Last night, Rep. Lieu (D-CA) released an official statement outlining his stance on Russian involvement in the election. He did so after reviewing an intelligence document concerning Russia’s involvement in the US Presidential election. He released the following statement:
I have now read the highly classified intelligence report on Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent U.S. Elections. I analyzed the report from my perspective as a computer science major and as a Member of the National Security Subcommittee of the House Oversight & Government Reform Committee.”
“Here is my reaction: there is clear and convincing evidence to support the conclusions of the intelligence community as outlined in the unclassified version of the report. Russian hacking of Americans and American political organizations during the 2016 U.S. presidential election was multifaceted and brazen, with the goals of undermining faith in the U.S. democratic process and harming Secretary Clinton’s electability. Putin and the Russian government developed a clear preference for Trump.”
“I believe Trump is actively misleading Americans when he says the Russians did not attempt to help his election chances and denigrate Secretary Clinton’s electability. Cyber espionage against American political organizations and cyber intrusions into our electoral boards are not partisan issues; they are American issues. I call on every Member of Congress who has been briefed on or read the classified report to tell Trump that he needs, to tell the truth to the American people. At stake is not just our national security, but the very fabric of our democracy.”
Members of Congress recently received an intelligence briefing on the Russian plot to subvert our democratic process in this last election. Just yesterday, Democratic lawmakers began to review the information and are reportedly ‘furious’ with the FBI. As early as this past December, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) requested an immediate briefing last December which was denied. Sen. Johnson stated, “It is disappointing that the CIA would provide information on this issue to The Washington Post and NBC but will not provide information to elected members of Congress.”
During his hearing to become Attorney General, Sen. Jeff Sessions was asked to concede that the Russians interfered in this election by Sen. Lindsay Graham. Sen. Graham remarked that it is his belief Russian interference played a role in the outcome of the election. Sen. Graham cited both the FBI and the Intelligence Community, at large, to have officially found the Russians likely to have carried out a campaign to influence and interfere in the election.
More dissertation and angst is circulating in the halls of Congress as more members of Congress begin to educate themselves on the accusation and intelligence available, culminating in a more comprehensive briefing, today. President Obama was briefed and then President-elect Trump and now, Congress. The issue will not die with the election as members of Congress on both sides of the aisle are outraged by the Russian interference and hint at desires to take action in response.
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The responses of prominent members of Congress and party leadership might find some commonality in their contempt for Russian interference in the US Democratic process. Their take and political discourse on the Russian intervention will shape foreign policy with regard to Russia for the foreseeable future.
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How short the memories of the arrogant, self-righteous, narcissistic Obama Administration members as they rail against the idea that a foreign government (read Russia) could have the audacity to possibly hack into the U.S. political process and attempt to influence the outcome of a Presidential election in our country!! Thru poorly designed firewalls, dumb-ass actions of leaders of the Democratic National Committee (i.e., J. Podesta opening "phishing" email portals that the average 12 year old knows better than to do!), possibly thru unsecured HilLIARy Clinton illegal bathroom servers containing U.S. government/Obama secrets, and undoubtedly likely attempts to hack into the RNC database (which because of far more savy people was better secured against intrusion thanks to R. Priebus), there is no wonder that the Russians (or anyone else for that matter) might have been at least partially successful in hacking in. What is not true, is the delusional idea by the liberal social elite that Russia caused Americans to elect Donald J. Trump as our new president.
However, how many of the members of the Obama Administration and the Liberal Democratic Cry Baby Party have now conveniently forgotten regarding the courageous actions of Edward Snowden who taught the American people how the dishonest, sleazy, deceptive spying by the NSA (as directed by B. Hussein Obama) on other countries like: Israel; Germany (their president's personal mobile phone!), Turkey and likely Putin himself likely changed events in other sovereign countries! The hippocracy meter is pegged past the redline!! Truth be told, there were likely numerous others that the U.S. government spied on (including virtually EVERY American as revealed by Wikileaks), all under the direction of the very folks currently convulsing over the possible Russian influence.
How very convenient this amnesia, as they decry the actions of Russians because of the Liberal Elite and the Democrat's utter failure to install another "Obama-like" leader as our next President. Their disbelief that anyone could shatter their cupcake dreams to further dismantle our "perfect Union", re-write the U.S. Constitution, and continue the seditious process of converting our sovereign democracy into a global socialistic petri dish is comical.
I, like the majority of Americans today, are throwing the proverbial yellow flag at the Democrats!! Penalty: Illegal procedure and personal foul! We repudiate entirely B. Hussein Obama (POTUS), his Marxist global agenda, his lawlessness policies, and his trail of seditious anti-american acts over the last 8 years. We have all had enough of this septic bile and this entire circus of decompensating Democrats decrying the illegitimacy of the the next president that good patriotic Americans elected. Neither the Russians nor V. Putin elected our next president, but be assured that I, and all of my fellow patriotic Americans most certainly did. The claim by the Liberal Socialist Democratic elite that the Russians elected President Donald Trump, is the most hypocritical and disgusting exercise in self pity this country has ever witnessed. Fortunately, the United States of America will emerge from the last 8 years of darkness and despair intact, Russian efforts or not, with a new president that WE AMERICANS elected with the true hope that we will again be the greatest nation on the globe!
Enjoy the inauguration of our elected new president Donald J. Trump and God Bless America!!