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Was white British secessionist Nigel Farage really the man to reignite Donald Trump's African-American outreach programme?

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A white secessionist flown in from Britain might not seem the obvious choice for Donald Trump to reignite his African-American voter outreach programme, but at least Nigel Farage stuck to a message the people of Jackson, Mississippi have heard before.
"If you want change in this country, you'd better get out campaigning," Farage told them. "You'd better get your walking boots on."
They know what that means down there. It's 50 years since a young man called James Howard Meredith set off alone for Jackson from Memphis, Tennessee 220 miles away. He was intending to stop in every town along the way, telling African Americans about the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Telling them to register to vote, to stand up for their interests.
Unlike Farage, Meredith never made it. On the second day of his march, he got shot three times by a white supremacist (something that, until recently, you might have thought could never happen in British politics).
Martin Luther King and a load of other Civil Rights leaders had to turn up and finish the job. As they marched they talked another 15,000 black, 'anti-establishment' folk into getting their walking boots on too, and they still made it in plenty of time for Dr King to make it back to Memphis two years later so that he could also be shot by a white supremacist.
So they know a little bit about what it's like to be on the wrong side of the establishment down there. How hard they'll choose to a listen to a middle aged Englishman telling them how he and his army, "Said no to the banks and no to the politicians," when he's only had two jobs in his life, first a banker and then a politician, we'll find out on November 8th. That's the day, by the way, as if there were still a nanometre of mercury left to spare at the top of the bullshit-o-meter, that Mr Trump last night declared would be 'Independence Day, just like Britain had its Independence Day on June 23rd.'
They'd clapped like mad for "the man who led Brexit," as Donald Trump rightly labelled Nigel Farage as he called him to the stage. "This is a great honour for me," he told the crowd. He meant it.
It's fascism, this. And it's fully naked. Talk like you're taking on the powerful, then round on the vulnerable. And all this laid on by a little public schoolboy who used to march round the countryside singing Hitler Youth Songs and a daddy-made billionaire, backed with the full force of Rupert Murdoch's TV channel, flying round the world in a private jet with his name down the side, telling his followers to "stand up to the media."
"If the little people, the real people, the ordinary decent people, are prepared to stand up for what they believe in, we can overcome the big banks, we can overcome the multinationals," Farage bellowed, the Donald gurning proudly on as only he can. We can overcome the refugees. We can overcome the immigrants. We can overcome the chinkies and the people who don't speak English on the train. We can overcome the Romanians who'd better not be moving in next door.
Who knows, maybe the sight of Nigel Farage, ushered on stage by Donald Trump, introduced as "the man who led Brexit, the man who led this fight and won" will be sufficient for that thin blue line of supposedly enlightened Brexiters finally to come down off the fumes of their own delusional vainglory and take some responsibility for what they've done. (Don't count on it).
Perhaps this will be enough for them to come to accept that Nigel Farage was the man who led Brexit. That Britain's place in the world isn't the 'positive, outward looking, open to trade' place that exists only in Daniel Hannan's imagination, but it's place now is right there on stage, next to the 21st century demagogue who, just around the Gulf of Mexico from Jackson, Mississippi, wants to build a 2,000 mile long wall, that's certainly not to keep out the establishment.
And of course, it's all much worse than that. Trump, in all likelihood, is a loser. His own brand of The Art Of The Lie politics will meet with disaster three months from now. Farage's victory defines our age. We are the fascists, now.
Farage is a winner. That can't be doubted. And an inspirational figure too. "Remember," he told them at the end, rousing to the last, "Remember. Anything is possible if enough decent people stand up against the establishment!"
They were on their feet, the specially selected ladies and gentlemen of Jackson. But Farage's challenge is a challenge to us all. The fascists have got their marching boots on. So we'd better had too.

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  Some of Trump's Hispanic fans are abandoning ship after his immigration speech 


Several of Donald Trump's most prominent Hispanic supporters are reconsidering their support following his major speech on immigration Wednesday.
Jacob Monty, an attorney based in Houston, resigned from the Republican candidate's National Hispanic Advisory Council after hearing the speech in Phoenix, Politico reported early Thursday morning.
"I was a strong supporter of Donald Trump when I believed he was going to address the immigration problem realistically and compassionately," Monty told the news site. "What I heard today was not realistic and not compassionate."
After weeks of toying with "softening" his deportation-based approach to illegal immigration, the GOP nominee on Wednesday gave a speech in which he embraced the hard-line policies and incendiary rhetoric that defined his primary campaign. He said that anyone in the United States illegally would be subject to deportation and vowed to bolster security at the U.S.-Mexico border.
For many Hispanic conservatives like Monty, who had advocated passionately for Trump, the speech was not merely a disappointment, but a betrayal. They hoped the candidate would lay out a plan for dealing humanely with the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants already in the country, especially those with no involvement in violent crime.
Trump's support among Latino voters is far beneath that of past Republican candidates, according to public polls, which presents a unique challenge for the mogul as he seeks to win key states — like Florida, Nevada and Colorado — with large Hispanic constituencies. On Thursday, Democrat Hillary Clinton's campaign began to run ads in Arizona, a historically Republican state but with a large number of Latino voters.

Monty told the Texas Tribune that Trump's speech was a "complete betrayal to Republican ideals and his [commitments] made" and that Republicans need to "reclaim our party from the [nativist] elements."
When asked if he'd continue raising money for Trump, Monty replied, "No way José ... It is pouring money down the drain."
Monty was one of the Latino leaders who attended the Aug. 20 meeting in Trump Tower where the billionaire mogul reportedly softened his tone on illegal immigration.
"When we met [earlier in August], he was going to approach this issue with a realistic plan, a compassionate plan, with a plan that was not disruptive to the immigrants that were here that were not lawbreakers," Monty told Politico. "He didn't deliver any of that."
Similarly, Alfonso Aguilar, the president of the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles, told Politico that he was "inclined" to drop his support for Trump after this week's big speech.
"It's so disappointing because we feel we took a chance, a very risky chance," he said. "We decided to make a big U-turn to see if we could make him change. We thought we were moving in the right direction ... we're disappointed. We feel misled."
Data analyst Leslie Sanchez, who specializes in public opinion research for elections and the Hispanic-Latino marketplace, works closely with the Republican Party. She said sources told her that half of Trump's Hispanic advisory board was eyeing the door on Thursday.
 

Hispanic leader who advises Trump camp telling me half of Trump's Hispanic advisory board is ready to resign today (15 of 30)
— Leslie Sanchez (@LeslieSanchez)

September 1, 2016

Massey Villarreal, a businessman in Houston, told NBC Latino that he was finished supporting Trump after Wednesday night's "awful" speech.
"As a compassionate conservative, I am disappointed with the immigration speech," he said. "I'm going to flip, but not flop. I am no longer supporting Trump for president, but cannot with any conscience support Hillary [Clinton]."

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FBI releases Hillary Clinton email report 

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  Washington (CNN)Hillary Clinton repeatedly told the FBI she couldn't recall key details and events related to classified information procedures, according to notes the bureau released Friday of its July interview with the Democratic presidential nominee, along with a report on its investigation into her private email server.  Clinton told the FBI she "could not recall any briefing or training by State related to the retention of federal records or handling classified information," according to the bureau's notes of their interview with Clinton. The documents indicate Clinton told investigators she either does not "recall" or "remember" at least 39 times — often in response to questions about process, potential training or the content of specific emails.  Much of the report reiterated what FBI Director James Comey testified in open hearings before Congress, including that more than six dozen email chains contained classified information at the time they were sent and that there appeared to have been hacking attempts on her server, though there is no evidence they were successful. Still, the report added fuel to the criticisms of Clinton and the narrative that her team acted "extremely careless," as Comey said. GOP nominee Donald Trump and other Republicans have stepped up their attacks connecting the emails to questions over whether Clinton gave preferential treatment to donors to her family's foundation. The release of the documents Friday comes as Clinton's lead over Trump has been cut in half since her post-convention bounce last month, according to CNN's Poll of Polls released Thursday. The bureau is making the information public in response to numerous Freedom of Information Act requests, including from CNN.   "Today the FBI is releasing a summary of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's July 2, 2016 interview with the FBI concerning allegations that classified information was improperly stored or transmitted on a personal e-mail server she used during her tenure," the agency said in a statement. "We also are releasing a factual summary of the FBI's investigation into this matter." 
  Presidential campaign ramifications  The publication of the FBI report is likely to give a new burst of political life to the controversy over Clinton's private server.  The episode plays directly into Republican claims that Clinton is dishonest, abhors transparency and lacks the ethical standards required of someone who sits in the Oval Office. It also allows Trump's campaign to suggest to voters that they will be setting up a repeat of the cycle of scandals, controversy, and investigations that dragged on through the entire presidency of Bill Clinton and which tainted Hillary Clinton at the same time. "Hillary Clinton's answers to the FBI about her private email server defy belief," Trump said in a statement. "I was absolutely shocked to see that her answers to the FBI stood in direct contradiction to what she told the American people. After reading these documents, I really don't understand how she was able to get away from prosecution." Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, meanwhile, called the release a "devastating indictment" of Clinton's honesty and judgment. Clinton's campaign, however, said it was "pleased" by the release. "While her use of a single email account was clearly a mistake and she has taken responsibility for it, these materials make clear why the Justice Department believed there was no basis to move forward with this case," Clinton's national press secretary Brian Fallon said in a statement.   'Oh s***' The FBI report also provided detail on mass deletions of Clinton's email server by the company maintaining her server, Platte River Networks, after the existence of it came to light.  According to the investigation report, top Clinton adviser Cheryl Mills told a PRN worker whose name was redacted in December 2014 that Clinton wanted her email to only be retained for 60 days, and instructed him to reset the retention policy on her email account. But the individual told the FBI he realized that he had failed to do so until after The New York Times published its bombshell story revealing Clinton's private server and email use, prompting an "'oh s***' moment." "In a follow-up FBI interview on May 3, 2016, (name redacted) indicated he believed he had an 'oh s***' moment and sometime between March 25-31, 2015, deleted the Clinton archive mailbox from the PRN server and used BleachBit to delete the exported .PST files he had created on the server system containing Clinton's emails," the report stated.  The mass deletion occurred after the March 2, 2015, Times story and after a March 3, 2015, preservation order from the House Benghazi Committee to retain and produce documents related to her email accounts. Mills had sent this request to PRN and this individual on March 9, 2015, and under repeat questioning by the FBI, the individual admitted he was aware that the request existed and meant he shouldn't disturb the files on PRN's server. Both Mills and Clinton told the FBI they were not aware of the mass deletion that March.  Colin Powell One of the findings revealed in the report is that former Secretary of State Colin Powell "warned" Clinton that her emails could become government record in 2009. According to the report summarizing the FBI's investigation, Clinton emailed Powell just after inauguration in 2009 about his use of a BlackBerry as secretary of state.  "Powell warned Clinton that if it became 'public' that Clinton had a BlackBerry, and she used it to 'do business,' her emails could become 'official record(s) and subject to the law,'" the report stated. "Powell further advised Clinton, 'Be very careful. I got around it all by not saying much and not using systems that captured the data.'"  But the FBI said Clinton described her understanding of Powell's comments as saying that work-related emails would be official record, adding "Powell's comments did not factor into her decision to use a personal email account." Before it became public, interest in the contents of the report had intensified after it was reported that Clinton told the FBI a conversation with Powell recommending she use private email helped convince her to do so. Powell repudiated the idea that he shares any responsibility for her choice in the following days, however, and Clinton told CNN's Anderson Cooper last month that she takes full responsibility.  "I've been asked many, many questions in the past year about emails. And what I've learned is that when I try to explain what happened it can sound like I'm trying to excuse what I did," she told CNN. "And there are no excuses. I want people to know that the decision to have a single e- mail account was mine. I take responsibility for it. I've apologized for it. I would certainly do differently if I could." Powell rejects Clinton email defense  Use of mobile devices The report also described the way Clinton used her BlackBerry mobile devices. Clinton has cited her desire to use a single BlackBerry as part of her motivation to use a personal email address. Clinton's aide Huma Abedin told the FBI that Clinton often would use a new BlackBerry for a few days before returning to an older model because of her familiarity, according to the report. The FBI found that 13 different mobile devices were used with her two known phone numbers, and thus may have sent emails with her private account. After Clinton switched to a new device, the previous incarnation would often disappear, and a former Bill Clinton aide, Justin Cooper, said he could recall two times he destroyed the old device either by breaking it in half or hitting it with a hammer. The findings also noted that Clinton stored her BlackBerry in a desk drawer in her office, which was not authorized. Her office was in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF), and thus the use of mobile devices in the office was prohibited. The former Assistant Secretary of State for State Diplomatic Security Service Eric Boswell told the FBI that he "never received any complaints about Clinton using her personal BlackBerry inside the SCIF."  According to Abedin, Cooper and another person whose name was redacted from the report, there were personally owned desktop computers in the SCIFs in Clinton's homes in Washington and Chappaqua, New York. Clinton had stated to the FBI she did not have a computer of any kind in the SCIFs in her residences. Abedin and Clinton said the former secretary of state did not use a computer and primarily used her BlackBerry or iPad for checking emails.  Handing of classified information The notes revealed that Clinton relied heavily on her staff and aides to determine what was classified information and how it should be handled.  "Clinton did not recall receiving any emails she thought should not be on an unclassified system," the FBI notes said. "She relied on State official to use their judgment when emailing her and could not recall anyone raising concerns with her regarding the sensitivity of the information she received at her email address." Clinton was also asked about the (C) markings within several documents that James Comey testified before Congress represented classified information. The emails that were sent and received from her server containing these markings became the subject of intense debate on the Hill, as her critics seized on them as evidence that she mishandled information. But Clinton told the FBI she was unaware of what the marking meant. "Clinton stated she did not know and could only speculate it was referencing paragraphs marked in alphabetical order," the interview notes stated.  The former secretary of state said she did understand when an email was marked "confidential" at the top, and "asked the interviewing agents if that was what 'c' referenced," according to the notes. The confidential label had been placed there by the FBI after the fact.  She also said she didn't "pay attention to the 'level' of classified information and took all classified information seriously." The interview also addressed a 2011 email in which Clinton said she hadn't received talking points from her aide, Jake Sullivan. He responded that there were issues sending the document through secure fax.  "If they can't," Clinton replies, "turn into nonpaper w no identifying heading and send nonsecure." That email had been the fuel behind speculation that Cilnton had demanded her aide send classified information through a nonsecure channel by removing markings. But Clinton told the FBI that she understood the request as routine.  "Clinton thought a 'nonpaper' was a way to convey the unofficial stance of the US government to a foreign government and believed this practice went back '200 years,'" she said, according to interview notes. "When viewing the displayed email, Clinton believed she was asking Sullivan to remove the State letterhead and provide unclassified talking points. Clinton stated she had no intention to remove classification markings."  Fallout from Comey's remarks Comey in July took the unprecedented step of announcing in a press conference the FBI's conclusion that there was not enough evidence to merit a criminal prosecution, before handing over his findings to the Justice Department. Anticipation for FBI's release on Clinton investigation The DOJ followed that recommendation and decided no prosecution was merited.  After Comey testified about the decision before Congress, members requested access to his agency's report. Last month, the bureau gave members of Congress access to the notes, as well as notes from interviews with other Clinton staff and aides, but kept that version of the report classified.  Comey testified that no transcript of the interview exists, only the notes taken on it. Clinton was not under oath.  The FBI's release Friday did not include the notes of interviews with Clinton's aides.   

The poll showed 40 percent of likely voters supporting Trump and 39 percent backing Clinton for the week of Aug. 26 to Sept. 1. Clinton's support has dropped steadily in the weekly tracking poll since Aug. 25, eliminating what had been a eight-point lead for her.

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Clinton campaign goes after Trump's 'birther' past

QuoteThe Clinton campaign is stepping up its attacks on Donald Trump's past leading the "birther" movement to question President Obama's citizenship as it continues to paint the real estate mogul as a bigoted conspiracy theorist.
Over the weekend, the campaign tweeted from Clinton's account that it was "astonishing" that the Republican nominee still "refuses to acknowledge" that the president was born in the United States, after Trump would not answer a reporter's question whether he now believed Obama was a citizen. On Tuesday, spokeswoman Christina Reynolds brought up Trump's birtherism in a statement responding to his comment that Clinton did not "look presidential."
"This isn't the first time Donald Trump has had a problem looking at someone different from himself and actually seeing them," Reynolds said. "He looked at a sitting president and said he wasn't American."
Wednesday, Clinton's campaign again tweeted about the controversy.
When Trump began reaching out to black voters in speeches last month, arguing that voting for Democrats had not alleviated poverty and crime in black communities, the Clinton campaign hit back with a coordinated campaign to portray Trump as a bigoted conspiracy theorist, synthesized in Clinton's speech two weeks ago in Reno tying the candidate to an "alt right" network of white supremacists and extremists.
"Let's not forget that Trump first gained political prominence leading the charge for the so-called 'birthers,'" she said then. "He promoted the racist lie that President Obama is not really an American citizen — part of a sustained effort to delegitimize America's first black president."
The day after Clinton's speech, her running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine, reminded voters at a speech at the historically black college Florida A&M University of Trump's birtherism. "Donald Trump was a main guy behind the scurrilous and I would say bigoted notion that President Obama wasn't even born in this country, and Donald Trump has continued to push that irresponsible falsehood," Kaine said.
But Clinton hasn't brought up Trump's birther past since she began campaigning again on Monday after a stretch of fundraisers. A surrogate for her campaign and member of the Congressional Black Caucus, Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., says he hopes the candidate herself will not focus on the issue going forward as she enters the homestretch — instead leaving it to aides and surrogates.
"I think what folks want to know is what are you going to do for us as president and how is that going to make a difference in our lives," Meeks said. "And leave the other stuff to guys like me."
Clinton's alt-right speech made sense as a "one-time piece" that laid out the facts for the voters before moving on, Meeks said, comparing it to when Obama gave a speech on race during his campaign in '08.
"It's more important for her ... to lift the hopes and aspirations that Americans have," and to highlight the investments she will make in jobs, Meeks said. The congressman and other members of the Congressional Black Caucus have been highlighting the birther issue for her, with Meeks calling Trump's refusal to disavow his birtherism "a way to appeal to the David Dukes of the world."
Clinton is still showcasing Trump's comments about minorities, but as part of a broader argument saying Trump does not respect all Americans. At a voter registration event in Tampa on Tuesday, Clinton said Trump "demeans" groups of Americans, including minorities, adding that they "have every right to be respected by the president of the United States." Kaine also spent a good portion of his speech in Cleveland Monday emphasizing that Trump's company was sued for housing discrimination against black renters in the 1970s.
Polls suggest black voters overwhelmingly back Clinton over Trump, but some Democrats are worried about a report that shows black millennials are not enthusiastically supporting her. Clinton will need high turnout among black voters to help drive her victory.
Trump, for his part, is trying to distance himself from his past questioning of whether the first African American president was born in the United States, telling reporters at multiple points during the campaign that he doesn't "talk about it." One of his top surrogates, Ben Carson, said on CNN Tuesday that it would be a "good idea" for Trump to apologize for his birther past to try to win back some black voters alienated by the movement.On Tuesday, Fox News' Bill O'Reilly asked Trump if he thought his birtherism had hurt him with black voters. Trump replied, "I don't know," before reiterating that he no longer talks about Obama's citizenship.
Trump never said he was satisfied when Obama released his long-form birth certificate from Hawaii in 2011, but largely stopped bringing the matter up afterward. Asked by Anderson Cooper in 2015 if he now believed the president was born in the states, he said he didn't know but no longer focused on it.
Obama has long treated Trump's birther attacks as a joke, memorably roasting Trump in his address at the White House Correspondents Dinner in 2011 as Trump stiffly listened. He said Trump now could get back to the "issues that matter, like, did we fake the moon landing?" He mocked Trump's connection to the show "Celebrity Apprentice," saying that his decision about whether to fire Lil Jon or Meat Loaf from the show "would keep me up at night."
Obama never shied away from the birther issue, which struck many of his supporters as an example of the irrational and sometimes racially–motivated opposition from conservatives who were questioning his legitimacy instead of his policies. In 2012, one of the hottest items in Obama's online campaign merchandise store was a white coffee mug with Obama's newly public birth certificate pasted on it. "We sold close to 40,000 made-in-the-USA mugs with the birth certificate graphic," a campaign aide told Yahoo News at the time. "We bought all of the white union-made mugs in the country."

 U.S. investigating potential covert Russian plan to disrupt November elections

QuoteU.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies are investigating what they see as a broad covert Russian operation in the United States to sow public distrust in the upcoming presidential election and in U.S. political institutions, intelligence and congressional officials said.
The aim is to understand the scope and intent of the Russian campaign, which incorporates ­cyber-tools to hack systems used in the political process, enhancing Russia's ability to spread disinformation.
The effort to better understand Russia's covert influence operations is being coordinated by James R. Clapper Jr., the director of national intelligence. "This is something of concern for the DNI," said Charles Allen, a former longtime CIA officer who has been briefed on some of these issues. "It is being addressed."
A Russian influence operation in the United States "is something we're looking very closely at," said one senior intelligence official who, like others interviewed, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter. Officials also are examining potential disruptions to the election process, and the FBI has alerted state and local officials to potential cyberthreats.
The official cautioned that the intelligence community is not saying it has "definitive proof" of such tampering, or any Russian plans to do so. "But even the hint of something impacting the security of our election system would be of significant concern," the official said. "It's the key to our democracy, that people have confidence in the election system." Russian President Vladimir Putin says he doesn't know who was behind the hacking of the Democratic National Committee, but it was important the information had been made public. (Bloomberg)
Russian President Vladimir Putin says he doesn't know who was behind the hacking of the Democratic National Committee, but it was important the information had been made public. Putin: No idea who hacked US Democratic Party (Bloomberg)  The Kremlin's intent may not be to sway the election in one direction or another, officials said, but to cause chaos and provide propaganda fodder to attack U.S. democracy-building policies around the world, particularly in the countries of the former Soviet Union.
[Russia's anti-American fever goes beyond the Soviet era's]
U.S. intelligence officials described the covert influence campaign here as "ambitious" and said it is also designed to counter U.S. leadership and influence in international affairs.
Their comments came just before President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin talked privately about cyberspying and other matters on the sidelines of the Group of 20 talks in China. After their meeting Monday, Obama acknowledged tensions over digital espionage and said the United States had strong capability in this area. "Our goal is not to suddenly, in the cyber arena, duplicate the cycle of escalation we saw when it comes to other arms races in the past," Obama said.
One congressional official, who has been briefed recently on the matter, said "Russian 'active measures' or covert influence or ma­nipu­la­tion efforts, whether it's in Eastern Europe or in the United States," are worrisome.
It "seems to be a global campaign," the aide said. As a result, the issue has "moved up as a priority" for the intelligence agencies, which include the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security as well as the CIA and the National Security Agency.
Some congressional leaders briefed recently by the intelligence agencies on Russian influence operations in Europe, and how they may serve as a template for activities in the United States, were disturbed by what they heard.
After Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) ended a secure 30-minute phone briefing given by a top intelligence official recently, he was "deeply shaken," according to an aide who was with Reid when he left the secure room at the FBI's Las Vegas office.
The Russian government hack of the Democratic National Committee, disclosed by the DNC in June but not yet officially ascribed by the U.S. government to Russia, and the subsequent release of 20,000 hacked DNC emails by WikiLeaks, shocked officials. Cyber analysts traced its digital markings to known Russian government hacking groups.
[Cyber researchers confirm Russian hack of DNC]
"We've seen an unprecedented intrusion and an attempt to influence or disrupt our political process," said Rep. Adam B. Schiff (Calif.), the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, speaking about the DNC hack and the WikiLeaks release on the eve of the Democratic convention. The disclosures, which included a number of embarrassing internal emails, forced the resignation of DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Members of both parties are urging the president to take the Russians to task publicly.
Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) in a statement urged Obama to publicly name Russia as responsible for the DNC hack and apparent meddling in the electoral process. "Free and legitimate elections are non-negotiable. It's clear that Russia thinks the reward outweighs any consequences," he wrote. "That calculation must be changed. . . . This is going to take a cross-domain response — diplomatic, political and economic — that turns the screws on Putin and his cronies."
Another Republican, Sen. Daniel Coats of Indiana, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Sunday that if Moscow is indeed trying to influence the U.S. election, "such actions would be an outrageous violation of international rules of behavior and cannot be tolerated."
Administration officials said they are still weighing their response.
Russia has denied that it carried out any cyber-intrusions in the United States. Putin called the accusations against Russia by U.S. officials and politicians an attempt to "distract the public's attention."
"It doesn't really matter who hacked this data from Mrs. Clinton's campaign headquarters," Putin said in an interview with Bloomberg News, referring to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. "The important thing is the content was given to the public."
[Russian hackers targeted Arizona election system]
The Department of Homeland Security has offered local and state election officials help to prevent or deal with Election Day cyber disruptions, including vulnerability scans, regular actionable information and alerts, and access to other tools for improving cybersecurity at the local level. It will also have a cyber team ready at the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center to alert jurisdictions if attacks are detected.
Last month, the FBI issued an unprecedented warning to state election officials urging them to be on the lookout for intrusions into their election systems and to take steps to upgrade security measures across the voting process, including voter registration, voter rolls and election-related websites. The confidential "flash" alert said investigators had detected attempts to penetrate election systems in several states.
Arizona, Illinois and both the Democratic and Republican parties, as well as the DNC, have been the victims of either attempted or successful cyberattacks that FBI agents with expertise in Russian government hacking are investigating.
Federal law enforcement and local election officials say the decentralized nature of the voting process, which is run by states and counties, makes it impossible to ensure a high level of security in each district.
"I have a lot of concern" about this year's election, said Ion Sancho, the longtime supervisor of elections in Leon County, Fla. "America doesn't have its act together." Sancho, who has authorized red-team attacks on his voting system to identify its vulnerabilities, added: "We need a plan."
Sancho and others are particularly concerned about electronic balloting from overseas that travels on vulnerable networks before landing in the United States, and about efforts to use cyberattacks to disrupt vote tabulations being transmitted to state-level offices. Encryption, secure paper backups and secure backup computers are critical, he said.
Tom Hicks, chairman of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, an agency set up by Congress after the 2000 Florida recount to maintain election integrity, said he is confident that states have sufficient safeguards in place to ward off intrusions. He noted that electronic balloting from overseas is conducted by email, not through online voting machines. The overseas voter "waives their right of privacy" by emailing the ballot, which is tabulated by election officials. The email may still be hacked, but it is not a systemic risk, he said.
Recently, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said he favors designating the voting systems used in the country's 9,000 polling places as "critical infrastructure" — in other words, as vital to the nation's safe functioning as nuclear power plants and electrical power grids.
[Readout of Secretary Jeh Johnson's call with state election officials on cybersecurity]
Such a designation could mean increased DHS funding to localities to help ensure that voter registration, ballots and ballot tabulation remain free from interference. But it won't happen before the November elections, federal and local officials said.
Russia has been in the vanguard of a growing global movement to use propaganda on the Internet to influence people and political events, especially since the political revolt in Ukraine, the subsequent annexation of Crimea by Russia, and the imposition of sanctions on Russia by the United States and the European Union.
The Baltic states, Georgia and Ukraine have been subject to Russian cyberattacks and other hidden influence operations meant to disrupt those countries, officials said.
"Our studies show that it is very likely that [the influence] operations are centrally run," said Janis Sarts, director of the NATO Strategic Communications Center of Excellence, a research organization based in Riga, Latvia.
He also said there is "a coordinated effort involving [groups using] Twitter and Facebook and networks of bots to amplify their message. The main themes seem to be orchestrated rather high up in the hierarchy of the Russian state, and then there are individual endeavors by people to exploit specific themes."
Sarts said the Russian propaganda effort has been "successful in exploiting the vulnerabilities within societies." In Western Europe, for instance, such Russian information operations have focused on the politically divisive refugee crisis.
On the eve of a crucial post-
revolution presidential vote in Ukraine in 2014, a digital assault nearly crippled the country's Central Election Commission's website. Pro-Moscow hackers calling themselves the CyberBerkut claimed responsibility, saying they were not state-affiliated, but the authorities in Kiev blamed Moscow. The Russians used a "denial of service" technique, flooding the commission's Web server with a high volume of requests, which was meant to slow down or disable the network.

Trump's first wife, Ivana, famously claimed that Trump kept a copy of Adolf Hitler's collected speeches, "My New Order," in a cabinet beside his bed. In 1990, Trump's friend Marty Davis, who was then an executive at Paramount, added credence to this story, telling Marie Brenner, ofVanity Fair, that he had given Trump the book. "I thought he would find it interesting," Davis told her. When Brenner asked Trump about it, however, he mistakenly identified the volume as a different work by Hitler: "Mein Kampf." Apparently, he had not so much as read the title. "IfI had these speeches, and I am not saying that I do, I would never read them," Trump told Brenner.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all

https://youtu.be/vqYJRc0TJkQ

Nego, video sam ovo pre neki dan ali zaboravih da potražim i postujem. Radi se o libertarijanskom kandidatu za precednika SAD, Gariju Džonsonu koji nikad nije čuo za grad Aleppo u Siriji. Bikoz, realisitkli, uaj vud hi?

What Is Aleppo, Gary Johnson?


In what universe and era can we be living if Donald Trump is merely the second least informed candidate for the Presidency? Trump foggily negotiated the toothless, pit-a-pat treatment he got from Matt Lauer on NBC last night, insisting once more on his narcissistic admiration for Vladimir Putin: "If he says great things about me, I'm going to say great things about him." But that was nothing new. This morning, on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Mike Barnicle began a roundtable interview with Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate for President and the former governor of New Mexico, that set an even lower marker for ignorance. The following exchange gave one the fleeting impression that, compared to Johnson, Trump is the modern incarnation of Talleyrand:

BARNICLE: What would you do, if you were elected, about Aleppo?
JOHNSON: About . . . ?
BARNICLE: Aleppo.
JOHNSON

[as a look of panic sweeps across his face]: And what is Aleppo?
BARNICLE: You're kidding.
JOHNSON: No.
BARNICLE: Aleppo is in Syria. [Pause.] It's the epicenter of the refugee crisis.
JOHNSON: O.K.! Got it. Got it.
BARNICLE: O.K.
JOHNSON: Well, with regard to Syria, um, I do think that it's a mess. I think that the only way that we deal with Syria is to join hands with Russia. Johnson has declared that he has not smoked marijuana in several months—he used to be in the legalized-marijuana business—so that's not really an excuse. And Barnicle, for his part, was not trying to pull a funny one. He wasn't asking Johnson trick questions like "What's the capital of Kazakhstan?" Or: "Name the Baltic States." Or: "Where was the Treaty of Westphalia signed?" Nothing like that.
No, Barnicle was asking the most straightforward question possible: What is the strategic, diplomatic, and moral route to ending the prolonged slaughter in Syria? Johnson's inability to locate Aleppo, where men, women, and children are being eradicated every day, most recently by chlorine-gas attacks, was pathetic, the equivalent of a candidate for President in 1964 being unable to summon the location of Hanoi or Saigon. It's not enough that Johnson has a vague isolationist ideology—that, like Ron and Rand Paul, he is against an interventionist foreign policy. That's a legitimate viewpoint, but it doesn't seem overly demanding to insist that he read a newspaper, a Web site, anything—that he ought to know something about the wars that are being fought in the world, especially given that America has an active, if limited, involvement in Syria now. And shouldn't knowing nothing—in his case, or in Trump's—be disqualifying? At the D.M.V., if you flunk the written exam, you can't get behind a steering wheel with the motor running. Perhaps there should be a remotely similar bar for cluelessness in a Presidential campaign.


For Johnson, this willful lack of interest in policy and facts is no more an aberration, a bad moment of television, than it is in the case of Trump. A couple of weeks ago, I interviewed Johnson for "The New Yorker Radio Hour," and he proved himself to be jovial and plainspoken, but also distinctly shallow—and, after a while, tetchy about his own flimsy policy prescriptions and knowledge base.
When I noted that he had been highly complimentary of Hillary Clinton's competence as a public official, Johnson seemed to realize that this was no longer a good meme for him to carry around if he is to draw votes from Democrats as well as Republicans. "Well, you know I change that," he said. "Sometimes you misspeak a little bit. I really do think this whole Clinton Foundation is 'pay to play.' . . . For me, personally, I've been able to connect the dots."
Johnson mentioned that the retirement age for Social Security benefits ought to be raised. When asked to what age it ought to be raised, he got defensive. "Look, I'm not getting elected king or dictator here. I'm looking to get elected President of the United States that has constitutional limits. . . . Seventy-two seems like a good starting point."
Johnson had told Ryan Lizza, in a previous interview, that he last ingested a pot edible a few months ago. I asked why he'd decided to refrain. If President Obama could have a Martini or two at the end of a long day, what's wrong with one of Johnson's favorites, a Cheeba Chew?
"The whole notion of inbound missiles—you've got twelve minutes to deal with that," Johnson replied. "I have never advocated being on the job impaired, and running for President is a 24/7 job and being President is a 24/7 job."
Johnson is an ardent, even absolutist, Second Amendment supporter, and when I asked about the mass killings in an Orlando night club and the ready availability of semiautomatic weapons, he switched the subject: "I hope everybody paid attention to what happened in Orlando," he said. "I hope all the night-club owners in the country were paying attention to the fact that all the doors were padlocked."
"O.K., but I don't think you're arguing that egress in and out of the night club was the question," I said. "We're talking about the ready availability of weapons that one would think should be limited to a field of war."
The thought of regulating or banning semiautomatic rifles for non-military use displeased him. "If you're going to make those criminal, I think you're going to have a whole new criminal class of people who aren't going to turn in those weapons," Johnson said.
When I asked about proposals that teachers have guns in their classrooms, Johnson got very agitated.
"I'm not going to tell teachers whether or not they should have a gun or not. Come on, man!" he said. "If a teacher would deem that be—to avail the classroom of potentially being secure, or if the teacher were to deem that something that, within their own purview, they might prevent an atrocity if it were to occur, I would support the teacher in wanting to be able to do that."
Finally, I asked if there were any books that had influenced him deeply. His answer was this: "Ayn Rand. I love 'The Fountainhead.' I love 'Atlas Shrugged.' I do read. But those are a couple of books that I think, from a philosophical standpoint, I think 'The Fountainhead' is my favorite book."
You can wonder if Johnson has looked into Ayn Rand, her alarming statements on altruism, American Indians, Arabs, religion, community . . . whatever. We can leave literary matters aside for the moment. Before proposing himself as the ideal person to hold the Presidency, though, Johnson might want to know the answer to his own question: "What is Aleppo?"

У међувремену је и Клинтоновој позлило на обиљежавању 11. септембра, што подгријава Трампове приче да није здравствено способна да води државу

Џонсон узима Трампу гласове, те му и то иде у корист

С друге стране, Обама удара по Путину и хакерима, те неформално учествује у кампањи

greška

Бог

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0BYqzdiuJc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Trump says he eats fast food because 'at least you know' what's in it

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/295945-trump-says-he-eats-fast-food-because-at-least-you-know

Има ли који твитераш да ми објасни. Инфо је да Трамп користи андроид а његов савјетник ајфон, и да се то некако види на твитовима. Ја нерегистрован не видим ништа, или бар не знам ђе да гледам.

Pa to svakako Tviter vidi, ali obični korisnici mislim da ne mogu.
Dakle implikacija je da je to prosledio neko ko radi za Tviter valjda.

Ха, извор јесте инсајдерски, али је реко да сви могу да виде. Очигледно није тако.

Izbori su predugo trajali...kad ce bre ti izbori?

ja se divim ovim vremesnim kandidatima, treba izgurati te kampanje.

Трамп је на фаст фуду, без бриге!

'murrican to a T!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxx6FVrQQ2s&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Зли језици кажу да је Хилари испрашила Трампа у првој дебати

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=855Am6ovK7s&client=mv-google&hl=en&gl=BA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejjP59fQD8k

Amerikance je, navodno, tokom debate zbunila jedna cesto ponavljana rec: "temperament", pa su je masovno guglali te veceri

Хаха, дебата је тотално тупаџијска била, кад је Хиларина главна теза да неко с Доналдовим темпераментом не треба да буде близу нјук дугмета

Хилари играла по старом, већ 15 година кад неко објективно докаже да је злочинац, она се претвори у незаштићену феминисткињу.

Буквално је на Трампов аргумент да је била деструктивна током читаве каријере извукла потпуно неповезану оптужбу о мизогинији.

То је задња 3-4 минута дебате, који су и најзанимљивији.

Vrhunski je njen trajni argument da politički suparnici nemaju iskustva sa spoljnom politikom kao ona.

Quote from: Dybuk on 21-09-2016, 16:24:17
Izbori su predugo trajali...kad ce bre ti izbori?
ja se divim ovim vremesnim kandidatima, treba izgurati te kampanje.

koji je to show-biz. pa da, kad cujes izbori u americi, komotno preskocis sve slicne vijesti i pogledas za dvije godine jesu li se smislili. obrnu sigurno vecu lovu nego sa kosarkom... ma svim sportovima u zbroju. jos i izvezli.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2neyQA5TDo

Alan Lihtman, profesor istorije na American University u Vašingtonu, predviđa buduće predsjednike SAD i od 1984. nije promašio u procjeni.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/23/trump-is-headed-for-a-win-says-professor-whos-predicted-30-years-of-presidential-outcomes-correctly/

Zna se!

Isti video iz prethodne poruke, samo ovog puta original

https://youtu.be/-nQGBZQrtT0

Donald Trump's campaign appears to be slipping into death spiral

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Donald Trump 's presidential campaign appears to be slipping into a death spiral and the Republican nominee is running out of chances to turn things around.
In just the last week, Trump entered into a unwinnable war of words over the weight problems of a former Miss Universe including a bizarre 3:00 a.m. Tweet storm, claimed his opponent may be cheating on her husband, blamed a bad microphone and an unfair moderator for his disastrous debate performance and saw The New York Times reveal that he took a $916 million tax loss in 1995 and may have paid no income tax for nearly two decades.
On Monday morning, The Associated Press reported on Trump's alleged sexist and boorish behavior on the set of "The Apprentice" and the Center for Public Integrity alleged that Trump's real estate business rented office space to an Iranian bank that U.S. authorities say has links to terrorism.
And Trump woke up Monday to fresh polling showing the debate tilted the race heavily back to Hillary Clinton . The latest Politico/Morning Consult poll shows the Democratic nominee surging to a 6-point lead after leading by just 1 ahead of the debate. And a new poll out of swing-state Virginia now shows Clinton up 7 in the state.
Trump is also not getting much of an assist from his top surrogates. In an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani called Trump a "genius" for the giant tax loss and said the GOP nominee's wizardry would be better for the nation than "a woman." For good measure, Giuliani threw in that "everybody" engages in extramarital affairs.
Trump's only chance to win is to make the election a referendum on Clinton and the economy. But it's easy to forget these days that Clinton is even in the race and the economy is basically an afterthought. As I've pointed out repeatedly in the past, Trump's favorite subject is Trump and he will never tolerate the campaign being about anything other than Trump.
Trump supporters apparently believe he is still capable of change, even though he has repeatedly shown no interest in shifting course. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told The New York Times that this long-awaited metamorphosis could still arrive.
"He has gotten himself to the edge of the mountain, he can get himself to the top of the mountain, but to do that he has to be willing to make real change," Gingrich said. "I really want him to understand that he can win this. He is the one person who can beat him — not Hillary."
Gingrich is not wrong about this. Clinton remains highly distrusted and mostly disliked by the American people. She is struggling badly with younger voters who are flirting with the third-party candidates. Majorities still view the nation as on the wrong track, usually an ominous sign for the incumbent party. And the GOP nominee could probably set himself on fire and still count on around 40 percent of the electorate to support him.
And Trump is not entirely out of chances. The vice presidential debate on Tuesday will begin to reframe the race though it will certainly prove a giant ratings drop from the first Trump-Clinton showdown. And then Trump has a chance on Sunday night to turn in a more disciplined debate performance and put the focus back on Clinton's weaknesses including her email scandal, the Benghazi attack, her Wall Street ties and the soft economy.
Trump has trailed badly before and brought the race back to even. He still has just enough time to do that again. And he remains ahead in Ohio and close to even in Florida, Colorado and a handful of other swing states.
Republicans including Roger Stone are also suggesting that Wikileaks this week could release the "mother lode" of damaging emails and other information about Clinton. We've heard this refrain for months now but perhaps it will finally turn out to be true.
And all the "Trump could turn this around" narratives rely on the idea that he is capable of becoming a totally different candidate. The Sunday debate in St. Louis is also a town hall format in which candidates must take questions from and interact with regular folks. Clinton is very practiced at this kind of thing while Trump is not. He could shock everyone and be a friendly, relatable guy in the debate and launch a brand-new strategy that reverses his sliding poll numbers and once again makes 2016 a referendum on Clinton. And the Easter Bunny could also be real.—Ben White is Politico's chief economic correspondent and a CNBC contributor. He also authors the daily tip sheet Politico Morning Money [politico.com/morningmoney]. Follow him on Twitter @morningmoneyben.

https://youtu.be/19KI_2X2Sfs

Zamalo da se prevarim, ali sam čuo uvodničarku i prekinuo!

Kaže da oni koji podržavaju Trampa mora da su pogazili sve moralne vrijednosti, ha! Neš mene mazat!

Ja ne znam, ko poslije ovog ne poželi predsjednika Trampa, koja komedija bi bila s njim četiri godine

http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37595321

da dođe Maja Gojković u posjetu!

Raspad kod republikanaca, okrenuli leđa Trampu, traže Pensa

ubi ga prejaka rec!

da je Markiz de Sad živ glavni lik bi mu bio Tramp!

  Most Memorable Lines of the Second Presidential Debate

Uništavaju ga s ženskim pitanjem, a on ćuti o Klintonkinoj odbrani silovatelja osamdesetih. To mi baš čudno, ili čuva stvar za kraj kampanje. Ako ništa ne uradi žene će ga osakatiti na izborima, sasvim opravdano, naravno.

Samo je smiješno da će prva žena predsjednik biti osoba koja je na tehnikaliju oslobodila kazne dokazanog silovatelja, i još navodno pljuckala po žrtvi tokom suđenja. Ili to nije tačno, a o tome su ljevičarski mediji pisali, ili je to mnogo gore od bilo čega što Tramp čini.

Millennial Activists Left Unimpressed With Trump's Stance on Sexual Assault




Before the second presidential debate on Oct. 9, Republican nominee Donald Trump called in the traveling press corps for a press conference on his "debate prep." What reporters were met with, however, was not the opportunity to ask the candidate any questions — including any about the 2005 Access Hollywood tape reported on Friday evening by the Washington Post in which Trump describes and brags to the show's co-host at the time, Billy Bush, about having committed sexual assault — but rather a gambit straight out of the annals of Trump's reality television roots.
Just over an hour before the second debate was scheduled to begin, Trump had several of the women who have accused former President Bill Clinton of sexual assault seated alongside him to recount their allegations.

Traveling press pool was told that the photo-op would be Trump conducting debate prep. Turned out to be a photo-op with Clinton accusers.
  — Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb)

October 10, 2016 It was a bold move, no matter your political orientation or opinions. And it was also one perhaps targeted at the millennial activists who have been redefining the national discourse around sexual assault and the true meaning of consent, those young enough to have missed out on the allegations against Presient Clinton in the early '90s but who lead the conversation on believing survivors today.
As Neera Tanden, the president of the liberal think tank the Center for American Progress, said in a tongue-in-cheek tweet, "I can't think of a better way to appeal to college-educated women than Trump's 'debate prep.'"
And others on Twitter seemed to agree that the move, albeit dramatic, was ineffective and tone-deaf at best:

You are on a college campus where 1 in 5 women r survivors of

#sexualassault. Let's talk abt them. About justice. About ending rape #debates
  — Sheila Katz (@SheilaKatz1)  October 10, 2016

Using women as a human shields instead of being accountable for your words & actions just affirms that you think women are objects.

#debate
  — Farrah Khan (@farrah_khan)  October 10, 2016

So....this is #Trump's version of a damn debate prep? If these women were victims...parading them around for politics is DISGUSTING!
  — Amber J. Younger (@AJ_Ski_Bum)  October 9, 2016

Trump has mocked these women. Belittled their looks. He's said Paula Jones should have "run faster."He's their champion? #debate
  — Jennifer Weiner (@jenniferweiner)  October 9, 2016

We spoke with a number of such millennial activists, all members of Planned Parenthood's national Youth Leadership and Advocacy Council, to see exactly what they thought of this act of political theater — and it seems they were less than impressed and hardly thought that such a move in any way dampened the violent nature of the comments made by him on the leaked tape.
"One in five women in the United States will get sexually assaulted, and it is in part because of the way in which we talk about sexual assault," says Sadie Hernandez, a student at the University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley, tells Yahoo Beauty via email. "Luckily, millennials are more educated on the importance of consent than Trump and men like him. ... There's work to do, and millennials aren't afraid to organize. We've been working on changing the way we view and support victims of sexual assault and those who perpetuate it. These comments just fuel our momentum to change and challenge our society and get sexual assault apologists out of office."

Yoooo people are listening to Trump's response like "yeah obviously me sexually assaulting someone isn't as bad as murder overseas"

#debate
  — sadie (@sadieeehdz)  October 10, 2016 Gabe Linderman, a student at Ohio Wesleyan University, tells Yahoo Beauty by email, "Donald Trump's decision to use sexual assault survivors as political pawns is wildly unempathetic. Not only is his decision a poor political move, but it invalidates the experiences of the one in five women that will be sexually assaulted in their lives."

Despite whatever Trump is saying during this

#debate it is unforgivable that he is trying to use sexual assault survivors as political pawns
  — Gabe Linderman (@gabelinderman)  October 10, 2016 Echoes Caroline Rexrode, a student at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., shared via email with Yahoo Beauty, "I know I am not the only young American who has been forced into an uncomfortable sexual situation by a man who sees me as less than human. I am also certain I am not the only one who relived that experience upon hearing Donald Trump's description of the sexual assault he committed. It is impossible to imagine a positive future for myself or any victim of sexual assault in a nation where our president openly condones rape while simultaneously abusing the name of a sexual assault survivor to further his political campaign."
And Leah Weisgal, a student at Westminster College in Utah, told Yahoo Beauty by email, "Growing up in New York City, I was barely a teenager the first time a grown man grabbed my genitals in public. It didn't feel like locker-room banter then. To hear a man deflect his own words condoning such behavior by using victims of a man who isn't even himself running for president makes me sick."

One election-system vendor uses developers in Serbia

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Voting machines are privately manufactured and developed and, as with other many other IT systems, the code is typically proprietary.
The use of proprietary systems in elections has its critics. One Silicon Valley group, the Open Source Election Technology Foundation, is pushing for an election system that shifts from proprietary, vendor-owned systems to one that that is owned "by the people of the United States."
But today, election system makers can operate in much the same manner as any vendor to build code; that includes using overseas developers.
One major election technology company, Dominion Voting Systems (DVS), develops its systems in the U.S. and Canada but also has an office in Belgrade, Serbia. It was recently advertising openings for four senior software developers in Belgrade.   "Like many of America's largest technology companies -- which develop some of the software for their products in places like Asia, India, Ireland and the Mideast -- some of our software development is undertaken outside the U.S. and Canada, specifically, in Serbia, where we have conducted operations for 10 years," said firm spokesman Chris Riggall, in an email.
Dominion said it takes measures "to ensure the accuracy, integrity and security of the software we create for our products."
"First, all of our software is developed in-house by DVS employees and this work is not outsourced to third parties. Second, we rigorously pre-screen all new hires to identify any potential security concerns among any personnel involved in product development. Third, we conduct extensive internal testing of all new software to evaluate the functionality, accuracy and security of the code designed for our systems," said Riggall.



The software "is subjected to rigorous review, analysis, testing and certification by election authorities at the federal, state and local level, including the federal Election Assistance Commission," said Riggall. The election system purchasing is managed by states and local governments. Once the code is certified, any changes require a new round of certification testing by election authorities, he said.



Alan Paller, president and director of research at the Sans Technology Institute, read Dominion's statement and said the "general care this vendor shows in this statement gives me no reason to believe there's any greater risk there than in any other company that manufacturers voting systems."
Paller said that "one shouldn't feel complacent about maintaining software development and manufacturing all within the United States because foreign agencies have successfully placed technically competent spies on the payroll of American technology companies."
But Suzanne Mello-Stark, a forensic computer scientist at Worcester Polytechnic Institute with a focus on voting machines, wants software and hardware transparency in voting systems.
"The systems are proprietary and we don't know what the code looks like," said Mello-Stark.

 The One Disgusting Thing Republicans And Democrats Agree On   

Quote from: PizzobattoUništavaju ga s ženskim pitanjem, a on ćuti o Klintonkinoj odbrani silovatelja osamdesetih. To mi baš čudno, ili čuva stvar za kraj kampanje. Ako ništa ne uradi žene će ga osakatiti na izborima, sasvim opravdano, naravno.

mozda i on radi za Kilari. napada je, ali ne previse, da bi joj to stvarno naskodilo.

sudeći po Mehovom linku, ovo je kejs for Tru Detektiv!!!

..or not!

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/10/11/don-and-hillary-the-tragedy-of-the-great-american-soap-opera/

ovaj pasus je interesantan, apropo kejsa

QuoteTrump was always destined to be little more than the fall guy to get Clinton elected. While Trump has his loyal followers, the assumption was that the floating voter would never support such a figure and that Clinton would be a relatively safer bet. As Ron Horn on his Surviving Capitalism website argues, Clinton was always the US deep state's choice and she was always going to win – by hook or by crook.

Nešto dismr definitivno, ili se suviše zaigro s Bilom ili su mu uplatili par milijardi na račun da ćuti, ko će ga znati... nije kao da i on ne bi neko međunarodno sranje napravio... ovo je Mr Robot dilema, kao imamo revolucionare, al svi redom su drogaši i sajkoi... a ovdje imamo Trampa, koji se poigrava sa rasizmom, mizoginijom, ksenofobijom... Nikad na zelenu granu!

Slab sam na Counterpunch

jbt pa Tramp je spomenuo u debati da je Hilari branila ne običnog silovatelja, no silovatelja djevojčice od 12 godina, i smijala joj se u lice nakon oslobađanja njenog klijenta

pa koji moj ovo niko ne spominje... ja nisam ni znao da je riječ o pedofilu, šta to je nebitno...

Counterpunch, oh...

Pitaš se zašto niko ne spominje što je Tramp nešto spomenuo? Nije istina da niko ne spominje, evo ceo internet bruji i objašnjava o čemu je reč. Guglaj hillary defended rapist i čitaj.