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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRussia is going to attack our next election. The Trump administration may not even try to stop it.
Russia is going to attack our next election. The Trump administration may not even try to stop it.By Paul Waldman December 26 at 10:05 AM WP
The Russians are coming for our elections to disrupt them, to discredit them, and even to affect their outcome. Theyll be coming in 2018, and in 2020. The trouble is that even if we figure out what theyre up to, our own government may be unable or unwilling to stop it.
Thats the conclusion one has to come to upon reading reports like this new one from Adam Entous, Ellen Nakashima, and Greg Jaffe, which describes how powerless the federal government has been and continues to be in the face of an ongoing war that Vladimir Putin is waging against U.S. democracy. It was hard enough to resist when the executive branch wanted to resist it; who knows how hard it will become as President Trump feels more politically threatened by upcoming elections and Robert S. Muellers investigation into Russian meddling in 2016.
This new report shows how the Russian effort last year included not only hacking into Democratic email systems and the use of an army of social media bots, but also the creation of articles pitched to left-leaning websites, which were used to attack Hillary Clinton and promote Wikileaks. While it was going on, the government was all but paralyzed:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/12/26/russia-is-going-to-attack-our-next-election-the-trump-administration-may-not-even-try-to-stop-it/?utm_term=.395b9150c88f
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Russia is going to attack our next election. The Trump administration may not even try to stop it. (Original Post)
workinclasszero
Dec 2017
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Who's Kidding Whom? The Trump Administration Will Encourage and Enable Russian Election Interference
dlk
Dec 2017
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dlk
(11,574 posts)1. Who's Kidding Whom? The Trump Administration Will Encourage and Enable Russian Election Interference
The facts are in -- they already have.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)2. was just about to post the same
they're going to encourage it under the guise of finding Hillary's emails or some other BS
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)3. Yes I'm sure the Russian mole-in-charge will get right on protecting
American democracy from his boss Putin.
CrispyQ
(36,490 posts)5. "Russia, if you're listening, if there are any votes for the democratic candidates, just void them."
Takket
(21,600 posts)4. Stop it? The are coordinating it!
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)7. Ain't that the truth?
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)6. Russians have never stopped
fake news (Murdoch) and sin sin clair are working with the Russians. So are the GOPs.
Golden Raisin
(4,611 posts)8. And yet many people still operate
under the impression that the old "norms" still apply. That somehow we will "throw the bums out" in 2018 and 2020. The sad truth, proved by the election of 2016, is that we no longer have election integrity in this country. Whether it's gerrymandering, Russians, or home-grown tampering/suppression our elections are being manipulated and de-legitimatized --- and not to the benefit of Democrats and Progressives.