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Former special counsel Robert Mueller told U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday that the Russian campaign to interfere in the 2016 election and the Trump campaign’s embrace of that effort may have established a “new normal” in American politics, laying the groundwork for future meddling.

Mueller Fears Trump’s Embrace of Russian Interference Could Be a ‘New Normal’ – Foreign Policy

Mueller was unwavering on the fact that Russia sought to meddle in the elections and issued a stark warning to lawmakers that foreign interference—and its embrace by political campaigns—could become an established feature of U.S. politics.

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Democratic Senators forwarded three proposals this week to eliminate future potential political assistance from foreign govt's but Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell blocked all votes from happening. These efforts earned him the new nickname "Moscow Mitch" .

Twitter Users Slam 'Moscow Mitch' After McConnell Kills Election Security Bills | HuffPost Canada

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In a world reliant upon GPS navigation to accurately guide all sorts of military and civilian machines, it is interesting to learn that GPS signals can be jammed by nation states wanting to degrade safe navigation.

Why fighter pilots will always be relevant to US military | Fox Business


Presently, it is suspected that Iran is jamming GPS navigation in the very busy Strait of Hormuz through which 25% of the world's oil passes every day. "This is a very congested waterway, a lot of ships. Not a lot of room for miscalculation"

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THE RUSSIAN ATTACK
ON U.S. DEMOCRACY




How Russia Hacked Social Media and Democracy is a

before, during, and after the 2016 United States presidential election.
It contains more than one hundred images of Russian propaganda that
were gathered from publicly available sources.



I offer them to you for the assistance they may provide in understanding
and explaining how Russia prosecuted its secret misinformation campaign
against America, and as a warning of things to come. DIVIDING AMERICA

American elections, just in time for the 2020 presidential election.



In January 2017, the United States intelligence community concluded that:


election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton

The Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, and the Federal
Bureau of Investigation each concluded that Russian Federation President Vladimir
Putin directly ordered this attack on American democracy. According to the Mueller
report, the Russians:

audiences with the goal of sowing discord in the U.S. political

that typically refers to operations conducted by Russian security

While their ads and posts typically supported extreme right-wing causes and Donald

specific policy objectives or outcomes. Its purpose was and is to divide Americans.





https://michaelbennet.com/DividingAmericaBook.pdf

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More Proof of the Russian Puppet


Trump could 'certainly' support Russia's return to what would be the G8

President Donald Trump expressed his support for reinstating Russia into the G7 days before the group of leading industrialized nations convenes for its annual summit in France.


"I think it's much more appropriate to have Russia in" the group, he said during a meeting in the Oval Office with the Romanian President.
"If somebody would make that motion, I would certainly be disposed to think about it very favorably," he added.
Trump's comments underscore the divide between the US, under his administration, and Washington's traditional closest allies.

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Top officials at the National Rifle Association knew Russians were using their ties to the gun rights group to try to bolster their status with lawmakers or the winner of the 2016 presidential election.

Top NRA officials knew Russians were using ties to NRA to establish connection with next US President, report says - CNNPolitics

Russia believes that high level contacts with the NRA might be the BEST means of neutral introduction to either the next American President

Democrats raised questions about whether the gun rights group violated its nonprofit status, and concluded the NRA openly fostered relationships with Russian nationals who sought to build relationships in US political circles.

During the 2016 election, Russian nationals effectively used the promise of lucrative personal business opportunities to capture the NRA and gain access to the American political system.

This report concludes that some members of the NRA delegation traveled to Russia to cultivate future business opportunities. Some of these NRA members also met with sanctioned individuals

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It's Back RUSSIA Russia RUSSIA
A GOP-led Senate intel committee report states the obvious: Russia favored Trump in 2016

The Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee just released a report that states the obvious, but in these times is quite damning for President Donald Trump: Russia directed a disinformation campaign during the 2016 election to hurt Hillary Clinton and favor Trump.


The committee has spent three years conducting a bipartisan investigation into the extent of the Kremlin’s interference during the last presidential cycle. It released the first of its findings in July, showing that Moscow-linked hackers likely tried to access election systems in all 50 states.


On Tuesday, the Senate panel released its second set of conclusions focused on Russia’s use of social media during the last campaign season. What it discovered was what US intelligence agencies have long assessed: Trump was Russia’s favorite.


“The Committee found that the IRA sought to influence the 2016 US presidential election by harming Hillary Clinton’s chances of success and supporting Donald Trump at the direction of the Kremlin,” the report reads using an acronym for the Internet Research Agency, the name for the group of the Russian hackers.


They did this in multiple ways, according to the report. The IRA targeted African Americans more than any other group through Facebook pages, Instagram accounts, Twitter trends, and more. “By far, race and related issues were the preferred target of the information warfare campaign designed to divide the country in 2016,” the committee wrote. The IRA also got unwitting targets to hand over personal information, sign petitions, attend rallies, and even teach self-defense classes.


It makes sense why Russia would choose to weaponize anger around race. As my colleague P.R. Lockhart noted last December, race issues in 2016 could be exploited due to already existing tensions in the US that were amplified by Trump as a candidate. Russia’s efforts later evolved into attempts to influence racial justice activism after the election, as Russian groups contacted black activists running legitimate organizations and attempted to set up real-world events.


That’s just awful. But what’s arguably worse is that Russia may continue to do this.


“Russia is waging an information warfare campaign against the US that didn’t start and didn’t end with the 2016 election,” Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC), the committee chair, said in a statement concurrent with the report’s release. “Their goal is broader: to sow societal discord and erode public confidence in the machinery of government.”


Trump doesn’t think Russia interfered in the 2016 election
This is terribly inconvenient timing for Trump. He’s embroiled in an impeachment crisis started in part because he believes Ukraine — not Russia — greatly interfered in the 2016 election to help Clinton win. While there is some evidence to suggest Ukrainians did favor Clinton, there’s none showing they went to the lengths that the Russians did or were anywhere near as effective.


Which means Trump has a major problem: Even GOP-led Senate panels clearly show he had help during the 2016 election. But the US writ large has problems, too. The report makes clear US elections are vulnerable to foreign influence, and so far there is little reason to suggest the next vote will be freer from interference than the 2016 contest was.


“With the 2020 elections on the horizon, there’s no doubt that bad actors will continue to try to weaponize the scale and reach of social media platforms to erode public confidence and foster chaos,” Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in a Tuesday statement. “The Russian playbook is out in the open for other foreign and domestic adversaries to expand upon — and their techniques will only get more sophisticated.”


The question now is if Trump will suddenly have a change of heart, openly blame the Russians, and start to move the machinery of government to safeguard the 2020 election. The chances of that happening, though, are about as high as the chance Russia will stop meddling in American affairs: zero.

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Giuliani associates who sought Biden dirt arrested in campaign finance scheme meant to boost Trump’s reelection bid
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For all of those who believed in the Uranium One story about how Hillary Clinton facilitated the sale of American uranium mines to Russia in exchange for a $2M contribution to the Clinton foundation. It is now proven that you fell victim to a classic Russian misinformation campaign not based on any truth and with the only objective to make her look greedy and corrupt.

The Invention of the Conspiracy Theory on Biden and Ukraine | The New Yorker

The entire current Ukraine story promoted by President Trump and leading Cable TV opinion broadcaster, Sean Hannity, has all of the markings of another Russian misinformation campaign designed to damage leading Presidential candidate Joe Biden. The accuracy of the story is not important, the more convoluted the better, its sole purpose is to discredit Joe Biden via the actions of his son.

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President Donald Trump: 'All Roads With You Lead To Putin

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It's BACK! TRUMP RUSSIA!
Roger Stone's trial brings back the Trump-Russia saga
A federal prosecutor told jurors on Wednesday that longtime Republican operative Roger Stone lied to Congress, "because the truth looked bad for Donald Trump."

"You might ask, why didn't Stone just tell the truth?" prosecutor Aaron Zelinsky asked jurors. "Roger Stone lied to the House Intelligence Committee because the truth looked bad for the Trump campaign, and the truth looked bad for Donald Trump."


The bulk of the charges Stone faces reflect allegations that he lied to Congress regarding his communications with associates about WikiLeaks. He also stands accused of witness tampering as part of an effort to keep humorist and radio show host Randy Credico from contradicting his testimony before the House Intelligence Committee in September 2017. If the jury finds Stone guilty on all counts, he could face up to 20 years in prison. He has pleaded not guilty.


The longtime GOP operative was excused from court early on Tuesday during jury selection complaining of "possible food poisoning." He arrived at the courtroom on Wednesday looking healthy and smiling, but when the jury was seated and opening arguments began, his grin gradually fell.

Zelinsky began investigating Stone's conduct while still part of former special counsel Robert Mueller's team, and stuck with the case after the Mueller report was published and the team disbanded. Zelinsky kicked off proceedings Wednesday by walking through the charges against Stone -- and included new details about Stone's interactions with the Trump campaign and Trump himself.


Stone spoke with Trump multiple times in the summer of 2016, Zelinsky said. It wasn't what was said on the calls that was significant, he told jurors -- the nature of their conversations is unknown. It was their timing. The calls coincided with key moments in Stone's interactions with people serving as Stone's back-channel conduits to WikiLeaks -- the organization that published thousands of stolen emails from Trump's Democratic political opponents.


Zelinsky also described two notable exchanges Stone had with senior Trump campaign members. In a message to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, Stone said, "I have a plan to save Trump's (rear)," the prosecutor said.


Jurors heard about another email -- this one Stone sent to former Trump campaign CEO Steve Bannon.


"When Stone emailed Bannon, he said 'Trump could still win -- but time is running out,'" Zelinsky said. "But his way, in his own words, 'ain't pretty.'"

Zelinsky focused his remarks on the alleged lies Stone told to Congress -- each one represents a separate count against Stone. He told jurors why he believes Stone felt the need to lie, saying that the longtime Trump aide wanted to protect his political patron.


In response, Stone's counsel, Bruce Rogow, pointed out that his client had gone "voluntarily, without a subpoena," to meet with congressional investigators.


Stone's defense team told jurors that Stone complied with Congress and only omitted information he and his legal team viewed as being irrelevant to the "publicly stated parameters" of the committee's investigation.


"When you heard the government's opening statement, you didn't hear about Russia -- you heard about WikiLeaks and Julian Assange," Rogow said.


"You heard that Roger Stone spoke to the Trump campaign," he added, positing that there's nothing wrong with that -- Stone knew members of the Trump campaign personally.


Rogow argued that members of the committee deviated from the previously agreed upon, "publicly stated scope of the investigation," which he said was Russia, not WikiLeaks.




Prosecutors said they would seek testimony in court from Bannon, Rick Gates, who served as Trump's deputy campaign chairman, and Stone's onetime associate Randi Credico, who has been described by the prosecution as an "intermediary" between Stone and WikiLeaks.


Stone's defense team has questioned Credico's credibility, describing Stone's communications with Credico as "odious" and calling Credico "an impressionist."


Wednesday's court session also included testimony from Michelle Taylor, an FBI agent for 14 years who previously worked on the special counsel's investigation focused on Stone. She provided a window into the prosecutors' case. Taylor described a timeline of events over the summer of 2016, which over-layed the timing of actions by WikiLeaks and by the Russian hacking operation known as Guccifer 2.0, as well as Stone's communications with Trump, campaign officials and his intermediaries.


Taylor said she also reviewed public comments by Stone and by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in the summer of 2016 -- in which they discussed plans to leak information about Hillary Clinton. Prosecutors played a clip of an Assange interview, during which he described those plans. Days later, the Democratic National Committee announced its server had been hacked.


Earlier this week, the federal judge overseeing Stone's case said she anticipated proceedings would last two weeks.

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Trump says he might attend Russia Victory Day events in May enjoy

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Microsoft wants to “fix” America’s voting system, by rolling its own “ElectionGuard” digital voting system out around the country, making elections “good for everybody.”

Microsoft Aims to Trial 'ElectionGuard' Voting System in 2020 | Breitbart

Mark Wilson, writing in FastCompany, described ElectionGuard’s physical voting machine as “something of a concept car for the future of voting,” as it is “mostly made out of off-the-shelf parts.” Comprised of a Microsoft Surface tablet and the Xbox Adaptive Controller, the machine does not require touch screens that may incorrectly register votes, as some voters claimed happened to them in the 2018 midterms.”

Microsoft plans to roll out the system in limited trials at undisclosed polling locations for the 2020 election, according to the report.

ElectionGuard available today to enable secure, verifiable voting - Microsoft on the Issues


Microsoft plans to roll out the system globally.

In May, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that the company’s ultimate goal is to “modernize all of the election infrastructure everywhere in the world.

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