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| Why Did The Obama Administration Ignore Reports Of Russian Election Meddling? |
| 2019-06-05 |
| [The Federalist] During her hour-long interview last week of Attorney General William Barr, "CBS This Morning" journalist Jan Crawford focused mainly on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of President Trump. She also, however, questioned Barr on the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) efforts to ensure that Russian attempts to interfere in our elections are not repeated in 2020. This revealed the attorney general is probing a second scandal of the Obama administration related to the 2016 presidential election. Or it would be regarded as a second scandal if it garnered more attention: Why the Obama administration failed to forcefully respond to intelligence of Russian interference in our elections. The DOJ has "an increasingly robust program that is focusing on foreign influence in our election process, with the FBI obviously taking the lead," Barr told Crawford. But not enough was done in 2016, Barr acknowledged. "Bob Mueller did some impressive work in his investigation, you know, identifying some of the Russian hackers and their influence campaign and you sort of wonder if that kind of work had been done starting in 2016, things could have been a lot different," he said. Crawford replied, "It’s just hard to understand why it wasn’t taken more seriously." Barr agreed, saying he had no idea why it wasn’t. "That’s one of the things I’m interested in looking at as part of my review of the Russia collusion investigation," Barr stressed. With people warned as early as April 2016, "I’m wondering what, exactly, was the response to it if they were alarmed. Surely the response should have been more than just, you know, dangling a confidential informant in front of a peripheral player in the Trump campaign," the attorney general told Crawford before she moved to another topic. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #9 QC is correct, the same Bob that screwed up the Enron investigation so bad that almost everyone got released on appeal due to investigating and prosecutorial injustice? Ya that's the same guy, send the innocent to jail because they will not lie for the FBI, the same guy that destroys people for his myopic views. I for one hope this man rots in hell. Mueller is the very root, and rot, we call the deep state. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2019-06-05 14:51 |
| #8 Didn't Obama say he would have more room after the election? Guess he meant room to let Putin play. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2019-06-05 09:34 |
| #7 “Bob Mueller did some impressive work in his investigation, you know, identifying some of the Russian hackers and their influence campaign and you sort of wonder if that kind of work had been done starting in 2016 I think that is total B.S. Mueller had little interest in digging into Russian influence on our elections; otherwise he would have taken a deep dive into Hillary's, the DNC's, DOJ, FBI and intelligence services seditious activities. He was going after Trump to unseat him and to cover-up malfeasance in the Obama administration. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2019-06-05 09:28 |
| #6 McClacthy Report. 14 Mar 2019: Expert in Trump dossier trial says tech firm’s services were used in hack of Democrats Documents unsealed in a South Florida court case provide the most convincing evidence yet that Russian spies piggybacked on a Russian-tied foreign tech company with offices in Florida and Texas to hack the Democratic National Committee and party leaders. The documents were unsealed Thursday in the aftermath of a failed defamation lawsuit brought against online news company BuzzFeed by XBT Holding and its founder, Aleksej Gubarev. BuzzFeed had identified him and his company when it published in January 2017 the so-called Trump dossier, compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele. The research that made up the dossier was mostly paid for by political opponents of Donald Trump from both major parties during his 2016 campaign, and among its explosive allegations were that XBT’s Internet platform was used to launch cyber warfare that interfered in the U.S. elections. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-06-05 08:18 |
| #5 An added bonus to #3, targeting DNC systems and fellow candidates. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-06-05 07:18 |
| #4 Ref #3:. A possibility I had overlooked. Platte River Netork systems engineers could have guarded against such intrusions, given proper warning. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-06-05 07:08 |
| #3 Russian hackers are a service that can be purchased. The American Commies of the Obama administration may have been the buyers. |
| Posted by: Airandee 2019-06-05 06:09 |
| #2 Well, and they were selling U. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2019-06-05 05:43 |
| #1 Why Did The Obama Administration Ignore Reports Of Russian Election Meddling? Classic Human Intelligence Cover for Action: ....cover for status, and cover for action, meaning how to establish credible pretexts for their presence and behavior while engaged in collection activities. Link AG Barr knows exactly what was going on here. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-06-05 00:32 |