Excerpts from the Declassified Intelligence Report

The recently released Grizzly Steppe joint document assembled by the CIA/FBI/NSA and Homeland Security outlined some serious accusations at Russia, and Vladimir Putin’s regime. None of which, to this date, have been proven.

Homeland Security, I might add, also refused to sign off on this document, which you can read here.

Media Watch has received access to the Declassified report which you can read here.

NSA’s level of confidence has also been listed as moderate. And you would think, if anyone had pertinent info related to the supposed hacks, it would be that department.

Here are a few key excerpts from the “Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections” document:

• “Russia’s goals were to undermine public faith in the US democratic process, denigrate Secretary Hillary Clinton and harm her electability and potential presidency.”

But the document also decides that Russia didn’t influence vote tallying.

• “Russian intelligence obtained and maintained access to elements of multiple US state or local electoral boards. DHS assesses that the types of systems Russian actors targeted or compromised were not involved in vote tallying.”

• “We have high confidence in these judgements, CIA and FBI, NSA has moderate confidence.”

• “Russian behaviour since early November 2016, increases our confidence in our assessment of Russian motivations and goals.”

• “Russia’s intelligence services conducted cyber operations against targets associated with the 2016 US presidential election, including targets associated with both major US political parties.”

• “Russia’s state-run propaganda machine (RT) contributed to the influence campaign by serving as a platform for Kremlin messaging to Russian and international audiences.”

Non Confidence Vote

This entry is in regards to this article: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-electoral-college-republican-faithless-electors-stop-election-result-a7473296.html

I’ve been under the weather for most of this week, but a reader sent me a link this afternoon and I thought it was worth sharing. I had read a bit about it, but with the Wisconsin recalls and election hacking probe, it flew under my radar.

To break things down, there are 538 electoral votes spread out over the 50 US states, and the majority of that (270), is required to be elected President. Now here’s where things get interesting. From the graphic above, you can see that Donald Trump was nominated the Republican representative with 7,234 votes (or 34.4%) of the Republican party, with Ted Cruz coming in second at 4,515 (21.4%) and finally Marco Rubio at 4,438 (21.1%).

These numbers are important, since the top three successful candidates would be revoted on, if there was a non confidence vote within the party. This could be for any number of reasons, such as illness, or simply the candidate being unfit to serve as president.

The race to 270 is also interesting in the sense that Trump,’s  final tally of 306 electoral votes, would mean the party would require 37 (the difference between his total, and the number required 270) to re-elect a new candidate.

As the above article states, this has happened only once in 1808, when six electors voted against James Madison.