The national, media-driven obsession at the moment is that the American electoral process—in fact, democracy itself—was hijacked by Russia’s Vladimir Putin, who directed his cyberwarriors to technologically engineer a historic win for President-elect Donald Trump.
Russian “interference” the 2016 election—via hackers and other sophisticated cyberwar methods—has denied her victory, Hillary Clinton claims, and is a direct threat to the nation’s democratic ideals and practices.
President Barack Obama took the issue public last Friday (it has been the subject of ongoing, closed-door discussions by the administration for quite some time), when he announced that he had requested a “deep-dive” report from U.S. intelligence and security agencies about U.S. vulnerability to cyberattacks generally, and Russia’s in particular. The report is due by Jan. 20, when Obama’s term ends and President-elect Donald Trump officially is to be inaugurated. Meanwhile, Congress is bristling with bipartisan efforts to launch a slew of investigations.
Leid Stories listeners’ cool heads deconstruct the moment we’re in, doing their own “deep dive” into the orchestrated hysteria, and pinpointing what’s not being said about Russia’s alleged “interference” in the 2016 presidential election.