On November 4, the Washington Post reported: "Intelligence officials warn of Russian mischief in election and beyond." Apparently, the emergency security response is being coordinated by the White House, the Department of Homeland Security, the CIA, the National Security Agency and other elements of the Defense Department, according to NBC.
These claims of Russian state hackers interfering in the US political system are not new. Last month, the Obama administration officially accused Moscow of this alleged malfeasance.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has lambasted American claims that his country is seeking to disrupt the presidential elections as "hysterical nonsense", aimed at distracting the electorate from far more deep-rooted internal problems.
The Obama administration and its state security agencies have not provided one iota of evidence to support their allegations against Russia. Nevertheless the repeated charges have a tendency to stick.
The Clinton campaign has for months been accusing Trump of being a "pro-Russian stooge." Her campaign has also claimed that Russian hackers have colluded with the whistleblower organization Wikileaks to release thousands of private emails damaging Clinton with the intention of swaying the election in favor of Trump.
Wikileaks' director Julian Assange and the Russian government have both rejected any suggestion that they are somehow collaborating, or that they are working to get Trump elected.
But on the eve of the election, the US authorities are recklessly pushing hysteria that Russia is trying to subvert American democracy. Michael McFaul, the former US ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014 is quoted as saying: "The Russians are in an offensive mode and the US is working on strategies to respond to that, and at the highest levels." NBC cites a senior Obama administration official as saying that the Russians "want to sow as much confusion as possible and undermine our process."
Ominously, the news outlet adds that "steps are being taken to prepare for worst-case scenarios, including a cyber-attack that shuts down part of the power grid or the internet."
Nearly two weeks ago, on October 21-22, the US was hit with a widespread internet outage. The actors behind the "distributed denial of service" were not identified, but the disruption was nationwide and it temporarily disabled many popular consumer services. One former official at the US Department of Homeland Security described the event as having "all the signs of what would be considered a drill."
Could that cyber-attack have been the work of US Deep State agencies as a dress rehearsal for an even bigger outage planned for November 8 -- election day? The Washington establishment wants Clinton over Trump. She's the marionette of choice for their strategic interests, including a more hostile foreign policy towards Russia in Syria, Ukraine and elsewhere.
But Trump might just snatch an election day victory from the jaws of defeat.
In which case, the shadowy forces that really rule America will trigger a "digital 9/11." It's not difficult to imagine the chaos and mayhem from internet blackout, power, transport, banking and communications paralysis -- even for just a temporary period of a few hours.
Months of fingering Russia as a destabilizing foreign enemy intent on interfering in US democracy to get "Comrade Trump" into the White House would then serve as a self-fulfilling prophecy. In that event, the US authorities could plausibly move to declare the election of Donald J Trump null and void. In fact the scenario could be contrived to a far more serious level than merely suspending the election result.
The US authorities could easily feign that a state of emergency is necessary in order to "defend national security." That contingency catapults beyond "rigged politics."
It is a green light for a coup d'e'tat by the Deep State forces who found that they could not win through the "normal" rigging methods.
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