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.

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Not to worry.

[PopeRatzo]

One thing we know for sure: we'll never see any of these hacked emails on Wikileaks.

Re: Not to worry.

[jd]

No, they shouldn't. Interfering in an election nearly caused Britain to pull out of the Vienna Convention. Think, for once in your life, about something other than point scoring at home. The collapse of the Vienna Convention would be devastating worldwide.

Re: Not to worry.

[jd]

It's the treaty protecting embassies, you know, like the one Americans got upset about when extremists stormed it in Tehran. No Vienna Convention, no embassies. Anywhere.

And that means no spies, no passports, no security for expats, no overseas holidays, reduced trade, high unemployment...

Don't ever assume that the domino you see is the only one. Knock it over and you lose the chain. All of it.

This is a distraction

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog...

https://www.mediamatters.org/b...

https://www.motherjones.com/po...

https://www.politifact.com/nor...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/1...

Re:This is a distraction

[rahvin112]

Not only was there a ballot collection drive in contravention of NC law, but all the statistics for the two counties in question are off against the rest of the state. More absentee ballots were requested, more were not submitted, and a higher number voted for one party than the rest of the state.

I'm sure all those voters concerned about voter fraud support immediately suspending certification of the ballot, recounting ballots, and performing a full verification of all ballots in the affected counties including prosecution of all the people accused of collecting ballots and paying people to collect ballots.

It should be noted that the GOP is opposed to any of those steps.

This is a cover story meant to distract

[rsilvergun]

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...

No evidence it was democrats

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:I'm Canadian and even I know the Republicans ar

[Zontar_Thing_From_Ve]

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.

Re: And yet no leaks showing rigged primaries

[sexconker]

Texas is one of the few states in the nation that can actually survive on its own.

Re: And yet no leaks showing rigged primaries

[Anonymous Coward]

Are you out of your mind, the President just sent the military to protect Texas from 5,000 job and safety seeking terrorists. How is that the ability to survive on its own.

Re: And yet no leaks showing rigged primaries

[AaronW]

Let me see, my deep blue state produces far more food than it uses and exports it to the rest of the country. We export 1/3 of the entire country's vegetables and 2/3's of the nation's fruit and nuts are grown here. California leads the nation in farm receipts by far.

https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/statis...

California's agricultural value is around double that of Texas.

http://beef2live.com/story-sta...

Oh, and we legalized pot.