We are going to grab Trump by the pussy now!
Humiliation is key to behavior “The success of Joe Biden’s campaign against Donald Trump may ride on his ability to speak to the sense of humiliation and quest for dignity of many Trump supporters, which Hillary Clinton failed to do.” ~ thanks Amy!
NetHappenings Newsletter: Scams, Liars, Cheaters, Thieves, Amazon, Russia, China, Ventilators
TRUMP COMMITTED A FELONY AND THE RETHUGLICANS THAT KNEW ABOUT THE SAME INFORMATION AND ALLOWED TRUMP TO LIE ABOUT IT ALSO NEED TO GO TO JAIL.
Humiliate all the Politicians that get caught.
HEALTH
Apple Design Teams Develop Special Face Masks for Employees
Congressional investigation finds over $1 billion in coronavirus aid fraud
ProPublica: The Trump Administration Is Backing Out of a $647 Million Ventilator Deal After ProPublica Investigated the Price. The government overpaid by hundreds of millions for Philips ventilators, says a House investigation spurred by ProPublica reporting. Now that deal is off and Congress is scrutinizing other coronavirus deals made by trade adviser Peter Navarro.
RUSSIA
Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors
Alexander was the public face of US surveillance during the Snowden leaks
https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/9/21429635/amazon-keith-alexander-board-of-directors-nsa-cyber-command
Russia’s Disinformation and Propaganda Ecosystem
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20200910-russia-s-disinformation-and-propaganda-ecosystem#
Trump loyalists interfered to downplay Russia election threat – whistleblower
Brian Murphy claims he was demoted for refusing to accept fabrication of intelligence to match Donald Trump’s rhetoric
Julian Borger in Washington
Wed 9 Sep 2020 17.31 EDT
Last modified on Wed 9 Sep 2020 21.48 EDT
Trump loyalists running the Department of Homeland Security manipulated intelligence reports to play down the threat of Russian election interference and white supremacists and exaggerate the threat of antifa and anarchist groups, according to the department’s former top intelligence official.
The official, Brian Murphy, said he was demoted in August from his position running the department’s office of intelligence and analysis because of his refusal to go along with the fabrication of intelligence to match Donald Trump’s rhetoric, and for making formal complaints about the political pressure. He filed a whistleblower reprisal complaint on Tuesday.
Murphy was transferred to a DHS management position after his team was found to have collected information on reporters and protesters in Portland, Oregon. In his complaint, he claims the office “never knowingly or deliberately collected information on journalists, at least as far as Mr Murphy is aware or ever authorized”, and he described the reporting as “significantly flawed”.
He insists the real reason for his transfer was his refusal to manipulate vital intelligence on national security.
Murphy alleges that the efforts to falsify DHS intelligence date back to 2018, when the then homeland security secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, asked his office to inflate the numbers of known or suspected terrorists crossing the border with Mexico, in support of Trump’s demand for a border wall.
Murphy says the intelligence identified three such terrorist cases. In December 2018, Nielsen told the House judiciary committee there were 3,755.
According to Murphy’s testimony, Nielsen and her successor, Chad Wolf, continued to exaggerate the terrorist threat at the border in 2019, while being aware of the real figures.
Murphy’s most serious allegations concern the effort to downplay Russian meddling in the election while it was under way. In May this year, Murphy says, Wolf told him “to cease providing intelligence assessments on the threat of Russian interference in the United States, and instead start reporting on interference activities by China and Iran”.
Wolf told Murphy the orders came from the national security adviser, Robert O’Brien.< – >
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/09/trump-whistleblower-russia-election-threat
CHINA Wed, Sep 9th 2020 1:34pm — Karl Bode
We’ve noted a few times how the TikTok ban is largely performative, xenophobic nonsense that operates in a bizarre, facts-optional vacuum.
The biggest pearl clutchers when it comes to the teen dancing app (Josh Hawley, Tom Cotton, etc.) have been utterly absent from (or downright detrimental to) countless other security and privacy reform efforts. Many have opposed even the most basic of privacy rules. They’ve opposed shoring up funding for election security reform. Most are utterly absent when we talk about things like our dodgy satellite network security, the SS7 cellular network flaw exposing wireless communications, or the total lack of any meaningful privacy and security standards for the internet of broken things.
As in, most of the “experts” and politicians who think banning TikTok is a good idea don’t seem to realize it’s not going to genuinely accomplish much in full context. Chinese intelligence can still glean this (and much more data) from a wide variety of sources thanks to our wholesale privacy and security failures on countless other fronts. It’s kind of like banning sugary soda to put out a forest fire, or spitting at a thunderstorm to slow its advance over the horizon.
Yet the latest case in point: Joseph Cox at Motherboard (who has been an absolute wrecking ball on this beat) discovered that private intel firms have been able to easily buy user location data gleaned from phone apps, allowing the tracking of users in immensely granular fashion:< ->
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200902/10580145231/if-were-so-worried-about-tiktok-why-arent-we-just-as-worried-about-adtech-location-data-sales.shtml