Loretta Lynch Admits There Was No Hacking of Voting Machines by Russians
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch admitted the Russians didn’t hack the voting machines or, at least, there was no evidence of it.
On Thursday, she told an audience at a Politico event that US Intelligence found “no evidence of technical interference” [by the Russians] in the voting machines.
If you will remember, this entire conversation of hacking centered on the voting machine “hacks” in two states. Jeh Johnson suggested the Department of Homeland Security would have to take over the elections for security reasons.
The secret assessment by the intelligence agencies was about voting machines. The left has been conflating the voting machines with the DNC/DCCC emails.
“This is an ongoing process,” Lynch said when asked about what the government is doing to maintain confidence in the election process.
She switched gears and began talking vaguely about the emails.
“We’ve been talking about this now for some time since the summer when we began the investigation into the hacks of the DNC and the DCCC and trying to ascertain who was behind that,” she explained. “There’s a number of things we do, a lot of which we talk about publicly, a lot of which we don’t talk about publicly in terms of just investigation and the responses that we have.
She claimed the government didn’t know what they could say before the election.
“The investigation is ongoing, certainly the review is continuing, but we rarely do that kind of public attribution,” she noted. “But it was important in this instance because the election affects everyone. And it isn’t even a matter of the results. It’s people’s faith in the system.”
Lynch elaborated that after the hacks, “the Department of Homeland Security was very actively engaged in reaching out to every state, to make sure that they had access to every resource they needed to protect the state electoral system as well, and fortunately we didn’t see any sort of technical interference that people had concerns about, in terms of voting machines and the like.” [Emphasis mine]
Not only didn’t they see technical interference in the hacks, they are conflating the alleged hacking of voting machines with hacking of DNC, DCCC emails that plagued Hillary Clinton for months during the election.
The entire argument has focused on the allegedly hacked voting machines but the DoJ didn’t find any evidence of “technical interference”. Perhaps Lynch didn’t mean to admit it because we’ve been told the Russians did hack those machines.
Just as an aside, does anyone believe Putin didn’t want Hillary as president? She’s the one who gave him our uranium mine and our technology and would have continued Obama’s policy of inaction.
