Maybe if they conducted the briefings at Trump Tower, and the Director of National Intelligence had to pay rent, Donald would show up . . . not that he would understand any of it.
And the Republicans haven’t been? You guys are so use to your kindergarten propaganda you can’t carry on a decent conversation, much less an actual debate of any kind. Too lazy.
Two teams of independent researchers found that the Russians exploited American-made technology platforms to attack U.S. democracy at a particularly vulnerable moment, as an insurgent candidate harnessed a wide range of grievances to claim the White House. The sophistication of the Russian tactics may complicate efforts by Facebook and Google to crack down on “fake news,” as they have vowed to do after widespread complaints about the problem.
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There is no way to know whether the Russian campaign proved decisive in electing Trump, but researchers portray it as part of a broadly effective strategy of sowing distrust in U.S. democracy and its leaders. The tactics included penetrating the computers of election officials in several states and releasing troves of hacked emails that embarrassed Clinton in the final months of her campaign.
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“They want to essentially erode faith in the U.S. government or U.S. government interests,” said Clint Watts, a fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute who along with two other researchers has tracked Russian propaganda since 2014. “This was their standard mode during the Cold War. The problem is that this was hard to do before social media.”
It is hard to find anyone more passionate about the idea of steering public dollars away from traditional public schools than Betsy DeVos, Donald J. Trump’s pick as the cabinet secretary overseeing the nation’s education system.
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For nearly 30 years, as a philanthropist, activist and Republican fund-raiser, she has pushed to give families taxpayer money in the form of vouchers to attend private and parochial schools, pressed to expand publicly funded but privately run charter schools, and tried to strip teacher unions of their influence.
A daughter of privilege, she also married into it; her husband, Dick, who ran unsuccessfully for governor of Michigan a decade ago, is heir to the Amway fortune.
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Conservative school choice activists hailed her on Wednesday as a fellow disrupter, and as someone who would block what they see as federal intrusion on local schools.
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Last spring, the DeVos-backed group was the chief force behind the defeat of legislation that would have established standards for identifying and closing failing schools, both charter and public, in Detroit, where a flood of charter schools in the past decade has created what even charter school supporters call chaos.
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Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, called Ms. DeVos “the most ideological, anti-public education nominee” since the secretary of education was elevated to the cabinet level four decades ago.
Trump will just “open up” government by having his classified briefings moved to Twitter so the Russians don’t have to waste their time and effort getting access to our secrets, or attacking our security infrastructure.
lopaka over 7 years ago
Hey trumpster, truth hurt a bit?
Stan King over 7 years ago
Obama has ignored or skipped intelligence briefings for years. Where’s the outrage?
Melki Premium Member over 7 years ago
Maybe if they conducted the briefings at Trump Tower, and the Director of National Intelligence had to pay rent, Donald would show up . . . not that he would understand any of it.
kurt.zwicky over 7 years ago
Any intelligence briefing for Trump is really an oxymoron….
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 7 years ago
&Alec Baldwin had done such a great job acting as Trump on Saturday Night Live, now Alec Baldwin is upset that Trump is President. Quite amusing.*
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To you perhaps, I doubt the entire world is. Except for Putin of course.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 7 years ago
The dummycrats have always been one-sided..
And the Republicans haven’t been? You guys are so use to your kindergarten propaganda you can’t carry on a decent conversation, much less an actual debate of any kind. Too lazy.
Happy Two Shoes over 7 years ago
Crooked Trump the liar has no need of intelligence, he gets his news from the National Enquirer and passes it down to his ignorant sycophants.
Happy Two Shoes over 7 years ago
Trump sycophants fell for Russian propaganda.
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Two teams of independent researchers found that the Russians exploited American-made technology platforms to attack U.S. democracy at a particularly vulnerable moment, as an insurgent candidate harnessed a wide range of grievances to claim the White House. The sophistication of the Russian tactics may complicate efforts by Facebook and Google to crack down on “fake news,” as they have vowed to do after widespread complaints about the problem.
.
There is no way to know whether the Russian campaign proved decisive in electing Trump, but researchers portray it as part of a broadly effective strategy of sowing distrust in U.S. democracy and its leaders. The tactics included penetrating the computers of election officials in several states and releasing troves of hacked emails that embarrassed Clinton in the final months of her campaign.
.
“They want to essentially erode faith in the U.S. government or U.S. government interests,” said Clint Watts, a fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute who along with two other researchers has tracked Russian propaganda since 2014. “This was their standard mode during the Cold War. The problem is that this was hard to do before social media.”
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/russian-propaganda-effort-helped-spread-fake-news-during-election-experts-say/2016/11/24/793903b6-8a40-4ca9-b712-716af66098fe_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_propaganda-8pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
Happy Two Shoes over 7 years ago
It is hard to find anyone more passionate about the idea of steering public dollars away from traditional public schools than Betsy DeVos, Donald J. Trump’s pick as the cabinet secretary overseeing the nation’s education system.
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For nearly 30 years, as a philanthropist, activist and Republican fund-raiser, she has pushed to give families taxpayer money in the form of vouchers to attend private and parochial schools, pressed to expand publicly funded but privately run charter schools, and tried to strip teacher unions of their influence.
A daughter of privilege, she also married into it; her husband, Dick, who ran unsuccessfully for governor of Michigan a decade ago, is heir to the Amway fortune.
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Conservative school choice activists hailed her on Wednesday as a fellow disrupter, and as someone who would block what they see as federal intrusion on local schools.
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Last spring, the DeVos-backed group was the chief force behind the defeat of legislation that would have established standards for identifying and closing failing schools, both charter and public, in Detroit, where a flood of charter schools in the past decade has created what even charter school supporters call chaos.
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Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, called Ms. DeVos “the most ideological, anti-public education nominee” since the secretary of education was elevated to the cabinet level four decades ago.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/23/us/politics/betsy-devos-trumps-education-pick-has-steered-money-from-public-schools.html?_r=0
Dtroutma over 7 years ago
Trump will just “open up” government by having his classified briefings moved to Twitter so the Russians don’t have to waste their time and effort getting access to our secrets, or attacking our security infrastructure.