Quote Originally Posted by A.E. Bravo View Post
Sounds like a huge part of this is the failure by the US intelligence community to protect 'democracy.' I don't understand why it's shocking that it has been penetrated by a competitor who seeks to reciprocate US actions, given the geopolitical reality.
So you would have wanted the CIA/NSA/whoever to use dirty and violent means to "protect democracy"? Wasn't that one of the most distasteful elements of the American Century? Regardless, our government as a whole should have attended to election security domestically much more assiduously. Ideally it would have been resolved in 2001, but we kicked the can down the bucket, and as with the other things we keep finding out the Russians achieved more than previously thought. (Deadass, if they did modify any voter rolls that would be mildly illegitimate, but the ultimate possible scenario is so dire it can't be discussed in open online spaces.)

It's pioneering unforeseen techniques, up to and including the modification of the election infrastructure through cyber means, and a dystopian level of control over discourse.

The US will probably not have the opportunity to develop these means, which should gratify you. But Russia will continue, as it is doing, to develop them, and this is right up China's alley as well. I hope you like boots stamping on the human face forever!


But let me ask you just this narrow concession, from the narrow perspective of a citizen of the affected country: given what we have learned in the past two years, is it reasonable to desire investigations into our leadership?