Mother Jones: The NSA Chief Says Russia Hacked the 2016 Election.

[Bobbie Jo]

Congress Must Investigate

David Corn

Despite all the news being generated by the change of power underway in Washington, there is one story this week that deserves top priority: Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. On Tuesday, the director of the National Security Agency, Admiral Michael Rogers, was asked about the WikiLeaks release of hacked information during the campaign, and he said, "This was a conscious effort by a nation-state to attempt to achieve a specific effect." He added, "This was not something that was done casually. This was not something that was done by chance. This was not a target that was selected purely arbitrarily."

This was a stunning statement that has echoed other remarks from senior US officials. He was saying that Russia directly intervened in the US election to obtain a desired end: presumably to undermine confidence in US elections or to elect Donald Trump—or both. Rogers was clearly accusing Vladimir Putin of meddling with American democracy. This is news worthy of bold and large front-page headlines—and investigation. Presumably intelligence and law enforcement agencies are robustly probing the hacking of political targets attributed to Russia. But there is another inquiry that is necessary: a full-fledged congressional investigation that holds public hearings and releases its findings to the citizenry.

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http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2016/11/will-congress-investigate-russian-interference-2016-campaign

[jmg257]

1. Sort of the run-up to the election, no? Or the actual results? nt

[Bobbie Jo]

2. Both

[jmg257]

3. Nevermind!

[Bobbie Jo]

5. Gotcha

[jmg257]

4. Ah I see it thanks!

"Also, Russian hackers reportedly targeted state election systems in Arizona and Illinois."

"Hackers targeted voter registration systems in Illinois and Arizona, and the FBI alerted Arizona officials in June that Russians were behind the assault on the election system in that state.

The bureau described the threat as “credible” and significant, “an eight on a scale of one to 10,” Matt Roberts, a spokesman for Arizona Secretary of State Michele Reagan (R), said Monday. As a result, Reagan shut down the state’s voter registration system for nearly a week"

It turned out that the hackers had not compromised the state system or even any county system. They had, however, stolen the username and password of a single election official in Gila County."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-is-investigating-foreign-hacks-of-state-election-systems/2016/08/29/6e758ff4-6e00-11e6-8365-b19e428a975e_story.html

[lunasun]

6. large Hispanic registration hack ? IL and AZ both have a large Hispanic population

[FailureToCommunicate]

7. Any members of the Electoral College getting these troubling allegations?

[blue neen]

8. Surprise, surprise!

Not.

And all of the Russian hackers out in Social Media Land, and Blogs, and Websites will be checking to see what the public has to say......