The US energy department is the latest agency to confirm it has been breached in what is being described as the worst-ever hack on the US government.
The department is responsible for managing US nuclear weapons, but said the arsenal's security had not been compromised.
Tech giant Microsoft also said on Thursday that it had found malicious software in its systems.
Many suspect the Russian government is responsible. It has denied any role.
The US treasury and commerce departments are among the other targets of the sophisticated, months-long breach, which was first acknowledged by officials on Sunday.
What has Trump had to say? Nothing. No fucking comment whatsoever.
The reason is obvious: The reporting is that the Russians were behind it. This massive hack is akin to an act of war and Trump can't be bothered to do anything other than continue rage-tweeting about his shellacking at the hads of Joe Biden. Besides his childish butthurt over losing the election, Trump has always been deeply reluctant to say anything bad about the Russians. You can bet heavily that if the reports were that the Iranians or the Chinese were behind it, that the Trump Administration, if not Trump himself, would have been all over the airwaves, promising to get to the bottom of it and retaliate appropriately. But since it's the Russians who evidently were behind it, not a peep.
Which begs the question: What do the Russians have on him that makes him act like a virtual employee of Vladimir Putin? Did they buy up his paper, so that the Russians own his debts (and him)? Do they have seriously compromising information on Trump?
The Russians have to have something on him, for Trump does not have a record of turning the other cheek.
And why is it that Republicans, other than Mitt Romney, seem to also be keeping silent?
I guess the Russians, having admitted that Biden will soon be president, are taking their shot while they can.
ReplyDeleteIt seems like it would have been a good time to have Chris Krebs on the job, also.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Apparently, it WAS done while he was on the job. To be fair, a supply chain exploit is as hard to do as it is to fight, and Krebs was an administrator. Update servers are a ridiculously tempting target as the intended victims come to them. Securing that server with solarwind123 as a password is negligent, to make a mild understatement.
ReplyDeleteI guess trump told his boyfriend Vlad all he knew, which was probably next to nothing since trump doesn't read and probably could not work a Minox spy camera or its digital replacement. So, last chance to spy while they can. Let's say it again, trump's Republican party is treasonous.
ReplyDeleteWhat does Trump do that benefits Russia? After five years of this, I'm still waiting for evidence. And no, this isn't evidence.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, there IS evidence that Biden is China's chump. Witness testimony, phone recordings, emails, and actual financial transactions connecting Joe Biden and other Biden family members with Russia and the PRC. Few wanted to even discuss or look into this before the election (and spouting the widely held opinion, verbatim, that 'this sounds like Russian misinformation' is not discussion), and there is some attention now mostly because
Biden is safely the Pres Elect
the Biden campaign irritated CNN by holding a pre-emptive press conference after saying they would answer CNN's questions "later".
@0_0: Trump being Trump benefits Russia. His ignorance, incompetence, narcissism, hubris, and volatility have weakened the US standing on the world stage and further divided us as a nation. 300,000 Americans have died this year from COVID, on his watch. I mean, for fuck's sake, he politicized a virus and belittled defensive measures against it, because the appearance of a pandemic would tank his precious stock market. He can think of nothing but what benefits him personally, and whatever conspiracies or delusions he can conjure to formulate his own reality.
ReplyDeleteWhatever weakens us benefits our enemies. Trump weakens us, and Russia is our enemy.
"What does Trump do that benefits Russia?"
ReplyDeleteHe gutted the state department right out of the gate for starters.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Remember the undocumented meeting with Putin? The press conference where Trump said he accepted Putin’s denial of interfering in the 2016 election (despite every intel agency other than the USDA saying it happened)?
ReplyDeleteIt goes on and on.
I don’t need to see a skunk to know one’s been around.
You clowns now complaining about Biden have had over four years of willful blindness when it came to Trump. You have zero credibility and your “facts” add up to the square root of a negative number.
@0_0, which presidential candidate never released his taxes? Why can we see Biden’s, Clinton’s, etc, but not Trump’s? Can you think of a good reason, which by-the-by, wasn’t because he was undergoing an IRS audit?
ReplyDeleteThere are none so blind as those who will not see.
Russians hacked the RNC as well as the DNC. I'm sure Vlad and agent orange have been reminding the repubs of this fact daily. I bet they're sitting on some good info.
ReplyDeleteI am so old the Cold War doesn't seem so long ago?
ReplyDeleteWhat do you get out of all this, double-ought? Drumpf uck gets a bag full of silver pennies and keeps that video of him walkin' the wild side out of the public eye, but what's in it for you? You're a smart guy, I've seen you see through other bullshit, why can't you see through this?
The good news is the Ruskies have proven you don't need the biggest, most expensive military in the world. Handful of hackers is all it takes. We could take all that money we're spending on an obsolete and obsolescent military on the (((Space Force))) and maybe start looking for a new place to live, because we've only got about a hundred years to figure it out. If we do make it, if we survive, get off this the only ball of rock we know of can live on, enveloped by the increasingly toxic gases we live in ... we will have been turned out of the garden.
Well, you know that NDAA he is so obsessed with vetoing and his justifications keep changing for? It contains resources to fight Russian cyber aggression.
ReplyDelete-Doug in Sugar Pine
Doug- Gutted the State Department? I remember that only somewhat, to be frank, but Foggy Bottom is surely still bloated like most government entities.
ReplyDeleteComrade-'clown'? I've been reading and commenting here for years (and longer for babiesinopen) and this may be the first time you called me a name. It's your blog; if I'm no longer welcome then fine.
But- the Russia collusion story has gone on over 4 years with zero evidence. Trump says stupid things and does stupid things but his actual actions and policies vis-a-vis Russia appear to me to be to the detriment of Russia. And I know Putin is an enemy, but China is a much more serious one.
DA- the NYT released Trump's taxes. Nothing serious was found (and no, he did not end up paying <$1,000 for any year).
Ten Bears- Voting Trump over Clinton and Biden doesn't mean I've drank any Flav-Or-Aid. I think Biden is a significantly worse person and will be a worse President.
Russia has always been good at certain espionage fields. Their not having a large military anymore is because their economy is comparable to Italy's in size, not cleverness.
Personally, I don't think we have anywhere else to go- this planet is it. But before jumping back into the Paris agreement, we should look at actual numbers of greenhouse gases being produced by the highest polluting nations. And we should've been building nuclear plants since the 80s, not closing them. And end the bipartisan gutting of CAFE requirements (vehicle mpg). And realize that every bit of extractable fossil fuel is going to be extracted, so we should work on making the most of it while it lasts.
Doug (again)- I know the NDAA has more in it than I know. I doubt your ststed reason is why, but none of us have evidence.
DA- the NYT released Trump's taxes. Nothing serious was found (and no, he did not end up paying <$1,000 for any year).
ReplyDeleteWay to miss the point, 0_0, why did Trump refuse to release them? Why did he lie that he couldn’t do so since they were under audit. Why do you apparently believe his lie, and not IRS, which stated the taxes under audit could be released if Trump wanted to?
There are none so blind........
I seem to recall that Trump’s taxes, as released by the Times, showed a lot of questionable things.
ReplyDeleteOk, I apologize about the “clown” crack. But the larger point still stands. You don’t get to complain about any alleged corruption with Biden when you’ve been ignoring or defending Trump’s. Not in this space.
It's gonna' be a hell of a hangover.
ReplyDeleteI concluded the blogpost that comment became "that's right, climate change, still happening, still no planet b."
ReplyDeleteWhatever it is, we got about a hundred years to figure it out.
Remember Rex Tillerson?
ReplyDelete-Doug in Sugar Pine
Comrade, I'm just not seeing much evidence against Trump.
ReplyDeleteRussian collusion? no
The anonymous Atlantic article timed for overseas absentee ballot sending? nobody could stand behind that claim, and Bolton- no Trump apologist- denied it
But okay, not in your space, ma'am. I'll keep my disagreement to myself and watch the airplanes, cats, and trains.
Why didn’t Trump release even one transcript of his meetings with Putin, 0_0? He couldn’t be hiding anything, could he?
ReplyDelete0_0,
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