[Editor’s note: It is a sad truism that once you have successfully hacked an election, you also have the power to cover it up. We know full well that the Russians hacked the US electoral system and that is how and why the bloviating orange buffon Trump was ‘elected’. However, that knowledge is not the same thing as being able to persuade those in positions of power to actually do something about this electoral fraud. Reports are that we are not getting elections around the world, any that use electronic systems of any kind, all are are being hacked. VT caught a “roadshow” at several regional security conferences where “invitation only” hospitality suites presented election rigging services. The companies are all CIA contractors, developers of social media spy software, another huge business the US created out of their burgeoning surveillance state. The time of free elections is at an end, long ago it was the CIA on behalf of the banks and Wall Street doing it. Privatization has now put this kind of power into the hands of any tin-pot pretender, just look at what happened in the US. While Jill Stein and the Green Party battle for a proper investigation and re-count in the three key states, the Democrats remain largely inactive, displaying the same temerity as when Bush Jr stole the 2000 election from Al Gore and the 2004 one from John Kerry. However, this time, we have a President-Elect that is far more of a threat to the well-being and freedom of the US people and a destabilising factor for the entire globe than Dubya ever was. Trump is nothing more than a ludicrously-coiffured frontman for the global organised crime cabal that makes it’s headquarters in Israel and follows the Zionist agenda for global hegemony. Therefore Trump must be opposed, the Democrats should be pulling out all the stops to try to avoid the pussy grabber entering the Oval Office in a scant few weeks. But Obama remains silent, Hillary has disappeared from public view and the fight to stop Trump is being lead by a handful of Democrat Senators. This is simply not good enough, by remaining inactive on this matter, the Democrats and the Republicans are both failing the very people they purport to represent – the population of the USA; they are standing to one side while their once democratic nation becomes an oligarchy under the control of a handful of international criminals. Ian]

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World Bulletin

US Democrats demand intel on Russian vote interference

Top US Democratic lawmakers have demanded that President Barack Obama release details on alleged Russian interference in last month’s election, fearing the issue will be swept under a rug when Donald Trump assumes office in January.

The Republican president-elect has repeatedly rejected the idea that Moscow had a hand in the private email releases that damaged rival Hillary Clinton and arguably helped his victory.

The legislators say they are not refighting the election, but want to make public what they believe was an effort by a foreign rival to erode the foundations of American democracy.

“By eroding Americans’ and foreigners’ trust in US institutions, Russia both weakens our country and sows global instability and uncertainty,” leading House Democrats said in a letter to Obama Tuesday. “These thefts and disclosures are intended to interfere with the US election process,” said the Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in a statement.

That was a reference to the release through WikiLeaks and other websites of emails stolen from the accounts of Clinton aide John Podesta and also from the Democratic National Committee, which embarrassed both the party and its White House nominee.

Susan Hennessey, a former NSA lawyer and now a cybersecurity expert at the Brookings Institution, said there were genuine grounds for concern, and that this was no mere politicking by resentful losers of the vote.

“This was an incredibly close election, and this was a significant event. That’s why it’s important to have a really serious response to this,” she told AFP.

Trump: Russia not behind hack

The Democratic legislators, already having been privately briefed by intelligence officials, suggest that there is more to the hacking story — and that it needs to be made public.

In a rare move, on November 29 Senator Ron Wyden and six other Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee pressed Obama in a letter to reveal more.

“We believe there is additional information concerning the Russian government and the US election that should be declassified and released to the public,” they wrote.

There was no indication whether they were talking specifically about the hacked emails, or were also referring to Trump’s business relations with Russia.





Released in a steady drip online in the months before the election, the emails clearly did damage. A batch of Democratic National Committee internal communications put out just ahead of the party convention in late July forced the resignation of DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

They also revealed details on Clinton’s paid speeches to Wall Street, which the campaign had sought to keep secret.

That gave rise to accusations that Moscow was aiding Trump, who has business interests in Russia and a less adversarial view of Russian President Vladimir Putin than the Obama administration and Clinton.

Despite the conclusions of US intelligence, Trump has repeatedly rejected the idea that Moscow was behind the email leaks.

“It could be Russia, but it could also be China. It could also be lots of other people. It also could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds, OK? You don’t know who broke in to DNC,” he said in a September presidential debate.

And on Wednesday, when asked in an interview with Time magazine whether the intelligence was politicized, Trump answered: “I think so.”

“I don’t believe they interfered. That became a laughing point, not a talking point, a laughing point. Any time I do something, they say ‘oh, Russia interfered.'” “It could be Russia. And it could be China. And it could be some guy in his home in New Jersey.”

Republican senator pledges hearings

The White House has yet to respond to the requests, and Republicans in Congress have been loath to back the effort, with some worried of the possible damage to a Trump presidency before it starts.

But after Trump’s comments Wednesday, Republican Senator Lindsay Graham announced he will hold hearings on the issue next year.

Hennessey said fears of Russian political interference did not just concern the United States. She pointed to the WikiLeaks release last week of documents on Germany’s BND intelligence agency that embarrassed Chancellor Angela Merkel just as she began campaigning for the elections slated for late 2017.

“With Hillary Clinton having been defeated, it is now clear that there is a relationship” between WikiLeaks and the Russian government, said Hennessey.