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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMcCain doubles down on calls for select committee to investigate Russia's involvement in election
Sen. John McCain on Sunday doubled down on his call for a select committee to investigate Russia's role in the presidential election while dismissing comments from Donald Trump about the matter.
"We need to get to the bottom of this. We need to find out what was done," the Arizona Republican said on CNN's "State of the Union."
"There's no doubt they were interfering, and no doubt there was a cyber attack."
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McCain said while he hasn't heard Trump criticize Russian President Vladimir Putin, he suspects that "reality is going to intercede at one point or another."
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"The fact is that they're hacking every single day in other areas of our military and other aspects of American life, and we have no strategy, nor do we have any policy toward that," he said.
"This is serious business," McCain said.
"If they're able to do harm to the electoral process, then they can destroy democracy."
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http://thehill.com/homenews/news/310924-mccain-calls-for-select-committee-to-investigate-russias-involvement-in
gordianot
(15,251 posts)I do not see much support for this concern in the Republican Party.
HoneyBadger
(2,297 posts)Not sure that anyone in the administration wants that to be the headline. Though Crowdstrike published it a long time ago.
For geeks, their original Miniduke malware was written in Assembler.
By the way, all the ads that you see on DU and elsewhere, the miracle cream to cure diabetes, guess what, hacker clickbait.
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CanonRay
(14,132 posts)they have destroyed democracy. It can be fixed, but we seem to lack the will to fix it. We've know about voting problems and hacking since at least 2000...16 freaking years and haven't done shit. I at least partially blame the Dem party for not making this a priority after Gore "lost". The Russians were the last nail in the coffin.
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)The Russians ARE a threat and i am glad this old guard republican is not going to stay silent.
blue neen
(12,335 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)The final report will blame Obama for some cock-amamie- ideal,being,Obama did not have a policy against Russia. Therefore,it is that Guy in our White House who allowed this to happen.
Guyechka
(25 posts)are pissed off at Obama's lack of action. Rightly so. Could he have tried harder, done more? Yes! Is it his fault that Russia hacked the election? Hell no!
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)lays at the feet of our Intelligence Agencies. Obama is a traditionalist,letting his Agencies do their work and if Policy needs to be adjusted,so be it.
ailsagirl
(22,904 posts)Wish more were
Horse with no Name
(33,958 posts)AlexSFCA
(6,139 posts)to trump who doesn't beleive it. Who do his supporters are supposed to beleive McCain or trump?
We live in a post-truth, post-fact world where most important which information gets comminicated and it's not always facts.