Tuesday morning roundup

A lot of twists and turns to the redacting of the Orlando-jihadist-utterings transcript. After the DoJ removed references to Allah and ISIS, the regime thought the better of it and released a version that is true to what Mateen said. Which amounts to the Most Equal Comrade throwing Loretta Lynch under the bus.


Squirrel-Hair may know how to buy resorts and skyscrapers and squeak through bankruptcies, but he's still at the beginning of the learning curve regarding financing a campaign.

Oh, Hillionaire!

Chess players having a field day with post-America's cluelessness:

Cyber actors linked to Russia’s intelligence service carried out a sophisticated cyber attack against Democratic National Committee computer networks in a bold attempt to influence the U.S. presidential election.

That’s the consensus view of U.S. intelligence agencies and private computer security firms regarding the covert intrusions by Moscow into DNC networks over the course of at least one year that resulted in the theft and release of sensitive internal information.

As with other state-sponsored cyber attacks, the White House is refusing to condemn the incident or take action despite ample electronic intelligence indicating the DNC hacking was a Russian cyber operation.

It is not the first major Russian cyber attack. Others in recent months have included cyber penetrations of the Pentagon’s Joint Staff email server and infiltrations of unclassified networks at the White House and State Department.

White House National Security Council spokesman Mark E. Stroh told The Cyber Threat it does not regard the DNC hacking operation as a Russian state-sponsored cyber attack. “That’s a supposition,” he said. “The USG has not made that determination.”

The comment suggests that the Obama administration is again avoiding any action in response to major and damaging cyber attack against the United States. Its questionable rationale is that the DNC attack cannot be linked to Russia without courtroom-level evidence, despite intelligence indicating that it is. The issue of attack attribution—the ability of intelligence agencies to conclusively link cyber intrusions to known state sponsors of cyber attacks—is once against letting the bad guys off the hook.

Glad to see there's a good chance Marco Rubio may want to keep his Senate seat.