The government's Russian hacking story has taken on many permutations over the last several months, but one thing remains: it's the weakest fly paper roll ever created. As much as they throw the Russian flies at it, they never stick. First it was hacking, then it was collusion, then it was Trump, then Trump, Jr., then this and then that. As usual the MSM (Mainstream Media) have been compliant lap dogs, and, unfortunately, too many smart Americans believe it, permutations and all. "WikiLeaks be damned! I don't need to read that to know it's just more Russian meddling", they claim with pride. Oh, I forgot meddling on my list above. My bad. Anyway, the latest tear in the morphing hack story is that it was what we expected all along, a leak. The VIPS (Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity) organization's report is another in a long line of examinations showing that the DNC breach was a leak. An inside job.
There is, however, a little noticed side road to this whole sordid affair and as of today, it has come full circle - a full circle jerk, as it were. This side road is the DHS CLAIMS RUSSIANS TRIED TO HACK SOME STATES' ELECTION DATABASES according to our never lyin' pals at DHS (Department of Homeland Security). As we shall see, this story was actually THE DHS TRIED TO HACK SOME STATES' ELECTION DATABASES! Today, the circle jerk was completed, apparently the government believes our collective memories are terribly short, and now DHS CLAIMS RUSSIANS TRIED TO HACK SOME STATES' ELECTION DATABASES has returned to claim it's rightful place upon the throne of shame!
Let's go back to the origin of this fanciful new tale, which was the old tale, which was debunked, shall we?
In the Summer of 2016 the government and MSM conspired to try to sell to the American people that the latest WikiLeaks e-mail dump and FBI document dump were the result of a Russian hack as opposed to an inside leak. This led to articles published about the DHS warning States to double-check their election databases. It should be noted at this time, that while voting machines themselves can not be hacked because they are not online, election databases are online and therefore can be subject to hack attacks. Then before you knew it (but you knew it was bound to happen), the DHS and the FBI, Comey's FBI, btw, was claiming through those ever ready unnamed sources, that some 20 States' election databases had been attacked by the evil Rooskies, but the attacks were thwarted!
Yet, what the DHS was saying was not true, it was totally false. How do we know this? Because after the late September - early October, 2016 spate of articles faded from memory to be replaced by the overwhelming trauma of Trump actually winning the general election over Hillary Clinton, no one was talking about it anymore.
UNTIL...stories began to appear in early December that States had begun to report that their election databases had indeed suffered unsuccessful hack attacks by...DHS! Holy turn around, Batman! Soon, the Secretary of State of Georgia was joined by Secretaries from such States as Indiana, Virginia, Kentucky and Idaho. It is interesting, to say the least, that some of these States refused DHS "help" in strengthening the States' databases. Apparently, very strongly worded and rather stern letters were sent by these Secretaries to DHS. The DHS was eventually forced to respond by saying that the States asked them for help. Of course, the States say they did not ask for DHS help! Then, DHS said that it was one of those usual cut-and-paste Word program gobble-de-gook, just trust us will ya!?!
As before, the story sort of faded from memory while some other Russia Did It deflection stories were trotted out and some unpleasantness with Russia and silly sanctions and dangerousness with North Korea were at the top of the agenda. Headlines blared, hair was pulled and tens of millions of cases of the Backfire Effect raced across America. It wasn't and hasn't been pleasant.
Today, however, because why the fuck not (?) it would seem, the original DHS CLAIMS RUSSIANS TRIED TO HACK SOME STATES' ELECTION DATABASES, dressed up in new garb, was trotted out before the ever gullible public. What's interesting this time, is although 21 States were named, only 15 States have actually been publicly named at this time, and of those only Illinois and Virginia are mentioned (States among those that accused the DHS originally)! There have been local reports from KNBC Los Angeles that California is on the list. So far, the SOS of California has not responded to this reporter's entreaties to comment.
It's incredible that this entire circle jerk was attempted in the first place. What is not incredible, alas, is that the MSM and certain Secretaries of State and of course DHS, NSA, FBI, et al, are trying use this dead horse as a brand new rainbow colored pony for all to fawn over. They have done it before for other things, so why not use this again? The sad reality is that too many people will fall for this, when simple research easily shows what a complete circle jerk is this "side road" story.
There is, however, a little noticed side road to this whole sordid affair and as of today, it has come full circle - a full circle jerk, as it were. This side road is the DHS CLAIMS RUSSIANS TRIED TO HACK SOME STATES' ELECTION DATABASES according to our never lyin' pals at DHS (Department of Homeland Security). As we shall see, this story was actually THE DHS TRIED TO HACK SOME STATES' ELECTION DATABASES! Today, the circle jerk was completed, apparently the government believes our collective memories are terribly short, and now DHS CLAIMS RUSSIANS TRIED TO HACK SOME STATES' ELECTION DATABASES has returned to claim it's rightful place upon the throne of shame!
Let's go back to the origin of this fanciful new tale, which was the old tale, which was debunked, shall we?
In the Summer of 2016 the government and MSM conspired to try to sell to the American people that the latest WikiLeaks e-mail dump and FBI document dump were the result of a Russian hack as opposed to an inside leak. This led to articles published about the DHS warning States to double-check their election databases. It should be noted at this time, that while voting machines themselves can not be hacked because they are not online, election databases are online and therefore can be subject to hack attacks. Then before you knew it (but you knew it was bound to happen), the DHS and the FBI, Comey's FBI, btw, was claiming through those ever ready unnamed sources, that some 20 States' election databases had been attacked by the evil Rooskies, but the attacks were thwarted!
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Yet, what the DHS was saying was not true, it was totally false. How do we know this? Because after the late September - early October, 2016 spate of articles faded from memory to be replaced by the overwhelming trauma of Trump actually winning the general election over Hillary Clinton, no one was talking about it anymore.
UNTIL...stories began to appear in early December that States had begun to report that their election databases had indeed suffered unsuccessful hack attacks by...DHS! Holy turn around, Batman! Soon, the Secretary of State of Georgia was joined by Secretaries from such States as Indiana, Virginia, Kentucky and Idaho. It is interesting, to say the least, that some of these States refused DHS "help" in strengthening the States' databases. Apparently, very strongly worded and rather stern letters were sent by these Secretaries to DHS. The DHS was eventually forced to respond by saying that the States asked them for help. Of course, the States say they did not ask for DHS help! Then, DHS said that it was one of those usual cut-and-paste Word program gobble-de-gook, just trust us will ya!?!
As before, the story sort of faded from memory while some other Russia Did It deflection stories were trotted out and some unpleasantness with Russia and silly sanctions and dangerousness with North Korea were at the top of the agenda. Headlines blared, hair was pulled and tens of millions of cases of the Backfire Effect raced across America. It wasn't and hasn't been pleasant.
Today, however, because why the fuck not (?) it would seem, the original DHS CLAIMS RUSSIANS TRIED TO HACK SOME STATES' ELECTION DATABASES, dressed up in new garb, was trotted out before the ever gullible public. What's interesting this time, is although 21 States were named, only 15 States have actually been publicly named at this time, and of those only Illinois and Virginia are mentioned (States among those that accused the DHS originally)! There have been local reports from KNBC Los Angeles that California is on the list. So far, the SOS of California has not responded to this reporter's entreaties to comment.
It's incredible that this entire circle jerk was attempted in the first place. What is not incredible, alas, is that the MSM and certain Secretaries of State and of course DHS, NSA, FBI, et al, are trying use this dead horse as a brand new rainbow colored pony for all to fawn over. They have done it before for other things, so why not use this again? The sad reality is that too many people will fall for this, when simple research easily shows what a complete circle jerk is this "side road" story.