Everything is Russia's fault! Obama admin warns Russian hacks may fake election fraud!

Source: Fellowship of the Minds

Posted on October 25, 2016 by Dr. Eowyn | 12 Comments 

The Obama administration has a new all-purpose bogeyman: Russia.

On Oct. 7, the U.S. government identified the Russian government as the hacker of those embarrassing Hillary, DNC, and Podesta emails that WikiLeaks has been releasing, and formally accused Russia of a campaign of cyberattacks against Democratic Party organizations to interfere with the election process.

See "WikiLeaks Podesta emails: Clinton Foundation works with Big Pharma to keep AIDS drug prices high"

But the Obama administration provided no actual evidence beyond a vague statement that the CIA is "confident" Russia is the hacker.

Now, the Obama administration has gazed into its crystal ball and issued a new warning: that Russian hackers may fake election fraud.

In other words, sheeple, don't believe it even if you see clear evidence of voter fraud! That's just fake voter fraud conjured up by those nasty Russians! Baaaaa!

Reuters reported on Oct. 20, 2016 that speaking "on condition of anonymity," U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials "are warning that hackers with ties to Russia's intelligence services could try to undermine the credibility of the presidential election by posting documents online purporting to show evidence of voter fraud," so as "to create public perceptions of widespread voter fraud."

The unnamed officials said that they don't actually have specific evidence of such a nefarious plan, but state and local election authorities had been warned to be vigilant for hacking attempts. U.S. elections are run by state and local officials, not the federal government. On Nov. 8, votes will be cast in hundreds of thousands of polling stations in 9,000 different jurisdictions, according to the National Association of Secretaries of State.

The unnamed officials said "evidence indicates that suspected Russian government-backed hackers have so far tried to attack voter registration databases operated by more than 20 states. Tracing the attacks can be difficult, but breaches of only two such databases have been confirmed."

At the same time, the unnamed officials also said there is no evidence that any hackers have succeeded in accessing equipment or databases used to record votes, and insisted that many states use systems that would be difficult to hack or defraud, including paper ballots which initially are tallied by machines. The officials said that the U.S. election system is so large, diffuse, and antiquated that hackers would not be able to change the outcome of the Nov. 8 election.

The U.S. officials declined to comment on Republican candidate Donald Trump's contention that the election is being "rigged." Trump had said in the third and final presidential debate last Wednesday night that he would not say until the election results were known whether or not he would accept the outcome. A day after the debate, Trump said he would accept the results of the election "if I win," and that he reserved the "right to contest or file a legal challenge in the case of a questionable result."

Michael Morell, a former acting CIA director who declared his endorsement of Hillary Clinton in a New York Times op-ed, accused Trump of being "an unwitting agent of Putin" and stated that Trump "does not even know he is being manipulated." On August 8, 2016, Morell told PBS/CBS interviewer Charlie Rose that the U.S. should kill Russians and Iranians to teach them a lesson for supporting the Syrian government against the so-called "rebels" who include radical jihadists.

Rose asked Morell: "We make them pay the price by killing Russians?" Morell answered, "Yeah." Rose then asked, "And killing Iranians?," to which Morell said, "Yes. … You don't tell the world about it. … But you make sure they know it in Moscow and Tehran."

Meanwhile, Zero Hedge reports that Smartmatic, a company associated with George Soros, has secured major contracts to supply electronic voting machines for 16 states in the U.S., including key battleground states like Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.

According to Gateway Pundit, Smartmatic's board includes Lord Mark Malloch-Brown, a man who had served on the board of George Soros's Open Society Foundations and who was formerly the vice-chairman of Soros's Investment Funds.

According to a cable released by WikiLeaks, in 2000 Smartmatic came out of nowhere and suddenly snatched up major contracts to supply voting machines around the world, including in Venezuela where its board included a Hugo Chavez campaign adviser. In 2004, with Smartmatic voting machines in place, Hugo Chavez won a "landslide victory" that all but destroyed his political opposition.

Here's the cable:

While the Obama administration is busy accusing Russia of hacking, it turns out the real cyberthreat is China.

According to Bloomberg, Internet-connected CCTV cameras made by a Chinese firm, Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology Co., were infected with malware that allowed hackers to take over "tens of millions" of devices to launch the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks across the U.S. last Friday, Oct. 21.

In fact, the Pentagon's Joint Staff recently warned the U.S. military against using equipment made by China's Lenovo computer manufacturer amid concerns about cyberspying against Pentagon networks. A Sept. 28 internal report from the Pentagon's J-2 intelligence directorate warned that use of Lenovo products could facilitate cyberintelligence gathering against both classified and unclassified – but still sensitive – U.S. military networks. One official said Lenovo equipment in the past was detected "beaconing" – covertly communicating with remote users in the course of cyberintelligence gathering.

See also:

• Who really hacked the WikiLeaks emails: Russia, Romania, or the CIA?
• This is why Obama & Hillary demonize Russia
• The Evil Empire strikes back: WikiLeaks' Internet connection severed; RT's bank accounts frozen

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