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House GOP Campaign Committee Says Its Emails Were Hacked During 2018 Campaign (talkingpointsmemo.com)
The National Republican Congressional Committee was hacked this election cycle, it admitted Tuesday afternoon. From a report: "The NRCC can confirm that it was the victim of a cyber intrusion by an unknown entity. The cybersecurity of the Committee's data is paramount, and upon learning of the intrusion, the NRCC immediately launched an internal investigation and notified the FBI, which is now investigating the matter," NRCC spokesman Ian Prior said in a statement.
"To protect the integrity of that investigation, the NRCC will offer no further comment on the incident." The major breach included thousands of emails from four senior aides, according to Politico, which first reported the hacks. An outside vendor noticed and alerted the committee in April. The committee then launched an internal investigation and alerted the FBI.
"To protect the integrity of that investigation, the NRCC will offer no further comment on the incident." The major breach included thousands of emails from four senior aides, according to Politico, which first reported the hacks. An outside vendor noticed and alerted the committee in April. The committee then launched an internal investigation and alerted the FBI.
Weird how when the RNC is hacked, no one discovers any evidence of any wrong-doing.
Yet when the DNC is hacked, we discover that their primaries are a sham and that the results are pre-determined.
And yet I keep on hearing the left claim that the right is as corrupt as they are...
One thing we know for sure: we'll never see any of these hacked emails on Wikileaks.
You are welcome on my lawn.
First, this is fake news. The GOP wants to look like victims so that their mindless supporters can say, "Look! It's not Russia but some "leftists" or some such bullshit! We're being hacked by Leftists backed by Soros!!"
Second, it gives them a story, "It was those Leftists Silicon Valley people!" and fail to mention that those "leftists" were pay rolling their campaigns.
Third, the Republicans have no credibility of late. The last Republican who had any credibility died a few days ago and was attended by his idiot sons and President Trump.
I base my opinions on data and actions. The Republicans is FAIL. (Yes, I chose that grammar on purpose. Think about it.)
I slam the Republicans because I'm all butthurt that they aren't the party I signed up for years ago.
I'm an EX-Republican! When they get off of the crazy train that was started by Newt, THEN i will think about it.
Until then, Democrat!
This is a distraction from the breaking story about possible GOP election fraud scandal coming to light in North Carolina.
The allegation is that someone on the GOP payroll was hiring people to go door to door and collect absentee ballots. This is illegal under NC law.
Additionally, those ballots passed through unknown hands, and may have been culled, substituted or otherwise altered in the process.
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Or is it a case of "No harm, no foul"? We're so deep in the dishonesty that no one knows what to believe now, and evidence be damned, full speed ahead. Or in reverse, or maybe we should bear to starboard or larboard. "Wait, Captain, we can't dive now, the hatch is still open!" Followed by exhortations to Scotty to beam up the landing party and go to Warp 7!
(Yeah, now I'm wondering if all the confusion all started with Star Trek... Just reading Fire in the Valley (an autographed copy of the collector's edition), and I had no idea that the Altair name came from "Amok Time".)
Anyway, I can't decide what my favorite theory is as regards this story. A few crazy candidates:
Why am I not surprised that the so-called HTML-mode of Slashdot does not actually support the proper numbering of the OL tag? So I have to add the numbers manually, eh?
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
Pssst. That was called the Hillary Clinton campaign... who paid for the 'Trump Dossier' which included Russian provided misinformation.
"Does something smell funny in here?"
They drained the swamp so now only the rot at the bottom remains.
Donald Trump, on a crusade to make Nixon look respectable
from a much bigger story going on right now. Compared to what's going on with our foreign policy (and the ramifications that has for an Administration that continues to ignore intelligence in favor of money) this isn't even small potatoes...
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The evil ones.
Admit they were hacked my ass, they're just drumming up conspiricy theories to attack the democrats.
Let's reserve judgment until the FBI examines the servers forensically. Surely, they'll allow it, right???
Just a reminder kids: When the Republicans are accused of doing something, it's wrong, illegal, shady, cheating, etc, however when the Democrats do it, it's pure, good, well intended, righteous
Nice try at a false equivalency. There's no evidence, beyond a wild accusations and conspiracy theories put together after the fact without a shred of evidence, that the democrats have done anything of the kind.
Whereas Republicans have been caught red-handed, with credible evidence building up throughout the process.
As for the "hacking" distraction, there's no evidence the Dems had anything to do with that either, and plenty that they did not (such as the fact that nothing was leaked when it could have mattered). If this even happened, it's probably more about Russia, the Alt-Right, and/or the Trump regime having compromat on Republicans to keep them in line.
But while Republicans will no doubt try to throw around as much whatabboutism and false equivalencies as they can (and trump up nonsensical accusations to muddy the waters -- I'm amazed they haven't trotted out some tired anti-Hillary conspiracy theory yet again), the evidence of their malfeascance and treason continues to build, while their distractions and bullshit-counter-accusations grow less and less believable with every passing hour.
from that murdered Journalist.
Seriously, there is way, way too much dirt floating around about the GOP. But somehow it never seems to hurt them that much on election day...
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I suspect suicide after he loses the election in two years. Ivanka in womens' prison will be serialized on Netflix.
I doubt that suicide is Donald's style. He loves adoration from others too much, and I think he'll never run out of sycophants. And it's by no means certain that he'll lose in 2020. Not without a credible challenge from the Dems.
What I think is likely is that his son Don Jr. is going to be indicted in a matter of weeks. Whether he goes to trial, is convicted, and serves time is another matter. I see his dad poised with a pen to sign a pardon.
Donald Sr.'s fate is less clear. Some have said you can't indict a sitting president -- the remedy is impeachment and a trial in the Senate. But I wonder. We'll see.
As for Ivanka, I don't think she has done anything that will put her in a jail cell. Not even her mishandling of her e-mail account. (See Hillary Clinton and Colin Powell.)
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
Trump is a Russian pawn. Full stop, the evidence is in the clear. Republicans CHOSE to become Russian pawns when they gave him a long leash despite all the evidence of smoke and fire.
Dana Rohrenbacker was a Russian pawn, but he got swept out of office with 39 other idiots who backed a traitor willingly, so you may never know what the reason was. Pity.
"Everyone knew about Trump Tower Moscow, everyone knew. There was no deal and everyone knew."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/12/04/gop-senators-come-out-say-it-trump-administration-is-covering-up-khashoggis-killing
My captcha actually IS "frauds"
The evil ones. Admit they were hacked my ass, they're just drumming up conspiricy theories to attack the democrats.
Even worse, because of this I'm now expecting Trump any day to put forth the theory that this somehow means that the Democrats did not actually win the House in the recent election and the Republican victory was stolen. I live in a red state and if he does this, yes, lots of people here will believe it.
"The same ones that LIED on a FISA application to illegally wiretap Trump's campaign/administration for over a year?"
No, no, no, the ones that actually setup meetings with fake premises to try and do something (not yet apparent) to ensnare Trump campaign peoples. You knlw, the ones that approved travel documents for Russian lawyers to come and talk with Democrat operatives, Obama administration people, and then a meeting with Trumpies that went nowhere...
Those ones. Which then led to engaging British ex- and ex-officio intelligence operatives, Australian diplomats, and a few US Democrat operatives, to try and bait more Trumpies into anything that could be mistaken for interest in opposition research, then drafting a US Web journalism outlet to pretend it had confirmation of this, so that they could convince a FISA court they had actionable intelligence, when in fact they had merely fabrications and Democrat opposition research material.
Oh yeah, those same ones. That;s right, I forget.
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
The GOP were actively involved in cybercrimes (directly and indirectly, the distinction appealed to Al Capone but not to anyone law-abiding) against political opponents, both in office and in the general public. "Do unto others" is a serviceable motto.
My sympathy is restricted to the fact that no crime, whatever your view of the target, is ever justified, moral or acceptable. It is an abomination.
I am not going to waste time waiting for Republicans to feel that crimes against rivals is bad, the human lifespan isn't long enough. Law and order is very one-sided on that side of the street.
And yet crimes against both them, Democrats, independents and all others remain utterly repugnant.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
No, the tolerant left is doing nothing of the sort. One rather sick individual is.
By tarnishing the name of 3.5 billion people you know nothing of and hate purely for being different, you are no better than that one. You are being just as abusive (since an AC can't threaten actual harm against an AC, there's no difference between abusive language and other abusive language, whatever the words).
Grow up.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Most of the rigged votes are by the GOP. That includes a House election suspended during an investigation of massive GOP vote rigging. But you don't care about things like that, because that means caring about facts. You far prefer to hate people who are different to you. So much easier, requires no effort or logic.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
I heard someone hacked Hillary's emails as well.
The RNC was hacked in 2016 too. The Russians just didn't pass what they got to Assange. We don't know if they did anything else with it.
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What about Jared Kushner using private email accounts after being told not to for official business? Or how about dear Trump frequently using a non-secure phone for his communications? Then there's Ivanka Trump's private email usage. Of course, nobody says anything about Colin Powell using AOL for official email, which was deleted.
Anything the liberals have done pales in comparison to Trump. Hell, even Nixon was a lightweight compared to Trump. How about bribing Putin with a $50M penthouse in order to build a tower, something he even admitted to, to be financed by a Russian bank currently under sanctions? That's not to mention the number of witches who have currently plead guilty and been indicted, all by a Republican prosecutor (who was approved 98-0 as director of the FBI under a Republican president).
This post is encrypted twice with ROT-13. Documenting or attempting to crack this encryption is illegal.
How the wind blows both ways...
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If I still had mod points, I would definitely mod this up, because it's factually accurate, relevant to the discussion, didn't fling around the personal attacks so popular in Slashdot arguing today, and yet it was still moderated troll.
Too bad meta-moderating is dead. It would be nice to catch a few of these abuses of the moderation system.
He'll be off the court in under 2, watch. Not only that, you realize it's entirely Constitutional to ADD SCOTUS SEATS, right? It could be best 9 out of 17. You can still get fucked.
FDR tried that. It didn't turn out well for him. He generally well regarded, but that was a particularly black mark in the history books on his presidency.
It wasn't. It was a report compiled by a US company from many sources, the main one being a British intelligence officer.
It's not helping anyone when you portray fantasy as fact.