Indisputable evidence that Russians under the directive of President Vladimir Putin hacked into key voting data conduits which conveyed election voting totals from local voting machines in Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida has been uncovered by the National Security Agency working with agents from the FBI and CIA in a coordinated task force.
The Russian approach did not require hacking individual voting machines but targeted the pathways from local hubs which collected data from polling stations and conveyed them to more central loci where vote counts from counties were fed on election night to provide the voting totals used by the national networks reporting on the election results through the night of November 8.
The tactic was crafted to minimize the actual number of computers and servers hacked and is called "Hub Diversion" in reference to the hubs used by American airlines to maximize efficiency of their air traffic routes. Traffic routed through these computerized "hubs" centralizes and speeds collection of vote tallies so results can be available to television audiences waiting for the news of the election outcomes.
Polling prior to the voting and exit polls predicted a Clinton victory and retrospective studies of exit polls in key voting precincts suggested Clinton had won Pennsylvania and likely Ohio but the vote tallies did not agree with these data. Comparisons between exit polls and actual vote counts in Wisconsin were not as clear.
Mr. Putin subsequently award three medals to the directors of this cyber attack who are employed by the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation to:
Yevginy Klebanoff, the medal for "Distinction in Special Operations"
Vasily Primakoff, the medal for "Distinction in Securing Information Security"
The Russian approach did not require hacking individual voting machines but targeted the pathways from local hubs which collected data from polling stations and conveyed them to more central loci where vote counts from counties were fed on election night to provide the voting totals used by the national networks reporting on the election results through the night of November 8.
The tactic was crafted to minimize the actual number of computers and servers hacked and is called "Hub Diversion" in reference to the hubs used by American airlines to maximize efficiency of their air traffic routes. Traffic routed through these computerized "hubs" centralizes and speeds collection of vote tallies so results can be available to television audiences waiting for the news of the election outcomes.
Polling prior to the voting and exit polls predicted a Clinton victory and retrospective studies of exit polls in key voting precincts suggested Clinton had won Pennsylvania and likely Ohio but the vote tallies did not agree with these data. Comparisons between exit polls and actual vote counts in Wisconsin were not as clear.
Mr. Putin subsequently award three medals to the directors of this cyber attack who are employed by the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation to:
Yevginy Klebanoff, the medal for "Distinction in Special Operations"
Vasily Primakoff, the medal for "Distinction in Securing Information Security"
Nikita Filonov, the medal for "Distinction in Safeguarding Economic Security."
The NSA report completed on March 6, but President Trump directed the Director of the NSA to "make it go away." The Senate Intelligence Committee has tabled consideration of the report and Paul Ryan denied today that the House Committee on Oversight and Investigations has received a copy of the report, and referred questions from the New York Times to Alex Jones.
Senate Leader Mitch McConnell told the Washington Post he had no plans to request the report be considered before 2020.
Senate Minority Leader Sen. Charles Schumer said this morning, "This would be a matter of grave national concern and we hope we can reach across the aisle to consider this." Representative Nancy Pelosi responded to a Wall Street Journal question saying, "It makes me very sad. This would be unprecedented."
The National Rifle Association issued a press statement: "If they had attacked the polling places, our members would have been ready to open fire with all the bump stocks and AK-15's at our disposal, which, of course, the Democrats would have tried to prevent."
Rush Limbaugh said this morning, "This is clearly fake news, people. The Russians were too busy listening to tapes of Hillary Clinton having sex with Rachel Madow."
Sean Hannity responded, "This is clearly a diversionary tactic so the press will stop focusing on Hillary Clinton's child porn operation in that Washington, DC pizza pallor, which has never been fully explained."
President Obama reached for comment in Hawaii said, "I can't say I'm surprised, but, you know, I'm so glad to be out here on the beach and I've got way better on my surf board, so really, that's on someone else now."
--Special to the Failing New York Times
The NSA report completed on March 6, but President Trump directed the Director of the NSA to "make it go away." The Senate Intelligence Committee has tabled consideration of the report and Paul Ryan denied today that the House Committee on Oversight and Investigations has received a copy of the report, and referred questions from the New York Times to Alex Jones.
Senate Leader Mitch McConnell told the Washington Post he had no plans to request the report be considered before 2020.
Senate Minority Leader Sen. Charles Schumer said this morning, "This would be a matter of grave national concern and we hope we can reach across the aisle to consider this." Representative Nancy Pelosi responded to a Wall Street Journal question saying, "It makes me very sad. This would be unprecedented."
The National Rifle Association issued a press statement: "If they had attacked the polling places, our members would have been ready to open fire with all the bump stocks and AK-15's at our disposal, which, of course, the Democrats would have tried to prevent."
Rush Limbaugh said this morning, "This is clearly fake news, people. The Russians were too busy listening to tapes of Hillary Clinton having sex with Rachel Madow."
Sean Hannity responded, "This is clearly a diversionary tactic so the press will stop focusing on Hillary Clinton's child porn operation in that Washington, DC pizza pallor, which has never been fully explained."
President Obama reached for comment in Hawaii said, "I can't say I'm surprised, but, you know, I'm so glad to be out here on the beach and I've got way better on my surf board, so really, that's on someone else now."
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