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Home Front: Politix

Obama’s cybersecurity adviser certain Russians didn’t hack election results

2017-06-29

[IsraelTimes] Michael Daniel confident outcome reflects will of American people; says investigation will show if Trump colluded with Moscow.

Former US president Barack Obama
My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it...
’s cybersecurity adviser said Wednesday that he was confident Russian hackers were not able to alter voting records during last year’s election, and that the outcome was a true reflection of how the American people voted.

That's nice. What is the fuss about, then?

In an interview with Israel’s Army Radio, Michael Daniel backed up what US security officials told a Senate committee investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election, allegedly on behalf of the eventual victor, President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States....

Except if they failed, then they didn't actually meddle, and all the fuss in the media was -- what exactly was the purpose of those leaks to the media?

Daniel, 46, who serves as president of the Cyber Threat Alliance, an international internet security cooperation group, was Obama’s cybersecurity coordinator until six months ago, when Trump became president.

Now what is he?

"I certainly think that the Russians or anyone else -- they certainly didn’t change any votes, so that the votes that were cast properly reflect the votes of the American people," Daniel said.

Yes, because if they had succeeded and changed votes, then President Obama would have seriously dropped the ball.

Both the House and Senate Intelligence committees are probing the extent of Russian involvement and hacking prior to the election.

None, according to Mr. Daniel.

The FBI is also investigating ties between Trump’s staff and Moscow figures.

None between Mr. Trump and Moscow, according to former FBI chief Comey, and there have been no solid leaks about any of his people, suggesting the accusations are vicious nonsense.

US security agencies have said they discovered widespread attempts by Russian hackers to access voter details and have pointed the finger at Moscow as being behind the hack and subsequent leak of Democratic National Committee emails.

But while there was a report of an attempted hack of the RNC, nothing came of it. Stupid is as stupid does.

However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by...
earlier this month US officials told the Senate committee that the cyber-assaults did not affect the eventual vote count.

Daniel was more cautious when asked about Trump’s possible collusion with the Russians.

"I can’t really comment on that," he said. "Our system is designed to have a considerable number of checks and balances in it and the investigation will have to take its course."

Daniel was tight-lipped as to whether or not Trump should step down over alleged Russian ties. He was also taciturn regarding Trump’s claims that Obama bugged his election team to listen in on him.

"I have no information on that kind of activity," Daniel said and noted it was outside his purview of his job in the B.O. regime, which dealt with readiness for cyberattacks.

Daniel was in Israel to participate in the Cyber Week Conference in Tel Aviv.

Posted by:trailing wife

#2 Somebody at the White House had to be a conduit with the NSA for intercepts...

Posted by: Pappy 2017-06-29 20:05

#1 Obama had a cybersecurity adviser?

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-06-29 10:04

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