NSA Director Uses “Russian Hacker Threat” To Gain Access To Voting Systems

In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, U. S. National Security Agency (NSA) director Admiral Mike Rogers joined the chorus of other U. S. law enforcement and intelligence officials who are using Russia to leverage their own agencies into having a wider role in U. S. elections. In a statement to the committee on May 9, Rogers positioned NSA to oversee a wider role in conducting surveillance over elections, not only in the United States, but in other countries, including France and Britain.
After accusing Russia of conducting election hacking of the 2016 U. S. presidential election, while offering no proof to back up his allegations, Rogers proceeded to tell the committee and its reflexively anti-Russian chairman, John McCain, that NSA also warned France, Britain, and Germany of Russian election penetration and offered up the assistance of the American spy agency to the targeted countries. Of course, there was no mention that NSA, thanks to the revelations by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, has thoroughly penetrated the communications systems of France, Britain, and Germany and their political leadership.
Rogers stated, We [NSA] had talked to our French counterparts prior to the public announcements of the events publicly attributed this past weekend and gave them a heads up. ‘Look, we’re watching the Russians. We’re seeing them penetrate some of your infrastructure’. Rogers added, We’re doing similar things with our German counterparts, with our British counterparts, they have an upcoming election sequence. The NSA’s Tailored Access Operations branch is strongly believed to have a sub-group that specializes in foreign election tampering, not from a defensive position but as an offensive tactic in conducting clandestine regime change operations.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on May 13, 2017.