The news about the Obama administration trying to
combat Russia's hacking in 2016 is an important story and many details about
motivations are sure to be filled in. The main thrust is US intelligence
discovered the hacking and that it was intended to hurt Clinton and help Trump
and investigate what was done in response. There were public discussions of the
Russian threat and covered in the news last year - but some ignored it or did
not understand its import. One of those was, of course, the so-called
President.
Here is the key point: if Obama announced in late 2016
that Russia was trying to hack our actual voter files in numerous states and
help Trump, it would have been seen by many as mere "partisan
politics" designed to help Clinton and hurt Trump. So they did not
publicize this.
The Obama administration noted "that by August it
was too late to prevent the transfer to WikiLeaks and other groups of the
troves of emails that would spill out in the ensuing months. They believe that
a series of warnings — including one that Obama delivered to Putin in September
— prompted Moscow to abandon any plans of further aggression, such as sabotage
of U.S. voting systems."
Also a number of cyber weapons were planted by the
U.S. in response in Russian systems as well. But it was too late and probably
not possible to do anything about the flood of fake news coming out of Russia
or the bots they used to spread this news. News or ideas, like those of Al
Qaeda or ISIS, are difficult to eradicate.
But now the graceless so-called President attacks
Obama for not using the Russian hacks to effect the Presidential race - he
criticizes Obama for not publicizing the fact of Russian interference in our
election that the so-called President still refuses to acknowledge!
The so-called President wants to have it both ways: he
wants to deny the fact of the Russian hacks while criticizing Obama for not doing
something about the hacks. Also, the so-called President is behaving as if he
is just learning about all of this when he has had access to security briefings
since he became the nominee and and certainly since he became President 5
months ago. What is he talking about? From the Washington Post: "Trump
tells Fox News contributor Pete Hegseth in an interview set to air Sunday that
he “just heard today for the first time” that former President Barack Obama
“knew about Russia a long time before the election, and he did nothing about
it.”" Wait a minute - you, the so-called President have had access to this
info for 5 months, probably more and you found out only now?
This is the most incompetent person ever to be
President.
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