Jeh Johnson testifies DNC rejected DHS help on hack, Russia meddling did not alter ballots

Fox News Politics ^ | 21 June 2017 | Barnini Chakrabotry

[blueplum]

thanks for the video link, jjotto!

[i_robot73]

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while Russia, at the direction of President Vladimir Putin, orchestrated cyber attacks on the United States

Wow, really? They knew it was Bad Vlad?

Yeh right? Where’s the ‘proof of evidence’ from the Dept of Homeland Sabotage?
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Come one. The only reason the FBI says it ‘had it covered’ was ‘cause it was THEIR tools, spoofing the Rooskies, doing the hacking/etc.

Fox guarding the henhouse...

[RitaOK]

I did look it up. The entire hearing was not on you tube.

FR has been like a black out on hearing headlines.

Thanks very much, blueplum, and jj. Checking it out.

[CincyRichieRich]

he was very direct about it. Even discounted ‘fake news’ as having much of an influence at all. (I know, pick me up off the floor!)

I was actually a bit surprised. but I wonder if he’s thinking Comey’s going down and is insulating himself somewhat
....
He wants to keep his pension and he know Obama man child cannot protect him...

I think Johnson gets sunburned under his nose.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

"Johnson also confirmed he went to the Democratic National Committee about a hack in their system but was told that the DNC “did not feel it needed” DHS assistance. "

Why?

#1. Because the Russians were trying to help Hillary666 win and Hillary666 didn't want to run the risk of it being found out.

#2. If the Russians failed to help Hillary666 win, she could use that evidence of Russian hacking and claim Trump won because he was colluding with the Russians.

[blueplum]

ping to 39 and 40 for link to video, then mark 2hours 5 minutes, I couldn’t read of the name of the (tx?) Congressman questioning, but he raised what I think is one of the questions of the day:

“Why would you think a hostile actor like the Russians would be trying to hack systems where the information is publically available through a portal available to the public?”

Line of questioning:
Congressman: “ ‘Scanning and Probing’. Could you maybe give us a quick explanation what that is?”

JOHNSON: “When I started addressing this publically, somebody said to me, ‘you know, Jim Comey made a statement publically that there was scanning and probing of voter registration systems,’ and I said, that’s a good phrase, let’s use that phrase because I thought it captured what we saw. And eventually what we saw was success in infiltrating voter registration databases which I reported publically. But scanning and probing is basically looking into a locked box to see what’s inside.

Congressman: Or, it’s a passive tool that happens millions of times across the United States every single day. Would you agree with that?

JOHNSON: It can, yes. I don’t know if I would describe it as passive, but, yes.

Congressman: The voter registration data bases that we’ve talked about. Isn’t the information that’s contained within the voter registration databases publically available information?

JOHNSON: Not necessarily. It may depend on each state.

Congressman: “ ‘cause in Texas you can go down to the county office and get that information. And I’m curious as to why our hostile actors were, (and I definitely know that the financial systems, whether it’s on the federal level, that is, through FEC websites, every state has this information made available). Why would you think a hostile actor like the Russians would be trying to hack systems where the information is publically available through a portal available to the public?

JOHNSON: “I don’t know that in every case and in every state the information that was examined was publically available. My concern was that if a bad actor is doing this, it might be a prelude to wiping out or eliminating voter roles or altering them in some way.”

Congressman yields.

[lee martell]

Very good questions by the Congressman.
I could tell Johnson was reaching and scrambling to cobble an answer together, vs say “Ummm, I guess I don’t really know why.”

[jjotto]

Here’s the actual schedule of Congressional hearings. It’s a start:

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/committees/calendar

Going to the individual Committee websites gives more information. Some livestream their hearings. Here’s ag for example:

https://agriculture.house.gov/

[Chgogal]

The Dimms will rue the day they started this false narrative.

[RegulatorCountry]

He’s reciting a narrative to match the known trail of evidence and he’s just about boxed in as far as any politically motivated enhancements. Sticking to “muh Russia” for an ineffectual hack is as far as he can go now. For a Democrat, truth is just another word for nowhere else to turn.

[pepsionice]

Perhaps it’s time to start a ‘fake-story’ and suggest that 300,000 illegal aliens voted in 2016’s election...for Donald Trump. I’d suggest they were mostly from Michigan and Ohio, and all register in 2015/2016. The story needs some Russian blogger to publish it and repeat it often on Facebook.