Remember When the Russians Hacked the White House’s Computers?
"You probably don’t. We broke the story on Power Line in October 2014, writing about it here, here, here, here, here and here.
The White House’s computers were down for weeks because of the
intrusion by a “foreign power,” which the administration finally
identified as Russia.
It wasn’t just the White House, either; it was the entire Executive
Office of the President, which comprises a good chunk of the executive
branch. Nor was that all: the State Department’s computer system was
hacked, too.
Only when the election was safely over did news outlets like CNN
report the story (“How the U.S. thinks Russians hacked the White
House”). Throughout, the Obama administration minimized the story,
claiming that no harm was done and only unclassified material was
accessed–an excuse that, as CNN wrote post-election, “belies the
seriousness of the intrusion.”
Now, the same news outlets that refused to cover the Russian
government’s hacking into White House and State Department computers and
email systems try to tell us that an intrusion into Debbie Wasserman
Schultz’s and John Podesta’s email accounts by someone–allegedly the
same Russian government–is a story of world-historical importance. What a
load of bulls–t."
[Power Line]
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