Federal Cybersecurity Chief Admits That Yes, Russia Hacked Into US Voting System In 2016

Jeanette Manfra, the head of Cybersecurity at the Department of Homeland Security, said in an interview this week that her department has seen the evidence and that, yes, Russians were able to successfully hack into US voting systems during the 2016 election. This is huge news, and casts significant doubt about the validity of the 2016 Presidential election results, as Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains.

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Jeanette Manfra, the Chief of Cybersecurity at the Department of Homeland Security within the federal government, confirmed to NBC news this week that yes, the Russians did hack into voting systems here in the United States, and in several instances, they were able to successfully penetrate that info.

Now, unfortunately, Miss Manfra's admission there does not go much further than that. We do not know what information these Russians gathered on American citizens. We do not have confirmation that they did or did not change vote totals. All we know is that they absolutely had the ability to do it, and that they attempted to do it.

Here is where we stand right now as a country. In 2016, Homeland Security confirms that Russians, and again, we still don't even know what that means ... was it just people who happened to be Russian citizens, or was this directed by the Russian government? Nonetheless, Russians successfully penetrated the voting systems in several states during the 2016 presidential election. This information is corroborated by several other intelligence agencies in the United States, so yes, this happened.

Where we stand right now: Donald Trump recently decided that he wasn't going to impose new sanctions on Russia, even though only five members of the House and Senate combined voted against these sanctions that were approved by the House and Senate. Basically, you have broad bipartisan support for new sanctions against Russia, and Donald Trump says, "Nah. We don't need those. Why would we need those?" Because they're attempting to hack into our elections, and basically install a fraudulent president, possibly.

We've already been warned, including by Rex Tillerson, Donald Trump's Secretary of State, that they are likely going to target the 2018 mid-term elections, and Donald Trump is sitting on his hands, doing absolutely nothing about this. What's almost as bad as that is the fact that we still have people in this country that want to deny that there was any kind of Russian influence. Well, guess what, folks? It happened. The evidence is there. Move on, and do something about it. Stop saying that it didn't happen. That's not true. We know now that it did.

Look, I'll be totally honest. When this first started coming out, a little over a year ago, I was very skeptical about it. I expressed that skepticism, and I said, "Let's wait and see what other information comes out." As more and more information has come out, my views on it have evolved, as one does. Now there is no denying it anymore. They did hack into our voting systems. Homeland Security confirms it. Other intelligence agencies confirm it.

They're warning us now that they want to do it again in 2018, and the administration will do absolutely nothing about it, because he knows that if it were not for their interference, he wouldn't be President today.