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Holman wrote:I suppose this goes here.

Leaked footage of Megyn Kelly's Putin interview shows how she dropped the ball.
So, apparently, Kelly didn't drop the ball, and much of the hubub was more about attacking Kelly or the fact that giving Jones airtime would "normalize" him.
When Kelly’s show finally aired, she took the mendacious Jones apart in such a textbook manner you had to wonder what all the shouting had been about. The Jones pattern, she said at the segment’s top, is making “reckless accusations followed by equivocations and excuses” when questioned. The two best examples of this are his promotion of the “Pizzagate“ lies about a satanic child porn ring and his wild allegation that Chobani was “importing Migrant Rapists,” as Infowars hyped its report on Twitter. In both cases, lawsuits have forced Jones to retract and apologize for airing these dishonest stories, and yet in conversation with Kelly he still hedges and quibbles like a con artist in an effort to have his conspiracy pizza and keep his yogurt, too. Likewise with the pathetic claims about the Sandy Hook killings. He’s still throwing the see-through drapery of devil’s advocacy to blur the fact that on most subjects he’s talking out of his tinfoil hat.

Short of waterboarding him, I don’t know what more Kelly could have done to expose Jones’ dark methods. She was needlessly defensive in her presentation, acknowledging that some people thought the segment shouldn’t have been broadcast because it would increase Jones’ profile. But as she pointed out, Jones isn’t going away, and his audience is growing. What’s more, Jones “has the ear of our president,” and spurious things Infowars says have a way of getting repeated by his phone-pal President Donald Trump, who has saluted the Infowars host in the past. She didn’t take Jones down, but really, who could have in a newsmagazine segment? But she did do a credible job of exposing his lies. Give her a B+.

Then why all the pre-show uproar? Isn’t the press supposed to throw the disinfectant of light on the darkness? How, exactly, can you examine a newsworthy subject—and like it or not, somebody the president talks to and cites is newsworthy—without giving him some sort of a platform? There’s an unspoken assumption that instead of reporting on the politically deformed—people like Sen. Joe McCarthy, George Lincoln Rockwell, Gov. George Wallace, Charles Manson, Timothy McVeigh, Alex Jones, and others—the press should quarantine such figures from readers' and viewers’ eyes lest their contagion spread.
Perhaps people should have actually waited for the segment to air before going bonkers on social media?
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pr0ner wrote:Perhaps people should have actually waited for the segment to air before going bonkers on social media?
Have you been on the Internet?
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Isgrimnur wrote:
pr0ner wrote:Perhaps people should have actually waited for the segment to air before going bonkers on social media?
Have you been on the Internet?
Nope. :lol:
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Blackhawk wrote:Very few people seriously suggest that they significantly changed the result.

It is the fact that they a foreign government hostile to our interest successfully tampered on a massive scale that is the problem. That those who benefited most from it are hand-waving it as unimportant is disturbing.
Successfully is stretching it. Their efforts were about as successful as our efforts to oust Putin or Netanyahu were.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles ... power.html
Obama's transformation from starry-eyed idealist to cold-blooded realist is glaringly apparent in his attempt to toss Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu out of office. Unlike the Russian hacker story, which is being fueled by circumstantial evidence, a US Senate inquiry published in June 2016 actually found that the US government supported a group that had tried to unseat Netanyahu in the 2015 Israeli elections, to the tune of nearly $350,000.

‪Vladimir Putin is undoubtedly an autocrat who talks like a democrat. Yet Barack Obama's soaring rhetoric is similarly contradicted by the findings of this report, which harshly criticized the State Department for having failed to prevent funds from being used, albeit legally and indirectly, to influence an allied country’s internal political process.

‪How can one explain the Obama State Department's support of OneVoice, a group of young grassroots activists in Israel and the Palestinian Territories that was openly and actively anti-Likud and anti-Netanyahu?

‪Again, let Occam's razor be our guide. There's no tangible evidence to suggest that the 44th President of the United States is obsessed with weakening Israel and demonizing the Jewish state on the international stage.

‪No, the most probable explanation for funding a politically active group in a politically sensitive environment, with taxpayer dollars, against the leader of the US's closest Middle East ally is that such meddling in the internal affairs of friends and foes alike has worked like gangbusters for Russia.

‪Barack Obama, ever the student of history, took a page from Vladimir Putin's chapter on realpolitik that is quickly turning Russia into an indispensable nation. It turns out that while Obama never tires of signaling his own personal virtue, underneath the radiant smile and winning personality beats the heart of an astute, calculating political operator. The die was cast once Netanyahu accepted House Speaker John Boehner's invitation to address Congress and speak out against Obama's signature foreign policy initiative, the Iran nuclear deal.

‪It's interesting to ponder how different the balance of power in the Middle East might be today had Barack Obama channeled his inner Machiavelli at the outset of his presidency, instead of being content to be adored as the nice, compassionate, liberal former lecturer on constitutional law.
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tl;dr: supporting a political action committee is the same as covert hacking to compromise confidentiality and integrity, with the possible follow-on of accessibility denial.
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pr0ner wrote:
Isgrimnur wrote:
pr0ner wrote:Perhaps people should have actually waited for the segment to air before going bonkers on social media?
Have you been on the Internet?
Nope. :lol:
I haven't seen the segment, but it seems plausible to me that the social media uproar may have altered the tone of the piece. Would the piece have been the same w/o the uproar? I don't know, but the piece does sound like it was a lot more hard-hitting and critical than Kelly promised Jones in the audio he leaked from their pre-interview conversation.

I'm of two-minds about this whole thing. I obviously don't think nutters like Jones need to be elevated to a national platform, but at the same time, guys like him have been thriving without mainstream attention anyway, so perhaps showing him in all his conspiratorial asshole-ness to a national audience helps marginalize him more then elevate him. I don't know.
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There were reports that NBC heavily re-edited the interview last week. I didn't watch the interview either, but some of Kelly's counterpoints came through over-voiced narration rather than to Jones himself during the interview. I wouldn't be surprised if much of that was added at the behest of NBC due to the backlash.
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Rip wrote:
Pyperkub wrote:
Rip wrote:
YellowKing wrote:A house divided against itself cannot stand. The Russians understood this and exploited it brilliantly. The sad thing is, nobody's learned. Instead of Russian interference uniting both parties against a common enemy, the GOP went into full "head in the sand" mode.

To paraphrase another common quote: "This is the way America ends. Not with a bang, but a whimper."

Perhaps if one party wasn't using the interference to make the other party appear to be the common enemy. The left was perfectly happy to bury any interference until they unexpectedly lost. Now that is all they want to talk about and even then only if it serves them.
Rip, as soon as the hacking attempts became public if Hillary had won you'd be linking every single voter fraud article out there and screaming how the election was stolen.

It was a win - win for the Russians.
and there would be no Russia investigation.
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There would be even more investigations seeking to undermine a Clinton presidency than there are regarding the Trump administration.
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So Rip is saying the only acceptable response to Russian attacks on the election process is to oust Putin?
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Ralph-Wiggum wrote:There were reports that NBC heavily re-edited the interview last week. I didn't watch the interview either, but some of Kelly's counterpoints came through over-voiced narration rather than to Jones himself during the interview. I wouldn't be surprised if much of that was added at the behest of NBC due to the backlash.
That may be the case. The rebuttal she inserts via voice over that "Of course, there is no evidence" supporting the Sandy Hook hoaxers certainly comes to mind. That said, the uproar over her doing the interview was bullshit.

In my mind, it's very similar to the new battle cries denouncing the "both sides-ism" of the New York Times and other media outlets. My understanding of the arguments of those that don't want the media to engage in "both sides-ism" is that they believe journalists are doing a disservice to the public by covering stories/viewpoints that are not worthy of coverage. I sympathize with that to some degree but think it's misguided. It's all well and good to decry "both sides-ism" and wish for the media to stop covering stories unworthy of the public's attention, but I think it's a slippery slope that can lead down a very dangerous path depending on who's making the judgment call about what is and what is not worthy of coverage. I'll take "both sides-ism" over "one side-ism" any day.
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Kurth wrote:
Ralph-Wiggum wrote:There were reports that NBC heavily re-edited the interview last week. I didn't watch the interview either, but some of Kelly's counterpoints came through over-voiced narration rather than to Jones himself during the interview. I wouldn't be surprised if much of that was added at the behest of NBC due to the backlash.
That may be the case. The rebuttal she inserts via voice over that "Of course, there is no evidence" supporting the Sandy Hook hoaxers certainly comes to mind. That said, the uproar over her doing the interview was bullshit.

In my mind, it's very similar to the new battle cries denouncing the "both sides-ism" of the New York Times and other media outlets. My understanding of the arguments of those that don't want the media to engage in "both sides-ism" is that they believe journalists are doing a disservice to the public by covering stories/viewpoints that are not worthy of coverage. I sympathize with that to some degree but think it's misguided. It's all well and good to decry "both sides-ism" and wish for the media to stop covering stories unworthy of the public's attention, but I think it's a slippery slope that can lead down a very dangerous path depending on who's making the judgment call about what is and what is not worthy of coverage. I'll take "both sides-ism" over "one side-ism" any day.
I totally get being alarmed over it (and completely get the reaction from the Sandy Hook families in particular). One issue with airing an interview with a kook like Alex Jones is that it gives him a big platform with which to spread his crazy and hurtful lies. In this case I was fine with the interview because Trump has already given a huge platform to Alex Jones, so that concern is less important and the need to address him and the issues with him (which you can do via an interview) becomes more important.

Still, I was somewhat wary of the danger of Megyn Kelly giving him a softball interview, which would've been bad. Sounds like that didn't happen (at least, not in its aired form).
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Oh man. Election Hackers Altered Voter Rolls, Stole Private Data, Officials Say
The hacking of state and local election databases in 2016 was more extensive than previously reported, including at least one successful attempt to alter voter information, and the theft of thousands of voter records that contain private information like partial Social Security numbers, current and former officials tell TIME.
In one case, investigators found there had been a manipulation of voter data in a county database but the alterations were discovered and rectified, two sources familiar with the matter tell TIME. Investigators have not identified whether the hackers in that case were Russian agents.
I wonder if more instances like these will start to come out.
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Captain Caveman wrote:Oh man. Election Hackers Altered Voter Rolls, Stole Private Data, Officials Say
The hacking of state and local election databases in 2016 was more extensive than previously reported, including at least one successful attempt to alter voter information, and the theft of thousands of voter records that contain private information like partial Social Security numbers, current and former officials tell TIME.
In one case, investigators found there had been a manipulation of voter data in a county database but the alterations were discovered and rectified, two sources familiar with the matter tell TIME. Investigators have not identified whether the hackers in that case were Russian agents.
I wonder if more instances like these will start to come out.
Rip assures me that any evidence of hacking the election other than circumstantial evidence would be found by now, therefore you must stop digging.
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LordMortis wrote:
Captain Caveman wrote:Oh man. Election Hackers Altered Voter Rolls, Stole Private Data, Officials Say
The hacking of state and local election databases in 2016 was more extensive than previously reported, including at least one successful attempt to alter voter information, and the theft of thousands of voter records that contain private information like partial Social Security numbers, current and former officials tell TIME.
In one case, investigators found there had been a manipulation of voter data in a county database but the alterations were discovered and rectified, two sources familiar with the matter tell TIME. Investigators have not identified whether the hackers in that case were Russian agents.
I wonder if more instances like these will start to come out.
Rip assures me that any evidence of hacking the election other than circumstantial evidence would be found by now, therefore you must stop digging.
Not new information, just stuff they haven't told you up till now.
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Rip wrote:Not new information, just stuff they haven't told you up till now.
Stuff the public hasn't heard before is "new information". Since everything the govt tells us is know beforehand by someone in the govt, by your definition there is no new information that comes to the public's attention, duh.
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Major reporting from the Washington Post today on the Russian election attack and Obama's response.

It's a long piece and I haven't finished it, but the takeaway seems to be that:

1) the CIA intercepted definite confirmation that the goal was to help Trump win;
2) the Obama administration fought back more aggressively than we knew, but not aggressively enough;
3) top Republicans in Congress actually took steps to hamper Obama's response.
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Holman wrote:Major reporting from the Washington Post today on the Russian election attack and Obama's response.

It's a long piece and I haven't finished it, but the takeaway seems to be that:

1) the CIA intercepted definite confirmation that the goal was to help Trump win;
2) the Obama administration fought back more aggressively than we knew, but not aggressively enough;
3) top Republicans in Congress actually took steps to hamper Obama's response.
No new. Stop looking. Obama tampering to help Hillary.

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Pyperkub wrote:
Rip wrote:
Pyperkub wrote:
Rip wrote:
YellowKing wrote:A house divided against itself cannot stand. The Russians understood this and exploited it brilliantly. The sad thing is, nobody's learned. Instead of Russian interference uniting both parties against a common enemy, the GOP went into full "head in the sand" mode.

To paraphrase another common quote: "This is the way America ends. Not with a bang, but a whimper."

Perhaps if one party wasn't using the interference to make the other party appear to be the common enemy. The left was perfectly happy to bury any interference until they unexpectedly lost. Now that is all they want to talk about and even then only if it serves them.
Rip, as soon as the hacking attempts became public if Hillary had won you'd be linking every single voter fraud article out there and screaming how the election was stolen.

It was a win - win for the Russians.
and there would be no Russia investigation.
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There would be even more investigations seeking to undermine a Clinton presidency than there are regarding the Trump administration.
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Trump called Russian hacking a Democratic hoax just earlier this week.

Tonight he admits it happened just so he can hit Obama:
So... is he asking us to blame Obama for him being president?
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Holman wrote:Trump called Russian hacking a Democratic hoax just earlier this week.

Tonight he admits it happened just so he can hit Obama:
So... is he asking us to blame Obama for him being president?
Obama has always been the reason that Trump is President, I thought everybody knew that. Oh, and also because y'all didn't nominate Sanders like you should have. :wink:
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Holman wrote:Trump called Russian hacking a Democratic hoax just earlier this week.

Tonight he admits it happened just so he can hit Obama:
So... is he asking us to blame Obama for him being president?
So Trump knew nothing about this until now? And is now no longer denying there is any evidence of election tampering... And his people to blame Obama for the election tampering they deny happened in 3... 2...
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"WHY?" he asks? The WaPo has one of the answers to that question:
In early September, Johnson , Comey and Monaco arrived on Capitol Hill in a caravan of black SUVs for a meeting with 12 key members of Congress, including the leadership of both parties.

The meeting devolved into a partisan squabble.

“The Dems were, ‘Hey, we have to tell the public,’ ” recalled one participant. But Republicans resisted, arguing that to warn the public that the election was under attack would further Russia’s aim of sapping confidence in the system.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) went further, officials said, voicing skepticism that the underlying intelligence truly supported the White House’s claims. Through a spokeswoman, McConnell declined to comment, citing the secrecy of that meeting.

Key Democrats were stunned by the GOP response and exasperated that the White House seemed willing to let Republican opposition block any pre-election move.
Because the GOP ran interference for Putin and Trump, as I see it. It's no wonder they've dragged their heels on really investigating what happened and implementing a proportional response. They're virtually a fifth column.
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They've been approximating a fifth column with increasing disdain for norms for about 10 years at this point.
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Yeah, they're really doubling-down on blaming Obama for this.
Appearing on ABC's “This Week” on Sunday morning, Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the president, struck a combative tone, saying: “It's the Obama administration that was responsible for doing absolutely nothing from August to January with the knowledge that Russia was hacking into our election. They did absolutely nothing. They're responsible for this.”
So to be clear, we went from: "This is all fake news" to "There's no proof" to "There's proof but nothing really happened" to "Maybe something happened" to "It's Obama's fault". How the F do you do that?
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Smoove_B wrote:Yeah, they're really doubling-down on blaming Obama for this.
Appearing on ABC's “This Week” on Sunday morning, Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the president, struck a combative tone, saying: “It's the Obama administration that was responsible for doing absolutely nothing from August to January with the knowledge that Russia was hacking into our election. They did absolutely nothing. They're responsible for this.”
So to be clear, we went from: "This is all fake news" to "There's no proof" to "There's proof but nothing really happened" to "Maybe something happened" to "It's Obama's fault". How the F do you do that?
We're just weeks away from them fully embracing the hack as a good thing that saved the country from the horrid leadership of Hillary Clinton. And if some Trump associates aided in the effort? Well that's just patriotism.
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Bait and switch. Now Trump admitted it's a problem that Obama didn't fix -- WTF is he going to do about it now he's the President?

What insanity. Trump ran on a "be nice to Russia" platform. But Obama is to blame for not being meaner.
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It always takes TrumpCo a long time to settle on an argument, but I imagine they'll be going with "Obama did nothing so it can't be a real problem so let's fire Mueller."
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The implication is that Obama didn't want to upset the electorate when it looked like a safe Democratic win. Remember, Putin was more about de-legitimizing Clinton and shaking our faith in the system than about actually electing Trump, so calling out the Russians during campaign season would have only played into his hands.

It is not an entirely specious argument, even if Trump is incapable of articulating it.
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Kraken wrote:The implication is that Obama didn't want to upset the electorate when it looked like a safe Democratic win. Remember, Putin was more about de-legitimizing Clinton and shaking our faith in the system than about actually electing Trump, so calling out the Russians during campaign season would have only played into his hands.

It is not an entirely specious argument, even if Trump is incapable of articulating it.
According to the WaPo reporting, the administration made the case to Congressional leadership to go public in September, but the GOP opposed it (with McConnell presaging Trump's position by casting doubt on the IC's conclusions). Obama's sin was his unwillingness to act unilaterally (which could easily have been spun as a partisan action), not an unwillingness to act at all.
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Max Peck wrote:
Kraken wrote:The implication is that Obama didn't want to upset the electorate when it looked like a safe Democratic win. Remember, Putin was more about de-legitimizing Clinton and shaking our faith in the system than about actually electing Trump, so calling out the Russians during campaign season would have only played into his hands.

It is not an entirely specious argument, even if Trump is incapable of articulating it.
According to the WaPo reporting, the administration made the case to Congressional leadership to go public in September, but the GOP opposed it (with McConnell presaging Trump's position by casting doubt on the IC's conclusions). Obama's sin was his unwillingness to act unilaterally (which could easily have been spun as a partisan action), not an unwillingness to act at all.
I'm saddened to think that Trump's incessant harping about the election being rigged may have actually cowed Obama into inaction...
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Of course, Obama did put out a statement during the campaign about Russian tampering in the election but it was drowned out by other campaign news. He should have been more vocal about it IMO, but it's wrong to say he didn't bring it up. And of course Clinton herself raised the issue many times during the campaign, most notably during a debate when Trump brushed it off as probably the work of a 400lbs hacker in his mom's basement covered in Cheeto-lotion. The infamous "no you're the puppet sequence" was about Russia.

So it was brought up a bunch of times and Clinton tried to make it an issue but the media mostly didn't seem to take the it all that seriously, or at least considered it not as interesting a story to tell as some others.
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Captain Caveman wrote:
So it was brought up a bunch of times and Clinton tried to make it an issue but the media mostly didn't seem to take the it all that seriously, or at least considered it not as interesting a story to tell as some others.
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em2nought wrote:
Obama has always been the reason that Trump is President, I thought everybody knew that. Oh, and also because y'all didn't nominate Sanders like you should have. :wink:
No, it was because not enough people believed Americans were stupid enough to vote for a reality TV star for president. We were wrong, of course. Apparently a lot of people are dumb enough to vote for the magic people they see on TV. I look forward to the rise of the GOPs next new political star: whoever wins The Bachelor in 2019.
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POLITICO Magazine reports that the Russian government is hoping to sow the same strains of discontent among U.S. service members and veterans through social media. One of the engagement tactics for Facebook is simple: an attractive woman sends a friend request.

This targeting is looking for one main response: “Friend request accepted.”

The targeted social media users will then get pro-Russia propaganda on their news feeds. Serena Moring, an ex-military contractor, told POLITICO Magazine she noticed U.S. soldiers responding positively to an unverified story of a Russian military service member dying during a fight against ISIS in Syria.

Most of the U.S. troops responded favorably to the story, even though it wasn’t proven to be true. From the story:

“All of the response from the military guys was like, ‘That is awesome. That’s an epic way to die,’” recounted Moring, 39. “It was a very soldier-to-soldier bond that was created through social media.”

Moring said she has become further alarmed as friends of hers in the military, including military intelligence, have become avowed admirers of Putin, and that she now expends considerable effort arguing about Russia on Instagram and Facebook channels geared to military audiences.
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Russia meddling in our elections? Bomb them!
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Moliere wrote:Russia meddling in our elections? Bomb them!
Reagan would agree :)
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Meathead is on the case...
Film director Rob Reiner and Atlantic senior editor David Frum are teaming up to promote a group that aims to widely share information about Russia's involvement in the 2016 election and its ongoing threat to US institutions.

The Committee to Investigate Russia's website, InvestigateRussia.org, launched on Tuesday and includes a video featuring actor Morgan Freeman.

Reiner and Frum, who are both members of the group's advisory board, told CNN that they felt compelled to act on the news of Russia's alleged meddling in the 2016 election.

"It occurred to me that, you know, we've heard this cliche our whole lives. When our country is attacked, politics stops at the water's edge. This is the first time that that didn't happen," Reiner told CNN's Alisyn Camerota and John Berman on CNN's "New Day" Tuesday morning.

He continued: "So I started reaching out to people who are patriots and not necessarily my political stripe to say we're all together in this. Our country is attacked. Democracy is on the brink -- if we're going to survive, we need to come together as Americans and understand what happened."

Frum was a former special assistant to President George W. Bush and has been an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump. Reiner is a lifelong liberal who backed Hillary Clinton during both of her failed White House bids and hosted a fundraiser for her at his Los Angeles home in 2015.

Other members on the advisory board include James Clapper, a former Director of National Intelligence; Charlie Sykes, a conservative commentator; Max Boot, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations; and Norman Ornstein, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
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This seems like maybe we should be a bit concerned:
The federal government on Friday told election officials in 21 states that hackers targeted their systems last year, although in most cases the systems were not breached.
Most, not all.
The AP contacted every state election office on Friday. While not all of them responded immediately, those that said they were targeted were Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin.

The government did not say who was behind the hacking attempts or provide details about what had been sought. But election officials in three states said Friday the attempts could be linked to Russia.
And then there's this.
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Smoove_B wrote: And then there's this.
Not with a bang but a whimper.
Much prefer my Nazis Nuremberged.
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