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Senators Push to Broaden Inquiry on Election Hacking
Senators Push to Broaden Inquiry on Election Hacking
WASHINGTON — Pressure mounted on Sunday for a broader congressional investigation of Russian cyberattacks aimed at influencing the American election, even as a top aide to President-elect Donald J. Trump said there was no conclusive evidence of foreign interference.
The effort was being led by a bipartisan group of senators, including John McCain, Republican of Arizona, and Chuck Schumer of New York, the Senate Democratic leader, who called on Sunday for the creation of a Senate select committee on cyberactivity to take the investigative lead on Capitol Hill.
“Recent reports of Russian interference in our election should alarm every American,” the senators wrote on Sunday in a letter to Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader, who has said a select committee is not necessary. “Cybersecurity is the ultimate cross-jurisdictional challenge, and we must take a comprehensive approach to meet this challenge effectively.”
The developments served to deepen the fissures between high-ranking lawmakers of both parties who see American intelligence reports implicating Russia as the basis for additional inquiries and Mr. Trump, who continues to reject the conclusions of those reports.
But the developments also put new strain on Mr. McConnell. He now faces calls from Mr. McCain and Lindsey Graham, two Senate Republicans considered well versed on national security issues, to form a select committee. If he were to reject that appeal, he would be subject to criticism that he was trying to avoid a spotlight on an issue that senators in both parties believe is worthy of more focused scrutiny.
Mr. McConnell said last week that while he respects the intelligence agencies’ conclusions, the Senate Intelligence Committee is “more than capable of conducting a complete review” itself. He also acknowledged that Mr. McCain could conduct an investigation on the Armed Services Committee, an option that remains open should Mr. McConnell decide against a select committee.
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Re: Senators Push to Broaden Inquiry on Election Hacking
Personally, I don't believe the election was "hacked" but I think anything the Senate can do to investigate any foreign hacking of the United States or our political institutions should and must be done.
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First we need to determine what we mean by "meddling"
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Re: Senators Push to Broaden Inquiry on Election Hacking
Goose wrote:
First we need to determine what we mean by "meddling"
Agreed. For whatever it's worth, I feel that the election was fair and an accurate representation of where the country wanted to go in terms of a President.
I think whatever meddling Russia did had a minimal effect at best.
But, no foreign entity should be hacking our party headquarters or the e-mail of campaign leaders. And those who do should face consequences.
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Re: Senators Push to Broaden Inquiry on Election Hacking
First we need to determine what we mean by "meddling"
Agreed. For whatever it's worth, I feel that the election was fair and an accurate representation of where the country wanted to go in terms of a President.
I think whatever meddling Russia did had a minimal effect at best.
But, no foreign entity should be hacking our party headquarters or the e-mail of campaign leaders. And those who do should face consequences.
Good assessment Lager !
The one person that influenced the election was the candidate herself-Crooked Hillary.
Did the Russians set up the Clinton foundation?
Did the Russians set up a unauthorized server?
Did the Russians place highly classified material on a unclassified server?
Did the Russians pick a candidate for the democratic party that was under a active criminal FBI investigation?
Did the Russians tell Hillary not to have a decent economic message for the rust belt?
Did the Russians tell Hillary to slime half of the country? Basket of deplorable's!
Did the Russians force the Clinton campaign to rig the primary against Sanders?
Did the Russians tell the campaign to act like they won the election before they actually did? (arrogant, condescending)
So the left is so traumatized they will say anything or do anything to try to make sense of the loss.
The Russian excuse is just the latest. So once this plays out another excuse will pop up!
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First we need to determine what we mean by "meddling"
Agreed. For whatever it's worth, I feel that the election was fair and an accurate representation of where the country wanted to go in terms of a President.
I think whatever meddling Russia did had a minimal effect at best.
But, no foreign entity should be hacking our party headquarters or the e-mail of campaign leaders. And those who do should face consequences.
Good assessment Lager !
The one person that influenced the election was the candidate herself-Crooked Hillary.
Did the Russians set up the Clinton foundation?
Did the Russians set up a unauthorized server?
Did the Russians place highly classified material on a unclassified server?
Did the Russians pick a candidate for the democratic party that was under a active criminal FBI investigation?
Did the Russians tell Hillary not to have a decent economic message for the rust belt?
Did the Russians tell Hillary to slime half of the country? Basket of deplorable's!
Did the Russians force the Clinton campaign to rig the primary against Sanders?
Did the Russians tell the campaign to act like they won the election before they actually did? (arrogant, condescending)
So the left is so traumatized they will say anything or do anything to try to make sense of the loss.
The Russian excuse is just the latest. So once this plays out another excuse will pop up!
How did you arrive at your assessment, common?
I mean besides it being the narrative that you wanted to believe.
Do you have access to what information the CIA, NSA, and FBI are seeing.
Do you have your own intelligence agency?
Have you read extensively on the subject?
Or are you just a guy who knows what he knows from his easy chair, and makes stupid remarks about The Other?
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First we need to determine what we mean by "meddling"
Agreed. For whatever it's worth, I feel that the election was fair and an accurate representation of where the country wanted to go in terms of a President.
I think whatever meddling Russia did had a minimal effect at best.
But, no foreign entity should be hacking our party headquarters or the e-mail of campaign leaders. And those who do should face consequences.
Well, there appears to be no evidence that the actual election apparatus (voting machines, etc) was hacked.
As for the Russian campaign of disinformation, we can believe that it had little effect, or significant effect.
But, until we know more, we'd both just be speculating.
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Re: Senators Push to Broaden Inquiry on Election Hacking
From my perspective, this is about the only thing our elected legislators are proficient at -- holding hearings. The disappointment comes when no rational conclusion is reached and no reasonable action plan is developed to solve the perceived problem. The only thing that these hearings do is provide these people with talking point appearances on TV, letter writing and e-mail campaigns to advise their constituents and provide the perception that they are actually doing something worthwhile.
So, personally, I don't think anything will come from the senator's broadened inquiry on election hacking.
Other than possibly tossing some partisan blame around D.C.
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I don't believe that our voting system was hacked, but did the Russians plant false stories and narratives as well as release SELECTED information from only CERTAIN groups to influence the outcome. For sure !! Would the outcome have been any different if all of this did not happen. We can argue that till the cows come home. But the notion of a foreign government trying their best to influence the outcome of OUR election should be something that ALL OF US care very deeply about and want answers and ways to prevent it in the future.
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