NBC NEWS: “The U.S. official in charge of protecting American elections from hacking says the Russians successfully penetrated the voter registration rolls of several U.S. states prior to the 2016 presidential election.”
We saw a targeting of 21 states and an exceptionally small number of them were actually successfully penetrated.
— Jeanette Manfra, head of cybersecurity at the Department of Homeland Security.
wasn’t at least one of the states which was critical in the electoral count where a bunch of voters were turned away at the polls due to questionable registration challenges? and not so coincidentally weren’t all those challenged registered democrats? I have a sneaky feeling there were no challenges of republican voters in any of the critical states….would be interested in how many if any anywhere.
now wasn’t all that I-love-a-parade hoopla a convenient distraction from the russky raided registration records story! on purpose by any chance?
and more successful distractions are the nunes memo battles….which unfortunately aren’t over yet since 5 more to come are threatened.
Need to lighten things up a bit. This is what making it through your first 100 days of school can do.
Jamie,
Beautiful! ? And much needed. It’s a big world out here.
So nice to notice daylight creeping in earlier & staying later.
People researching family trees will appreciate this: that feeling when you click on hints & up pops records from the Pennsylvania Reformatory & Penal Institutions.
of all the responses, I think his “Confidence is silent. Insecurities are loud” was the best. says a lot about what he must think of the twit.
from TPM: GOP Sen. Shuts Down Trump’s Wish For Military Parade: ‘Confidence Is Silent’
Following reports that President Donald Trump has asked for a military parade, Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) on Wednesday offered a succinct explanation as to why that show of force is completely unnecessary.
“I don’t think it’s a particularly good idea. Confidence is silent. Insecurities are loud,” he told ABC News.
“When you’re the most powerful nation in all of human history, you don’t have to show it off, like Russia does, and North Korea, and China,” Kennedy continued. “And we are the most powerful nation in all of human history. Everyone knows that, and there’s no need to broadcast it. I think we would show our confidence by remaining silent, and not doing something like that.”
[…continues…]
here’s politico’s coverage on dubya’s comments:
George W. Bush: There’s clear evidence Russia ‘meddled’ in 2016 election
Former President George W. Bush said Thursday that there is “pretty clear evidence that the Russians meddled” in the 2016 presidential election, a seeming rebuke of President Donald Trump, who has at times questioned the intelligence community’s assessment that the Kremlin is to blame.
“Whether (Russia) affected the outcome is another question,” Bush said at conference in Abu Dhabi, according to a USA Today report. “It’s problematic that a foreign nation is involved in our election system. Our democracy is only as good as people trust the results.”
The former president did not mention Trump by name, but Bush’s unequivocal statements on the issue ran counter to the rhetoric that has emerged from the Trump administration. Trump himself was slow to accept the intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia had operated an interference campaign targeting the 2016 U.S. presidential election with the aim of aiding his candidacy, insisting for a time that it was China or even a “400-pound person sitting in bed.”
The president has since conceded that the Russian government was behind the cyberattack but has been decidedly soft in his rhetoric towards the Kremlin, especially relative to his get-tough approach to foreign policy elsewhere around the globe. Trump’s stance on Russia has puzzled U.S. allies and lawmakers from both parties.
Of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who U.S. intelligence agencies have suggested knew of and directed the 2016 cyberattacks, Bush said “He can’t think, ‘how can we both win?’ He only thinks, ‘how do I win, you lose?’”
“He’s got a chip on his shoulder. The reason he does is because of the demise of the Soviet Union troubles him,” the former president said. “Therefore, much of his moves (are) to regain Soviet hegemony … That’s why NATO is very important.”
Hoping you are safe from the weather.
sj… we made it through the storm just fine. We did get several hours of freezing rain on top of the snow… fortunately, not enough to lose power. I spent most of the day weaving and reading. Right now hubby is using his shiny new snowblower to clean up… he loves that damn thing! Glad you made it through alright too.
Methinks it’s of the utmost importance to find out what the Russians did to our 2016 election and how did they do it. But more importantly, once we know those answers, is what the hell are we going to do about it. My guess with the government being led by the GOP…. most likely nothing.
I’d get my snowblower out, but with less than 1/2 inch of snow I’m afraid the neighbors might bust a gut laughing. 10 minutes of sunshine (which is occurring now, should about melt it all away.
SJ, yep, loving the noticeably longer daylight hours – I wasn’t a big fan of driving both to and from work in the dark, and never have been.
You know this line will send Diaper Don into a meltdown:
“Whether (Russia) affected the outcome is another question,” Bush said
How about a nice non-threatening parade of underpaid/overworked, battered, abused, and cheated-on women, all wearing stylish pink knit pussy hats ? Women are easier on the pavement than 70 ton tanks are. Instead of carrying rifles, the women could carry (blue?) brushes and dust pans. Theme : Sweeping Our Trash Out.
Why should we believe White House “on background” claims Trump knew nothing about the wife beater? Their credibility tanked long ago.
I venture that there are fifty secretaries of state who are in almost constant worry that their region’s major newspaper will highlight their state’s acute election system vulnerabilities and their staff’s ham-fisted attempts at overcoming them.
trump knew. He was prolly porter’s pinch hitter. Or, hit pincher.
Jamie, you have such beautiful downstream kids—well done!
XR, forget the brooms and dust pans for the clean-up crew–they need 5-ton street sweepers.
Whatever credibility John Kelly lent to the WH dried up with his proclamation that he was honored to work alongside a wife beater. (Actually, it was gone when he signed on and did that first Sunday show.)
Wasn’t Hope Hicks involved with some other creep in Trumpco before Porter? Ah, yes. She also dated Corey Lewindowski.
“Moley , moley, moley”! -Austin Powers
Generalissimo Francisco Franco, still dead. Paul Ryan, still just awful.
If Traitor Don & His Russia Republicans in charge during Cuban Missile Crisis they’d call it a hoax and investigate CIA.
jamie – A cute, pink, owlet.
What a switch. Anti-spending, anti-communist Republicans morphed into debt lovers who work for an ex-KGB thug.
No ex about it. Once a kgb thug, always a kgb thug.
Mr Flatus, yes, 5 ton sweepers would pick up more republican ‘facts,’ memos, and bumshells. As long as the sweeper operators wear pink knit pussy hats, they’ll make a great parade contingent.
Rosey the Riveter in a pink pussy hat would be terrific for promotional posters.
craig, gop in wonderland and through the looking glass where up is down and down is up. like alice, they dream (and so far have accomplished it seems):
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?”
Mr C, you have travelled a long Trail from being the fastideous wordmonger and inoffensive poli-sci diagnostician that you once were. Per exemplum, Traitor Don & His Russia Republicans, is hardly the phraseology you would have used to communicate your thoughts back in the pre-Deadbeat Pussypincher days. I presume that your thoughts have followed your diction, leaving the sunny uplands of the Obama Era for gloomy lowlife, hyena-eat-dog, modernity.
Sad
Poobah, who goes on background for an interview to DEFEND his or her boss?
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We are watching the Iggles parade. Mr. Cracker said he has never seen so many drunk people on television before and he means the announcers.
newsweek:
Mueller Has ‘Technical Case’ Against Trump for Obstruction Justice, Former AG Holder Says
Special counsel Robert Mueller has a “technical case” for obstruction of justice against President Donald Trump in the ongoing Russian election meddling investigation, but will ultimately need to make his “best” case, according to former Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday.
“Is there a technical case there now? I think so. Now,” Holder said Wednesday after a Christian Science Monitor–sponsored breakfast, Politico reported.
But Holder, who ran the Justice Department under President Barack Obama, said a prosecutor must make sure he or she is mounting a strong case, not just one that is merely arguable in court.
“If you’re a prosecutor, you make sure that you are building the best case,” Holder said. “Not a technical case, but the best case, you know, that you can.”
Obstruction of justice is reportedly a focus of Mueller’s investigators—and Holder pointed to former FBI Director James Comey’s dismissal in May as a possible part of that probe, along with the president’s apparent effort to get Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats and CIA Director Mike Pompeo to intervene in the investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn, according to The Washington Post.
“You know, the Comey firing,” Holder said, “the outreaches to Coats and the other intel guys…”
But Holder also stressed there’s very little known about what Mueller’s probe has unearthed: “Now, who knows what else they’ve got?”
[….]
Holder’s comments follow reports involving Trump’s desire to meet face-to-face with Mueller for an interview, against his lawyers’ advice, according to CNN. The president firmly believes he is innocent and would speak with the special counsel under oath.
“He thinks he can work this,” a person familiar with Trump’s thinking told CNN. “He doesn’t realize how high the stakes are.”
“Wasn’t Hope Hicks involved with some other creep in Trumpco before Porter? Ah, yes. She also dated Corey Lewindowski.”
BiD, what you bet her selection includes the creep in chief. that seems to be hinted at in these two excerpts
from Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury book
and
my guess that the affair wolff teased people about last month was not nikki, but the sweet young thing at his beck and call
rob reiner has been hitting the msnbc shows today discussing the committee to investigate russia (official website called investigaterussia.org)
online article there “Russians Hacked Voter Rolls” notes what fearless leader’s thread is about today.
some good footage in a video reiner has put together with clapper and brennan
https://youtu.be/xvYrGjCCVDo
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
[ a poem written by German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984)]
Holy trump slump.
Ever since gates started spilling his guts to Mueller, something has happened to trump. trump is unraveling as howard stern predicted. From wired —
BOB MUELLER’S INVESTIGATION IS LARGER—AND FURTHER ALONG—THAN YOU THINK
AND hope hicks has the worst taste in men, period.
1033 drop in the Dow today – 10.4% drop in 4 days. The market hates uncertainty. Glad I’m not heavily into stocks.
Trumpkins saying it happened on Obama’s watch, too. Well, yes, over a period of weeks, then the market rebounded and added 3000 points in the last 11 months of 2016, net gain of 2200 or 12%. (SFB’s at about a 20% gain over the past year, down from 34% a week ago) Hang on, it may be a wild ride – or just a correction. We’ll see.
well put XR. Yes, that was all before a treasonous mad man stole the White House.
Voter files left unsecured by rnc contractor. An extensive database of information about 198 million Americans collected by a contractor hired by Republican groups was obtained by a security researcher, who found it on an Amazon server, with not even a single password protecting it.
The data included home addresses, birth dates and phone numbers of voters from both parties.
From gizmodo —
The RNC paid Deep Root $983,000 last year, according to Federal Election Commission reports, but its server contained records from a variety of other conservative sources paid millions more, including The Data Trust (also known as GOP Data Trust), the Republican party’s primary voter file provider. Data Trust received over $6.7 million from the RNC during the 2016 cycle, according to OpenSecrets.org, and its president, Johnny DeStefano, now serves as Trump’s director of presidential personnel.
(Since the publicaton of this article, destefano has been moved from personnel by kelly to office of public liaison.)
Lots of rotten apples in the white house barrel.
BW, re: Hope Hicks – absolutely worst judgment in men.
Xr, you are quite the wordsmith – “pre-Deadbeat Pussypincher days“. Oh how we wish for the good old days.
patD – pogo – Or, is Hope picking these jerks because they are useful to her and/or, possibly, the Kremlin?
”Moley, moley, moley.” – Austin Powers
Paul Ryan is just awful.
BiD, I put no bad intent beyond Hope Hicks’ reach.
So once again we are in a countdown to shutdown. The “word” given to us was not by email, but by rumour, don’t worry be happy – no shutdown tonight, or they hope so. We are talking about a whole group of president wannabes (if not dictator wannabe). So, I plan on checking the news tomorrow morning to see if I am employed.
Started working at the gym yesterday. Sigh. I know I am doing good things to my body. The shame is I do remember what my body could do fifty years ago. In a few weeks I will feel better about how things are going.
Pain is weakness leaving your body, but don’t over-do it.
Lil Kim had a the kind of parade Donny wants. Cheesy and disturbing. Pence probably should sit too close to Kim’s sister. Remember what happened to Kim’s bother. Scumbag Norks & their idiot, South Korean appeasers.
Dallas ISD is worried they are going to lose about half of their bi-lingual DACA teachers; there are 70,000 kids in the school district in need of them.
Paul Ryan is still awful.
pogo – You’re probably right, but she seems well-educated and from a good family. I would expect her to have better sense than to date those hot-headed bozos. It just seems like too much of a non-story. Nothing is as it seems in Trumpland.
Paul Ryan is still just awful.
Blue, if you did what I do for a living you wouldn’t be a bit surprised.
Bb, you planning an overnight vacation?
A little musical interlude
It is 1964
Mr. Tambourine Man (Live at the Newport Folk Festival. 1964)
So here I am, sitting down trying to watch the opening events in the Olympics. Men’s downhill practice is delayed due to weather, so what do I have to watch? Figure skating and Mixed doubles curling (who knew?) Maybe I can find a decent movie.
Remember everyone, pence goes down first.
pol ryan is vile.
Ah curling. Growing up in Detroit and watching CKLW, Windsor station, curling was on the air, sometimes live. Definitely not a boring sport once you understand the physics of it, and how insane it is on outdoor ponds.
Watching the House debate the Senate amendment to the House amendment of the Senate amendment of the House Bill HR whatever. Just heard a friend of mine from Colorado, a Dem, urge the members to vote no. Hmm, wonder what he is up to? Oh, he is running for governor and might want to get the Colorado Springs, hard core right, votes.
I do ask myself why I am awake at this hour, and myself tells me that it does not know why I am awake. There must hundreds of others awake and watching CSPAN too.