Holy crap, one of the witnesses, Clinton Watts, is talking about

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

how Trump and his minions repeated the Russians' false information during and after the campaign. And busting on the mainstream media for not fact-checking the crap the Russians plant in social media.

[tallahasseedem]

1. This is scary stuff...

He can't be put out soon enough!

[L. Coyote]

13. One of many holy shit moments during today's Senate Intel Committee hearing

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[Ligyron]

19. Thanks for that and the video.

I'm not near a place I can watch and it looks like this first day is turing out to be more entertaining than I expected.

[stillcool]

20. it's been a long time..

a really long time since I've seen both parties in the same room, doing what I think is their job.

[lindysalsagal]

43. If fRump doesn't immediately publicly agree with Watts, it's treason.

This guy is saying it plainly: Russia is harming us. So, if Frump doesn't go along with Watts, he's already proving he's tied to russia and should be jailed.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

2. Apparently said this too:

Link to tweet

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Heard that, too. Smart guy.

[Gabi Hayes]

4. he's talking about being put on a hit list! as well as other types of being fucked with.

we need an agency of some sort, he says, that can IMMEDIATELY refute the propaganda that's being put out there

how ironic

what grosser irony is there than this phony admin guarding against that????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

[iluvtennis]

33. Agree with him about having agency to refute the propaganda coming into our news/social media

[BlancheSplanchnik]

46. haven't we here at DU all been wanting that for **years**!

Fux and the other right-wing media have been dangerous from the moment they started broadcasting.

[notdarkyet]

21. Holy smokes.

[uponit7771]

44. +1

[AJT]

5. Unless there was a plot with the Russian government

to knowingly use fake news to affect the election then just spreading fake news isn't a problem legally.

[Chasstev365]

6. From say, Goebellsvision, aka Fox News?

[rzemanfl]

7. They would do all this just for shits and giggles? n/t

[AJT]

10. I'm just saying we need proof of Trump/Russian direct

planning. I don't want any wiggle room for them to squeeze through.

[Hoyt]

18. I agree. Apparently this crud has been going on for years. Apparently, we have meddled

in their elections.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/samuel-ramani/why-russia-is-interfering_b_12801892.html

NPR the other day described how Russia has been meddling in French politics for some time.

Unless we tie Trump, or some close aides, with conspiring directly with Russia to sway the election to Trump, we have nothing. I'm hopeful something will turn up in the hearings, or more likely in investigations by the media.

But I'm not counting on it like I did waking up in the middle of the night checking on whether they locked bush or cheney up during the Fitzmas investigations.

[bettyellen]

9. Like if there was a deal to lift sanctions.... oh wait!

[KittyWampus]

16. No, I'd like to see a communication between Russian trolls/sites and Breitbart and InfoWars.

Some where in all this White Supremacists are being ignored.

[L. Coyote]

25. Follow the money. Who paid the troll army working for Trump?

Here they are, all the fake people all forgetting to attach the same link to the same post.

[Gabi Hayes]

36. fancy bears!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028872172

The group behind the hacks is known as Fancy Bear, or APT 28, or Tsar Team, or a dozen other names that have been given to them over the years by cybersecurity researchers. Despite being one of the most reported-on groups of hackers active on the internet today, there is very little researchers can say with absolute certainty. No one knows, for instance, how many hackers are working regularly within Fancy Bear, or how they organize their hacking squads. They don’t know if they are based in one city or scattered in various locations across Russia. They don’t even know what they call themselves.

The group is, according to a White House statement last week, receiving their orders from the highest echelons of the Russian government and their actions “are intended to interfere with the US election process.”

[L. Coyote]

37. We now know that APT 28 malware is out/distributed online and anyone can be using it.

The only solid evidence is an IP in Russia and anyone can rent a server anywhere in the world today.

[Gabi Hayes]

39. can you expand on that, or flip a link? I sort of get your drift,

but would like to follow along

are you saying that it's unbelievably easy to do this?

if so, our national cyber security is horrendously pisspoor, yes?

[L. Coyote]

40. Malware used in the hack thought to be limited 2 group of state hackers has gotten loose on the web.

Someone in the group maybe went rogue or set up private shop for hire, but the malware is no longer a signature of the state hackers, it is available online to any hacker.

[nycbos]

8. I belive he is excellent but they are all good.

[George II]

11. They've brought up the name Manafort a number of times.

[Hekate]

12. KnR. Hope Rachel replays some of this for those of us who don't have CSPAN

[cry baby]

14. You can stream cspan3 live on your computer.

My tv doesn't get cspan3 so that's how I have to listen.

[murielm99]

15. Me too.

Great stuff today!

[cry baby]

17. Follow the dead Russians....powerful...especially since Rachel

has been covering that very thing.

[L. Coyote]

27. The video is online and was posted in Videos and GD.

***** LIVE Blog - Russian Intelligence Activities - Senate Hearing Mar. 30 *****

LIVE feed - Russian Intelligence Activities - Senate Hearing Mar. 30

[Hekate]

29. Thanks! Later, when I have time.

[tblue37]

22. As Bill Maher said right before the election, "Media, DO YOUR F***ING JOB!" nt

[HurricaneWarning]

23. This is the guy who should be in charge of cyber security.

Not Rudy.
He also said we are under utilizing what could be our workforce. We shouldn't turn away our computer geniuses because they smoked pot last year.

[red dog 1]

24. Kick for exposure!

"Follow the trail of dead Russians"

Incredible!

[Eliot Rosewater]

26. Right now, here and everywhere in social media, chats, etc., russian agents

using multiple names, bots, are posting anti Dem party, anti Hillary, etc

You can see it here, you can especially see it in youtube chats of online stuff like Young Turks.

Chances are you are dealing with russia when you see those comments.

[L. Coyote]

28. I was watching them on Twitter slamming the hearing as it was happening.

One I saw has 656,000 tweets. You know that's a bot for sure. Some good tweets too, of course, but you have to wade thru the trolls to find them. They are ruining Twitter, was worst during the campaign though.

Link to tweet

[Eliot Rosewater]

30. Other day I told you I hadnt seen the "Coyote" character on Frankie and Grace

and then I watched another episode and there he was.

Sorry, not important.

Anyway, what is remarkable about all this is how many Americans are good with a fascist dictator in charge.

How can France be considering Le Pen knowing she is a Putinite?

I guess they hate Muslims more than they fear fascism?

[iluvtennis]

34. Not just on twitter, also on Facebook, Instagram, maybe even here on DU...just saying

[world wide wally]

42. We should be calling them all out as Russian bots when we see that shit

[pangaia]

31. OK, help me out here...

Why are republicans in the Senate actually doing something right ---after those in the House just stonewalled and shut everything down?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

32. I think at least a few of them are beginning to figure out

that Trump will go down, sooner or later, and they don't want to be infested with his cooties. Also, Senators don't have to run for re-election every two years so the GOPers on the committee will probably be less influenced by the Trumpistas in their states. The chairman, Burr, was just re-elected, and I've read that he won't be running again when his term expires in 2022, so he's essentially immune from that kind of pressure. He might have also figured out that he has a chance to be the hero, kind of like Howard Baker in the Watergate hearings.

[pangaia]

35. Thanks for taking the time to explain.

[L. Coyote]

38. Did you notice a very different focus today compared to the House?

Russia versus democracies is easy to get behind for everyone. FBI investigating criminal activity of the Republican administration is a bit more to swallow. One is going after collusion, the other is going after an external attack.

[world wide wally]

41. I think the MSM was too busy counting their proceeds as a result of their ratings to give

a shit about truth and lies.

[iluvtennis]

45. Agree

[BainsBane]

47. Not just Trump

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=8875604