Monday, January 9, 2017

Are Obama's intelligence agencies blaming Russia for hacking the election to deflect from their own?

Newsmax won't let the story go, here 10 days ago:

[T]here is a far more ominous sequence of events that’s taken place on our own shores. ...

Over the last 10 months, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) attempted to infiltrate the Georgia Secretary of State’s voter database network. It did so without Georgia’s consent and, in fact, over its explicit rejection of DHS’s offer to "help" the state check for vulnerabilities in its firewall.

DHS didn’t just try once; it made 10 attempts.

This wasn’t an accident. It was a pattern.

Who ordered the cyberattacks and who conducted them are unclear. ...

Ten hack attempts made by a federal agency against a state-protected voter network over a 10 month period, and each attempt coinciding with an election or congressional testimony in opposition to DHS "help." ...

[N]obody is asking about verified hack attempts made by a federal government agency against a state-protected voter database network.