House GOP Campaign Committee Says Its Emails Were Hacked During 2018 Campaign (talkingpointsmemo.com) 163
The National Republican Congressional Committee was hacked this election cycle, it admitted Tuesday afternoon. From a report: "The NRCC can confirm that it was the victim of a cyber intrusion by an unknown entity. The cybersecurity of the Committee's data is paramount, and upon learning of the intrusion, the NRCC immediately launched an internal investigation and notified the FBI, which is now investigating the matter," NRCC spokesman Ian Prior said in a statement.
"To protect the integrity of that investigation, the NRCC will offer no further comment on the incident." The major breach included thousands of emails from four senior aides, according to Politico, which first reported the hacks. An outside vendor noticed and alerted the committee in April. The committee then launched an internal investigation and alerted the FBI.
"To protect the integrity of that investigation, the NRCC will offer no further comment on the incident." The major breach included thousands of emails from four senior aides, according to Politico, which first reported the hacks. An outside vendor noticed and alerted the committee in April. The committee then launched an internal investigation and alerted the FBI.
And yet no leaks showing rigged primaries (Score:1, Insightful)
Weird how when the RNC is hacked, no one discovers any evidence of any wrong-doing.
Yet when the DNC is hacked, we discover that their primaries are a sham and that the results are pre-determined.
And yet I keep on hearing the left claim that the right is as corrupt as they are...
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Pssst. That was called the Hillary Clinton campaign... who paid for the 'Trump Dossier' which included Russian provided misinformation.
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It wasn't. It was a report compiled by a US company from many sources, the main one being a British intelligence officer.
It's not helping anyone when you portray fantasy as fact.
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If I still had mod points, I would definitely mod this up, because it's factually accurate, relevant to the discussion, didn't fling around the personal attacks so popular in Slashdot arguing today, and yet it was still moderated troll.
Too bad meta-moderating is dead. It would be nice to catch a few of these abuses of the moderation system.
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"The same ones that LIED on a FISA application to illegally wiretap Trump's campaign/administration for over a year?"
No, no, no, the ones that actually setup meetings with fake premises to try and do something (not yet apparent) to ensnare Trump campaign peoples. You knlw, the ones that approved travel documents for Russian lawyers to come and talk with Democrat operatives, Obama administration people, and then a meeting with Trumpies that went nowhere...
Those ones. Which then led to engaging British ex- a
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What about Jared Kushner using private email accounts after being told not to for official business? Or how about dear Trump frequently using a non-secure phone for his communications? Then there's Ivanka Trump's private email usage. Of course, nobody says anything about Colin Powell using AOL for official email, which was deleted.
Anything the liberals have done pales in comparison to Trump. Hell, even Nixon was a lightweight compared to Trump. How about bribing Putin with a $50M penthouse in order to build
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The GOP failed to cheat the primary system to keep a populist outsider from winning.
Perhaps it is time to go back to the days of party big wigs cutting deals in smoke filled rooms.
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Weird how when the RNC is hacked, no one discovers any evidence of any wrong-doing.
Yet when the DNC is hacked, we discover that their primaries are a sham and that the results are pre-determined.
And yet I keep on hearing the left claim that the right is as corrupt as they are...
We already knew this about the DNC -- That was the entire purpose of the superdelegates. All you saw was behind the scenes arm twisting of them, which everyone also knew was happening because that's how politics works.
Re: And 2016 it was "proof" the DNC were incompete (Score:2)
The RNC was hacked in 2016 too. The Russians just didn't pass what they got to Assange. We don't know if they did anything else with it.
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And yet I keep on hearing the left claim that the right is as corrupt as they are...
I... I don't think I've ever heard anyone claim the right is as corrupt as the left.
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I'd assume the RNC let themselves be hacked, just to make a point. Such as the one you just made.
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Re: And yet no leaks showing rigged primaries (Score:4, Informative)
Texas is one of the few states in the nation that can actually survive on its own.
Re: And yet no leaks showing rigged primaries (Score:5, Funny)
Are you out of your mind, the President just sent the military to protect Texas from 5,000 job and safety seeking terrorists. How is that the ability to survive on its own.
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Are you out of your mind, the President just sent the military to protect Texas from 5,000 job and safety seeking terrorists. How is that the ability to survive on its own.
It looks like you missed out on the whole "supremacy clause" discussion when Arizona attempted to enforce border security under our previous Dear Leader. I'm sure the state of Texas would be more than capable of protecting itself from the caravan invasion if allowed to do so by the Federal government.
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In what way?
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Let me see, my deep blue state produces far more food than it uses and exports it to the rest of the country. We export 1/3 of the entire country's vegetables and 2/3's of the nation's fruit and nuts are grown here. California leads the nation in farm receipts by far.
https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/statis... [ca.gov]
California's agricultural value is around double that of Texas.
http://beef2live.com/story-sta... [beef2live.com]
Oh, and we legalized pot.
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If this isn't a troll then you're blind to the plight of your fellow conservatives. There's a lot of good and hard working people in red states that seriously need help, especially in the rural areas. They're poor and as the jobs have dried up and moved away they're left with no opportunities to improve their economic situation. The young people who are able to get an education move away to where the jobs are and don't come back. There are no opportunities for the success that you claim comes with the conse
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Probably because conservatives tend to be more successful, happier in their lives, and less likely to cheat than liberals.
It's equally likely that they're just better at covering it up.
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Funny how the Dem candidates did not seem to have access to the hacked emails and how Fox news was not discussing them on a minute-by-minute schedule, but hey let's just try and pretend that there is any equivalency between this and what was done to the Dems in 2016
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They drained the swamp so now only the rot at the bottom remains.
Not to worry. (Score:2, Insightful)
One thing we know for sure: we'll never see any of these hacked emails on Wikileaks.
Re: Not to worry. (Score:4, Interesting)
No, they shouldn't. Interfering in an election nearly caused Britain to pull out of the Vienna Convention. Think, for once in your life, about something other than point scoring at home. The collapse of the Vienna Convention would be devastating worldwide.
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It's the treaty protecting embassies, you know, like the one Americans got upset about when extremists stormed it in Tehran. No Vienna Convention, no embassies. Anywhere.
And that means no spies, no passports, no security for expats, no overseas holidays, reduced trade, high unemployment...
Don't ever assume that the domino you see is the only one. Knock it over and you lose the chain. All of it.
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I trust Wikileaks to do what is in their interest. Today, harming the GOP is not in their interest. Tomorrow? Who knows.
That assumes, of course, that Wikileaks has even received copies of the e-mails from whoever stole them.
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No, the hacked GOP emails won't go to Wikileaks. They are being kept in a big zip file named, "Saudi/Putin Insurance Policy (1)" on a server in Chechnya that's running a pirated version of Windows NT Server 4.0.
BY their emplyees (Score:1, Insightful)
First, this is fake news. The GOP wants to look like victims so that their mindless supporters can say, "Look! It's not Russia but some "leftists" or some such bullshit! We're being hacked by Leftists backed by Soros!!"
Second, it gives them a story, "It was those Leftists Silicon Valley people!" and fail to mention that those "leftists" were pay rolling their campaigns.
Third, the Republicans have no credibility of late. The last Republican who had any credibility died a few days ago and was atten
This is a distraction (Score:5, Informative)
This is a distraction from the breaking story about possible GOP election fraud scandal coming to light in North Carolina.
The allegation is that someone on the GOP payroll was hiring people to go door to door and collect absentee ballots. This is illegal under NC law.
Additionally, those ballots passed through unknown hands, and may have been culled, substituted or otherwise altered in the process.
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog... [thehill.com]
https://www.mediamatters.org/b... [mediamatters.org]
https://www.motherjones.com/po... [motherjones.com]
https://www.politifact.com/nor... [politifact.com]
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/1... [nytimes.com]
Re:This is a distraction (Score:5, Informative)
Not only was there a ballot collection drive in contravention of NC law, but all the statistics for the two counties in question are off against the rest of the state. More absentee ballots were requested, more were not submitted, and a higher number voted for one party than the rest of the state.
I'm sure all those voters concerned about voter fraud support immediately suspending certification of the ballot, recounting ballots, and performing a full verification of all ballots in the affected counties including prosecution of all the people accused of collecting ballots and paying people to collect ballots.
It should be noted that the GOP is opposed to any of those steps.
One of the Democrat districts (Score:1)
It's pretty brazen election fraud, but it's usually up to the Fed to move in and fix that sort of thing, which given the current administration I don't see happening...
At least CNN finally [cnn.com] covered it. Albeit with a wishy washy opinion piece.
Wow, I thought it was to distract (Score:2, Interesting)
Seriously, there is way, way too much dirt floating around about the GOP. But somehow it never seems to hurt them that much on election day...
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Does the GOP need distractions? They have gone so far post-truth that shit just slides off them now. They heard Trump with his "I could shoot someone in the street and no-one would care" thing and went with it.
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He'll be off the court in under 2, watch. Not only that, you realize it's entirely Constitutional to ADD SCOTUS SEATS, right? It could be best 9 out of 17. You can still get fucked.
FDR tried that. It didn't turn out well for him. He generally well regarded, but that was a particularly black mark in the history books on his presidency.
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I suspect suicide after he loses the election in two years. Ivanka in womens' prison will be serialized on Netflix.
I doubt that suicide is Donald's style. He loves adoration from others too much, and I think he'll never run out of sycophants. And it's by no means certain that he'll lose in 2020. Not without a credible challenge from the Dems.
What I think is likely is that his son Don Jr. is going to be indicted in a matter of weeks. Whether he goes to trial, is convicted, and serves time is another matter. I see his dad poised with a pen to sign a pardon.
Donald Sr.'s fate is less clear. Some have said you can't indict a
No evidence it was democrats (Score:3, Informative)
Just a reminder kids: When the Republicans are accused of doing something, it's wrong, illegal, shady, cheating, etc, however when the Democrats do it, it's pure, good, well intended, righteous
Nice try at a false equivalency. There's no evidence, beyond a wild accusations and conspiracy theories put together after the fact without a shred of evidence, that the democrats have done anything of the kind.
Whereas Republicans have been caught red-handed, with credible evidence building up throughout the process.
Whose ox got gored by Joe on this job? (Score:2)
Or is it a case of "No harm, no foul"? We're so deep in the dishonesty that no one knows what to believe now, and evidence be damned, full speed ahead. Or in reverse, or maybe we should bear to starboard or larboard. "Wait, Captain, we can't dive now, the hatch is still open!" Followed by exhortations to Scotty to beam up the landing party and go to Warp 7!
(Yeah, now I'm wondering if all the confusion all started with Star Trek... Just reading Fire in the Valley (an autographed copy of the collector's edi
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I'm just throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks. Also trying to find an actually humorous joke somewhere in there.
However, as regards the Russians, I doubt they would have to hack the GOP. I really think they have so many of them by the balls (starting at the head of the fish) that no hacking would be required. They would just ring someone up and ask for the passwords.
"Good day, comrade. So funny that you thought this was an unlisted phone number." Of course with a heavy Russian accent.
TRUMP is the Russian pawn. GOP follows him, QED (Score:1)
Trump is a Russian pawn. Full stop, the evidence is in the clear. Republicans CHOSE to become Russian pawns when they gave him a long leash despite all the evidence of smoke and fire.
Dana Rohrenbacker was a Russian pawn, but he got swept out of office with 39 other idiots who backed a traitor willingly, so you may never know what the reason was. Pity.
"Everyone knew about Trump Tower Moscow, everyone knew. There was no deal and everyone knew."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/12/04/gop-senators-
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One in which you recognize that, for the most part, supporting countries that aren't behaving like enemies is a good way to keep them on your side, but that when they start acting like enemies, you can't coddle them, or they'll continue to do so.
Russia's behavior has changed pretty dramatically since
This is a cover story meant to distract (Score:5, Interesting)
I'm Canadian and even I know the Republicans are (Score:1, Troll)
Admit they were hacked my ass, they're just drumming up conspiricy theories to attack the democrats.
Re: This is GREAT! (Score:2)
No, the tolerant left is doing nothing of the sort. One rather sick individual is.
By tarnishing the name of 3.5 billion people you know nothing of and hate purely for being different, you are no better than that one. You are being just as abusive (since an AC can't threaten actual harm against an AC, there's no difference between abusive language and other abusive language, whatever the words).
Grow up.
Re: I'm Canadian and even I know the Republicans a (Score:2, Informative)
Most of the rigged votes are by the GOP. That includes a House election suspended during an investigation of massive GOP vote rigging. But you don't care about things like that, because that means caring about facts. You far prefer to hate people who are different to you. So much easier, requires no effort or logic.
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The evil ones. Admit they were hacked my ass, they're just drumming up conspiricy theories to attack the democrats.
Sounds like you're pretty experienced with conspiracy theories.
Re:I'm Canadian and even I know the Republicans ar (Score:5, Insightful)
The evil ones. Admit they were hacked my ass, they're just drumming up conspiricy theories to attack the democrats.
Even worse, because of this I'm now expecting Trump any day to put forth the theory that this somehow means that the Democrats did not actually win the House in the recent election and the Republican victory was stolen. I live in a red state and if he does this, yes, lots of people here will believe it.
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Maybe they'll let the FBI examine the servers... (Score:1)
Let's reserve judgment until the FBI examines the servers forensically. Surely, they'll allow it, right???
I have little sympathy (Score:2)
The GOP were actively involved in cybercrimes (directly and indirectly, the distinction appealed to Al Capone but not to anyone law-abiding) against political opponents, both in office and in the general public. "Do unto others" is a serviceable motto.
My sympathy is restricted to the fact that no crime, whatever your view of the target, is ever justified, moral or acceptable. It is an abomination.
I am not going to waste time waiting for Republicans to feel that crimes against rivals is bad, the human lifesp
Hacked emails? (Score:1)