#new DNI Tulsi Gabbard declassified a memo that the spy community wrote in 2020, right before the presidential election warning about vulnerabilities in Election Infrastructure.
The memo proves conspiracy theorists were right all along about foreign government hacking into US election systems.
It was kept hidden through the 2020 election, 2022 midterms, 2024 presidential elections until now.
Conservatives say this memo proves that the intelligence community and Biden-era officials played politics with election security.
The memo details how the government knew the risks, and knew the American people would lose trust if the risks were made public, so they chose to keep it quiet.
The 6-year delay is being called a suppression of facts.
Anyone who was concerned about hacking or voter databases were immediately labeled an ‘election denier’ by the Democrats and the media.
But now, those ‘election denier’ claims are being backed up by the memo.
The memo revealed:
Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea all had the capability to compromise U.S. election infrastructure ahead of the 2020 vote. The memo revealed this months before any ballots were cast.
Russia had already compromised election networks in all 50 states during the 2016 election.
This went beyond the public story of email hacks and social-media meddling; it included direct access to state and local systems.
The softest targets were not the voting machines themselves.
The memo highlighted voter registration databases, electronic poll books, and ballot vendors as the weakest links.
Many of these systems had no real password policies, outdated software, or poor basic security.
Hackers at the DefCon 2019 conference in Las Vegas compromised more than 100 certified voting machines.
The event, which was supposed to be a security research exercise, showed how easy it was for real-world attackers to break into equipment still used in elections.
The intelligence community also warned that even publicizing that there were vulnerabilities, even if no votes were changed, would “undermine public confidence” in the election.
They talked about the toxic information environment that would follow the 2020 vote before a single ballot dropped, predicting exactly the kind of distrust and division that played out anyway.
Conservatives say there is a legitimate need to protect sources and methods, but there is no excuse for hiding the warning about election-system weaknesses for six years.****
Critics question Why the government’s intelligence agencies get to decide what information voters are allowed to see?
They point out that there is no excuse for hiding the fact the four adversary nations have the capability to compromise American elections.
For years anyone who suggested that foreign governments were hacking into US election systems were labeled conspiracy theorists or election deniers – but the memo proves it was all true
