Senate subcommittee to launch Russian interference probe

[Origanalist]

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A Senate subcommittee is launching an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and how to prevent similar attacks in the future, subcommittee leaders announced Thursday.

The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism probe will be the second lawmaker investigation into the Kremlin's attempts to influence the election.

“Our goal is simple — to the fullest extent possible we want to shine a light on Russian activities to undermine democracy," committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Ranking Member Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said in a joint written statement.

continued..http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/317622-sen-judiciary-launches-russian-election-interference-investigation

[timosman]

We should tell them we know it is fake news.:cool:

[AngryCanadian]

Ah Yes Lindsey Graham and his boyfreind John McCain they wont find anything unless the faked it up and undermine trump as usual.

[AZJoe]

Lindsay Graham, the high level anonymous source for the Washington Post, will rely upon accusations made by high level anonymous sources quoted by the Washington Post.

[AZJoe]

Please tell us again how you are going to root out foreign influence Lindsay.

http://www.veteranstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/gram5.jpg

[timosman]

Lindsay is clearly overdoing it. Credibility - 0%

[Jan2017]

Lindsey is "pissed"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3PQOP6eax8


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V70p4cgiVJk

[AZJoe]

It's Iraq-WMD Deja Vu
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/02/03/a-reprise-of-the-iraq-wmd-fiasco/

Interestingly, the same neoconservative/center-left alliance which endorsed George W. Bush’s case for war with Iraq is pretty much the same neoconservative/center-left alliance that is now, all these years later, braying for confrontation with Russia. It’s largely the same cast of characters reading from the Iraq-war era playbook. …

George Tenet’s now infamous assurance to President Bush, that the case against Iraq was a “slam drunk,” was essentially what major newspapers and television news outlets were telling the American people at the time. …

The Bush administration, in a move equal parts cynical and clever, engaged in what we would today call a “disinformation” campaign against its own citizens by planting false stories abroad, safe in the knowledge that these stories would “bleed over” and be picked up by the American press. …

regurgitated the claims of unnamed U.S. intelligence officials that Iraq “has sought to buy thousands of specially designed aluminum tubes … intended as components of centrifuges to enrich uranium.” Gordon and Miller faithfully relayed “the intelligence agencies’ unanimous view that the type of tubes that Iraq has been seeking are used to make centrifuges.” …

Like The New York Times, The Washington Post also relentlessly pushed the administration’s case for war with Iraq. … Likewise, The New Republic’s Andrew Sullivan was certain that “we would find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.” …

Opponents of the war were regularly accused of unpatriotic disloyalty. …

Today something eerily similar to the pre-war debate over Iraq is taking place regarding the allegations of Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election. Assurances from the intelligence community and from anonymous Obama administration “senior officials” … State Department spokesman John Kirby told CNN that he is “100% certain” … Skeptics are likewise written off, slandered as “Kremlin cheerleaders” or worse.

Unsurprisingly, The Washington Post is reviving its Bush-era role as principal publicist for the government’s case. Yet in its haste to do the government’s bidding, the Post has published two widely debunked stories relating to Russia …

And given the rather thin nature of the declassified evidence provided by the Obama administration, might it be time to consider an alternative theory of the case? … the DNC emails were leaked, not hacked, writing that “it is puzzling why NSA cannot produce hard evidence implicating the Russian government and WikiLeaks. Unless we are dealing with a leak from an insider, not a hack.”

[bunklocoempire]

Investigate influence peddling over there, so we don't have to investigate influence peddling here.

I sense a pattern.