Today’s indictments from Mueller certainly highlight the issue about how the Russians are manipulating and dispersing our data. Where / How / what data/ to whom are they dispersing it to?
Let me count the ways…
It may not be the voter rolls YET, but it could very well happen given that many states have opted to use electronic balloting. (not sure of the ratio, and need to look that up, but now very few voting districts offer paper ballots). (see case for paper ballots - Paper ballots are hack-proof. It's time to bring them back.)
Having Russia use social media to sway opinions with false data and pay for lists that include White Nationalists, Nazi’s, Bernie lovers, Bernie haters, Hillary’s undecided voters is MANIPULATION of our data. There is not a law prohibiting it, nor are social media groups doing an about face on this, but Russia’s intentions has been to stealthily maneuver data and creep into the mindsets of Americans who for better or worse were believers, gullible and/or disaffected in their views towards government.
The fact that the DNC’s emails were hacked (as were the RNC’s but not released to Wikileaks) is in and of itself manipulation of our data. Within those emails, contained private information - opinions, working knowledge of what campaign members were thinking.(see Dick Nixon - dirty tricks) And to have the Russians exploit this information as Mueller and Rosenstein are revealing today to turn the election towards Trump, away from Clinton, and foment discord is beyond alarming.
And from what the NYT’s is writing today about these 13 indictments today - I quote: “The Russians stole the identities of American citizens, posed as political activists and used the flash points of immigration, religion and race to manipulate a campaign in which those issues were already particularly divisive, prosecutors said.” 13 Russians Indicted as Mueller Reveals Effort to Aid Trump Campaign - The New York Times
So, there is a wave of manipulation from the Russians.
The other points in your response to me have already been dissected above and we do not need to go down that path again regarding whether sanctions were willfully ignored by T or not. I do think T should be doing a better job at handling these details, and strongly feel he is not up to the job.
We’ve already reached the ‘sell-by’ date that this Commander in Chief has a strong working knowledge of his job, and even more paramount an ability to lead. He does not…he’s weak on facts; he maneuvers defensively; he calls for Congress to work together, but he defies them as well, but subjecting them to his veto power (see DACA vote) he baits North Korea into some kind of nuclear test: he wants military parades; he shamelessly self-promotes; he returns to his base over and over again, instead of leading the entire country.
