Of all the
horrible things that happened this year in politics, the fact that our election
was hacked by Russia, and in response the GOP president elect is staffing his administration with pro-Russia
sympathizers, is just totally bananas.
We just let a
second rate power steal our presidential election (not to mention all of the
House races that were tipped by the DCCC hack and leak) and we're not going to
at minimum increase sanctions!?!
And now, Donald
Trump is bragging about the hack, claiming that the Russians did the US a
favor.
Do the corporate
robber barons, conservatives and Tea Party minions so love tax cuts that we overlook being
captured by a hostile foreign power?
Here is the story
on the hack.
There were, of
course, many reasons why Clinton will lose the vote in the Electoral College. (
She won the election by 2.5 million votes) Her own campaign, dissing millennials
,not having much of a ground game in Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, and
more.
See prior posts on
this.
Hillary
Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta wrote a scathing op-ed in the Washington Post Thursday calling for the FBI and its director James Comey to be
held responsible for what he characterized as a mishandling of evidence that
Russian-backed hackers sought to influence the election.
“The
more we learn about the Russian plot to sabotage Hillary Clinton’s campaign and
elect Donald Trump, and the failure of the FBI to adequately respond, the more
shocking it gets,” Podesta began, before quoting Michael Morell, the former
acting director of the CIA who called the hacks "the political
equivalent of 9/11.”
Podesta,
whose emails were stolen during the campaign and posted online by Wikileaks and
other websites, referenced a New York Times
investigation published this week that found
that FBI agents didn’t notify the Democratic National Committee in person that
their emails had been hacked until months after the fact.
Read
more on the hacking scandal.
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