Hackers

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 of justice beefs against previous guy during “Russiagate”. And we still don’t know what Russian hackers did with the RNC...

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  • May 14, 2021

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 is the ransom amount of 5 million dollars paid to the Russian hacking group. Colonial Pipeline paid $5m ransom to...

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  • May 13, 2021

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 services. Biden to deliver remarks on Russia at 4:30 p.m./2030 GMT https://t.co/SP3vkqtDEX — Fichman (@ukrlaa) April 15, 2021 The White...

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  • April 15, 2021

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 the United States. That’s been documented in Republican-led investigative reports, and now it has been updated with new evidence, thanks to the U.S....

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  • March 24, 2021

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 media siteGab …has earned a reputation in recent years for attracting members of the far-right and has been linked to the...

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  • March 9, 2021

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 its worst cyber attack, possibly in history. Trump and his minions are raising the temperature on a military coup.  Even...

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  • December 19, 2020

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 information stolen from the US government. But maybe he’ll be remembered for promising some of his advisors that “he will refuse...

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  • December 16, 2020

“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 former head of a bank known for Russian money laundering in Cyprus and a Treasury head who approved lifting financial...

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  • December 14, 2020

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 violence with the attempts on the governor of Michigan and the mayor of Wichita.   We’ve also seen long-term confrontations in...

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  • October 20, 2020

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. I’m not worried about the New Hampshire U.S. Senate race but I decided to do some digging on U.S. Senator...

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  • October 8, 2020

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 Guttenberg (@fred_guttenberg) September 24, 2020 x President Trump on boos at Supreme Court: “That was just a political chant —...

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  • September 25, 2020

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 for the November presidential election. Scenarios for each electoral outcome (and the implications for political violence in the US) are...

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  • September 6, 2020

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 is headed to Kenosha, Wisconsin, after drawing a comparison between police officers who shoot people in the back to golfers...

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  • September 1, 2020

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 for unity. The local Democrats hosted a Zoom meeting the evening of Monday, Aug. 24, with U.S. Senate candidate the...

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  • August 26, 2020

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 sprouting turd-blossoms. Remember how Karl Rove “openly acknowledged that the function of his propaganda was to create a mythology and...

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  • August 2, 2020

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 a “majority”, considering the faults in the US election system. Too many stupid things can still happen. GOTV. “If Trump...

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  • July 29, 2020

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 say, “I love it, especially later in the summer.” Because, you know, I’m a real American with real American values,...

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  • May 15, 2020

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 2020 than George McGovern did in 1972 x With how the convention is shaping up, the better analogy compares Sanders...

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  • February 21, 2020

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 – Klobuchar 253.854 – Patrick 0 – Sanders 533.105 – Steyer 6.505 – Warren 380.045 – Yang 21.368 – Other...

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  • February 6, 2020

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 the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) measured, over a 48-hour period, a colossal increase of cyberattacks from Iran on...

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  • January 18, 2020

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 also be on the path of “exonerating” him. We’ve returned to 2016, as the same Russian military intelligence GRU continues its...

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  • January 14, 2020

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 also be on the path of “exonerating” him. We’ve returned to 2016, as the same Russian military intelligence GRU continues its...

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  • January 14, 2020

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 for military action like 9/11. President Trump doubles down on his threat to attack Iranian cultural sites if it should...

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  • January 6, 2020

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 forces and cede Middle East political influence to his masters in Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Russia, despite his preference for empty posturing...

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  • January 4, 2020

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 lot of folks with similar names. Lavrov may have ordered Trump to *remove immediately* three Russian ‘companies’ connected with Evil...

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  • December 15, 2019

#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 an American hero, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman. ICYMI, this highly-decorated Veteran shed blood on the battlefield for us. #MoscowMarsha should...

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  • November 23, 2019

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 be amusing except that William Barr’s recent speech to the Federalist society warned of impending “left” violence. The greater reality...

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  • November 16, 2019

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 Roger Stone trial! And here's the story on why this trial could be bad news for @realDonaldTrump:https://t.co/cAM8nZAFZi https://t.co/7Ekh6wujHV — David...

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  • November 6, 2019

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 Jared Kushner & Flynn met on Nov 30, 2016 w. Russian Ambassador Kislyak: they “discussed US policy toward Syria, and...

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  • October 19, 2019

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 the Ukrainian President was a congenial and very appropriate one, and my statement on China pertained to corruption, not politics....

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  • October 5, 2019

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 the links. Why do I get the feeling that the longer he’s our Dear Leader (not much longer, please), Trump will start...

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  • May 18, 2019

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 Daily Beast is reporting that the Russians are thrilled with the summary, and are using it to claim the entire...

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  • March 25, 2019

“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. Bill, Deb, Janis, Dan, Kimberly, Bryan, and Shayna—Your PDA National Team Support Our Efforts To Protect Your Vote! As we...

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  • October 17, 2018

(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 Agency AIVD hacked Cozy Bear’s HQ in a building at a Moscow University near the Red Square. They spied on...

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  • September 11, 2018

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 ever that we nominated a progressive. For decades, my stupid party has nominated milquetoast, conservative candidates, and then wondered why...

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  • September 6, 2018

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 I was onto something, while others thought I was on something. And they were right! (To paraphrase Afroman, I was...

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  • August 13, 2018

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 just so damn sexy. Looking at things that someone else wrote that were never intended for our eyes speaks to...

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  • August 9, 2018

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 my fire. Things may not be as they are currently being spun. But one aspect of the story, perhaps the...

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  • March 17, 2018

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 of states: A U.S. cybersecurity official said Wednesday that Russia “successfully penetrated” the voter rolls in a small number of...

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  • February 8, 2018