How Come No One
Involved in the Russian Hacking Conspiracy Talked?
By Paul Craig Roberts
December 15, 2016 "Information
Clearing House"
- The claims that the Russian government hacked US
voting machines are absurd. Voting machines are not
connected to the Internet. To hack a voting machine you
have to be physically in proximity to the machine and
use a hand held device. The machines can be programmed
to throw the vote count to one candidate or the other,
and there are other ways to interfere with elections.
Possibly if a foreign power had server presence in the
US, some precinct reports of results could be
intercepted and altered, although a voice check over the
telephone is an easy way to verify the electronic
transmission. What is clear is that Russia cannot hack
the voting machines.
What about the
claims that Russia hacked Hillary’s emails and used a
network of 200 Internet websites to convince the
American people to vote for Trump? Wikileaks, which
released the emails, said they were a leak, not a hack,
and that they did not come from Russians. The FBI and
the Director of National Intelligence do not support the
CIA’s claims. Or should we say claims attributed to the
CIA as apparently the source of the claims, like the
source of PropOrNot, is unknown.
And look at the
size of the alleged conspiracy—the Kremlin and 200
websites. Surely someone would have talked!
John McCain says he is sure Russia did something and we
need a congressional investigation to find out what.
Why not start with an investigation of PropOrNot and
what they are up to? We also need an investigation why
Americans living in big cities on the NE and West coasts
were immune to Russian fake news, whereas the
geographical bulk of the country succumbed to the
Russian fake news instead of to the presstitute fake
news that conquered the NE and West coasts.
The FBI says that the claims attributed to the CIA would
not stand up in court. So what are the claims all about?
Who is behind them? Are there elements within the CIA
committing treason by working against president-elect
Trump? Are there elements in the US Congress committing
treason by trying to sway electors with fake news
resting on unattributed claims that the Russians, not
the American people, elected Trump? Why these claims in
the absence of proof?
What we are experiencing in the delegitimization of
Donald Trump is an extraordinary rejection of democracy
by elements in the government and by the presstitutes.
Dr. Paul
Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the
Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week,
Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He
has had many university appointments. His internet
columns have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts'
latest books are
The Failure of
Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the
West,
How America Was
Lost,
and
The
Neoconservative Threat to World Order.
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