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US Cyber Command Operation Disrupted Internet Access of Russian Troll Factory on Day of 2018 Midterms: Report (washingtonpost.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: The U.S. military blocked Internet access to an infamous Russian entity seeking to sow discord among Americans during the 2018 midterms, several U.S. officials said, a warning that the group's operations against the United States are not cost-free. The strike on the Internet Research Agency in St. Petersburg, a company underwritten by an oligarch close to President VladiÂmir Putin, was part of the first offensive cyber campaign against Russia designed to thwart attempts to interfere with a U.S. election, the officials said. "They basically took the IRA offline," according to one individual familiar with the matter who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss classified information. "They shut 'em down." The operation marked the first muscle-flexing by U.S. Cyber Command, with intelligence from the National Security Agency, under new authorities it was granted by President Trump and Congress last year to bolster offensive capabilities.
Trump doesn't believe in intelligence.
Oligarch is a stupid buzzword that hacks throw into a non-story to make it sound spookier.
Elon Musk, an oligarch connected to Trump, ....
Jeff Bezos, an oligarch close to the Trump Administration...
Warren Buffet, an oligarch with ties to the Obama Foundation..
Mark Zuckerberg, an oligarch connected to Isreal
Republicans don't seem to care at all about this, since the russians helped their team win. I thought they were the "our guns protect your freedom" patriots who love 'murica so much? Small minded Republicans, ask yourselves, why would Putin want Trump to win? Is it because he loves you and loves 'Murica? Maybe, just maybe there is a different reason. Maybe he knows something you don't. Of course, should the democrats win in the next election, I am pretty sure the world will hear you screaming your disingenuous little hearts out about how the Russians hacked the elections and how the results are not valid and blah blah blah. Why? Because you are pieces of shit who don't care about the US, or the world at large. You only care that your teams wins, regardless of what it costs every other person on the planet.
Well then ... I'm glad that with you, we won't have all that awful "discord", lol Just sweet harmony.
(BTW, Democrats lovedy-loved-loved Russia right up until it stopped being the most murderous communist dictatorship ever. As someone not born five minutes ago, I find this new Red scare super entertaining.)
Republicans don't seem to care at all about this, since the russians helped their team win.
You'd think there would be evidence of this somewhere... after all, There's been an independent counsel running for around two years now, and so far they've found approximately bupkis (well, they found a pack of Russkies who bought $100k of Facebook ads, and a couple of idiots who got roped into pleading to unrelated process crimes... but strangely enough, no actual evidence of Russkie-Trump collusatory involvement, let alone electoral hacking of any kind...)
Guess we'll find out for certain in a week or three once that report comes out, but in all honesty, if there were evidence that didn't sit firmly in fever-ridden and overstretched speculation, it would have come out long, long before now. I'm willing to be wrong, though. Question is, are the Donks?
I am curious though - what will a lot of the media do with the news, given that they've often breathlessly preached that impeachment/removal of the president '...is just around the corner - any day now!' from a man (Mueller) whom they painted as some sort of avenging angel to smite OrangeMan to the Outer Pits of Hell (or Nebraska, whichever is closer), etc...
But then, I believe I can already see the narrative shaping up for that as well, given the (newly Democrat) House Judiciary Committee's ramping up of a possible subpoena (and investigation/prosecution?) of the independent counsel, who in turn seems about to fail at delivering what the Democrats were hoping for so badly... It's almost like they have no clue what an independent counsel actually is or does...
Either way, my shipment of popcorn (and a spare microwave to make big batches of it) should arrive before the end of the week, so if Mueller can hold out for at least that long....
So, bring the knee-jerk down-mods, but you know I'm right, campers.
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
Meanwhile, Clinton literally rigged the DNC primary to steal it from Sanders.
That is according to the DNC chair at the time, Donna Brazil.
But don't let ACTUAL PROVABLE election fraud interfere with your rant that there is no evidence of. Or are you going to quote Clapper and Brennen, both proven liars under oath to Congress to refute me?
Hillary! is not President!!! Trump is!!!! BWHAAAA HAAAA HAAAAAAAA!!!!!
I hope that makes you feel like you're going to explode. I really do.
Oooooooh, and finally the truth comes out: Any pretension by Trumpers of caring about the law, or decency, is a facade. Trump being an accused rapist, self-confessed habitual sex predator, or traitor ringleader doesn't matter to them... They're all just dead-ender cultists in the Cult Of Stigginit. Yes, you may yet help Putin destroy American leadership of the free world, you suuuuure stuck it to us libs. We'd also be totally triggered if you stuck your dick in a venus flytrap.
Fortunately, the Special Counsel and the seventy one sealed indictments (and counting!) he's filed don't care what you think. As much as I'm sure you'd LOVE to see the unredacted reports so Putin's gangsters could murder everyone who knew the truth...