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# Is Homeland Security 'Colluding' With Putin?

by Tyler Durden
Oct 7, 2017 1:20 PM
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Authored by James Durso via RealClearDefense.com,

Two weeks ago, we were treated to the alarming news that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) notified 21 states their election systems were hacked by the Russians.

This was a twofer for the media as it confirmed the “Russia did it” narrative behind Hillary Clinton’s 2016 election loss, and it gave the weekend talking heads something to chatter about other than the NFL.

The alarm lasted four days, to the following Tuesday, when DHS reversed itself and admitted the Russians did not hack Wisconsin's election system.

Shoe #2 dropped on Thursday when the California Secretary of State rebutted the DHS claim and pointed out the DHS information was not just wrong but also a year late. On Friday, Texas declared it “determined conclusively” it was not targeted by hackers and asked DHS to correct its claims to the contrary.

Next time, DHS should hire the Geek Squad.

If Vladimir Putin is a religious man, he is praying that DHS keeps it up. DHS served up “fake news” so weak it was dead in one week. By comparison, the Czarist-era Protocols of the Elders of Zion is still going strong after a century.

This case will be unfurled in the future when DHS gets it right (I can dream, can’t I?) and catches Kremlin agent Boris Badenov Red-handed.

It's fun to have a laugh at a hapless bureaucrat’s expense, but these public misfires affect our foreign policy.

In today’s networked world, no news is “for local consumption only.”

DHS’s sloppy work allows the Russian government to highlight another example of the ongoing project by the secular, relativistic West to weaken Orthodox Christianity and Russian’s unique culture.

This is not overly-dramatic. In the U.S. “fascist” has latterly (since 8 November 2016) meant “Republican”; in Russia, it connotes a serious menace they have not forgotten. Russia lost about 14% of its population in World War II and felt its sacrifice in the defeat of (real) Fascism saved Europe from a negotiated peace with Hitler.

Russia has traditionally been invaded overland, to wit, the Mongols, the Swedish Empire, the Teutonic Knights, Napoleon, the Nazis. More recently it was menaced by Cold War NATO and the color revolutions. Its national security leadership now says war will be fought in the information space in addition to sea, sky, and land. The Kremlin assumes we are doing it the way they do it, only not as well.

It’s irrelevant if Putin believes everything he says; he probably believes much of it (and has a “public position” and a “private position”), and the Russian voters believe it, too. They might all be wrong, but this is politics, not a physics problem.

The Russians surely snooped on the candidates in 2016 because that’s what governments do. Putin may interpret our intramural fight over alleged Russian election hacking as the “provocation” to prepare the American people for sanctions and military action against Russia because that’s what he would do.

We cannot expect every bureaucrat to think of the foreign policy implications of his work, but slip-ups may make an adversary over-confident or, conversely, force his hand in response to a popular outcry. If the government gets it right, the U.S. will not be gifting Mr. Putin a bushel of whataboutism.

If Homeland Security had a year to get the word out, it had a year to get it right.

- Vladimir Putin
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Genby Oct 7, 2017 1:26 PM

Happy birthday, Putin!

https://i.imgflip.com/faupi.jpg

BennyBoy Genby Oct 7, 2017 1:52 PM

So many lies by the .gov from the prez, the cabinet, reports, military, NSA/CIA, congress....

Why dont they shut the fuck up?

I'd be better off, and probably you and the rest of the world, too.

Chupacabra-322 BennyBoy Oct 7, 2017 1:56 PM

@ Benny,

The Imperial model of American diplomacy has collapsed and they are helpless in the face of Russian diplomacy that offers a fair deal.
Rather than reassess their model, the empire has decided on a policy of plunging into chaos any state that does not bend over.

Syria Libya and Iraq are victims of this model. If they seem to be rallying under the Russian banner because the Russians offer stability and their Chinese partners, prosperity.

What does the empire have to offer?

Threats, war, oppression, debt, and corrupt treasonous puppet leaders.

Who is going to win this race?

The only way America can save itself is to purge the deep state traitors who put the empire before the Republic.

They will lose both and gain nothing.

yomutti2 Chupacabra-322 Oct 7, 2017 3:09 PM

It's laughable how far Russia has fallen. When I was growing up, it was the core of the Soviey Union, one of the most frightening powers on Earth. We spent frantically trying to match their perceived military might and world influence.

Nowadays, the rest of the Soviet Union has told Russia to fuck off and leave them alone; they are reduced to military adventures in pissant places like Syria (and they can barely afford that), and their most frightening influence is placing fake ads on the webpages of successful America companies. So yeah, Putin, enjoy your birthday while thinking of what's happened to Russia during your lifetime. Hey cheer up, at least the Admiral Kuznetsov made it through the English Channel without needing a tow.

Ha ha ha.

Theta_Burn yomutti2 Oct 7, 2017 3:23 PM

Never go full retard..

Just stick with your mama wears combat boot jokes..

SmittyinLA Theta_Burn Oct 7, 2017 5:40 PM

http://kron4.com/2017/10/06/first-graders-your-mama-insults-possibly-led...

peddling-fiction yomutti2 Oct 7, 2017 3:37 PM

Your flaccid butthurt is entertaining.

Took Red Pill peddling-fiction Oct 7, 2017 3:50 PM

These aren't mishaps, mistakes, blunders. It is intentional. Even if they are proven wrong, the damage is done. Most Americans believe all the garbage they are being fed by the media. They don't hear the retractions or corrections. Mission accomplished.

sun tzu peddling-fiction Oct 7, 2017 4:39 PM

Faggots are often butthurt

FreedomWriter yomutti2 Oct 7, 2017 4:35 PM

You should read more, dude.

kochevnik yomutti2 Oct 7, 2017 5:08 PM

But now your Poland and Ukraine are world powers /s

Urban Roman Genby Oct 7, 2017 2:02 PM

Everybody is colluding with Putin, that's just how sneaky he is!

peddling-fiction Urban Roman Oct 7, 2017 2:16 PM

Fine-tuned correction: Because the zio-US empire is so sneaky and collusive, most everybody prefers to strike a deal with Russia.

nmewn peddling-fiction Oct 7, 2017 2:24 PM

I would like to take this opportunity to posthumously honor & thank Stanislov Petrov who died back in September and was a thinking man, decidedly not a robot.

Ignatius nmewn Oct 7, 2017 2:35 PM

Good call on Stanislov.

As for election tampering, let's first get the Israel lobby off our collective dick.

MozartIII Genby Oct 7, 2017 3:55 PM

He dosen't drink.

Robert Trip Oct 7, 2017 1:28 PM

Where's my unbelievable health care and tax cut.

That's what I voted for!

otschelnik Oct 7, 2017 1:31 PM

Deep Homeland State, conspiring with Brennan, Comey, et.al. to maintain the narrative. -Yawn- So who likes the Cubs over the Nationals this evening? Not watching football anymore.

Son of Captain Nemo Oct 7, 2017 1:38 PM

Is Homeland Security 'Colluding' With Putin?

Only in as far as Putin turned a blind eye to a genuine investigation of the facts that spawned that U.S. Agency and sang from the same sheet of music on the "official findings" with the 9/11 Commission Report narrative that 19 guys with "box cutters" DID IT!

Sad that he didn't make himself the "spring board" for the Truth Movement all those years ago and "what might have been" had he done so... But placing it into context with the U.S. funding Russian separatists 10 years before 9/11 that killed thousands of Russian on CIA funded money $$$ and you begin to understand that the "timing" wasn't quite there yet for the Russians at that stage of their rebuilding...

In a sentence?...

V. Putin hates America for it's delusional paranoid arrogance and stupidity. AND RIGHTFULLY SO!!!

Smart enough to realize after the 9/11 pretext was "minted" that Amerikansy is just too fucking stupid and more importantly greedy to understand what is happening to them and neither he or the rest of the Russian government would be teachers to a physics class the American people en masse chose instead to ignore!

SO BYE... BYE... Miss American PIE!

tmosley Oct 7, 2017 1:33 PM

>the Czarist-era Protocols of the Elders of Zion is still going strong after a century.

>The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion is fake news

Get a load of this bluepilled fuck.

opport.knocks tmosley Oct 7, 2017 1:45 PM

Fake news - likely. Accurate prophesy of future behaviour - also likely.

Like Edgar Cayce’s forecast “out of Russia comes hope for the world”.

East Indian tmosley Oct 7, 2017 1:48 PM

The author also means that the Protocols is fake; he compares its century-old circulation with the 4 days long DHS fake news.

MEFOBILLS East Indian Oct 7, 2017 2:26 PM

Henry Ford: It fits.

Protocols actually understate facts:

https://www.henrymakow.com/2017/07/protocols-of-zion-understates-.html

peddling-fiction MEFOBILLS Oct 7, 2017 3:00 PM

The Protocols + the Pike-Mazzini letter is what you need to know as their basic game plan; it has played out in real life 3/4's of the way or more. These psychopaths are on their final act that will probably begin in earnest this Oct-Nov.

Heads up and no fear.

koan Oct 7, 2017 1:34 PM

I'm still puzzled people accept the term "homeland" so easily, I mean come on... it just sounds like a scam.

AlaricBalth koan Oct 7, 2017 1:42 PM

Homeland. Fatherland. Motherland. Not much difference.

"Fatherland’ can be linked to the WW2 era, having featured heavily in newsreels about Nazi Germany. The German Vaterland was used in wartime state propaganda and nationalist rhetoric..."

http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2015/05/identity-crisis-motherland-fa...

MozartIII AlaricBalth Oct 7, 2017 3:56 PM

Brought to you by the marxist obama.

Billy the Poet koan Oct 7, 2017 1:45 PM

If we need a Department of Homeland Security then what does the Defense Department do?

PodissNM Billy the Poet Oct 7, 2017 5:21 PM

DHS was just an end run around the posse comitatus act. I guess at the time they didn't think they could get away with simply repealing it.

Chupacabra-322 Oct 7, 2017 1:47 PM

Yea, because it's was DHS that was doing the post hacking in Georgia.

No question they were targeted. You know by who?

D. ept.

of

H. uman.

S. acrifice.

That's who.

Brian Kemp sent a letter to DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson asking for an explanation of this attempted breach into their networks.
Cyber Scoop reported:

Georgia’s secretary of state has claimed the Department of Homeland Security tried to breach his office’s firewall and has issued a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson asking for an explanation.

Brian Kemp issued a letter to Johnson on Thursday after the state’s third-party cybersecurity provider detected an IP address from the agency’s Southwest D.C. office trying to penetrate the state’s firewall. According to the letter, the attempt was unsuccessful.

The attempt took place on Nov. 15, a few days after the presidential election. The office of the Georgia Secretary of State is responsible for overseeing the state’s elections.

“At no time has my office agreed to or permitted DHS to conduct penetration testing or security scans of our network,” Kemp wrote in the letter, which was also sent to the state’s federal representatives and senators. “Moreover, your department has not contacted my office since this unsuccessful incident to alert us of any security event that would require testing or scanning of our network. This is especially odd and concerning since I serve on the Election Cyber Security Working Group that your office created.”

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/12/wth-georgias-secretary-state-oba...

Atomizer Chupacabra-322 Oct 7, 2017 2:08 PM

Always run a penetration test when live. Not after the fact. You data dump. Just ran one on Motley fool running stories on Zerohedge.

Outstanding network he has. It passed with my five golden star approval. Couldn't find any leaks. Even sniffing for open ports. It was locked down.

Atomizer Oct 7, 2017 1:50 PM

Guess who is still in Russia?

NSA Never Busts israel. Ever! - YouTube

I never trusted this dog mut.

Chupacabra-322 Atomizer Oct 7, 2017 2:06 PM

@ Atom,

Operation Talpiot (Mossad) is a 40 year plan of full spectrum domination of the information telecommunication industry..worldwide.

It's an ongoing operation since the 70's and they have kill switches everywhere. The treasonous and corrupt US .gov has transported all the technology industry to Tel Aviv.

I don't give a flying fuck that they are possibly watching me. I know who the enemy is, that's all that counts.

Atomizer Chupacabra-322 Oct 7, 2017 2:15 PM

I'll look into. Dad and Grandpa worked for Ohio Bell. I never heard this before. They were doing underground cable projects and fiber optic development programs, dad.. not grandpa. Thanks.

Atomizer Chupacabra-322 Oct 7, 2017 2:44 PM

http://mediawhores.co.nz/2017/04/05/operation-talpiot-israels-kill-switc...

It's impossible. Was discussing this yesterday with two friends. I have two backup routers. 4 channel. Give them SN and MAC ID. I setup security. It's multi layer. They can't get in. Rentals are the vulnerable suspect. Free pipeline to access your computer. That's how Google is running it's algorithm.

Itsarap Oct 7, 2017 1:50 PM

Blah Blah,More waste of energy Kabuki-theater!LOL!!!!

Kefeer Oct 7, 2017 1:51 PM

Evil always colludes with evil; so what is the mystery here?

Fartsnifferbuffet Oct 7, 2017 1:52 PM

putin is a crypton jew lol do your research people

chunga Oct 7, 2017 1:53 PM

Julian Assange on line 1. Hello? Anybody home?

Fartsnifferbuffet Oct 7, 2017 1:54 PM

putins mother maria ivanovna shelomova jew so that makes him a crypto jew

messystateofaffairs Fartsnifferbuffet Oct 7, 2017 2:08 PM

Must be why she secretly put him under Christs protection, because she is a crypto khazar whose tribe confuses Satan with God.

https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/putin-christened-in-secret-from-his-...

Herdee Oct 7, 2017 1:58 PM

Have the politicians been given a special pill to restore their sanity?

messystateofaffairs Oct 7, 2017 1:59 PM

I dunno, i kind of think of Putin as worldland security. Good to see we have at least one smart and sane leader in the world, goes to show its possible. Donny Dumbfuck is a royal dissapointment, but considering who he hung out with in business it was more than a little likely.

Reaper Oct 7, 2017 2:11 PM

No consequences for bureaucratic failure.

VWAndy Oct 7, 2017 2:17 PM

Its team fiat vs every honest person on the planet.

Mena Arkansas Oct 7, 2017 2:34 PM

If Vladimir Putin is a religious man, he is praying that DHS keeps it up. DHS served up “fake news” so weak it was dead in one week. By comparison, the Czarist-era Protocols of the Elders of Zion is still going strong after a century.

I guess the author is suggesting the protocols are "fake" which has never been proven. A swiss court ruled they were a "forgery". Hardly the same thing.

Every goy should read the protocols and decide for themselves.

The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion (Full Audiobook)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI1A9MPcipM&t=6888s

And listen to what Dr. Karl Radl has determined with the most in-depth research into the protocols so far conducted.

Dr. Karl Radl - The Protocols [Nick Spero]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeWWVG6Xi50

In the words of Henry Ford, "The only statement I care to make about the Protocols is that they fit in with what is going on... They have fitted the world situation up to this time. They fit it now"

http://spartacus-educational.com/USAford.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xdogBS5Nrw&t=46s

Father ¢hristmas Mena Arkansas Oct 7, 2017 3:19 PM

The Protocols are fake, and just slanderous propaganda against God's© specially chosen people to rule over non-Jewish human cattle forever.

Even though we are animals compared to Jews, and are totally deserving of being raped, molested, deceived, swindled, cheated, robbed, murdered, and enslaved per the Babylonian Talmud, Jews are our friends.

They are a peaceful people who desire nothing moar than a land promised to them in their religious texts by an omnipresent, omnipotent supernatural being that they worship.

So let us stop with the antisemitism and mischaracterizations of the Jewish race.

Everyone knows Arabs control Hollywood and Wall Street, anyway. It is practically an open secret.

Swamp Yankee Oct 7, 2017 2:26 PM

@ this point would'nt it B easier for them to make a list of who is not in the bag for Putin?

xrxs Oct 7, 2017 2:28 PM

Great piece, James. "another example of the ongoing project by the secular, relativistic West to weaken Orthodox Christianity and Russian’s unique culture" I'm sure runs well with Trump supporters. Since WMD, skepticism is mainstream, culturally there are high expectations, and, since the media has become more democratized, their work will be checked, the conclusions not simply repeated verbatim by MSM. This is how it's worked for over a century (or more), and, in the Internet age, the playbook needs to change.

FreedomWriter xrxs Oct 7, 2017 4:12 PM

Well as Old Abe said (or was it Will Rogers?):

"You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time"

Trump voters have figured this out. Now this little aphorism is slowly trickling down to ex-Democrats.

Come over folks, we're waiting.

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