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Trump To Target Foreign Meddling In US Elections With Sanctions Order (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader shares an exclusive report from Reuters: President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order as soon as Wednesday that will slap sanctions on any foreign companies or people who interfere in U.S. elections, based on intelligence agency findings, two sources familiar with the matter said. Trump's decision to sign an executive order coincides with intelligence agencies, military and law enforcement preparing to defend the Nov. 6 congressional elections from predicted foreign attacks even as Trump derides a special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 elections.
Sanction targets could include individual people or entire companies accused of interfering in U.S. elections by cyber attacks or other means, a U.S. official told Reuters. The order will put a range of agencies in charge of deciding if meddling occurred, led by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and including the CIA, the National Security Agency and the Homeland Security Department, the sources said. Based on a recent draft of the order reviewed by the U.S. official, it will require any federal agency aware of election interference by foreigners to take the information to the office of Director of National Intelligence. Election interference will be defined in the order as hacking attempts against "election infrastructure," and efforts to sway public opinion through coordinated digital propaganda or systematic leaks of private political information. UPDATE: The story has been updated with additional information from Reuters.
Sanction targets could include individual people or entire companies accused of interfering in U.S. elections by cyber attacks or other means, a U.S. official told Reuters. The order will put a range of agencies in charge of deciding if meddling occurred, led by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and including the CIA, the National Security Agency and the Homeland Security Department, the sources said. Based on a recent draft of the order reviewed by the U.S. official, it will require any federal agency aware of election interference by foreigners to take the information to the office of Director of National Intelligence. Election interference will be defined in the order as hacking attempts against "election infrastructure," and efforts to sway public opinion through coordinated digital propaganda or systematic leaks of private political information. UPDATE: The story has been updated with additional information from Reuters.
Biting the hand that others imagine feed you
...I'm sure all of Trump's detractors will agree that he has done the right thing and it's about time.
Won't they?
-Styopa
Get ready for it.
Hacking voting systems is a distraction. It is pumping up dissent and rivalry and anger, by foreign governments trolling myriad sites, that is the real problem.
It's not so much free speech as it is speech by governments without them letting you know it is a government, much less which.
You don't think Russia or NK have dozens of innocent accounts with high karma ready to downmod stuff? Tout racial friction? Attempt to portray right wing as synonymous with neo Nazis? Not point out some are, but touting they are the same, while posting simultaneously messages that are Nazi-like as if by a Trump supporter? They play the roll of both sides.
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This seems like it should already be a law but if not it will really change things a lot. But wow I bet thousands of company's are shitting their pants right now because they won't have control over representatives any longer or will have to be even more shady in the way they contribute.. not just donating to the campaign or the campaign's charities or whatever.
Will he be passing legislation to stop them bump search results or hiding content in order to manipulate the election result?
The elephant in the room really wants to know..
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
Is it really necessary for you to be such an absolute flaming faggot about everything? Trump is SHIT and everyone knows it now, even if they have too much pride and/or shame to admit it. The sooner he's ushered out of the Whitehouse the better for everyone, even you inbred-Jed Republitards.
Does he mean the 'intelligence agencies' that he says are lying about everything and are worthless? Or does he now like them (this week)? Or has someone spoon-fed Trump enough that he's got it through his 5th grader mentality how things actually work?
But aren't the media supposed to be the ennemies of the state and the people ?
Oh... Only liberal media. I get it.
He's just frustrated that his "victory" was tainted by Russian "interferance." Compounded by not winning the popular vote and thus failing to secure a "mandate."
Of course if he loses in 2020 he'll claim it was hacked again.
Heads he wins, we lose.
Is anyone here old enough to remember Trump's big "voter fraud" commission? It was going to uncover the millions of illegal aliens that voted in the last election, giving Hillary the popular vote.
Member?
You are welcome on my lawn.
Sounds exactly like the laws in various autocratic countries targeted at "foreign" NGOs protesting human rights violations or decisions by "the great infallible leader",
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.
So, if you *hack* something over the internet to try and influence the election AND you are a foreign national or company, we will add you to the naughty list and not let you do business with the USA?
Um... I'm just curious how this is going to help anything... It's not like you can stop foreign meddling. They still can attempt to lie to Facebook and buy "issue ads" or engage in troll farm activities from home. The only difference now is that IF we catch you AND we can identify who you are you get put on the naughty list for US trade. I'm sure the Troll farmers are crying over their vodka as they close up shop, saying "it's just too risky now, I got to stop as I'm so dependent on my business partners in the USA for everything!"
Doesn't anybody understand that our laws don't have any teeth overseas? We can (and should) threaten to do these things, but this is about as much as we can do. Short of going to war, putting folks on the naughty list is the absolute limit for the Federal government's ability.
The TRUE fix for this is to educate and actually have the US voters to engage in a bit of critical thinking when given the truth. It may seem far fetched, but I think the US voters are actually pretty good at this, when properly and truthfully informed. The problem is, partisan opinion and fantasy positions have taken over the world of politics and the quest for votes has transcended the need to be truthful with the voters; Truthful about yourself, your opponent and about what the real problems are. It's win at any price, say anything you need to win and clean up the mess after you are elected if necessary, the truth no longer matters, only winning the election. After all, everybody will forget the whole sordid affair in about 2 weeks as long as you don't get charged with a crime, and lying in a stump speech is not a crime.
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
Yeah, those. They suck and shouldn't be handed this power to prevaricate and instigate further "need" for themselves and the MIC.
Why guess when you can know? Measure!
He's just frustrated that his "victory" was tainted by Russian "interferance." Compounded by not winning the popular vote and thus failing to secure a "mandate."
Of course if he loses in 2020 he'll claim it was hacked again.
Heads he wins, we lose.
You sure? Didn't Trump secure a man-date with Putin in Helsinki not that long ago?
It's the Russian Mob that keeps The Trump Organization afloat. The Russian government doesn't have the money.
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Can then make political comment, show new meme art from inside USA?
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
America. Every country should post their own anti Trump ads on election day on social media. He can then put sanctions on every country.
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
This should really include political contributions from the like of Halliburton et al.
Already done... If you are a foreign company, you cannot contribute to PAC's, parties or political campaigns given current campaign finance law. At least that's what I understand. For instance, the NRA (a 501c3 nonprofit) can accept foreign donations, but they cannot then turn around and give that money to a political organization, PAC or campaign. Direct Foreign money is simply illegal in political campaigns. Doesn't mean it never happens, only that the FEC will likely deal with such stuff severely when they find it.
Now there is little the USA can do about non-money based activities abroad designed to impact our elections anyway. We can fuss and fume, but in reality we cannot stop it short of going 100% isolationist (cutting off all trade, travel and communications), which would be about as stupid as it could get.
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Trump To Target Foreign Meddling In US Elections With Sanctions Order
... and in other news, OJ has not stopped looking for the real killer...
- First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then ???, then profit.
If this isn't the fox guarding the hen house, I certainly do not know what is.
It's the Russian Mob that keeps The Trump Organization afloat. The Russian government doesn't have the money.
There is a difference between the Russian Government and the Russian Mob?
No, the fake news media are the enemy of the state, and there are plenty of fake news outlets on both sides.
He always projects his own crimes onto others.
Always.
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Does he mean the 'intelligence agencies' that he says are lying about everything and are worthless?
I'll wait for your quote that shows that he says that.
Or has someone spoon-fed Trump enough that he's got it through his 5th grader mentality how things actually work?
Given your own 5th grader mentality here, you should look in the mirror and stop throwing stones.
The Russia hysteria is just that, hysteria, whipped up by the DNC and a Deep State intent on keeping up the Trump/Russia collusion narrative.
Don't believe the article? Watch this testimony. Any techie on Slashdot should be flabberghasted at this stunning admission.
That Trump can simultaneously disparage the intelligence community as a component of a "deep state" organization dedicated to overthrowing him, while also regularly citing the intelligence community to support his policies, is one of the few signs we have that the President is demonstrably intelligent. (At least by Sirius Cybernetics standards.)
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.
You have to think about the effects of the government declaring certain types of speech illegal.
Whether or not there was interference (there wasn't) in the voting process, the left has declared that posting on FaceBook in support of a particular candidate is "interference", now Trump is "doing something about it" which means - controlling speech.
Yes, THIS is what you asked for, now go eat your cake.
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How dare anybody accuse Google of being non-partisan and interfering in elections. They would never do that. And neither would Twitter, the idea is preposterous!
And Facebook, what a bunch of angels!
Emperor Xi's fifty cent army and the Soros-funded "Progressive" troll brigades are going to be outraged - just outraged! - by President Trump's attempt to prevent them from meddling in our elections.
Yes, one owns a TV station dedicated to showing how much more awesome Putin is.
Trump To Target Foreign Meddling In US Elections With Sanctions Order
Does 'foreign' in this case mean democrats, libruls and brown people? Trump is a fucking traitor who is only in the White House because of Vladimir fucking Putin. Like fuck will he 'target foreign meddling'. He is the fucking direct result of foreign meddling. Can't take his tongue out of Vlad's arse for two fucking minutes.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
But will that also stop the US from meddling in other countries elections? I don't think they will stop that... bunch of hypocrites..
We all know why Trump is doing this: his approval rating is abysmal. He seemed more than happy to have Russia hack the U.S. to "steal Hillary's mail", so we know he has no scruples about that.
Emphasis is mine.
So why not any US companies as well? "Because that is already illegal" is besides the point. I doubt that that law will read "except when you are foreign".
So who or what is he trying to hide, or is he just blowing air as usual? Amd to think he might be re-elected.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
Learn how to spell, you gimp.
Yes there is a difference, one tells the other what to do.
Hillary... is that you? You lost, get over it and move on.
The problem with foreign election interference isn't ever going to go away... the bigger issue in this country is that every moron can vote. It's past time we put some sort of filter on the intellectual capacity and awareness of voters. Toss a quick 20 question test on civics and current policy issues into the beginning of every ballot, if you can't answer 17 of the questions right, you don't get to vote. Problem solved. Right wing or left wing, that'll filter out all the mindless propaganda puppets.
...says two anonymous sources, who knows this because they just narrowly managed to swap this bill for one ordering massive tariffs on all imported sports apparel with a swoosh on...