Anonymous ID: 114cea April 27, 2019, 10:42 a.m. No.6334648   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4671

What a crock of bs!

FBI chief: Russia upping meddling efforts ahead of 2020, midterms was a "dress rehearsal"

'''FBI chief: Russia upping meddling efforts ahead of 2020, midterms a 'dress rehearsal'

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FBI Director Christopher Wray said Friday that the 2018 midterm elections served as a "dress rehearsal" for Russian election interference efforts slated to be aimed at affecting the 2020 presidential election.'''

 

Speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations, the FBI director said that Russian operatives and other foreign agents were "adapting" to the efforts the U.S. intelligence community is taking to secure America's election systems.

 

"Well, I think—on the one hand I think enormous strides have been made since 2016 by all the different federal agencies, state and local election officials, the social media companies, et cetera," Wray said.

 

"But I think we recognize that our adversaries are going to keep adapting and upping their game. And so we’re very much viewing 2018 as just kind of a dress rehearsal for the big show in 2020," he added.

 

One area Wray pointed to where the FBI has seen improvement is in cooperation with social media companies such as Twitter and Facebook, where Russian election meddling was centered during 2016.

 

"The flow of information back and forth between law enforcement and the intelligence community and Silicon Valley, I think, has gotten dramatically better," Wray said.

 

"I think those companies recognize that there is a need for them to take action, so that their own platforms are not abused," he added.

 

Officials at the FBI and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have touted the Trump administration's efforts to secure election systems and combat interference from other countries in recent months.

 

In January, the director of DHS's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency told Congress that the government was "lightyears ahead" of its capabilities in 2016.

 

It was reported this week, however, that former DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was warned by White House aides not to discuss the matter with President Trump, who has frequently downplayed Russian election meddling efforts in 2016.

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Anonymous ID: 114cea April 27, 2019, 11:16 a.m. No.6334854   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>6334655

>a therory about the cause of companies like goog, twatter, shitbook, etc. to shill for the Hussein adm.

 

We already know Fuckbook is a C_A creation, what makes you think goog and twatter are not also creations of ABC agencies or have been taken over by them?

Anonymous ID: 114cea April 27, 2019, 11:25 a.m. No.6334993   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Rubio says hackers penetrated Florida elections systems

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) told The New York Times on Friday that hackers penetrated a Florida county’s elections system in 2016.

 

Rubio's comments come a week after special counsel Robert Mueller’s report revealed that Russians sent malicious software to Florida county government officials overseeing the 2016 election.

 

Rubio, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told The Times that there was an intrusion into a county’s elections system but that the target or targets were not notified.

 

He said national security officials opted to issue a blanket warning about hacking efforts as a way to protect intelligence methods.

 

“Everybody has been told what it is they need to do to protect themselves from the intrusion,” Rubio said. “I don’t believe the specific victims of the intrusion have been notified. The concern was that in a number of counties across the country, there are a couple of people with the attitude of: ‘We’ve got this; we don’t need your help. We don’t think we need to do what you are telling us we need to do.’”

 

Rubio told the newspaper that the hackers were “in a position” to change voter roll data, but it does not appear they did so.

 

“My biggest concern is that on Election Day you go vote and have mass confusion because voter registration information has been deleted from the systems,” he said.

 

Rubio and former Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) wrote a letter to Florida’s top election official last year calling on him to seek federal assistance in securing the state’s elections systems.

 

A spokesperson for Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) told The Hill on Friday that “the FBI has reached out and is working on scheduling a briefing with Senator Scott in the next few weeks” to brief him and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) about the hacking detailed in Mueller’s report.

 

Scott, who was governor during the 2016 election, sent a letter to the FBI last week asking to confirm the hacking. For his part, DeSantis has expressed frustration with what he says is a lack of transparency from federal authorities.

 

“They won’t tell us which county it was, are you kidding me?” he said at a Thursday press conference in Miami. “Why would you have not said something immediately?”

https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/440924-rubio-says-hackers-penetrated-florida-elections-systems?__twitter_impression=true

Anonymous ID: 114cea April 27, 2019, 11:29 a.m. No.6335081   🗄️.is 🔗kun

President Donald Trump spends the morning golfing with Japan's President Shinzo Abe at the Trump National Golf Course in Sterling, Virginia.