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To: zzpat who wrote (1084702)	8/23/2018 11:34:18 AM
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Obama Scandal Rocks 21 States After Damning Evidence Rocks Washington – Daily Headlines 8 dailyheadlines The subject of Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential election is back in the news, but this time the subject matter is not about the unfounded Trump-Russia collusion pushed by the mainstream media, but rather that there is proof that the Russians attempted to obtain information within state voting systems. When this security breach took place, the Obama Administration was made aware of the attempts but chose not to notify the respective Secretaries of State where the intrusion attempts were made. Department of Homeland Security has confirmed and briefed the U.S. Senate Committee that there were 21 state election systems subjected to attempted Russian hacking efforts. DHS officials, however, did not say publicly which 21 state election systems were compromised leaving more questions about the lack of transparency. The Obama Administration claims the reason why they did not notify these 21 Secretaries of States was due to the fact that they didn’t have the proper security clearance. Many in Washington D.C. find this explanation to be without merit. The Daily Caller News Foundation Group conducted their own investigation and found that as of today, no state officials have been notified of this attempted breach of voting systems. “Secretaries of state — who are the top election officials in 40 states — told The DCNF they were shocked to learn of the Russian hacking when Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials first divulged it at a June 21, 2017, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing.“ Jeanette Manfra, the Deputy Undersecretary for Cyber Security and Communications at DHS testified before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence said, “We have evidence of election-related systems in 21 states that were targeted.” The National Association of Secretaries of State were none to pleased by this, especially since they felt they should have been notified by the Obama Administration and that Obama should have made every effort to ensure the appropriate Secretaries of State received the proper security clearance. Vermont Secretary of State Jim Condos, who is a Democrat said, “We were not notified. None of the states were notified. One of the reasons why they said they couldn’t tell us about the 21 states is because we didn’t have security clearances. Doesn’t it make sense that they might find a way to give us a security clearance so we can talk to each other about this?” Secretary Condos has a valid point. Obama Administration officials could have made arrangements for the affected Secretaries of State to be briefed but they decided not to. Adding fire to the flames, DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson designated state elections systems as “Federal Critical Infrastructure.” This is significant because state election systems are just that, and they belong to the state not the Federal Government. Many state officials saw this as an over reach by the Feds. DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson made this designation official in 2017, and there is no word if President Trump intends to get involved in the matter. State officials who are disturbed by the actions of DHS say that Federal officials have no idea how their state election systems work, and the designation is a recipe for a jurisdictional disaster. The fact remains that President Obama and his administration knew well in advance of the 2016 Presidential election that Russia was playing games with these 21 election systems, decided not to notify the states, and took it one step further with fanning the flames that it was Trump who was colluding with the Russians. Conversely, it has already been proven that key Democratic Senators including Claire McKaskill lied multiple times about meeting with the Russian Ambassador.

To: zzpat who wrote (1084702)	8/23/2018 8:26:25 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578256

Oops. Looks like the CNN news on Cohen having all the salacious Trump Russia Collusion information turned out to be false. You see why I'm so skeptical of the MSM? They routinely get things wrong that makes Trump look bad and then never correct it. That is called willful propaganda, not news. Another conspiracy theory bites the dust. ----------- Lanny Davis Destroys CNN's "Bombshell" Report On Trump Tower 'Collusion' Meeting In an odd disturbance in the 'resistance' farce, Michael Cohen's lawyer, longtime Clinton friend and Bill Clinton's special counsel, Lanny Davis crushed CNN's hopes and dreams of a smoking gun over Trump's awareness of the Trump Tower meetings and blew up the Russia collusion narrative by confirming that the Steele dossier was entirely false with regard Cohen's alleged trip to Prague. As The Daily Caller's Chuck Ross details, a CNN report in July that Michael Cohen has information that President Donald Trump was aware of the infamous Trump Tower meeting before it occurred got “mixed up” and was inaccurate, Cohen attorney Lanny Davis said Wednesday night. “So Michael Cohen does not have information that President Trump knew about the Trump Tower meeting with the Russians beforehand or even after?” CNN’s Anderson Cooper asked Davis. “No, he does not,” replied Davis, a longtime Clinton insider who started representing Cohen earlier this summer. Davis’s bombshell statement severely undercuts a July 27 CNN report that Cohen was willing to tell special counsel Robert Mueller that he was in a meeting when Donald Trump Jr. told his father about an offer to meet with a group of Russians who wanted to provide dirt on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. According to CNN’s anonymous sources, Trump approved the meeting, which took place on June 9, 2016. Democrats seized on the CNN report as evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government. The report also opened up the possibility that Trump and Trump Jr. publicly lied about the Trump Tower meeting. Trump has said publicly that he did not know about the meeting until a year after it occurred. Trump Jr. told the Senate Judiciary Committee in September 2017 that his father did not know about the meeting. Davis said that the initial report was “mixed up” and that Cohen’s legal team was unable to correct it because of an ongoing criminal investigationinto the longtime Trump fixer. Cohen pleaded guilty on Tuesday in federal court in New York to tax evasion, bank fraud and making excessive campaign finance donations by arranging hush payments to two women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump. “Well, I think the reporting of the story got mixed up in the course of a criminal investigation. We were not the source of the story. And the question of a criminal investigation, the advice we were given, those of us dealing with the media is that we could not do anything other than stay silent,” Davis told Cooper. Davis was asked about the Trump Tower report because of a statement issued on Tuesday by North Carolina GOP Sen. Richard Burr and Virginia Democratic Sen. Mark Warner, the leaders of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. The senators said in the statement that Cohen told the committee in October 2017 that he was not aware of the Trump Tower meeting until it was reported in July 2017. Burr and Warner said Cohen’s legal team confirmed that the testimony was accurate. .@LannyDavis: Michael Cohen “might be able to be useful to the Special Counsel about whether Trump knew ahead of time about the hacking of the Hillary Clinton e-mails." “[I] think what he can say would be useful and that's the way I have to leave it.” https://t.co/1j0yq1kYiU pic.twitter.com/FPrv5aYH7P — Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) August 23, 2018 Davis dealt another major blow to the allegations of Trump campaign collusion when he said in an interview with Bloomberg News that the Steele dossier’s allegations about Cohen are “false.” “Thirteen references to Mr. Cohen are false in the dossier, but he has never been to Prague in his life,” Davis said. The dossier, which was funded by the Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee, alleged that Cohen visited Prague in August 2016 as part of a “clandestine” operation to collude with Kremlin insiders to influence the 2016 election. Dossier author Christopher Steele claimed that Cohen arranged payments to hackers to carry out the scheme. “Never, ever, ever in Prague,” Davis reiterated in an interview on MSNBC later Wednesday.