CIA Imitates Russian Hackers

And now we go a little bit further down the rabbit hole. I need to lose some weight so I'm looking for the pill that makes me smaller. If only the government could find the pill that makes them honest.

Wikileaks now uncovers more of the CIA's possible culpability in the 2016 elections mess.  

The CIA's Remote Devices Branch's UMBRAGE group collects and maintains a substantial library of attack techniques 'stolen' from malware produced in other states including the Russian Federation.

With UMBRAGE and related projects the CIA cannot only increase its total number of attack types but also misdirect attribution by leaving behind the "fingerprints" of the groups that the attack techniques were stolen from.

So the so-called evidence that the Russians hacked the election could have been the CIA hacking our own elections. This is a Rooskie source but what the hell, more here and WikiLeaks here.

Zero Hedge also has something to say about the WikiLeaks leaks and the CIA's use of Russian malware to imitate cyber attacks:

WikiLeaks said that ‘Year Zero’ revealed details of the CIA’s “global covert hacking program,” including “weaponized exploits” used against company products including “Apple's iPhone, Google's Android and Microsoft's Windows and even Samsung TVs, which are turned into covert microphones.”

WikiLeaks tweeted the leak, which it claims came from a network inside the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence in Langley, Virginia.

Among the more notable disclosures which, if confirmed, "would rock the technology world", the CIA had managed to bypass encryption on popular phone and messaging services such as Signal, WhatsApp and Telegram. According to the statement from WikiLeaks, government hackers can penetrate Android phones and collect “audio and message traffic before encryption is applied.”

Another profound revelation is that the CIA can engage in "false flag" cyberattacks which portray Russia as the assailant. Discussing the CIA's Remote Devices Branch's UMBRAGE group, Wikileaks' source notes that it "collects and maintains a substantial library of attack techniques 'stolen' from malware produced in other states including the Russian Federation.

Well, apparently everyone in the US intelligence community got into the act. The DHS tried to hack the State of Georgia's election servers last year. The only difference between them and the CIA is that they suck at it.

The Georgia Secretary of State's Office now confirms 10 separate cyberattacks on its network were all traced back to U.S. Department of Homeland Security addresses.

In an exclusive interview, a visibly frustrated Secretary of State Brian Kemp confirmed the attacks of different levels on his agency's network over the last 10 months. He says they all traced back to DHS internet provider addresses.

"We're being told something that they think they have it figured out, yet nobody's really showed us how this happened,” Kemp said. "We need to know."

This isn't a swamp, it's a lake. Drain the damn thing.

Voter Fraud - It's A Thing

Of course the Democrats are pooh-poohing any claims about voter fraud. They're up to their necks in it. Estimates place the likelihood that a Presidential election can be swung by as few as 50,000 or 60,000 votes distributed between just a few strategic states.

Somewhere between 38,000 and almost 2.8 million non-citizens voted in the 2008 elections, according to a study published in Electoral Studies journal in 2014.

Old Dominion University professors Jesse Richman and David Earnest, the study’s co-authors, concluded that “some non-citizens participate in U.S. elections, and that this participation has been large enough to change meaningful election outcomes including Electoral College votes, and Congressional elections.”

“In spite of substantial public controversy, very little reliable data exists concerning the frequency with which non-citizen immigrants participate in United States elections. Although such participation is a violation of election laws in most parts of the United States, enforcement depends principally on disclosure of citizenship status at the time of voter registration,” Richman and Earnest note.

Story here.

Just Do It

So many fools, so little time.

Dozens of artists, entertainers, and activists including Rosie O’Donnell, Debra Messing, Ed Asner and Michael Shannon have attached their names to an effort calling for a month-long protest to stop President-elect Donald Trump. “No! In the Name of Humanity We Refuse to Accept a Fascist America!” reads a full-page ad placed in the New York Times last week by the group Refuse Racism. "Donald Trump, the President-elect, is assembling a regime of grave danger," the ad says.

"Millions of people in the US and around the world are filled with deep anxiety, fear and disgust. Our anguish is right and just. Our anger must now become massive resistance – before Donald Trump is inaugurated and has the full reins of power in his hands."

Other Hollywood celebrities who have also joined the campaign, however, are calling for an all-out strike that would span the entire movie industry in the hopes that such a move would urge the President-elect to resign from his position as the newly elected President of the United States.

Please do this. The Donald will be devastated by your actions.
Go on strike and deny us the benefits of your marvelous talent.
Teach us a lesson we'll never forget, like what a bunch of self-centered douches you are.
Please, just do it.

H/T suckersonarade.

A Few Words From Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Hanson gives a great presentation on the myths surrounding Trump's election. It's a long video (45 minutes) but very interesting. Hanson is such an engaging speaker.

He speaks for the first 25 minutes and answers questions for another 20 at the David Horowitz Restoration Weekend on November 12, 2016, in Palm Beach, Florida. Stay with it.

Victor Davis Hanson from DHFC on Vimeo.

Here's a taste:

I think the only question is will Trump do as he says, and appoint a special prosecutor. I think that he doesn't have to make a big deal. I think he just should be on a press conference one day and somebody will say, "Are you going to appoint a --" and all he has to say is, "Wouldn’t you?" And that's it. And do it. No big deal. And let her – I don't have a lot of sympathy for somebody who abuses the Constitution and lectures everybody how moral she is. And finally, what they don't understand about Donald Trump, this is what's ironic. He did something that George H. W. Bush could not do. He did something that Barack Obama could never do. He put the Clintons in permanent retirement. Only he did that.

UPDATE:
Sorry, the vimeo video has suddenly disappeared. For some reason it is still available here.

The Threat Against Trump Is Real

A media feeding frenzy and DNC shenanigans failed to bring Trump down. What's next?

As the Coup Against Trump Fails, the Threat Against His Life Rises — Paul Craig Roberts

[...]Global Research’s Michel Chossudovsky has explained that Trump’s peaceful approach to Russia aligns him with oligarchs, whose wealth benefits from business deals with Russia, and puts Trump at odds with the military/security oligarchs, who benefit from the one trillion dollar annual military/security budget. The latter group have been in control since President Eisenhower warned us about them and can muster deep state forces against a Trump presidency.

To take on a group like this requires a tough SOB. Anything less than Trump wouldn’t have a chance. Indeed, if Douglas Valentine’s just published book, The CIA As Organized Crime (Clarity Press, 2017) is even half true, Trump’s life is certainly at risk.

Add to the mix the whacked-out environmentalists who hate Trump because of his announced intention to defang the EPA. It won't take much to send one of these idiots over the edge.

Story here.
H/T Zero Hedge.

Hacker Central

The Moscow Times gives a brief explanation of why there are so many Russian hackers. Does it imply that Russians hacked into poorly defended democratic computers? Not really. It only suggests that Russia certainly has the personnel and the required talent for this to happen.

But Obama and his slave media minions are crying that the illegal access and release of electronic files that document the illegal activities of  his party are a far worse offense than the actual crimes committed by the Democrats.

Lost in the debate about Russian influence in the U.S. presidential election is the fact Russian hackers have been active for a long time. Littering the illicit pages of the dark web, Russian hacking programs today make possible most of the world’s financial-sector break-ins. Increasingly, Russian hackers have acted with political motivations, but their bread and butter is and has always been theft and corporate espionage.

[...]“The U.S.S.R. had the largest engineering community in the world,” says Andrey Soldatov, author of The Red Web and an expert on cyber security and the Russian security services. “They existed to support the Soviet military-industrial complex, and after its collapse, many of these experts and their children, found themselves left high and dry.”

And so, in the 1990s and early 2000s, the Russian-speaking hacker community flourished.

“In the early 2000s, lots of people who had access to computers knew how to hack — and they did it, even just to get access to the Internet,” Kruchenok says. “A lot of people worked on the so-called ‘gray Internet’ in the businesses of spam, malware, and porn. Groups would hire talented people to write the code for these industries.”

It's an interesting read.

Something Is Deeply Broken Alright

I hope everyone is enjoying the spectacle as the democrats devour themselves tail first. Loretta Lynch joins in the fun as Hillary and company blame the FBI for their failure to capture the prize.

Attorney General Loretta Lynch is defending the FBI against allegations that the bureau mishandled investigations of email hacks of Democrats and focused too much attention on Hillary Clinton’s private email server.

“I can tell you that this investigation was taken seriously from the beginning,” Lynch said in an interview with CNN that airs Sunday.

She was responding to complaints raised by Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta in an op-ed published by The Washington Post on Friday. Podesta, who had his Gmail account hacked during the campaign, argued that “something is deeply broken at the FBI.”

Story here:

Borscht v. Burrito

So, what nation had the most influence on our Presidential elections? Russia or Mexico?

The Senate Intelligence Committee demanded that the CIA produce the evidence proving that Russia made deliberate efforts to influence the out come of last November's elections. The CIA has refused.

(CNSNews.com) - An attempt by Congress to find out more about Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election hit a brick wall last night, when U.S. intelligence agencies refused a request to brief the House intelligence committee today (Thursday) on the cyber-attacks.

Nevertheless, the current administration and the MSM is pursuing this story as if Moses just came down from Mt. Sinai with the evidence engraved in stone.

There are counterclaims, There is evidence suggesting that there was a massive influx of illegal aliens who cast ballots in the election.

Investigators found the voter after examining “jury excusal” forms where a person said they couldn’t serve because they were not U.S. Citizens. They took those names and found dozens of those people in the database of Florida registered voters.

Since investigators only checked a very small sample of jury forms, one can only imagine how many thousands, or tens of thousands of illegals statewide who may have voted since the Motor Voter law was passed in 1993. Non-citizen voting is a Federal felony.

On one hand we have a simple process that can produce the actual numbers of illegal voters from official state databases verifying the claim that illegal immigration has corrupted the political process in America. Unfortunately the political elites and the MSM will not lend credence to these efforts .

On the other hand,we have a claim that a foreign power  has had an even greater influence on the election and the intelligence agencies maintaining this fiction refuse to provide the proof that has been requested by other government officials responsible for ascertaining appropriate government oversight. Yet the political elites and the media have accepted this fiction.

And then again,borscht never gave me the runs.

Russia And China Spank Obama

I just know there's gonna be another line drawn in the Syrian sand for Russia to ignore and a rubber duckie thrown in the water for China to play with. Like I stated in the prior post, the next five weeks will be interesting.

Obama's ass is going to be very sore when he leaves next month.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is promising that the U.S. will retaliate against Russia for its suspected meddling in America’s election process, an accusation the Kremlin has vehemently denied.

Amid calls on both sides of the political aisle on Capitol Hill for a full-bore congressional investigation, including assertions President Vladimir Putin was personally involved, Obama said in an interview that anytime a foreign government tries to interfere in U.S. elections, the nation must take action — “and we will.”

Neither country is going to listen to Obama. Putin is preparing to kick some Arab ISIS ass with Trump and China ... who knows. Do we have the resources to back up our interests in the area? I don't think so.

Trump has his work cut out for him. Both Pakistan and the Philippines are moving towards China as economic and strategic partners. Also check out LL's blog here for more on the Pakistan development.

This should not come as a surprise. Obama's weak sister, ass bowing approach to diplomacy does not create good allies.  If a foreign nation is going to cooperate in protecting our interests, they want a partner strong enough to jack up anyone who comes against them. This does not mean war; just make an offer that they can't refuse and do it quietly. Roosevelt's Great White Fleet was a good example of this. A gesture of good  will and strength.

The US is viewed as weak. It will take a little time and competent, consistent diplomacy to change that as well as improvements in our military strength.

Putin understands strength.
China understands strength.
Most of the world's leaders understand strength and how to apply it in international relations.
Obama never had a clue.

The CIA Is An Embarrassment

The CIA has taken the position that the Russian government has interfered in a US Presidential election by hacking into the emails of prominent Democrats and spilling the beans to various sources. They are doing this despite possessing no evidence that this has happened.

Rather, CIA officials cite circumstances that lead them to believe this. One circumstance is that the Republicans were not likewise afflicted by the likes of WikiLeaks, QED, those pesky Rooskies are at it again and wanted Trump to triumph.

Problem is, other highly regarded intelligence sources cite decades of analytical/intelligence experience and think the CIA is full of shit.

[...]We are being misled to believe that there is irrefutable evidence that Russia hacked the DNC and Podesta emails and the basis for this conclusion, we now learn, is that some unnamed analysts THINK that Russia is behind it because the only emails released came from the Democrats and excluded the Republicans.

The stupidity of this is stunning. When I was an analyst my bosses did not care what my opinion about anything was. I was to report the intelligence and comment on what we knew.

But it gets worse. The CIA analysts predicated their goofy analysis on a false premise– they “THINK” Russia breached the RNC. Think? There was a time that the bosses at CIA required evidence or sources. Speculation was unacceptable. But this goes beyond speculation. The CIA is ignoring the proven fact that the RNC Chair Reince Preibus and the RNC Deputy Sean Spicer say there was no breach whatsoever. In fact, they said the FBI came into the RNC, examined the computer systems and then confirmed that they had not been hacked nor breached. The failure to consider all facts is the cardinal sin of an intelligence analyst. On this point the CIA is guilty.

It is the considered opinion of one intelligence expert of note that:

This is more than an embarrassment; it is an indictment of how corrupt and inept the CIA has become over the last 20 years. It has become so thoroughly politicized that it is no more reliable then your mediocre Washington think tank. In my view the CIA should be dismantled. We need to start over. This is not an isolated error. The failures of the CIA over the years are significant. But those did not include meddling in a U.S. Presidential election. This is the ultimate irony. The CIA is accusing Russia of interfering in the Presidential election when in fact it is the CIA itself that is now crossing that line.

Story here, more here on how it appears that this was leaked information from an inside source, not hacked remotely by a foreign agent.

And right on the heels of the above comes this - a disgusted democrat gave up the goodies.

A Wikileaks envoy today claims he personally received Clinton campaign emails in Washington D.C. after they were leaked by 'disgusted' whisteblowers - and not hacked by Russia. 

Craig Murray, former British ambassador to Uzbekistan and a close associate of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, told Dailymail.com that he flew to Washington, D.C. for a clandestine hand-off with one of the email sources in September. 

'Neither of [the leaks] came from the Russians,' said Murray in an interview with Dailymail.com on Tuesday. 'The source had legal access to the information. The documents came from inside leaks, not hacks.'

This Oughta Be Good

Washington (CNN)President-elect Donald Trump intends to nominate Sen. Jeff Sessions to be his next attorney general, the presidential transition announced Friday.

Sessions, 69, is currently serving his fourth Senate term and was the first sitting senator to endorse Trump. During Trump's campaign, he served as a key validator from within the Republican establishment at critical times and urged Republicans to coalesce around Trump.

Story here.

Madame Bag Lady

Look at the difference.

Hillary just a few months ago at debate

Hillary speaking last night at a benefit

Looks like Hillary will soon be pushing a shopping cart filled with campaign posters and empty beer cans, muttering to herself  and yelling at squirrels.

I didn't do a thing to change or doctor up these pictures.This is the result of unrealistic, crushing ambition that is thwarted. She is shaken and stirred. If she doesn't pull herself out of it, she'll most likely be dead in a few years - or less if she's hitting the sauce.

And this is where loved ones step in to help. A healthy marriage surrounding her with an attentive husband and loving children would certainly buck her up, help her regain her equilibrium ... right.

Of course this may all be a play for sympathy; the poor dear thing is suffering! She's soooo disappointed that she couldn't be serving her country and helping all those people who need her. I'm just not sure if her ego would let her walk out the door looking like that.

Hard to tell with the Clintons, they're such liars and grifters.

UPDATE
Now that I've thought about it some, I believe that she's preparing the battlefield, conditioning the jury pool. She's in too rough shape to be arrested and prosecuted so leave her alone. We should anticipate future news reports about her failing health to support this plan of hers. Of course the media will blame Trump for this.

The Adventures Of The SS Pantsuit

Huma Abedin is seen on her way to her boss's campaign headquarters carrying a bag full of miscues, errors, lapses in judgement, lies and miscellaneous felonies. If only she knew back then what she knows now, on that fateful day in April of 2015, when the campaign to elect Hillary Clinton as the 46th President of the United States was started.

April 12, 2015, was a brilliant day when the SS Pantsuit left harbor to embark on a never before attempted mission to catch the biggest fish there was, the Presidential Female Halibut.

Manned by her trusty and faithful crew, the SS Pantsuit made remarkable progress. Until...

And so it ended. Not with a bang, but with a shipwreck as it finally ran aground on the Reef of the Deplorables.

So Huma walks alone, no husband, no job.
But at least she knows that no one else can tell her how she must prepare herself for the future.

Well, not quite.

2016 Presidential Election Memories

Gingers love them some Hillary and sweet potato fries with their Kool Aid. Unfortunately tonight, she's getting neither.

To honor Hillary, they're all getting abortions next week. 

Even the Japanese dude once he figures out what ovaries are.

Betrayed.

Bruce's Hillary decal just gave him a paper cut.

The realization  that their Hillary coordinated guest towels and shower curtains must go.

Fashion faux pas - Hillary nipple rings.

Praise Hillary, Hillary Saves

The guy in the second row reacts as the Viagra finally kicks in. 

Hillary? No mind, I'm gettin' some tonight!

It was bad enough that Hillary lost, then Clara found out that the much

awaited Monica Lewinsky Appreciation Night was canceled.

As her fingers approach her face Athena realizes that, 

once again, she should never use cheap toilet paper.

Hillary's Election Night Hijinks

Hillary lost it when she finally realized that her role as Queen of America would not be realized. Her staff helped her stumble to her chariot and she raced home to her safe place behind the liquor cabinet.

It might be nothing but click bait but story here.

Hillary no longer has to pretend to be someone she isn’t, and the second she realized her run was done, she removed her mask and showed the country who she really is, further validating that Americans made the right decision in dumping her on Tuesday night. Humiliated by her own demise, Hillary set the record as the first losing presidential candidate in history to not give a concession speech, but what she did instead made it worse.

The sore loser didn’t stick around for a second as she immediately left to go home to lick her wounds and sent her scandal-ridden campaign chairman John Podesta in her place to address the public for her. Instead of pulling her big girl pantsuit up, congratulating her opponent and thanking her campaign donors and supporters, she couldn’t face President-elect Donald Trump in person and conceded by phone in the comfort of her own safe space.

President Trump

President Donald Trump.
Get used to it all you leftist so and so's...

Voter Fraud In PA

By hook or by crook, mostly by crook, democrats want soooo badly to win this election. I wonder about the voting machines that I used as you have no way of knowing if the scanner read your paper ballot correctly and did not change your vote.

Election judges in Clinton Township, Butler County confirmed there were issues with two of their eight automated voting machines. Most of the issues came when people tried to vote straight party ticket.

However, others said they specifically wanted to vote for Republican Donald Trump only to see their vote switched before their eyes to Democrat Hillary Clinton.

“I went back, pressed Trump again. Three times I did this, so then I called one of the women that were working the polls over. And she said you must be doing it wrong. She did it three times and it defaulted to Hillary every time,” Bobbie Lee Hawranko said.

Pennsylvania State Representative Daryl Metcalfe went to Clinton Township to check on the reports for himself.

“If somebody has an issue, they should certainly let the judge of elections at the precinct know and also call their county bureau of elections as folks have done here this morning,” Pa. Rep. Daryl Metcalfe said.

Butler is just north of Pittsburgh.

The reason I chose this particular instance of voter fraud is that 21 years ago Rep. Daryl Melcalfe's younger brother married my oldest daughter. They have given me four grand-kids.

Daryl, like his brother, is a straight shooter and was born in central NY.

Story here.

We Are Blessed

Today we finally put all the annoying ads and the incessant chatter behind us.

Go vote and bear this in mind.

Compared to so many other nations, we are truly blessed to live in America.

No matter who wins the election, God is still on the throne. Always has been, always will.

Romans 8:38-40

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Mad As Hell

Have we reached that point yet? 

Has American finally said, "Enough!"?
Can we even think the question... Is America close to initiating another civil war?

From PJ Media:

]...]If Hillary Clinton is elected, the very next day millions of Americans will be watching to see what will happen with the FBI and the Justice Department. Since we can now assume this will be a close election, that would be nearly half the voters in this country, sixty to seventy million people, almost all of whom believe Clinton, the woman a few weeks from inauguration as president, should have been charged with serious crimes and belonged behind bars, not in the White House.

Moreover, many have seen the WikiLeaks that reek of collusion between the Clintonistas and officials at the FBI and Justice, not to mention with virtually all the mainstream media outlets that were distrusted to begin with and are now reviled.

If that's not an explosive situation, what is?

The Civil War was started because of economic differences between the Northern and Southern states. Slavery was indeed an issue and was used as a rallying cry for the masses but it was not the primary reason why politicians ignited the greatest slaughter of Americans in our history. Once again, an overweening federal government controlled by economic interests hostile to a large segment of the population is dictating how we must live our lives.

“Valerie argued that Comey was interfering deliberately in the election process and had to be stopped,” a source told The New York Post. The same source said Obama, though, is “worried about the consequences of taking such an action – the tsunami of outrage that would come his way, and possibly become a major footnote, or worse, in the history of the presidency.”

This Tuesday we shall see how that works out.

Gettin' Down With The Foundation

H/T iOTW