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Very scary ..... and troubling .....
"Amid mounting warnings about another Russian cyberattack on the 2018 midterm elections, President Trumps former homeland security adviser said a recent staff shakeup ordered by national security adviser John Bolton has left the White House with nobody in charge of U.S. cyber policy and raised concerns about who is minding the store.
Bosserts comments were his most unvarnished yet since new national security adviser John Bolton reorganized the White House national security staff and with no explanation gave the homeland security adviser his walking papers.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-trump-official-no-one-minding-store-white-house-cyberthreats-090017630.html
BumRushDaShow
(129,482 posts)No one survives the TFEE.
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)every day, like it's a prison license plate assembly line.
The trash bin containing his supply of nazi mutant appointees is bottomless.
BumRushDaShow
(129,482 posts)and he's just about gone through the more experienced arrogant ones, chewed them up, and spit them back out.
At this point, it's not so much their philosophy anymore but whether they would even want to work in there! I am sure that hundreds have been asked and they politely declined.
lapfog_1
(29,226 posts)you would get rid of the cybersecurity chief and defund any money going to the state board of elections to prevent some sort of coordinated response by hired security experts following a national guideline for how to prevent the hacking.
Nobody would ever do that, right?
Oh wait...
rainin
(3,011 posts)at our workplace.
Butterflylady
(3,547 posts)I asked last year and still no answer.
3catwoman3
(24,050 posts)...minding the store, they are looting it.
TEB
(12,894 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)It feels like people are missing that point.
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)just posted similar below, but you beat me to it
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)They're basically sending a signal to Putin that Trump wants more hacking to swing the midterms to Republicans. In exchange, Trump will give them Alaska or something like that.
hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)back in the day? Maybe they'll want to buy it back from Trump in exchange for a Trump Tower in Anchorage or something like that.
sdfernando
(4,941 posts)Purchased from Russia (Imperial Russia back then) for 7-million dollars. Really was quite a deal when you think about it.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/sewards-folly
catbyte
(34,453 posts)ridiculing Secretary of State Seward for the purchase, but they ratified the treaty anyway. They changed their minds after they found gold in the Klondike. Maybe this is Russia's revenge.
2naSalit
(86,786 posts)Shipwack
(2,171 posts)TexasTowelie
(112,434 posts)ffr
(22,671 posts)Dotard doesn't read the PDBs anyway. What good does having someone minding the store do? Nothing.
Might as well send everybody home.
pazzyanne
(6,557 posts)Someone make this stop, please!
Martin Eden
(12,875 posts)... as tRump insists, then why is he doing nothing to stop it?
elmac
(4,642 posts)that tRump will blame Russia, its his blame insurance.
Martin Eden
(12,875 posts)... they will have overcome Russian hacking, gerrymandering, and voter suppression.
elmac
(4,642 posts)but the fascists will have their own reality to cover their asses, make it look like putin helped the dems and the dumpsters will believe it all. We are dealing with lifetime con artists.
nature-lover
(1,471 posts)elmac
(4,642 posts)and he knows how to play dirty.
elmac
(4,642 posts)are leaving the front door wide open for putin.
DFW
(54,437 posts)To the White House, the Pentagon and the U.S. Treasury?
blue-wave
(4,363 posts)lots of warnings concerning the security of our votes. Does anyone really think the GOPee wants to solve the problem? The answer is HELL NO!!! They will sit on their hands and allow our country to be conquered by an adversarial foreign power without one shot being fired. That is, as long as they are allowed to keep mountains of cash with which to sleep upon.