"None of the actions stopped on election day"
by digby
I guess this could all be Deep State Fake News designed to undermine Donald Trumps election because the Military Industrial Complex really prefers Democratic presidents (or something) but if it's actually true, the latest revelations are truly disturbing:
The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee told USA TODAY on Tuesday that Russian attacks on election systems were broader and targeted more states than those detailed in an explosive intelligence report leaked to the website The Intercept.
"I don't believe they got into changing actual voting outcomes," Virginia Sen. Mark Warner said in an interview. "But the extent of the attacks is much broader than has been reported so far." He said he was pushing intelligence agencies to declassify the names of those states hit to help put electoral systems on notice before the midterm voting in 2018.
"None of these actions from the Russians stopped on Election Day," he warned.
The National Security Agency report said Russian military intelligence executed a cyberattack on at least one U.S. supplier of voting software and sent deceptive emails to more than 100 local election officials in the days leading up to the election last November — a sign that Moscow's hacking may have penetrated further into voting systems than previously known.
The fact that the executive branch is resisting looking into this issue because Trump's ego can't take the fact that his election wasn't a massive endorsement of his big swinging hands is just ... well, outrageous. I don't know if he was in on it or if his minions had a hand in helping. I won't be surprised to find that these Keystone Kops were simply too stupid to be of any use, frankly. But all this stuff with the propaganda and the hacking is a big problem regardless. And our president refusing to admit it is the biggest problem of all.
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