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| Joseph Curl - Washington Times: We live in truly terrifying times |
| 2017-03-08 |
| [Wash Times] That headline is not hyperbole. It is sadly -- and horrifyingly -- true. Now, it’s not Donald Trump. We’ve had less skilled politicians as chief executive, and we just lived through eight years with a guy whose only real job outside of sucking off the government teat was "community organizer," whatever that is. No, a billionaire reality star is not the horror. And it’s not the coming automation boom, which will put millions of people out of work and further consolidate wealth in the hands of the richest. It’s not even the looming stock market crash that will occur when the bubble bursts (the thing about bubbles is they always burst, sooner or later). No, the terror is from within. The horror comes from our own government, and especially the intelligence community, where officials seem to have gone rogue and where anything -- and everything -- is now in play. The frightening reality is that a president laid seeds to destroy his successor -- who, as it turns out, he targeted with the secret spy organizations at his beck and call. During the last days of his term, Barack Obama set out to sabotage Mr. Trump by spreading intelligence information throughout the federal government, as well as to foreign governments. In a governmentwide effort, Mr. Obama and his cronies "scrambled to spread" damaging information about Mr. Trump and his associates meeting with the Russians, The New York Times reported. "As Inauguration Day approached, Obama White House officials grew convinced that the intelligence was damning and that they needed to ensure that as many people as possible inside government could see it, even if people without security clearances could not," The Times wrote. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 I suspect a lot of liberals have a gut feeling Obama really did wiretap Trump (after all they would have) and are putting the pieces together and realizing their entire world really is collapsing around their ears. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2017-03-08 17:27 |
| #4 Apparently some of the hacking tools were designed to spoof other hackers. A tool would, for example, make it look like the Russians (or the Chinese, or the Ruritanians) did the hacking. As one security expert put it in a post over at Instapundit: "attribution be difficult." |
| Posted by: Steve White 2017-03-08 14:16 |
| #3 The existence (sanctioned or unsanctioned) of a 'fake hacking' effort should not be entirely dismissed. Disinformation, it's what they do, those deep within the swamp. Do I have to wear a tin foil hat if I speculate that the hacking of the DNC email server was really done by the CIA? Is it too much to suggest that they commandeered a Russian server and hacked the DNC with their Russian bot? Am I completely over the rainbow if I suggest the plan all along was to associate Trump with Putin and thereby delegitimize his presidency? |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-03-08 13:56 |
| #2 Nothing heard lately from former Klingon boss John Brennan. The Wikileaks 'Vault 7' release is quite interesting. Reportedly, the Klingon Center for Cyber Intelligence (CCI), had over 5,000 registered users and had produced more than a thousand hacking systems, Trojans, viruses, and other ‘weaponized’ malware.' Could there have been one or two (Eric Snowden lites) within the 5,000 who failed to appreciate the goodness of their efforts ? The existence (sanctioned or unsanctioned) of a 'fake hacking' effort should not be entirely dismissed. Disinformation, it's what they do, those deep within the swamp. Guardian Wikilinks article at this link. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-03-08 07:35 |
| #1 I would be a lot more terrified if a certain crazy witch would be in control. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-03-08 04:44 |