<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 4:40 PM, BillK </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:pharos@gmail.com" target="_blank">pharos@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>It has already been confirmed that vote counts were not interfered with.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">And it has also been confirmed that Russia hacked both the RNC and DNC computers, though they only released the the Democratic dirt, the Republican dirt they kept to themselves. And it has been confirmed that Russia hacked Hillary Clinton's campaign manager's personal Email account and stole thousands of Emails that contained embarrassing gossip that Trump used every day for months to great effect in nearly all of his campaign speeches. </font></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">And there is more, Russian hackers altered US voter rolls and stole private data from there:</font></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></div><a href="http://time.com/4828306/russian-hacking-election-widespread-private-data/" target="_blank">http://time.com/4828306/<wbr>russian-hacking-election-<wbr>widespread-private-data/</a></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4">After the astronomical success the Russians had in 2016 they will certainly make a<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">n</div> even greater effort in 2020. Trump's idea to safeguard future elections<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">,</div> that he just mentioned today<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">,</div> is for the USA to form a joint cyber security unit with, believe it or not,<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div><b>RUSSIA</b>! <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">Republican Senator </div>Lindsey Graham <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">said of this:</div></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"> <br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"> "<i>It's not the dumbest idea I have ever heard but it's pretty close,</i>"</font><br><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>So this is all about propaganda, fake news, etc.</blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4">That was certainly part of it, besides the hacking the Russians orchestrated a huge disinformation campaign against Clinton. These stories were so stupid (for example <br>Pizzagate)<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>I wouldn't have thought anybody could believe them, but it turned out millions of voters did. <br> </font><div><a href="https://thinkprogress.org/russian-bots-where-are-they-now-e2674c19017b" target="_blank">https://thinkprogress.org/russ<wbr>ian-bots-where-are-they-now-<wbr>e2674c19017b</a><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/04/03/522503844/how-russian-twitter-bots-pumped-out-fake-news-d" target="_blank">http://www.npr.org/sections/al<wbr>ltechconsidered/2017/04/03/522<wbr>503844/how-russian-twitter-bot<wbr>s-pumped-out-fake-news-d</a><br></div><div><br></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>US spies never interfere in other nations, do they? Oh, I forgot for a<br>
moment about all the bombing, wars,</blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">So you're willing to make excuses for a foreign power that hacked our election because this time it helped the man you like, but next election Putin could just as easily help the guy you don't like. Don't you think it's the duty of the Commander In Chief to make sure that doesn't happen? </font></div></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div></div>