies within the House Republican Campaign Committee -- allowing staff logins to persist after a person has left the organization."
NRCC officials who learned of the breach "are really pissed," one source told the site.
"The individuals on these lists are guaranteed money," said a Republican fundraiser. "They will give. These are not your regular D.C. PAC list"... The list has helped the NRCC raise over $77 million this year to defend the House in 2018... Though the House and Senate campaign arms share the similar goal of electing Republican candidates and often coordinate strategy in certain states, they operate on distinct tracks and compete for money from small and large donors.
Long-time Slashdot reader SethJohnson says the data breach "is the result of poor deprovisioning policies within the House Republican Campaign Committee -- allowing staff logins to persist after a person has left the organization."
NRCC officials who learned of the breach "are really pissed," one source told the site.
More Republicans in jail. I like it.
There's a reason the term RiNO exists. Establishment "Republicans" are just globalists in disguise.
"NRCC officials who learned of the breach "are really pissed,"
And then they drowned their sorrows and got really pissed all over again.
"She's furniture with a pulse"
Your solicitations will read something like, "Dear Jack. You and I both realize the importance of keeping our borders secure. But if Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and George Soros have their way..."
OTOH if you are one of the 200,000, it'll be more like "Dear Jack: Congratulations on [Jack's daughter] Sheri placing second in the state tennis tournament! ..."
There is no honor among thieves...on any side of the aisle!
Are worse than Hitler.
Sounds a lot like someone may have "knowingly accessed a computer without authorization or exceeding authorized access" per 18 U.S. Code 1030. The literal text of this statute and its successors (parts of the Patriot Act, as well as the CFAA) wouldn't seem to apply to non-governmental systems; however, in practice, pretty much any computer system (including phones) is now covered by it, due to the interstate nature of the internet.
What's good for the goose...right? Maybe they'll be dumb enough to persec--i mean, prosecute them under the CFAA!
But at least they got the Estate Tax repealed and increased taxes on those lazy post-grad students.
America was made great on the backs of people like Paris Hilton and Donald Trump Jr.
Yes, they increased taxes on post-grad students. Those bastards!
And at the same time doubled the individual deduction for all taxpayers in the country.
Those bastards!
Politics or Humanity has momentum, we're heading toward something (who knows what). The domino's are falling and can't be stopped, I fear the next election results won't matter much. Let them fight over there trinket money sources we are all left out regardless.
I mean, their logins weren't deprovisioned. So they just kept logging in. How is that a "data breach"? I mean I get the legal definition, but this is a cockup, rather than hacking or something.
HR McMaster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._R._McMaster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Foreign_Relations
is just that. The Council on Foreign Relations is NOT AMERICAN. Not American interests either. Kudos on HR McMasters medals and badges, surely difficult and quite the worldly accomplishment while alive.
Also another revelation... the new versions of Firefox won't let you install the AdBlock Element Hiding tool... but... but... wikipedia being the Jew-ass editor congregation that it is... has all sorts of begs and pleas for donations popping up and sliding all over... on... yes, wikipedia.
all bad. I can't say HR McMaster is a bad person but that alliance with the CFR is no good. You found out too.
"But her emails"
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, anybody? If I do this to a former employer, I go to jail ... and these Republicans will screech the loudest for it. If a teenager hacks a corporation by realizing you just need to change a value in an URL and you can read everything ... he'll go to jail.
Now matter how you cut this, this is a criminal act. The Republicans are willing to lie, cheat, steal, commit fraud ... pretty much anything to get their hands on donor money. And they'll climb over one another's corpses to do it.
Holy fucking hell, can this be made any plainer? This is, at core, the Republican party laid bare.
And it sure as shit isn't pretty.
I sincerely hope this jackass party of law and order is going to make sure the people who did this, and the people who benefit from it, will go to jail.
Of course, when it comes down to their own bullshit, they seem to find ways to justify it and downplay the sheer douchery of it.
And now, this group of people is going to pick the pockets of the rest of the country with a tax bill which enriches the wealthy and the corporations at the expense of everyone.
Lying crooks, every single last one of them. America is truly fucked.
..for daring to get a blowjob from someone other than his wife; as if he was the first President to ever get his cock sucked, nevermind how many of those wide-stance Republucans were cocksuckers themselves.
If you cant respect the institution you'll respect nothing ultimately, as we see by their current President and his destruction of government for 1% tax giveaways.
SAD.
these would-be Republicans felt they had to hack into the database of the House Republicans who, being more-connected to the base, have better lists of better donors in the era of lots of small contributions. Senate Republicans are used to the old era of huge contributions from only the richest and then slavishly serving the whims of those donors. When Senate Republicans ask the base of the party (those little people in fly-over country) for money they generally are met with insults about their dishonesty, incompetence and failure. Most senate Republicans hate the base of their party and would happily run as Dems if that was a path to success in their states; they're basically just selfish self-absorbed careerists. Most of the base of the party would love to vote for other senators but they keep being offered the choice of either these establishment-preferred losers or leftwing Democrats. Several months ago it was reported that Mitch McConnell held a meeting with big donors and was told they were done funding his failures, so his boys are gettin desperate.
For you Democrat readers: this would be like the Clinton wing of the party having to hack into and steal the contents of the Bernie Sanders supporter database.... nah... of course that sort of intra-party chicanery would never happen.
Donald Trump is proving to be a gigantic human Rorschach test; everybody who sees him sees their own thing and the result is that large segments of both the Democrat and Republican parties are going into full insane meltdown mode, and long-time big-wigs in both parties are being outed as fakers. The Trump era is proving to be both lucrative and entertaining. People in both parties are fighting over agendas, fundraising, donor lists, preferred molestation styles, etc ... and I have been gleefully munching popcorn and watching them all imitate the demise of the green witch from Wizard of Oz ever since November 2016.
the vast majority of Americans do not have personal tax attorneys and do not itemize on their taxes, right?
You actually posted nonesense: you claim they doubled the standard deduction (true) but then immediately claim a family of four will see a smaller standard deduction (huh?) and then claim they'll lose more if they have more kids, even though the new law increases the child deduction (wtf?). Where'd you get your bizarre selff-conflicting talking points - Nancy Pelosi? Hint: she's gradually becoming incoherent and you need a new source.
Anybody who does not itemize and is not in the upper couple of percent will gain from these cuts, and a number of those who currently itemize will find that it's now both better and easier to just take the new much-larger standard deduction.
The people most-likely to be screwed are the richest slice of the taxpayers who also happen to live in California, New York state, or Illinois where the loss of the ability to write-off their very high state and local taxes (the so-called "salt" deduction) combined with their high incomes will be painful. Of course, Trump did wanr that he had no interest in cutting the taxes of the wealthy, so he's being consistent here. Some of those with upper incomes will actually see an increase and the only rich who are getting a big cut are the synthetic-person corporations who will see a drop in the corporate taxes as those are lowered to be more globally-competative in an effort to spur domestic growth.
I know this goes over the heads of idiots who are totally ignorant of history but here's the micro-summary:
1. A core principle of Western Civilization since the signing of The Magna Carta is that the ruler is no longer above the laws he administers. Trash that idea, and you live under a tyrant who can make-up the laws and enforce them arbitrarily on a whim and human progress of centuries is erased.
2. Bill Clinton signed a law into effect that said any American male accused of sexual harrasment could be dragged into court and made to testify under oath about his entire sexual history - he got popular with women voters for signing that law and as chief law enforcement officer of the US he oversaw the justice department that happily enforced that law on all the other men in America who ran afoul of it.
3. Bill Clinton was accused of sexual harrassment and was dragged into court and forced to testify under the very law he signed and took political credit for... and he lied. His own justice department, acting on his authority, would jail any other man in America who purjured hi9mself in this way. The American people saw their president on national television violating the core principle of the Magna Carta and all government law that descneds from it. This was in many ways worse than Nixion since Nixon was at least not breaking the very laws he himselft signed into effect.
THAT is why Clinton was impeached. The articles of impeachment do NOT cite a blow job as a cause, the cite his lies under oath in court in violation of the law he signed into effect and was responsible for upholding and enforcing.
Learn some history, and try thinking a little deeper about government, principles, and precedents. By doing what he did, Clinton lit the match on a lot of the lawlessness we see rippling through government these days (on the part of both Republican AND Democrat politicians and officials) and even Democrats are finally starting to admit that they protected Clinton purely for political power at the time and that it was probably wrong.
D.C. is full of treachery and it is bipartisan.
..than anyone in the history of slashdot.