Combating Russian Election Interference

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What concrete steps, if any, has the Trump administration publicly taken to:

(1) Determine the scope, nature and bredth of alleged foreign interference in the 2016 Presidential race;

(2) Identify the nation(s) responsible; and

(3) Prevent it from happening again.

Not asking for a rehash of the intelligence community's findings here, rather looking for leadership on the issue by Trump.
 
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What concrete steps, if any, has the Trump administration publicly taken to:

(1) Determine the scope, nature and bredth of alleged foreign interference in the 2016 Presidential race;

(2) Identify the nation(s) responsible; and

(3) Prevent it from happening again.

Not asking for a rehash of the intelligence community's findings here, rather looking for leadership on the issue by Trump.

Trump should make Facebook register as a foreign agent for taking $100k from Russian operatives.
 
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After the Washington Post article that the FBI lied about 95% of forensic hair sample evidence over a 20 year period, does anyone still believe in Russian election interference?

Or is the intelligence community war mongering to bolster their own budgets?
 
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After the Washington Post article that the FBI lied about 95% of forensic hair sample evidence over a 20 year period, does anyone still believe in Russian election interference?

Are is the intelligence community war mongering to bolster their own budgets?

What lunacy! Our intelligence agencies would never lie to maintain or increase their funding or power.
 
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After the Washington Post article that the FBI lied about 95% of forensic hair sample evidence over a 20 year period, does anyone still believe in Russian election interference?

Or is the intelligence community war mongering to bolster their own budgets?


to believe conservative low-information goofs over the FBI. Ha, ha, ha. I can never decide whether to believe the FBI or some certifiably dishonest real estate sleazebag. Tough one.

What has the Trump administration done? That's a scandal: Trump still won't admit that the Russians hacked our election because he's got a hard-on for Putin and Russian dirty money, which has propped up his property business for years.
 
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to believe conservative low-information goofs over the FBI. Ha, ha, ha. I can never decide whether to believe the FBI or some certifiably dishonest real estate sleazebag. Tough one.

What has the Trump administration done? That's a scandal: Trump still won't admit that the Russians hacked our election because he's got a hard-on for Putin and Russian dirty money, which has propped up his property business for years.

The FBI and the Department of Justice admit that the FBI lied under oath in 95% of cases evaluated covering a time span of over 20 years to help bolster the prosecutions case.

Clearly we are all the fools for not trusting government. Especially when our own government and presumably others (hackers, other governments) have the capability of masking where a cyber attack from. If it appears to have been Russia, that just means it most likely wasn't from Russia.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/fbi-overstated-forensic-hair-matches-in-nearly-all-criminal-trials-for-decades/2015/04/18/39c8d8c6-e515-11e4-b510-962fcfabc310_story.html?utm_term=.a8445758e21b
 
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The FBI and the Department of Justice admit that the FBI lied under oath in 95% of cases evaluated covering a time span of over 20 years to help bolster the prosecutions case.

Clearly we are all the fools for not trusting government. Especially when our own government and presumably others (hackers, other governments) have the capability of masking where a cyber attack from. If it appears to have been Russia, that just means it most likely wasn't from Russia.

FBI admits flaws in hair analysis over decades - The Washington Post


Another of America's new conspiracy theorists. The space ship will be landing soon.
 
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to believe conservative low-information goofs over the FBI. Ha, ha, ha. I can never decide whether to believe the FBI or some certifiably dishonest real estate sleazebag. Tough one.

What has the Trump administration done? That's a scandal: Trump still won't admit that the Russians hacked our election because he's got a hard-on for Putin and Russian dirty money, which has propped up his property business for years.

What did Obama do? He knew and did nothing. That would make him highly culpable in this in my book.
 
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to believe conservative low-information goofs over the FBI. Ha, ha, ha. I can never decide whether to believe the FBI or some certifiably dishonest real estate sleazebag. Tough one.

What has the Trump administration done? That's a scandal: Trump still won't admit that the Russians hacked our election because he's got a hard-on for Putin and Russian dirty money, which has propped up his property business for years.

OK, dumb question category. We've been messing in the politics of other countries for a long time - sometimes just passing up the elections and putting a dictator in power, so why would any rational being not think someone could or would do the same to us?

There's no question that locks are a deterrent; we put them on doors for a reason. No question that some locks and security measure are better than others. Why, then, don't we have better measures to counter outside interference?

My thought is that if you are stupid enough to lay out your life on Facebook, etc, then you don't have the wherewithal to understand security; unfortunately that appears to cover most of the US population. Just one big don't worry, be happy crowd.

With that kind of lapse in intelligence, it's no wonder that anything attached to the internet leaks like a sieve. To be protected, you have to put your mind to it, but first you have to recognize that there is a problem to begin with. A large part of the population won't even own up to the thought of internal election fraud/ manipulation; don't do that, and there are really no protections is place - foreign or domestic.

The other part that most affects business; effective security is expensive; business doesn't want "unecessary cost, and they can get away with it; government can't respond quickly enough to act. Examples: the Equifax bungle is being allowed to fade into the sunset, and Dims are still blatantly claiming there is no election fraud. Stupid is as stupid does.
 
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Trump only begrudgingly ever admits that Putin attempted to meddle in the campaigns. Even when he does, it is muted and at the behest of his staff. You can tell he hates to admit it.

Then, when unscripted and speaking his mind, he calls it fake news and throws the intelligence community under the bus. He does not want to admit it because, to do so, begs the question of why did they want him to win.

You know, i have to say, I think in Trump's mind that is less a function of worrying about people thinking he is doing their bidding (though the evidence of that is increasing). Rather, its his ego. He doesn't want people to think he won other than by tremendously popular. That's why you saw him screaming about how many people showed up at the inauguration, how millions of illegitimate votes were cast against him, and how he won the biggest victory, ever.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say I imagine that Monopoly with him is STILL played like this:

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When does Facebook donate all that dirty money to charity?

Kinda guessing it's pretty much when hell freezes over. Pretty amazing that in the age of political correctness and oh, so social awareness, that social media has moved the bar for civility so much lower. The role of social media in society is about like free alcohol at AA meetings.
 
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After the Washington Post article that the FBI lied about 95% of forensic hair sample evidence over a 20 year period, does anyone still believe in Russian election interference?

Or is the intelligence community war mongering to bolster their own budgets?

Fake news! Everyone knows our agencies like the FBI and CIA are upstanding organizations that only have the American citizen's best interests at heart.
 
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The bottom line is that you don't want a president who feels indebted to a foreign leader--especially a former KGB goon/dictator who is our chief adversary. It's called being compromised--and then you have a president who wants to do nice things for our adversary, and that is treason. If you think that is far-fetched, you haven't been paying attention. Trump, Flynn, Kusher (whose family badly needs money, like Trump before him, to bail out his massive debt on 666 Fifth Avenue)--all compromised or close to it. Not good, not good at all. You also don't want foreign adversaries hacking your election and spreading disinformation all over social media, as Russia as done. Trump should have read the riot act to Putin, but that's hard to do when you are licking the man's backside.
 
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to believe conservative low-information goofs over the FBI. Ha, ha, ha. I can never decide whether to believe the FBI or some certifiably dishonest real estate sleazebag. Tough one.

What has the Trump administration done? That's a scandal: Trump still won't admit that the Russians hacked our election because he's got a hard-on for Putin and Russian dirty money, which has propped up his property business for years.

They didn't hack our election you mongoloid.
 

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