DHS Secretary Contradicts National Intelligence Dir.: No Signs Russia Targeting Elections Like 2016

[RandySF]

The U.S. homeland security secretary said on Saturday there are no signs that Russia is targeting this year's midterm elections with the same "scale or scope" it targeted the 2016 presidential election.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen spoke at a convention of state secretaries of state, an event that's usually a low-key affair highlighting voter registration, balloting devices and election security issues that don't get much public attention. But coming amid fresh allegations into Russia's attempts to sway the 2016 election, the sessions on election security have a higher level of urgency and interest.

Nielsen said her agency will help state and local election officials prepare their systems for cyberattacks from Russia or elsewhere. She said U.S. intelligence officials are seeing "persistent Russian efforts using social media, sympathetic spokespeople and other fronts to sow discord and divisiveness amongst the American people, though not necessarily focused on specific politicians or political campaigns."

The conference of top state election officials she addressed was sandwiched between Friday's indictments of 12 Russian military intelligence officers alleged to have hacked into Democratic party and campaign accounts and Monday's long-awaited meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.


https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/national-international/-State-Election-Officials-in-US-Meet-Amid-Security-Concerns-488173221.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_DFWBrand

[dem4decades]

1. Could we hear that from a repretable source please.

[PSPS]

2. So says one of trump's hand-picked liars.

[woodsprite]

3. She's a Trump&Co appointee and her mouth is moving

I don’t believe her.

[deminks]

4. Cruella with the yellow hair has no cred.

She should be be working to reunite the families she tore apart.

Her boss would yell at her if she went looking for Russians.

[Nanjeanne]

5. Oh well I feel so much better now!

[Eyeball_Kid]

6. And Nielsen has credibility with whom??

She has a solid history of lying.

[pangaia]

7. Kirstjen Nielsen HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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EOM

[spanone]

8. Yea, we're supposed to believe her..... another treasonous trump/putin appointee

[suffragette]

9. After all her proven lies about family separation

why would anyone believe a word she says.

[0rganism]

10. right, so it's an all-in no-holds barred kind of attack then

a full-on anti-Democratic individual agitprop wave? no, it's been done. too predictable, too narrow.

it has to be something big, proportional to justify the scale of their treason, like the entire political establishment is a gigantic pedo trafficking ring. or maybe sacrifice an urban area to some Iranian WMD and try to ride the war wave. they're willing to sacrifice everything for this win, and Nielsen is small potatoes.

regardless, one thing is obvious: it is on.

[Squinch]

12. Does that asshole think ANYONE is ever going to believe a word out of her baby-kidnapping pie hole?

[workinclasszero]

13. Yeah riiiiiiight

She is on Putin’s payroll too like her lyin sack of shit pResident.

[SamKnause]

14. Fuck her.

She is a Trump cult member.

She is also a known liar.

[NCjack]

15. Show us the babies. She is a terrible person. nt

[csziggy]

16. "Nielsen said her agency will help state and local election officials prepare"

Why hasn't that already been done? With less than four months to the election, it is far too late to do any serious securing of the systems of fifty different states with thousands of different election systems.

Here in Florida, each county supervisor of elections selects their machines, administers their computer systems, and secures the vote tallies. That is 67 different systems. Now, multiply that by fifty!

It would take four YEARS to review every local voting system, and longer to secure them all.

[uponit7771]

18. +1

[dembotoz]

17. no longer any expectation for truth from the cabinet

can not trust them on anything
meteor coming!!!!! maybe? maybe not

[uponit7771]

19. K&R, "with the same "scale or scope"" So if its just one notch higher then this statement is true ..

... cause these are the type of people we're dealing with; greasy bastards