GOP and RW media whine about DoJ becoming “politicized again”

Susan Hennessey will be senior counsel at the National Security Division of the Justice Department. Looks like the Feds are closing in something, something, because there were definitely multiple obstruction … Read More

Biden: Retaliation against the pipeline hackers not ruled out.

RWNJs spent more time today demonizing COVID data whistleblower Rebekah Jones rather than focusing on the various data violations and network attacks happening regionally, causing panics over fuel supplies. The real news … Read More

Biden announces sanctions imposed on Russia because of hacks and 2020 election interference

The Biden administration has disclosed for the first time that a Russian agent who received internal polling data from the Trump campaign in 2016 passed it along to Russia’s intelligence … Read More

Intel Community: “Previous Guy was a tool in a long-running Russian campaign to weaken the USA.”

Truly a tool, as the Inspector General reports are coming and Previous Guy’s going to be in the barrel. Donald Trump was a tool in a long-running Russian campaign to weaken … Read More

As with life, the illustrations of it are always problematic representations

Likely the RWNJ social media site Gab was constantly under FBI surveillance even before 6 January, but for some reason it wishes to make itself more well noticed. The “free speech” social … Read More

Is the cyber attack in support of a Trump military coup

I am sure others have put this together, but I think it is something that needs to be out there. Two things are happening simultaneously.  The United States is suffering … Read More

Remember Trump's crime spree by the theft of information as tall as the Washington Memorial

There will be plenty of memorials to the Trump reign, but the most significant one will be the betrayal of democracy. It raises the matter of Washington Monument sized piles of … Read More

Russian hacking group APT29, or Cozy Bear, is behind new hacks of US Treasury and Commerce

“The hack is seen as so significant that a National Security Council meeting was held at the White House on Saturday over it, according to Reuters.” Because having at Commerce, a … Read More

Assuming some violence will occur in election week, plan to keep calm and remain aware

Assuming that there will be some violent provocations, we should encourage all deescalation efforts for election week, regardless of the vote outcomes. We’ve now seen the potential for serious planned electoral … Read More

NH-Sen: Salon Exposes How Corky Messner's (R) Law Firm Bankrupted Mass Shooting Victim's Family

I cover a lot of U.S. Senate races and I really try to keep a focus on the ones that are the closest so I tend to overlook some races. … Read More

“Vote him out” Ginsburg death compels renunciation of faith

x WOW!!! The dictator went to the Supreme Court just now. Listen to the response as they shout. VOTE HIM OUT!!! VOTE HIM OUT!!! VOTE HIM OUT!!! pic.twitter.com/9AIcu4IcHg — Fred … Read More

bees stop murder hornets as a swarm, but can mass demonstrations stop another Trump coup

There will be a variety of responses to the impending Trump attempt to steal the election. Be prepared. x The Transition Integrity Project has run an interesting set of war-games … Read More

Trump chokes on 3' putts as he compares attempted murder to golf, then goes to Kenosha

A quarter-million deaths still loom as the distraction tour continues in order to generate campaign commercial content.  x Trump in Kenosha pic.twitter.com/MyK07qPnX5— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) September 1, 2020 Pres. Trump … Read More

GA-Sen B: Raphael Warnock (D) Hits Back Against Racist Hackers Who Hijacked Virtual Meeting

This is infuriating: After a Hall County Democratic Party virtual meeting was interrupted by hackers targeting a U.S. Senate candidate, Georgia Democrats are criticizing the hackers’ racist messages and calling … Read More

Karl Rove tilts the Trump campaign: “We're an empire now and when we act we create our own reality.”

Eternal vigilance ahead for 90 days. Even with the 1968 noise Trump wants 2016 back because it may be the only real victory he’ll have. Rovian math 2012 comes back … Read More

Announcing a vaccine in October will not be surprising – surviving Trump after November will be

Peter Nicholas throws cold water on the gaslight that is building up, anticipating stunts galore before November’s election day. Jobless numbers, 151,000 dead, and basic incompetence could still be tolerable for … Read More

Hackers threaten to release Trump's 'dirty laundry' unless they're paid ransom

To be clear, I do not condone this. Not at all. And, unlike Trump, if someone came to me with this kind of information, I’d contact the FBI immediately — not … Read More

maybe it's more like Goldwater in '64 or McCarthy in '68, but 2020 is definitely not like 1972

It’s still mostly like the 2016 election, considering who the Russians prefer. ENOUGH WITH THE SANDERS-MCGOVERN ANALOGIES: 2020 IS NOT 1972 Bernie Sanders has a more favorable political climate in … Read More

96% of Iowa caucus results has Buttigieg ahead of Sanders by 0.3% in state delegate equivalents

IDP Caucus 2020 Results 96% reporting (1686 of 1765 precincts) Candidate SDE National Delegates Bennet 0 – Biden 327.578 – Bloomberg 0.21 – Buttigieg 549.074 – Delaney 0 – Gabbard 0.114 … Read More

Military leaders requested new force to fight cyberwar, but got Space Force instead

Right now, Texas is under siege, and there’s not too much our military can do about it. On Jan. 7, Gov. Greg Abbott told the Domestic Terrorism Task Force that … Read More

Russian GRU hackers return for Trump's Ukraine conspiracy theory, interfering in 2020 election

The disinformation persists as Trump’s “perfect” shake down conversation with Ukraine president Zelensky only appears to be unrelated to the actual Russian hacking campaigns that helped elect him. They might … Read More

Russian GRU hackers return for Trump's Ukraine conspiracy theory, interfering in 2020 election

The disinformation persists as Trump’s “perfect” shake down conversation with Ukraine president Zelensky only appears to be unrelated to the actual Russian hacking campaigns that helped elect him. They might … Read More

Trumpian military end-games before the November election are about nukes

Threats against 52 Iranian “cultural sites” are more Trumpian gaslighting and a projection of hope that Iran will reciprocate by attacking the US in a way that galvanizes national support … Read More

Will Iran help Trump get re-elected because that would do the worst possible damage to the US

Keeping Trump in power might be the best Iranian revenge for the assassination of Qasem Suliemani. One view could be that Trump, as a natural coward will ultimately reduce US … Read More

Evil Corp is of course, a Russian cyber-crime organization – Trump lifted sanctions on its companies

Surprising that it’s not connected to the Shreks’ company, “Fraud Guarantee”, and yet sanctions got removed from related Russian companies. Individual-1 Trump obeys his masters, even if there are a … Read More

GOP: an entire party of cheap dates for Russian money #MoscowMarsha

#MoscowMarsha trends after GOP Senator Blackburn accuses Alexander "Vindictive Vindman" of being whistleblower's "handler" https://t.co/pYcJt9mstV — Newsweek (@Newsweek) November 22, 2019 A sitting United States Senator is trying to shade … Read More

darn those 2020 election red/blue pills – Hacker simulation yields 32 possible deaths

Without panicking, the potential chaos of the 2016 election, regardless of result could repeat itself, noting Moscow Mitch’s complicity then and now in 2020 election security. This training event could … Read More

using a (Roger) Stone to pound: table, process, facts

Still unfinished business as the Roger Stone trial overcomes food poisoning to continue, and Trump’s possible lies to the Special Counsel may emerge. Follow @dfriedman33 for up-to-date reporting on the … Read More

Trump's WH got pwnd by Russia early and Rudy may have jammed up Trump because of Firtash

The Russians have always been there. Whether they’re political officials, hackers, or organized crime figures, we’ve never really left the Mueller report and the Steele dossier. Reminder: Mueller Report noted that … Read More

Individual-1 insults someone on his jury

There was Trumpian rage-tweeting at Senator Mitt Romney on the way to the golf course today. x Somebody please wake up Mitt Romney and tell him that my conversation with … Read More

Trump's golf cheating is apparently getting worse (UPDATE)

I don’t know much about golf. I do know Kim Jong Il got five holes in one — and shot a 38-under-par 34 — the first time he ever hit … Read More

Daily Beast: Moscow 'in ecstasy' over Barr letter

Apparently, Trump’s toadies and hangers-on aren’t the only ones deliberately misinterpreting AG William Barr’s four-page summary of the Mueller Report. Russian media and state officials are right behind them. The … Read More

Elections Must Be Honest!

“We won’t know the good our country is still capable of until our elections are honest.” — Mimi Kennedy, National Election Integrity Activist By  Mike Hersh for Alan, Mike F., Dr. … Read More

Dutch Treat: Dutch Intel Service AIVD Provided NSA With Proof Russian Officials Behind DNC Hack.

(This is just a reminder as drumpf and his talk radio and Faux News enablers continue to lie about what we know about the hacking.) In 2014 the Dutch Intelligence … Read More

It begins: FL GOP opens the racist floodgates on Andrew Gillum

I was astounded when Andrew Gillum won the Democratic nomination for governor. This wasn’t just the first time my state nominated an African-American for that role, but the first time … Read More

An 11-year-old just hacked into a replica Florida election website … in less than 10 minutes

I wrote about voting machine and election website vulnerabilities about two and a half weeks ago, and that diary generated a tremendous amount of feedback. Some of the commenters thought … Read More

The Podesta/DNC hacked e-mails aren't the ONLY criminal conspiracy game in town.

Look, I get it, it's just human nature. Right now, everybody is fixated on tying Trump and his pathetic campaign to the stolen DNC and Podesta e-mails, mainly because it's … Read More

What role did Devlin Barrett play in the McCabe affair (holding the media accountable for Trump)?

So I have just seen the early reports on Andrew McCabe’s firing. At first I was angry at McCabe but after hearing the early reporting I think I will hold … Read More

Revelation That Russia Breached Voter Rolls Explains Termination Of Trump's Voter Fraud Commission?

The big news yesterday was that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has conceded that Russia succeeded in actually penetrating voter rolls for the 2016 election in a limited number … Read More