Sunday, August 7, 2016

The World's Best Cyber Army

James Bamford has a few good words for you:

National attention is focused on Russian eavesdroppers’ possible targeting of U.S. presidential candidates and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Yet, leaked top-secret National Security Agency documents show that the Obama administration has long been involved in major bugging operations against the election campaigns -- and the presidents -- of even its closest allies.

The United States is, by far, the world’s most aggressive nation when it comes to cyberspying and cyberwarfare. The National Security Agency has been eavesdropping on foreign cities, politicians, elections and entire countries since it first turned on its receivers in 1952. Just as other countries, including Russia, attempt to do to the United States. What is new is a country leaking the intercepts back to the public of the target nation through a middleperson.

There is a strange irony in this. Russia, if it is actually involved in the hacking of the computers of the Democratic National Committee, could be attempting to influence a U.S. election by leaking to the American public the falsehoods of its leaders. This is a tactic Washington used against the Soviet Union and other countries during the Cold War.

You can read the rest @
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-election-intelligence-commentary-idUSKCN10F1H5

Once again, the pot is calling the kettle black.

Dear US government: Please stop lying to us.

By the way, if Russia is involved it is acting to ensure its own survival ... and possibly ours. Putin knows that if Hillary is elected there will be war. He actually may be doing us a giant favor (and by "us" I mean We The People). What's wrong with that?

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