I have determined that election infrastructure in this country should be designated as a subsector of the existing Government Facilities critical infrastructure sector. Given the vital role elections play in this country, it is clear that certain systems and assets of election infrastructure meet the definition of critical infrastructure, in fact and in law.

I have reached this determination so that election infrastructure will, on a more formal and enduring basis, be a priority for cybersecurity assistance and protections that the Department of Homeland Security provides to a range of private and public sector entities. By “election infrastructure,” we mean storage facilities, polling places, and centralized vote tabulations locations used to support the election process, and information and communications technology to include voter registration databases, voting machines, and other systems to manage the election process and report and display results on behalf of state and local governments.

But wait. Just what was this, other than a naked attempt to literally subvert the Constitution to achieve the goal of federalizing elections under the guise of security. Translation: “it’s for the children.”

This leads to: anyone remember when the DHS tried to hack the Indiana election system whilst Mike Pence was governor, in a punitive retribution?

From the DailyCaller.com:

EXCLUSIVE: Obama’s Feds Tried to Hack Indiana’s Election System While Pence Was Governor

by Richard Pollock

 

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials tried to hack Indiana’s state electoral system with at least 14,800 “scans” or hits between Nov. 1, 2016, to Dec. 16, 2016, The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group has learned.

The attacks are the second confirmed IT scanning assault by DHS officials against states that resisted then-President Barack Obama’s attempt to increase federal involvement in state and local election systems by designating them as “critical infrastructure” for national security.

So wait; you mean Mr Obama lied about embracing the decentralization of our election system? Instead, he wanted to centralize the entire system — in truth, making it even easier to hack by bad actors across the globe — to include Russia?

In a word, yes.

So wait, you mean Mr Obama knew about Russian involvement in trying to meddle in US elections and did nothing about it?

In a word, yes.

Top ranking Demorat Adam Schiff thought so. From FoxNews.com:

Obama should have done more to counter Russia’s election meddling, top Dem says

Rep. Adam Schiff, the top-ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday the Obama administration should have done more to counter Russia’s meddling in the U.S. election.

“I think the administration needed to call out Russia earlier, needed to act to deter and punish Russia earlier, and that was a very serious mistake,” Schiff, of California, said in a televised interview with CNN.

Schiff added that President Barack Obama may have been worried that doing more against Russia would have looked like he was “trying to tip the scales for Hillary Clinton” and did not want to give in to the notion that the election was “rigged” against Donald Trump, according to The Hill.

So wait, you mean Mr Obama knew about Russian involvement in trying to meddle in US elections and did nothing about it?

In a word, yes.

Senate Demorat Mark Warner thought so.

From the WashingtonFreeBeacon.com:

Warner Admits Obama Administration ‘Choked’ in Handling Russian Interference

by Jack Heretik

Sen. Mark Warner (D., Va.) admitted on Sunday that the Obama administration “choked” in its handling of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, made the comment to CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, who asked Warner if he believes the Obama administration mishandled Russia’s interference in the election.

“With the value of hindsight, yes.”

Criticism has swirled recently around the Obama administration’s handling of Russian meddling. Former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson, who served under former President Barack Obama, told lawmakers less than two weeks ago that the administration delayed taking action against Moscow after it learned of the Kremlin’s cyber and disinformation campaign.

Newt Gingrich thinks that because Obama helped create it, he should have to testify about it.

But why all of this, you would naturally ask?

For one, Obama did nothing with the Russians because he had previously mocked Romney over the same thing during the last debate. Let us recall.

The other and most foundational reason?

Obama, the Demorats, the DNC, Hillary Clinton, no one believed that Donald Trump had the wherewithal, the fortitude or the votes to defeat the next Anointed One for the White House, a second Clinton.

Their world, that of the Demorats, fell apart the night of November 8th, 2016 and the morning of November 9th, 2016.

The brain-glazingly irrepressible hypocrisy commenced directly after.

The bleat became “Russia Russia Russia” because it was all they truly had. They ripped a page from the screaming playbook of Josef Goebbels insofar as a lie told a sufficient number of times because a propaganda truth.

This became the meme of the Demorats and all their sycophants. I asked then and I ask now: Russian hacking? Where is the proof? Russia actually influencing the election? Where is the proof? 16 intelligence agencies all agreeing that the Russians hacked our election? Where is the proof?

Instead, the only proof or evidence we find laid at the feet of the Demorats.

The very people responsible for instigating all of these so-called “investigations.”

Further, the purposeful obfuscation, non-coverage and absolute LIES promulgated by the American Media Maggots on behalf of only the Demorats? The fake news?

Beyond sad.

Dangerous.

BZ