Daily Beast: "The most galling aspect of this whole affair..."

[Amaryllis]

"The Intelligence Community had already gone on the record in early October with an assessment that Moscow was interfering with our election.

Now, it has come to light that senior Members of Congress had been briefed in September on the pervasive Russian threat to the core functioning of our democracy. Obama dispatched FBI director James Comey, DHS Secretary Jeh Johnston, and White House counterterrorism and homeland security advisor Lisa Monaco to brief the so-called “Gang of 12” lawmakers: House & Senate leaders, as well as the chairmen and ranking members on the Homeland Security and Intelligence Committee.

They knew. And yet it appears little was done to stop Vladimir Putin’s efforts to put Donald Trump in the White House.

"Upon reflection, this has the most galling aspect of this whole affair: not that Russia deployed a successful covert influence campaign against America, but that our lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle failed to take more aggressive efforts to halt this metastasizing threat to our democracy. More specifically, that President Obama was unwilling to forcefully counteract and confront Moscow’s mischief, and that GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was nakedly partisan in his decision to stifle the intelligence."

More:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/12/11/obama-and-congress-knew-about-russian-hacking-and-they-did-nothing.html

[SHRED]

1. I see it this way also

It's galling.

[Freethinker65]

2. Exactly. WTF.

[elleng]

3. 'this metastasizing threat to our democracy'

'I began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency and that if the cancer was not removed the president himself would be killed by it.'
John Dean

[benld74]

4. I said same thing B4 Christmas!!!

[tikka]

5. Obama was caught between a rock and a hard place

The republicans and the media were convincing the electorate that the democrats were trying to pull a fast one and were untrustworthy. Without the republicans in congress, Obama's efforts to raise the alarm would have been ridiculed and lost in the barrage of email and Benghazi coverage. Any mention of Russian interference during the election was short-lived and never given any serious attention.

McConnell's actions were despicable and possibly treasonous (but hey his wife got a cabinet post).

[CrispyQ]

7. About that cabinet post...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1016&pid=178088

[MBS]

8. Yes, thank you. n/t

[CrispyQ]

6. Misogyny runs deep in the patriarchy.

I said from the beginning there were a ton of people on both side & neither side who believed that it was time to put a white man back in charge. 53% of white women voted for Trump.