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So not like rain on your wedding day?

 

Does this mean we're going to go back to those old, heavy push-button type voting machines with the curtain? I hope so. Those things were sweet.

 

Does Trump not realize we have a ton of military personnel stationed in Qatar?

 

I assume this is a rhetorical question.

 

There is still no evidence and virtually no chance that vote totals were changed.

 

Sure. Believe that if you want.

 

Extremely unlikely votes could be changed. But quite possible to disrupt voter registration databases to prevent votes being cast. As yet, no evidence of that, but it's feasible.

 

It's feasible to do. It's not feasible to do without making it really obvious and creating an immediate national shitshow, not just a leaked report months later.

 

An estimated 17,000 voters in Philadelphia couldn't vote because the state government botched registration confirmation paperwork, Governor's a Democrat, as is the Mayor, so this wasn't on purpose, but it shows that voter rolls are fragile thing.

 

And you know that story because when people disappear off the voter rolls in significant numbers, it's really obvious it happened.

 

NSA’s Latest Leak Debacle Explained

"Many questions arise from her case. Although she was caught with admirable celerity, NSA—and our whole Intelligence Community—must be asked if their security clearance process is functioning properly. Moreover, the “need to know” principle—once sacrosanct among spooks—has failed, yet again. Why was Winner, a linguist specializing in Iran and Afghanistan, able to access an above-Top Secret report on Russian cyber-espionage so effortlessly?

While we’re at it, why are so many IC jobs still being outsourced to pricey contractors, who constitute the lion’s share of our problem with leakers and turncoats of late? While Booz Allen Hamilton must be breathing a sigh of relief since Winner wasn’t their employee—unlike Edward Snowden and Harold Martin, NSA’s other recent miscreants—fundamental questions about overuse of unreliable defense contractors linger.

Regardless, Congress and the public have been energized by Reality Winner’s crime, and GRU cyber-meddling in our 2016 election is an issue which now must be addressed as a core part of KremlinGate. Perhaps that fact will comfort Winner in prison. But the real prize goes to The Intercept, which outed its golden source inside NSA in record time. Nobody in our Intelligence Community has ever been arrested for leaking spy secrets even before the leak goes public. That’s a record which seems likely to stand the test of time."