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Mira

(22,378 posts)
Mon Dec 12, 2016, 12:35 PM Dec 2016

Senator Mitch McConnell supports Inquiry of Russian Hacking During Election

Source: NY Times


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/12/us/politics/mcconnell-supports-inquiry-of-russian-hacking-during-election.html?emc=edit_na_20161212&nlid=28208667&ref=cta

Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader, said on Monday that he supported congressional investigations of possible Russian cyberattacks to influence the American election.
But Mr. McConnell stopped short of saying whether he agreed that Russia interfered in the election in support of Donald J. Trump, and he repeatedly declined to address the president-elect’s attack on the Central Intelligence Agency.

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ananda

(28,779 posts)
3. Well, he certainly has the courage to be a craven coward.
Mon Dec 12, 2016, 12:40 PM
Dec 2016

Nearly all the Reeps do.

I mean, who's going to hold them accountable?

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
2. fuck mcconnell
Mon Dec 12, 2016, 12:40 PM
Dec 2016

playing politics....called distract from the disaster walking into the WH very soon. These evil people are in the back rooms laughing at their 'leader' and probably thanking their demons that they will have such a tool to work with.

Botany

(70,281 posts)
4. New York Magazine: McConnell chose the Republican Party over protecting his country
Mon Dec 12, 2016, 12:44 PM
Dec 2016
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512652244

Trump, McConnell, Putin, and the Triumph of the Will to Power

"Even the most cynical observer of McConnell — a cynical man to his bones — would have been
shocked at his raw partisanship. Presented with an attack on the sanctity of his own country’s
democracy by a hostile foreign power, his overriding concern was party over country."

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/12/trump-mcconnell-putin-and-the-triumph-of-the-will-to-power.html

Of the many things that resulted in Donald Trump’s election, from Hillary Clinton’s own errors to James Comey’s extraordinary insinuations against her in the contest’s final stages, Russian hacking played a meaningful enough role to tilt a razor-tight contest. Russia successfully riled up Bernie Sanders die-hards against the Democratic Party by leaking minor intrigue that fueled their suspicions, aggravating a Clinton liability with young voters that never healed. They also dribbled out enough emails in the succeeding months to keep stories using the word “emails” in the lead of Hillary Clinton news, adding more smoke to the haze of scandal that permeated coverage of her campaign.

We now know with near-certainty that Russia did this with the goal of electing Trump president. During the campaign, this reality was not quite certain enough to be reported as fact. Trump, of course, insisted there was no evidence Russia even had a hand in the attacks, let alone with the goal of helping him. (It “could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds.”) Elements of the left decried suspicions of Russia’s role as “neo-McCarthyism.” The Nation editorialized, “ liberal-media elites have joined with the Clinton campaign in promoting the narrative of a devious Russian cyber-attack.” Others on the left insisted that the substance of the stolen emails command far more importance than their provenance, which in any case was disputed and unknowable. On October 31, the New York Times reported that the attack was probably “aimed at disrupting the presidential election rather than electing Mr. Trump.”

Friday, the Washington Post reported that the CIA had concluded well before November that Russia specifically sought to elect Trump. The CIA’s analysis is obviously not infallible, but it fits with a wide array of other evidence. Russia had a clear motive: chilly relations with the Democratic administration that had orchestrated sanctions against it, close ties with Donald Trump and several of his advisers, and a series of pro-Russian positions from Trump on such issues as Crimea, NATO, and Vladimir Putin’s human rights abuses. Russia also hacked the Republican National Committee but declined to release any of the contents. The disruption was intentionally one-sided. The CIA’s conclusion merely lends incrementally more confidence to a deduction that was already fairly obvious.

wordpix

(18,652 posts)
12. I think the 400 lb person sitting on the bed is the hacker
Mon Dec 12, 2016, 03:07 PM
Dec 2016
just like Trump reasoned. McConnell, stick your head back in your turtle shell til this is over. You're in the way
 

KittyWampus

(55,894 posts)
5. All that's left is to speculate what kompromat the Russians have on him. He needs to recuse himself.
Mon Dec 12, 2016, 12:46 PM
Dec 2016

His wife is benefitting from Russian interference.

His only role in these hearings will be to spread doubt and confusion.

napi21

(45,806 posts)
7. Better late than never. McTurtle is an AH, and coud have sided with the Con but didn't.
Mon Dec 12, 2016, 12:48 PM
Dec 2016

Dislike him as I do, I'm glad he's moving forward with this. Being in the minority eevery where you look, wed have to be happy for the crumbs we get.

JohnnyRingo

(18,580 posts)
8. So he can put himself in a leadership position.
Mon Dec 12, 2016, 12:59 PM
Dec 2016

He knows it can't be ignored (his usual strategy) so he'll try to be appointed top senate leader in the investigation and hinder it from there.

Just my guess.

suegeo

(2,571 posts)
14. He'll hinder the investigation and throw squid ink
Mon Dec 12, 2016, 10:05 PM
Dec 2016

McConnell is a co-conspirator in coup 2016. His job is now to cover things up, not let the rest of us (people who can still think and aren't insane due to Russian and 30 years of fascist/republican propaganda) piece together how these traitors did the coup.

My vague memory of the Iran Contra crimes was that Dick Cheney or some other such republican committee granted immunity to the crooks in the Reagan (dementia)/Bush 1 administration. The violation of the Boland amendment, the blue rinse brigade and other schemes to raise money for the crimes that Congress would not fund, arms for hostages, hostages released when the dementia president took office, illegal mining in Honduras, etc. etc. Congress held the purse strings, would not fund the republican's shit, so Ollie North and Poindexter found other ways to illegally fund it.

This immunity and other Dick tricks prevented Lawrence Walsh the special prosecutor from fully going after the crooks.

Bush 1 pardoned Cap Weinberger, which was unheard of. Until that point only people who were serving a conviction for at least 7 years were even considered for a pardon. I don't think Cap had served any time. Hell, he may not even have been questioned at length by Walsh at that point. Autocratic, republican, Bush crime family. Walsh wrote a book about what went down, and what Bush 1 did was what disgusted Walsh the most. It's been awhile since I read the book, but not long enough to make me forget that republicans are lying, unpatriotic, self-serving monsters.

They should have been punished and Reagan should have been impeached. But they weren't.

And then many of these Iran-Contra douche bags ended up in the admin of Bush II (who himself was also put into place by a Judicial coup, stolen election year 2000).

Republicans are awful, have no shame. Don't care about much other than money.

McConnell is a republican actor in Coup 2016. His job is to cover the tracks of the conspirators in the coup. How exactly he'll do it, we may find out or maybe they will successfully bury this shit from sight too.

Loki

(3,825 posts)
10. Bet he looked up the punishment for being a convicted traitor.
Mon Dec 12, 2016, 01:51 PM
Dec 2016

CYA won't cover it this time Turtle Man.

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