Secure the Vote - Geri McCaleb

 In 2016, Donald Trump, New York City brash, thrice married, most recently to an international model; not refined, not from Harvard or Yale, but a multibillionaire with a flair for gold came down his escalator and declared a run for President. The man who built hotels, casinos, and golf courses was putting his hat in the ring.    

 His skeleton crew of advisors bested the professionals and their staffs. He said things no politician would dare say and he drew crowds and loyal followers who could not be dissuaded that this guy was the answer the nation needed. 

When the dust settled he won the nomination and then there was the great dilemma in the land. Hillary or Trump. The woman or the womanizer? She the champion of Planned Parenthood, he aligned himself with Pro Life. He produced a list of originalist judges for the Supreme Court.  He decried the trade deals that shipped American jobs to China. He believed in borders;  NATO nations should pay more of their own defense. America should look out for its own interests first. He told the African American community,  give me a try, what have you got to lose?

All the polls said Hillary, and then he won. The stunned media was left speechless, some in tears. This couldn’t possibly be happening. Oh No!!. 

Immediately the investigations began. The Mueller Probe spent $40,000,000, trying to find the evidence of Russian collusion.  The long promised impeachment happened over a phone call to Ukraine.  It was a four year barrage of  attacks by the media, the loyal opposition, and members of his own party. He was called a hater, a racist, a Nazi, a fascist, his likeness was beheaded by a comedian.

Trump carried on. He recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and moved the embassy from Tel Aviv.  He withdrew from the Iran Nuclear Deal and the job killing Paris Climate Accords. He eliminated regulations so companies could come back to do business in America and brought unemployment down to record lows. He made America energy independent. He addressed  prison reform and instituted Right to try. 

In the midst of the impeachment the China Virus hit. He shut down travel from China, and then from Europe. Medicine didn’t really know how to deal with this virus and directives were given that often contradicted one another. The President worked with companies to manufacture PPE and researchers worked hard to learn how to deal with this virus. 

Suddenly time for another campaign season. The Democrat field looked like the Republican field of four years before, a myriad of candidates. Just as Donald Trump was the unlikely winner for the Republicans four years before, so Joe Biden came out on top for the Democrats. 

COVID brought restrictions on campaigning but then the Trump campaign hit on the idea of airport rallies. A destination city was announced, Air Force one would pull up, he would emerge from the plane, make his speech and be on his way again. The rallies became a thing that drew huge crowds. There were spontaneous boat parades and car parades.

In the meantime former Vice President Biden did little campaigning. He relied on political ads and groups of 10 in circles. He promised masks for all and said Trump had done it all wrong except his solutions sounded a lot like Trump policy.  

The media which couldn’t say a good word about the President couldn’t find it in themselves to criticize Mr. Biden. Even when his son’s laptop was found with incriminating evidence it was declared off limits for questions by the press and social media. That laptop must have been planted by the Russians to hurt Joe, defenders said. 

Election night, things were looking good for President Trump, until about one AM when all counting stopped and in a few hours leads vanished. Claims of irregularities came in from a myriad of sources. The media and the Biden campaign say it over and let the healing begin. But that’s not how the constitution says it works. 

Using COVID as an excuse to do mail in ballots, all kinds of safeguards against voter fraud were dropped. Efforts to ensure a safe and secure vote was decried as voter suppression or lacking safety.

The integrity of the vote is the most important thing we have in a representative democracy. When that is compromised the whole system is compromised. In any sane system any changes in voting regulations should be tested and debated, and not in the heat of a campaign season. That is a recipe for distrust in our system and a disaster for the future of election integrity. The United States is dependent on an informed and self policing electorate where integrity is in everyone’s self interest. If we lose this we lose the basis for our democracy.

It is of utmost importance that every instance of possible voter fraud be investigated . Just like Al Gore had recount after recount in a handful of Florida Counties there can be no rush to say this election is over. 

We have a couple of years before the next big election and our legislators need to work to see what needs to be done to make our election system more secure and not less. I for one don’t care about convenience. Voting is serious business it needs to be treated as such.  

   

"OPM's data security posture was akin to leaving all your doors and windows unlocked and hoping nobody would walk in and take the information

The problem appears to be that the Chinese built the system that OPM used to store all the information it had on government employees. They didn't need to hack it, they had the keys because they built the locks.

Shock: Katharine Archuleta Is a Democrat Machine Hack With Scarcely Any Qualifications Except Loyalty To, and Dependency Upon, Democrat Patronage

But wait, there's more:

Some of the contractors that have helped OPM with managing internal data have had security issues of their own—including potentially giving foreign governments direct access to data long before the recent reported breaches. A consultant who did some work with a company contracted by OPM to manage personnel records for a number of agencies told Ars that he found the Unix systems administrator for the project "was in Argentina and his co-worker was physically located in the [People's Republic of China]. Both had direct access to every row of data in every database: they were root. Another team that worked with these databases had at its head two team members with PRC passports. I know that because I challenged them personally and revoked their privileges. From my perspective, OPM compromised this information more than three years ago and my take on the current breach is 'so what's new?'"

In a letter on Wednesday, the lawmakers demanded answers about the FBI’s National Security Letters, which do not require a court order and require communications companies and financial institutions to turn over details about their customers. And you thought that they needed a court order to get your personal records? Not in the Surveillance State of America.

Rand Paul Will Sue Obama Over the NSA

You will not the the Liberals at the national Journal don't take the Constitutional protections against government spying on its citizens without a warrant seriously. They may have screamed bloody murder the George Bush was a war criminal, but the lovable Barack Obama who has doubled down on his policies is not to be feared. So going to court to protect our privacy is now a proper object of ridicule.

Here comes some fun. Sen. Rand Paul will join a lawsuit against President Obama, National Intelligence Director James Clapper, FBI Director James Comey, and NSA Director Keith Alexander. The suit, Paul says, is because Obama "has publicly refused to stop a clear and continuing violation of the Fourth Amendment. The Bill of Rights protects all citizens from general warrants. I expect this case to go all the way to the Supreme Court and I predict the American people will win."

The Kentucky Republican is joining a suit from FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe. And to just round out the group, the lead counsel is Ken Cuccinelli, former Virginia attorney general and Republican gubernatorial candidate. In the press release from RandPac, Cuccinelli says that "we expect to be opposed by the vast resources of the federal government, yet I am optimistic that we will prevail."

And of course they accuse Paul of not being serious either.  It's all a ruse to get a mailing list for donors.

Paul's class-action suit has accrued hundreds of thousands of signatures via his his website, though some have pointed out that the list will likely double as a supporter database for future political aspirations, which may include a run for the White House in 2016.

Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer

So this is what the government snoops mean when they refer to a "back door" to encrypted information.  They sell a code that they already know how to crack.

As a key part of a campaign to embed encryption software that it could crack into widely used computer products, the U.S. National Security Agency arranged a secret $10 million contract with RSA, one of the most influential firms in the computer security industry, Reuters has learned.

Documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden show that the NSA created and promulgated a flawed formula for generating random numbers to create a "back door" in encryption products, the New York Times reported in September. Reuters later reported that RSA became the most important distributor of that formula by rolling it into a software tool called Bsafe that is used to enhance security in personal computers and many other products.

NO SECURITY EVER BUILT INTO OBAMACARE SITE

HACKERS: NO SECURITY EVER BUILT INTO OBAMACARE SITE

For details click HERE

DO NOT GO TO THE OBAMACARE WEBSITE IF YOU VALUE YOUR PRIVACY.

One more thing:

Since this is a government site, they don't have to inform you

 if your personal information has been hacked.

Obama confidant Ben Rhodes is the Stuxnet leaker.

In the summer of 2012, Joseph issued multiple tweets under his @natsecwonk account suggesting that Rhodes was the source of classified information leaked to the press about the Stuxnet virus, a joint U.S.-Israeli cyber warfare effort to sabotage Iran’s nuclear centrifuge program. Joseph, as an official in the non-proliferation bureau of the State Department and later inside the White House, was part of the administration’s team working on the Iranian nuclear issue.

I suspect Rhodes did it under orders.  Remember, it make Obama look good.

Glenn Beck: DHS

Also Revealed by Verizon Leak: How the NSA and FBI Lie With Numbers

Here’s a seemingly comforting statistic: In all of 2012, the Obama administration went to the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court only 200 times to ask for Americans’ “business records” under the USA Patriot Act.

Every year, the Justice Department gives Congress a tally of the classified wiretap orders sought and issued in terrorist and spy cases – it was 1,789 last year. At the same time, it reports the number of demands for “business records” in such cases, issued under Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act. And while the number of such orders has generally grown over the years, it has always managed to stay relatively low. In 2011, it was 205. There were 96 orders in 2010, and only 21 in 2009.

Thanks to the Guardian’s scoop, we now know definitively just how misleading these numbers are. You see, while the feds are required to disclose the number of orders they apply for and receive (almost always the same number, by the way), they aren’t required to say how many people are targeted in each order. So a single order issued to Verizon Business Solutions in April covered metadata for every phone call made by every customer. That’s from one order out of what will probably be about 200 reported in next year’s numbers.

How a State Department Spokesman ends his e-mail: "And by good day, I mean Fuck Off"

Read the whole thing at Powerline (it's been all over the Internet although the MSM won't touch it, of course). 

It's near the end of a back-and-forth about a lot of sensitive and secret information being left lying on the ground after the attack on our ambassador in Libya.  It seems that not only was Chris Stevens’s diary found by a CNN reporter, but a lot of other information was left behind for anyone to pick up.

What's surprising about this is that someone would put something like this in writing.  The feeling of invincibility  - or arrogance - is staggering. 

Watch the Special Operation OPSEC Education Fund video

From the Daily Caller, we have cowardly scum like Eric Boehlert accusing the Navy SEALS of lacking "guts":

Media Matters senior fellow Eric Boehlert said on Thursday that a group of former Navy SEALS “don’t have guts” after the special forces operators launched a media campaign condemning the Obama administration’s national security leaks.

Secret Service agents partied like rock stars on Obamas' Vineyard Vacation

Long before President Obama's security detail was scandalized in Colombia and new revelations emerged last week about the Secret Service, members of the elite team earned an "Animal House" reputation at the blueblood vacation mecca of Martha's Vineyard.

Local residents say wild parties, fights and late-night carousing involving Secret Service members have become commonplace in recent years at the Vineyard, a favorite getaway for the First Family and longtime destination for upper-crust members of the Northeastern political, media and business establishment.

Note in recent years .  Trashed houses, drunker orgies, lost badges, police cover-ups.  The Secret Service as Animal House in the Obama regime.

  Read the whole thing.

VIDEO: Woman Screams For Help After TSA Molestation

Remember when "Let me see your papers!" was a line in a movie script involving Nazis?

Tiny Payout In TSA Breast Exposure Lawsuit

The TSA exposing your breasts to public view is apparently worth only $2350.  Try getting that kind of a deal if you are a private company.

News from around the world.

Turkey discovers weapons in Iran plane.

Turkish media reports plane forced to land in southeast Turkey carried rocket launchers, mortars, rifles and explosive materials

Syria Protests Spread

Unrest spread in southern Syria on Monday with hundreds of people demonstrating against the government in three towns near the main city of Deraa, but authorities did not use force to quell the latest protests.

U.S. Says Libyan Campaign to Ease as No-Fly Zone Is Secured

The fighting “should recede in the next few days,” Gates said at a press conference in Moscow today. Opposition fighters advanced on the central gateway city of Ajdabiya, which is held by loyalist troops, according to the Associated Press. Qaddafi’s army units continued to shell the western, rebel-held city of Misrata for a second day, residents said.

Who's in charge? Germans pull forces out of NATO as Libyan coalition falls apart

Deep divisions between allied forces currently bombing Libya worsened today as the German military announced it was pulling forces out of NATO over continued disagreement on who will lead the campaign.


A German military spokesman said it was recalling two frigates and AWACS surveillance plane crews from the Mediterranean, after fears they would be drawn into the conflict if NATO takes over control from the U.S.
The infighting comes as a heated meeting of NATO ambassadors yesterday failed to resolve whether the 28-nation alliance should run the operation to enforce a U.N.-mandated no-fly zone, diplomats said.

'We are not at war,’

Opening the debate on French involvement in Libya, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon reiterated that the intervention was intended to stop attacks against Libyan civilians, and nothing more.

“We are not at war with Libya, we are protecting the civilian population,” said Fillon and added, “Our objectives are very specific... to protect the civilian population, excluding explicitly any occupation forces.”

Libya action 'impeachable'

President Barack Obama should be impeached for approving air strikes against Libya, Rep. Dennis Kucinich said in an interview Monday.

Obama’s Abu Ghraib: The Stuff Hits the Fan

When the Abu Ghraib scandal broke in 2003, the mainstream media and liberal blogosphere couldn’t find enough column inches to express adequately their shock and revulsion. The New York Times alone published 56 stories on the hideous revelation that members of the U.S. Army Reserve had tortured prisoners of war and posed for “trophy pictures”—inexcusable acts that the Times placed squarely at the feet of then-president George W. Bush.
What a difference a president makes. Until you flash forward to today’s bombshell, dropped by the British newspaper The Guardian, noting that members of a self-styled U.S. Army “kill team” posed for photos not with tortured prisoners but with corpses. Of civilians. Whom they had killed.
So far, the White House has released no statement regarding the images or accounts. Neither, surprisingly, has the New York Times.

Chavez says capitalism may have ended life on Mars
The Liberal ruler of Venezuela said

..."I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived and finished off the planet," Chavez said in speech to mark World Water Day.

Sexually assaulted and told 'You'll die tonight'... but spared as she's American: Female journalist's horror at the hands of Gaddafi's men

A female war photographer from the New York Times revealed tonight how she was repeatedly sexually assaulted during her nightmare hostage ordeal in Libya.

See how those photos of fighting are actually staged.

What Wikileaks reveals.

Admit it, it’s kind of fun reading what Ambassador X says about Potentate Y. Many of the “leaks” also reinforce what you knew about what was really going on, but the government/media/Left were lying about. Wasn’t it interesting that the Saudis rather than the Israelis were more vociferous about taking out the Iranian nuclear facilities?

What has not been more discussed is what Wikileaks is doing and showing about the government.

1. Who is supplying the information to Wikileaks? So far, we have one homosexual American PFC in the brig with several charges against him. But the charges are surprisingly light. Is he the sole source of the leaks or are there more people involved?

2. Everyone assumes that what’s being leaked is true. How do we know? The best kind of espionage misinformation is buried on lots of truthful information. How do we know that Wikileaks is not an effort of sabotage via lies surrounded by truth?

3. The American government is shown as the halting, confused and indecisive response of an administration that has watched a large part of its communications security destroyed. They’re still talking about dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s on an Assange arrest warrant. ..

The true significance of Wikileaks, … is that it lays bare how utterly helpless and indecisive the current crop of leaders are. If they can’t protect the crown jewels, cannot keep allies who have bet their lives from exposure, cannot even bring themselves to question Julian Assange, what odds would you give them in other fights?

4. The publication of the clear text of diplomatic cables has now given every foreign government the ability to read our encrypted diplomatic cables. Once you know what the clear text of an encrypted message is, it becomes child’s play to figure out what the code used to encrypt our diplomatic messages is.

5. The news media, including the NY Times, is now a party to helping our enemies read our secret communications via publication of these messages; not the messages in the leaks,, but all messages using diplomatic or military code.

The Wikileaks saga has so many twists and turns, trying to determine who’s who and what’s what is smoke and funhouse mirrors.

TSA out of control: "Cuffed to a Chair, Her Ticket Ripped up"

Former police association contractor charged with snooping on 'Joe the Plumber'

A former contractor for the Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police has been charged with rummaging through state computers to retrieve confidential information about "Joe the Plumber."...

Helen Jones-Kelley, then director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, authorized several computer checks on Wurzelbacher that the state inspector general concluded had no legal purpose.

Jones-Kelley, who was suspended by Gov. Ted Strickland after The Dispatch also revealed that she used her state e-mail account to raise campaign funds for Obama, later resigned. Two of her top aides also lost their jobs.

Wurzelbacher has filed a federal lawsuit against Jones-Kelley and her two former aides seeking damages for violation of his privacy. The former state employees deny any wrongdoing.

But our computerized medical records would be safe from snooping. Always trust the government.

FRANK GAFFNEY: Making Americans less safe

Team Obama has a whole list of things that are designed to dismantle the security precautions that were put in place following 9/11.

Relabelling: "terrorism" is now "man-caused disasters." (And then warning about returning veterans as potential "men causing disasters.")

Ending the crackdown on illegal aliens.

Resettling terrorists in American cities.

Making it easier for aliens to get drivers licences (just like the 9/11 hijackers had)

Like much of the rest of the Obama administration's agenda with respect to our security, that related to safeguarding our homeland appears increasingly to be a wrecking operation.

But it's designed to make the ACLU very, very happy.