There’s absolutely no evidence that Russians “hacked” the election, but there seems to be plenty of evidence that Barack Obama’s Department of Homeland Security did. As the Daily Caller reports:
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.
Members of the National Association of Secretaries of State voted Saturday at their winter meeting to oppose the designation. They are asking President Donald Trump to overturn it.
Former Indiana Gov. Mike Pence was also Trump’s vice presidential-elect during much of the period covered by the DHS scans of the Indiana system.
The Daily Caller’s Richard Pollock has been all over this issue. In his last minute bid to “never let a crisis go to waste,” President Barack Obama moved to make election systems part of “critical infrastructure,” as a backdoor to increasing federal involvement in local elections.
DHS, for its part, is claiming that this was part of the investigation into Russian hacks of the DNC. Which would make sense. If state election systems were online. But as Pollock notes, election machines and their infrastructure are not connected to the internet.
We’d like Donald Trump’s DHS to get to the bottom of this. But this raises questions about the wisdom of having an Orwellian Department of Homeland Security at all. Thist appears to be a totally unauthorized, bureaucratic attempt to hack our election systems in the midst of a close election raises the possibility that an agency created to keep us safe might be transformed into a domestic police force to be used by whichever party is in power to subvert our democracy.
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