McCain doubles down on calls for select committee to investigate Russia's involvement in election

[kpete]

Sen. John McCain on Sunday doubled down on his call for a select committee to investigate Russia's role in the presidential election while dismissing comments from Donald Trump about the matter.

"We need to get to the bottom of this. We need to find out what was done," the Arizona Republican said on CNN's "State of the Union."

"There's no doubt they were interfering, and no doubt there was a cyber attack."

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McCain said while he hasn't heard Trump criticize Russian President Vladimir Putin, he suspects that "reality is going to intercede at one point or another."

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"The fact is that they're hacking every single day in other areas of our military and other aspects of American life, and we have no strategy, nor do we have any policy toward that," he said.

"This is serious business," McCain said.

"If they're able to do harm to the electoral process, then they can destroy democracy."



the rest:
http://thehill.com/homenews/news/310924-mccain-calls-for-select-committee-to-investigate-russias-involvement-in

[gordianot]

1. Do you think?

I do not see much support for this concern in the Republican Party.

[HoneyBadger]

2. Supposed to be the same group that hacked the White House in 2014

Not sure that anyone in the administration wants that to be the headline. Though Crowdstrike published it a long time ago.

For geeks, their original Miniduke malware was written in Assembler.

By the way, all the ads that you see on DU and elsewhere, the miracle cream to cure diabetes, guess what, hacker clickbait.

[CanonRay]

4. I agree with what he says, it just should be past tense

they have destroyed democracy. It can be fixed, but we seem to lack the will to fix it. We've know about voting problems and hacking since at least 2000...16 freaking years and haven't done shit. I at least partially blame the Dem party for not making this a priority after Gore "lost". The Russians were the last nail in the coffin.

[AgadorSparticus]

5. Good on McCain. I feel confident he will work tirelessly on this

The Russians ARE a threat and i am glad this old guard republican is not going to stay silent.

[blue neen]

6. He's right.

[Wellstone ruled]

7. John McCain has staked out the GOP's final report.

The final report will blame Obama for some cock-amamie- ideal,being,Obama did not have a policy against Russia. Therefore,it is that Guy in our White House who allowed this to happen.

[Guyechka]

9. A lot of dems I know

are pissed off at Obama's lack of action. Rightly so. Could he have tried harder, done more? Yes! Is it his fault that Russia hacked the election? Hell no!

[Wellstone ruled]

12. Agree,the fault

lays at the feet of our Intelligence Agencies. Obama is a traditionalist,letting his Agencies do their work and if Policy needs to be adjusted,so be it.

[ailsagirl]

8. I'm glad he's giving this outrage the gravity it demands

Wish more were

[Horse with no Name]

10. at the same time he is blaming Obama

[AlexSFCA]

11. he should talk

to trump who doesn't beleive it. Who do his supporters are supposed to beleive McCain or trump?
We live in a post-truth, post-fact world where most important which information gets comminicated and it's not always facts.