Thursday, October 3, 2024

Researching the Claim of "Alleged" 2016 Election Interference

Today's Project 2025 tidbit from page 155 regarding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), more specifically the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).

"Of the utmost urgency is immediately ending CISA's counter-mis/disinformation efforts. The federal government cannot be the arbiter of truth. CISA began this work because of the alleged Russian misinformation in the 2016 election, which in fact turned out to be a Clinton campaign 'dirty trick'." (Source: Project 2025, page 155)

Interesting that author Ken Cuccinelli considers the 2016 election interference to be "alleged". I went out to the internet to see if I could find any documents that would support the fact that the election interference did happen, and I found a couple of sources I believe to be reliable.

The FBI have a wanted poster on their website which reads:

WANTED BY THE FBI
RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE IN 2016 U.S. ELECTIONS

CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT AN OFFENSE AGAINST THE UNITED STATES; FALSE REGISTRATION OF A DOMAIN NAME; AGGRAVATED IDENTITY THEFT; CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT MONEY LAUNDERING
(Source: https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/cyber/russian-interference-in-2016-u-s-elections)

Another source which recently became available was Special Counsel Jack Smith's Newly Unsealed Evidence for Case No. 23-cr-257 (TSC), The United States of America v. Donald J. Trump (Defendant). I was able to make it about 24 pages into the document before my head started to pound a bit, so I haven't read it in its entirety. But the evidence provided seems to prove that this was much more than a "dirty trick" of a rival campaign. (Source: Unsealed Evidence for Case No. 23-cr-257 (TSC))

I also believe that if you claim that the federal government cannot be the "arbiter of truth", the your party's chosen candidate should not spend his time telling the American people what's fake news or fake data or fake anything because - according to Project 2025 - that's not part of his job.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Chapter 9 and the Definition of "Female"

I'm still trying to figure out what to say about Chapter 9 of Project 2025. Everytime I try to write something, I get lost in my own emo...