Archives for February 2018

“The U.S. intelligence community developed substantial evidence that state websites or voter registration systems in seven states were compromised by Russian-backed covert operatives prior to the 2016 election — but never told the states involved,” NBC News reports.

The states: Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Texas and Wisconsin.

“Top-secret intelligence requested by President Obama in his last weeks in office identified seven states where analysts — synthesizing months of work — had reason to believe Russian operatives had compromised state websites or databases…The officials say systems in the seven states were compromised in a variety of ways, with some breaches more serious than others, from entry into state websites to penetration of actual voter registration databases.”

Joseph Mifsud, a Maltese professor “who allegedly delivered word of Hillary Clinton’s stolen emails to Donald Trump’s campaign,” is missing, BuzzFeed News reports.

“His biography disappeared from one university where he taught and he quit his job at another university. His email and cell phones went dead. And politicians, colleagues and journalists can’t find him.”

“Neither can Anna, his 31-year-old Ukrainian fiancee, who says he is the father of her newborn child. And her story, snatched from the pages of a John le Carré novel, offers a glimpse at the human collateral damage of an intelligence operation in which the mysterious Mifsud was allegedly a central figure.”

“All the evidence I’ve seen so far indicates that there is much more interference from the U.S. government than the Russian government.”

— Former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, in a CNN interview, denying any Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.