#1
Just to show how overloaded we are with Trump shenanigans, I opened the article and read a few lines before in sunk in it was the previous POTUS, not the current POTUS, who was about to get the high hard one.
That's a baseball term, right?
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#3
I'm wondering if this is to find out anything, or to see how many layers of plaster they can spread over it. The problem with things that splatter is that they go everywhere.
Posted by: ed in texas ||
06/22/2017 18:56 Comments ||
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[CIRCA] The same foreign lobbyists and Russians tied to the Trump probe were once associated to Senator John McCain when he ran for president.
Sen. John McCain, always the political maverick, recently bucked his own Republican Party by refusing to defend President Donald Trump in the Russia investigation and even suggesting the matter was reaching epic proportions.
“I think it is reaching the point it is a Watergate size and scale,” he declared last month during an event at his policy nonprofit, the International Republican Institute.
[WND] WASHINGTON ‐ DNC staffer Seth Rich, who was brutally murdered on July 10, 2016, on a street near his Washington home ‐ sparking discussion that he might have been the source of party insider emails turned over to WikiLeaks during the 2016 presidential race ‐ probably wasn’t the victim of a random homicide.
Or a robbery gone bad.
Rather, his murder "more likely (was) committed by a hired killer or serial murderer."
Those are the conclusions of the Profiling Project, which released the results of a months-long investigation into Rich’s death on Tuesday.
The project, an "all-volunteer group of current and former George Washington University forensic psychology graduate students and instructors," said it came together for the investigation to "aid the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police utilizing forensic psychology skills and tools in hopes of providing at least one actionable item."
#3
I still believe there needs to be an investigation into the whereabouts of the late James T. Hodgkinson on July 10, 2016. Probably nothing there, but certainly worth the look.
#5
If you consider the threads that have said the Russia hacking of the DNC was confirmed by a private IT contractor, that the FBI nor DHS (Jeh's testimony yesterday) were ever given access to the servers, that the servers have been wiped and destroyed, that the revealed damaging content of the emails has never been denied, that Trey Gowdy yesterday on Fox said he wondered what else might have been on the servers, and the report that Seth was planning to meet with the FBI and might have had a thumb drive, topped off by the reports that he was the leaker, not the Russians and voila, motive for political assassination. (And as a bonus, the longest run on sentence in modern blogging!)
#6
Trey Gowdy yesterday on Fox said he wondered what else might have been on the servers, and the report that Seth was planning to meet with the FBI and might have had a thumb drive
Several shots heard, but no weapon or shell casings found, consequently no ballistic fingerprint, at least so far.
Anyone have source, or additional info on that potential FBI meet ?
#7
Skip down thru the Profiling Project posted at #2.
They conclude it was an experienced killer, but a poor assassin - he left the victim alive and taking.
Unless the killer also injected him with something fatal. But then, nothing like that has been *reported* as yet.
Posted by: Bobby ||
06/22/2017 13:34 Comments ||
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#8
Reddit had a thread that showed an FBI vehicle was parked at a Walgreens blocks away was broken into and weapons stolen about 2 AM that same morning...odd time of the morning for a clandesttine meeting and should have an incident report with careless agent's name somewhere.
[BREITBART] As the election results showed Republican Karen Handel soundly beating her opponent Jon Ossoff in the special election in Georgia, CNN analysts appeared disappointed by the results before anchor Anderson Cooper cut to a break.
As Clarice Feldman commented, "CNN looks verklempt."
Maybe the number of hangups has reached a critical mass that the pollsters aren't willing to acknowledge makes their work less accurate. The 'motivated' hang on to vent in the process. The rest have come to believe its just another lying media gig, why bother.
#4
Maybe the number of hangups has reached a critical mass that the pollsters aren't willing to acknowledge makes their work less accurate.
No way am I gonna talk to some random idiot who calls me on the phone wanting to know my political inclinations. I don't want candidates who wait for the polls before determining their positions on the issues. I want candidates to tell me what they think and then wait for the poll on election day.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
06/22/2017 10:25 Comments ||
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#5
No way am I gonna talk to some random idiot who calls me on the phone wanting to know my political inclinations.
I love talking to these people, especially during / after my third beer. My approach is roughly 1/2 free market / small government logic, 1/2 half-baked Lyndon Larouche nutbaggery. Get the bong going and it's a fun fifteen minutes or so!
#6
Yes, Raj, I know others who have a knack for that soft of thing. Apart from being highly amusing it wastes the pollster's time so it's a win-win. Maybe if you tie them up long enough they won't get to me.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
06/22/2017 13:53 Comments ||
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better - Я не говорю по-английски (YA ne govoryu po-angliyski)
maybe?
or
Вы хотите, чтобы я взломать ваш компьютер (Vy khotite, chtoby ya vzlomat' vash komp'yuter)
*I blame all miss translations on Google translate. heh.
#2
Hey, when the City establishes a 'free' zone and tells the cops to stay out, they've basically said they can't or won't protect property in it. After collecting taxes on it.
Posted by: ed in texas ||
06/22/2017 18:49 Comments ||
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[BBC] Russian hackers targeted election systems in 21 US states during last year's campaign, said a US official.
Jeanette Manfra of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) refused to identify the states during her testimony before a Senate panel, citing confidentiality agreements.
But she added there was no evidence to suggest actual vote ballots were altered in the election hack.
It sounds like they didn't actually hack anything, they either tried and failed or it was just a series of probes.
US intelligence agencies believe Moscow interfered to help Donald Trump win.
Ms Manfra, the department's acting deputy undersecretary of cyber security, testified on Wednesday before the Senate Intelligence committee, which is investigating Russia's alleged meddling in the 2016 election.
"As of right now, we have evidence that election-related systems in 21 states were targeted," she told the panel.
She said DHS still had confidence in the US voting system because they are "fundamentally resilient".
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#3
Jeanette Manfra of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) refused to identify the states during her testimony before a Senate panel, citing confidentiality agreements.
Because she just chose "21", for narrative reasons?
#4
First of all, she is wrong. All 50 states experience hacking attempts. As well as any other device that is assigned an internet IP address. Hackers have the tools to probe every IP address on the planet. Firewalls, security logs that log those attempts, etc. have been around since before Windows NT.
#5
Hacking means changing code in some way or taking data. So what was done to constitute 'hacking'? Probably a big fat nothing. Just unauthorized access attempts.
#6
So the Dems and DHS knew about the so-called cyber-attacks on 21 States by the Russians as early as the Spring and Summer of 2016 and they did nothing about it. What were they waiting for? They thought Hillary was going to win and chose not to do anything about it.
#7
I am getting tired of this statement: US intelligence agencies believe Moscow interfered to help Donald Trump win.
How would *you* cross-examine such a statement?
Posted by: Bobby ||
06/22/2017 8:18 Comments ||
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#8
Hacking means changing code in some way or taking data.
Many years ago this was true. Now Hacking is a catchall term for anything that involves a computer that you don't like. Asking for someone's password and using it is hacking to some in the Demo party.
#9
Hacking used to mean doing something or overcoming some problem in an innovative way - and not just for computers but about anything. And a hacker was someone who did such things routinely.
The media has corrupted it first to mean 'breaking into a computer or software' and called even script kiddies 'hackers' and now it means 'doing something with a computer we don't like'.
Posted by: Frank G ||
06/22/2017 10:02 Comments ||
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#11
True - today's use of hacking simply means manipulation. For me, hacking has meant the defeat of a closed system - whatever that system is. To distinguish a hack from manipulation, the hack is completed in 2 phases very similar to mechanized warfare: breakthrough and exploitation phases where the system is compromised in 'breakthrough' usually via data injection, and then access gained for 'exploitation'. The act is deliberate and not dependent on 2nd party input. This is why email phishing is not hacking.
Posted by: Rex Mundi ||
06/22/2017 10:04 Comments ||
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#12
I'd love to know the forensics used to define the hackers as 'Russian'.
Wouldn't we all? But that's classified. It's a deep, dark secret.
Even Putin knows, and has said so, that a hacker's IP address can be spoofed. So, assuming the intel community really does have solid evidence the Russians hacked the election, it must be some evidence other than IP addresses. What that evidence could be is the key question. Has our intel community devised a method to determine who the hackers are no matter what IP address is associated with the hack? Or did our own spooks hack the Russians to get this purported evidence?
People like James Clapper may say they believe Moscow interfered in our election to help Trump but then, they say all kinds of things. What they really believe is a whole other matter and as long as they say their evidence is a secret we just have to trust them. That's the hard part and it's getting harder all the time.
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06/22/2017 10:55 Comments ||
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#13
"Asof right now, we have evidence that election-related systems in 21 states were targeted," she told the panel.
Targeting is not the same as actual hacking. But this is the BBC and the reporter is an idiot.
#18
Has our intel community devised a method to determine who the hackers are no matter what IP address is associated with the hack? Or did our own spooks hack the Russians to get this purported evidence? you're running down the rabbit hole they dug for you. The IC is part of the Deep State. Attempting to 'divine' motive is pointless. We know what the motive is
Posted by: Rex Mundi ||
06/22/2017 14:49 Comments ||
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#19
So DHS works with Putin?
They've left themselves open for that. Given that history shows the American intel community to be somewhat incompetent in identifying those who worked for Russian intel within their own ranks.
#20
What if the DHS probed computers in 21 states and made it look like the Russians did it? The Vault #7 release indicated the CIA can actually initiate cyber attacks on US systems and leave “fingerprints” to suggest to forensics experts that the attacks came from a foreign power, even the Russian Federation.
The purpose would be two-fold:
1. Set up the narrative that Trump election team was in cahoots with Russia.
2. Set things up so that DHS would declare voting processes and voting machine were a part of "critical infra-structure" and centralize/nationalize control of voting under the Federal government. It would be much easier to control the outcome of future elections.
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[CIRCA] The same foreign lobbyists and Russians tied to the Trump probe were once associated to Senator John McCain when he ran for president.
[WND] WASHINGTON ‐ DNC staffer Seth Rich, who was brutally murdered on July 10, 2016, on a street near his Washington home ‐ sparking discussion that he might have been the source of party insider emails turned over to WikiLeaks during the 2016 presidential race ‐ probably wasn’t the victim of a random homicide.
[BREITBART] As the election results showed Republican Karen Handel soundly beating her opponent Jon Ossoff in the special election in Georgia, CNN analysts appeared disappointed by the results before anchor Anderson Cooper cut to a break.
[BBC] Russian hackers targeted election systems in 21 US states during last year's campaign, said a US official.
