Josh Earnest: Why Didn't We Punish China for the Millions of Sensitive Personal Disclosures Stolen in the OPM Hack? Because F*** You, That's Why

Here's the real reason:

It's because the OPM hack chiefly affected military personnel, who are not People Who Count.

But Russia -- or whoever -- screwed with People Who Count when they hacked the DNC and Jon Podesta.

"What we've seen is that these are two cyber incidents that are malicious in nature but materially different," Earnest said, defending the administration's decision to issue sanctions in response to the Russian hack but not the Chinese hack.
The OPM hack was one of the largest data breaches in the history of the United States. More than 20 million people were affected, with the Chinese gaining possession of names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, places of residence, and sensitive information from background investigations.
"I'm just saying that it's different than seeking to interfere in the conduct of a U.S. national election," Earnest said.

"It's different because I said so" is pretty much the most contemptuous answer you can offer. You might as well just take your dick all the way out and say, "Because some people just matter more in this world."

Posted by: Ace at 06:04 PM

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1 Just a few days until we awaken from this bad dream.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 03, 2017 05:59 PM (LTHVh)

2 I got hacked...but it was only all my security info...not like that matters?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 03, 2017 05:59 PM (SjImc)

3 also First!

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 03, 2017 05:59 PM (LTHVh)

4 Crazy.

Had a deer stuck in the railing on my deck...
poor thing.

Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2017 05:59 PM (g9txO)

5 As I understand it, the China OPM hack wans't a hack. The Chinese idiot that the Obamanite scrunt hired gave it to them.

She should have gone to jail.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at January 03, 2017 05:59 PM (mpXpK)

6 What an adventure getting her free!

Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2017 06:00 PM (g9txO)

7 What an adventure getting her free!

Dinner came knocking.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 03, 2017 06:01 PM (LTHVh)

8 6
What an adventure getting her free!

Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2017 06:00 PM (g9txO)
Poor thing. How did you do it?

Posted by: IC at January 03, 2017 06:01 PM (a0IVu)

9 Republican everyman in one group of hacked people, Democrat aristocrats in the other. I see how this works.

Posted by: MTF at January 03, 2017 06:01 PM (X4ZNp)

10 >>Dinner came knocking.

I have an open tag, too!

I had to disassemble the railing and lift her out...while she tried to kick a hole in me.

Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2017 06:02 PM (g9txO)

11 Because some pigs are more equal, than others...

Posted by: Animal Farm was a cautionary talk, not a how to manual at January 03, 2017 06:02 PM (qf6WZ)

12 Got some pretty funny pics, too.

Some walking the thin line between Animal Erotica and Bestial Porn.

Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2017 06:03 PM (g9txO)

13 Another big difference. There's actually proof that the Chinese hacked the OPM

Posted by: buzzion at January 03, 2017 06:03 PM (cAnNx)

14 poor thing.

Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2017 05:59 PM (g9txO)

How are going to cook it?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 03, 2017 06:03 PM (rF0hx)

15 We've been getting a pretty inferior stank of BS for our WhiteHouse dollars.

Posted by: DaveA at January 03, 2017 06:04 PM (8J/Te)

16 This dumpster fire of an administration can't be gone soon enough.

Posted by: Chi at January 03, 2017 06:04 PM (wVYbe)

17 12 Got some pretty funny pics, too.

Some walking the thin line between Animal Erotica and Bestial Porn.

Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2017 06:03 PM (g9txO)

Pet thread or food thread?

Posted by: OldDominionMom at January 03, 2017 06:04 PM (GzDYP)

18 2 I got hacked...but it was only all my security info...not like that matters?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 03, 2017 05:59 PM (SjImc)

You are not a Democrat, nor a political operative...

So no, you don't matter....

Posted by: Washinton DC... at January 03, 2017 06:04 PM (qf6WZ)

19 2 I got hacked...but it was only all my security info...not like that matters?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 03, 2017 05:59 PM (SjImc)

Yeah, nothing important like Barky's transcripts.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 03, 2017 06:04 PM (SRKgf)

20

Some animald are more equal than others

Posted by: ThunderB at January 03, 2017 06:04 PM (7oIRr)

21 I'll tell you how to calm the wild fairer sex....

Posted by: Joey "Choo Choo" Biden at January 03, 2017 06:05 PM (X4ZNp)

22 in my extremely small circle of life, anything josh earnest says means as much to me as ten drums of catshit. just another sucker of cock flapping his gums. an assclown.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 03, 2017 06:05 PM (KP5rU)

23
I was affected. And I was just an I.T. worker for a Govt. contractor with a public trust clearance.

Posted by: Serious Cat at January 03, 2017 06:05 PM (Uy6ri)

24 with People Who Count

Counting yuan into "Foundations".

Posted by: DaveA at January 03, 2017 06:05 PM (8J/Te)

25 Again, neither incident was a hack in the strict sense of the word. They were basically handed the info from unwitting dolts,

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 03, 2017 06:05 PM (JO9+V)

26 My idenity has been stolen 3 times

But Im just an ordinary asshole i guess

Posted by: ThunderB at January 03, 2017 06:05 PM (7oIRr)

27 Wonder what Josh will do when his master is out of the White House - go work at NBC?

Posted by: kathysaysso at January 03, 2017 06:06 PM (43OZ6)

28
How have they been able to determine the intent of the Russians? Because someone should inform James Comey how its done

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at January 03, 2017 06:06 PM (lKyWE)

29 I'm down with OPP, yeah you know me!

You down with OPP, yeah you know me!

Whose down with OPP, every last lady!

What? OPM? Oh, errr, never mind.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 03, 2017 06:06 PM (5VlCp)

30 The OPM incident - and Vic is correct, it was not an outside hack, but an "inside job" - was probably the most serious intelligence/counter-intelligence disaster in modern US history.

Impossible to say from this vantage point, of course (and also hard to estimate from inside, where the damage of intel penetrations etc. is mostly informed guesswork). But extremely grievous, to be sure. Why? It gives foreign powers an unheard-of windfall of personal info with which to do their recruitment/vulnerability targeting.

This is, among all the others, one of the most astonishing gigantic stories/scandals/disasters that has passed almost without notice or brouhaha in the last 8 years.

A hilariously stupid self-inflicted phishing penetration of a private US entity (the DNC)? About which very few voters heard very much, cuz material divulged was negative for the media party? Not worth 2 days of stories. Much less "sanctions" (however meaningless) against a major world power.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 03, 2017 06:07 PM (QDnY+)

31 And that time someone stole my ID to file a false tax return

A hoot

Still having to use a special identifier with the IRS, to this day

Super

Posted by: ThunderB at January 03, 2017 06:07 PM (7oIRr)

32 >>It's because the OPM hack chiefly affected military personnel, who are not People Who Count

Also, because it was due to the gross incompetence of a thoroughly unqualified, lifetime crony at the head of the OPM (a Latina, too, so likely affirmative action appointee).

Posted by: Lizzy at January 03, 2017 06:08 PM (NOIQH)

33 The most winning thing is that spicer is going to kick some lamestream scumbag ass compared to earnest the dweeb.

Posted by: James the worst of the deplorable at January 03, 2017 06:08 PM (jxw6R)

34 27: head swabby at the local porn and sex toy emporium. his dad was a mailman too you know. wicked smart he is.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 03, 2017 06:08 PM (KP5rU)

35 Josh Earnest can now go back to being the meat in a conga sandwich.

Posted by: fleaked at January 03, 2017 06:08 PM (BO/km)

36

New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is forging ahead with one of the Democratic Party’s most popular ideas by proposing to cover tuition for low- and middle-income students at state colleges and universities.

Any New Yorker accepted to one of the state’s community colleges or four-year universities will be eligible for free tuition provided their family earns less than $125,000 a year

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 03, 2017 06:09 PM (IqV8l)

37 This administration never cared, just like other Leftists about the military.

Posted by: Skip at January 03, 2017 06:09 PM (5sOEp)

38 How's the MFM going to keep this clownshow of hacks and clicks and grunts all going with Earnest and his White House in the rear view mirror?

They just gonna make shit up?

Posted by: the littl shyning man at January 03, 2017 06:09 PM (U6f54)

39

But i fell real fucking bad the perfidy of Podesta et al was revealed

So so bad

Posted by: ThunderB at January 03, 2017 06:09 PM (7oIRr)

40 >>This is, among all the others, one of the most astonishing gigantic
stories/scandals/disasters that has passed almost without notice or
brouhaha in the last 8 years.

Yes, though there are so many seriously astonishing gigantic
stories/scandals/disasters that has passed almost without notice thanks to the MSM is hard to rank them.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 03, 2017 06:09 PM (NOIQH)

41 Party > Nation

Posted by: Communists and Democrats Everywhere at January 03, 2017 06:09 PM (R+30W)

42 The "seeking to interfere" phrasing is Earnest at his best/worst.

Posted by: the littl shyning man at January 03, 2017 06:10 PM (U6f54)

43 At least Obama can be pround that he had eight years of greatness with no scandals whatsoever.

Posted by: Chi at January 03, 2017 06:11 PM (wVYbe)

44 Posted by: Count de Monet at January 03, 2017 06:05 PM (JO9+V)

The dolts handed my information to China. I sure feel better, knowing it wasn't hacked technically. Just idiots working for the US government.

Posted by: gracepc at January 03, 2017 06:11 PM (OU4q6)

45

Earnest was seeking to interfere with that lady's vagina

But nothing happened

Like usual

Posted by: ThunderB at January 03, 2017 06:11 PM (7oIRr)

46 Check your email, CBD.

Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2017 06:12 PM (g9txO)

47 Yo!

Posted by: Yo! at January 03, 2017 06:12 PM (GwIKd)

48 I'm one of those whose info was exposed by the Chinese. The government gave me a free one year subscription to Life Lock.

...seriously

Posted by: Albie Damned at January 03, 2017 06:12 PM (HzqYP)

49 Democratic politicians and operatives have "social utility" (c.f. Ezekiel Emmanuel). Military personnel, not so much.

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at January 03, 2017 06:13 PM (J8/9G)

50 I've got free credit monitoring and reports for life thanks to that OPM hack.

Posted by: Hugh Jorgen at January 03, 2017 06:13 PM (R5EqA)

51 The dolts handed my information to China. I sure
feel better, knowing it wasn't hacked technically. Just idiots working
for the US government.

Posted by: gracepc at January 03, 2017 06:11 PM (OU4q6)

Top. Men.

(and sorry to everyone affected by the OPM breach of security)

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 03, 2017 06:13 PM (JO9+V)

52 Hey, don't blame this lovely lady. No, no, don't even think of firing her or asking her to step down, because that would be #WarOnWomen or racist or something...

"If there is anyone to blame, it is the perpetrators," OPM Director
Katherine Archuleta told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee Tuesday
when asked if anyone at her agency is responsible for the problem.

"This is due to decades of lack of investments in the systems that I
inherited when I came in," said Archuleta, who joined that agency in
2013.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/hosprnn

Biggest scandal of the Obama era was how hardly anyone was fired, no matter how much incompetence or law-breaking was done.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 03, 2017 06:13 PM (NOIQH)

53 They are materially different.

The fact that they retaliated for the vastly less serious offense, and the one where the culprit is still in question, is inexcusable.

Posted by: TexasDan at January 03, 2017 06:14 PM (yL25O)

54 But the Russians "hacked the election!" The Chinese only what, collected some names and addresses and shit, - like a survey.

Posted by: Fritz at January 03, 2017 06:14 PM (uWHRB)

55 Agreed, Lizzy.

That's why I find myself pausing and puzzling over the exact right sort of superlative to use when describing the endless cascade of idiocy from the cretins in the Beltway.

But the OPM thing - a penetration due to unbelievable laxity and stupidity, not a "hack" per se - might just be the most consequential. I doubt the counter-intel guys even have a framework to use in evaluating it - there's never been a remotely comparable disaster in modern times (that I'm aware of).

Things like Aldrich Ames, the Walker family ring - those are obviously disastrous, but in a conventional sort of way. You have some parameters to assess the damage. In this case, the damage is sort of theoretically limitless, on the counter-intel side.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 03, 2017 06:14 PM (QDnY+)

56 Also don't take your phone on patrol.

The Iranians went thru those sailors phone after they used their special bass boats to take the US boat.

Posted by: Yo! at January 03, 2017 06:15 PM (GwIKd)

57
I guess 20 million complete data profiles can't be used to interfere with an election

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at January 03, 2017 06:15 PM (lKyWE)

58 The government gave me a free one year subscription to Life Lock.

...seriously
Posted by: Albie Damned at January 03, 2017 06:12 PM (HzqYP)

Well, and a lifetime of free and frequent emails from Life Lock. Can't ignore that.

Posted by: TexasDan at January 03, 2017 06:15 PM (yL25O)

59 Put Catherine Herridge on this. She takes facts, beats them to within an inch of their lives, threatens to rip their throats out and finds truth.

...then insists on saying "You're Welcome"

Posted by: Charles Nelson Riley at January 03, 2017 06:16 PM (6gk0M)

60 I'm a vet who may have been affected. These people need to burn in hell.

Posted by: Bourbonchicken at January 03, 2017 06:16 PM (VdICR)

61 I'm one of those whose info was exposed by the Chinese. The government gave me a free one year subscription to Life Lock.

...seriously

Posted by: Albie Damned at January 03, 2017 06:12 PM (HzqYP)

It's the gift that keeps on giving. Like a Jelly-Of-The-Month Club membership.

Posted by: Cousin Eddie at January 03, 2017 06:16 PM (JO9+V)

62 Off gay 70's personality sock.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 06:16 PM (6gk0M)

63 Which Josh is this, busty lesbian porn or a different douchebag?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 03, 2017 06:16 PM (92kX2)

64 Fuck this administration.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 03, 2017 06:17 PM (YDAH0)

65 My info was part of that OPM hack and I didn't get any damn Lifelock offer. Now I'm mad again about the whole thing

Posted by: L, Elle at January 03, 2017 06:18 PM (6IPEM)

66 A lick of salt, the shot of Seite Leguas blanco, bite and suck the fresh lime slice, and WOW.

Up to three feet of fresh pow-pow forecasted for the high country. Trouble is, kids are still not back in school.

Posted by: the littl shyning man at January 03, 2017 06:18 PM (U6f54)

67 While I'm fond of the aphorism about malice and stupidity, this administration's moves are malicious.

And stupid.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at January 03, 2017 06:18 PM (C9pBZ)

68 So I read we can take our dicks all the way out now?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at January 03, 2017 06:18 PM (1AnXN)

69 George Orwell wouldn't have named a fictional press secretary "Josh Earnest". It would have defied credulity, even in that world.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 06:19 PM (6gk0M)

70 >> Which Josh is this, busty lesbian porn or a different douchebag?

This Josh doesn't like icky nekkid womyns, I don't believe. No chicks, but lots of dicks is his porn motto. And motto in general. Just like his boss.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at January 03, 2017 06:19 PM (DW+jj)

71 At least Obama can be pround that he had eight years of greatness with no scandals whatsoever.

Posted by: Chi at January 03, 2017 06:11 PM (wVYbe)

Not a smidgen!

*spit*

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 03, 2017 06:19 PM (JO9+V)

72 The China theft happened, what, years ago?

They are still evaluating the extent of the theft as I didn't receive a notice until a couple of weeks ago.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at January 03, 2017 06:19 PM (P/kVC)

73 It is hard for Earnest to pull his quarter inch weenie out of a half inch of clothing Ace.

Posted by: HugoStiglitz at January 03, 2017 06:19 PM (aOqpx)

74 My take: The Obama administration wouldn't want to call attention to their peed pants over confronting China.

Meanwhile, establishing the narrative at home shows a paramount concern.

Posted by: Axeman at January 03, 2017 06:20 PM (2mC6G)

75 Because you don't punish people who r paying you and your palls off, that's why?

Posted by: runner at January 03, 2017 06:20 PM (c6/9Q)

76 I'm a douchebag's douchebag.

Posted by: Josh Earnestine at January 03, 2017 06:20 PM (Tyii7)

77 >>While I'm fond of the aphorism about malice and stupidity, this administration's moves are malicious.

Embrace the power of "and".

OPM head Katherine Archuletta was not qualified, but hey, she was National Pblic Director of Obama 2012 campaign and was a big latina activist before that! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Archuleta

Just keep this gal in mind when the Left b#tches about Trump's "unqualified" nominees.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 03, 2017 06:21 PM (NOIQH)

78 You mean like Obama did with Israel's election?

GFY

Posted by: Lauren at January 03, 2017 06:21 PM (gxSzO)

79 This is due to decades of lack of investments in the systems that I

inherited when I came in," said Archuleta, who joined that agency in

2013.

so, isn't that defense one of Homer Simpsons replies when something goes wrong?
Reply # 1 I don't know what happened, it was like that when I got here.
Reply # 2 blame the last guy that quit or was fired.

Posted by: Cicero Skip at January 03, 2017 06:22 PM (FIrEF)

80 Got my letter from OPM saying basically, "Our Bad, all your private info is in the wind".

Several months later, our VISA was compromised at NFCU to the tune of a single $9,000.00 fund transfer.

NFCU Rep told me that while listening to the audio file of the individual phoning in the transfer, that he blew right through every one of my identity questions.

And that night, there were multiple transfers on multiple NFCU account holders.

And now I have the government provided identity protection service for several more years.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 03, 2017 06:22 PM (J+eG2)

81 "I'm just saying that it's different than seeking to interfere in the conduct of a U.S. national election," Earnest said.

What he's really saying is that it's wrong to reveal their dirty little secrets.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at January 03, 2017 06:22 PM (+wjl1)

82 Does Josh grease his squeak hole like some many others in this administration?

Posted by: A man from Nantucket at January 03, 2017 06:22 PM (VV4qd)

83 Josh Earnest T. Bass

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 03, 2017 06:22 PM (IqV8l)

84
You mean like Obama did with Israel's election?

Or like Clinton did with the Russian election

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at January 03, 2017 06:23 PM (lKyWE)

85 78 You mean like Obama did with Israel's election?

GFY
Posted by: Lauren at January 03, 2017 06:21 PM (gxSzO)

That's different too. We actually spent a lot of your money doing that. So really, why did YOU interfere in Israel's election.

Posted by: Josh Earnest at January 03, 2017 06:23 PM (92kX2)

86 I honestly didn't think anyone could be as douche-baggie as Jay Carney.
Mr. EarnestLeeSincere has proven me oh so wrong.

Posted by: antisocialist at January 03, 2017 06:24 PM (W2wn0)

87 >>
Josh Earnest T. Bass

Earnest T. was a scrappy little fucker. Remember what Andy would always tell Barney, when Barney wanted "teach him a lesson"? "He'd kill ya, Barn."

Josh is more Barney like than Ernest T.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at January 03, 2017 06:24 PM (DW+jj)

88 America has bigger problems right now than some hacked emails

Posted by: Mariah Carey at January 03, 2017 06:24 PM (X4ZNp)

89 C'mon. It's the Chinese.

They're so cute. Oh, me rikey shlimp flied lice.
A hoot I tell ya. What harm could these little bitty guys do?

XOX

Your Betters

Posted by: Bruce at January 03, 2017 06:24 PM (8ikIW)

90 77,
I did

And yes, she is an idiot...

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at January 03, 2017 06:25 PM (C9pBZ)

91 so glad i never bothered filling out the security form they gave me... i wasn't in a position that needed a clearance (19D10 at the time) and i figured the government didn't really need all that info on me.

i feel the same way about the "confidential" health survey the VA sent me for the "Million Veteran Program"... they totes swear my info is safe with them.

Resident Evil read through it too, and agrees there's just way too many things they could use against an unwary participant...

ima send it back with a note that just says "Nosy little bastards, aren't ya?"

Posted by: redc1c4 at January 03, 2017 06:25 PM (YRstE)

92 85 78 You mean like Obama did with Israel's election?

GFY
Posted by: Lauren at January 03, 2017 06:21 PM (gxSzO)

And Brexit.

Plus he handed Egypt to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Posted by: TexasDan at January 03, 2017 06:25 PM (yL25O)

93 Our contempt for the proles knows no bounds.

Posted by: Josh Earnestine at January 03, 2017 06:25 PM (Tyii7)

94 If the Russkies did, actually leak the DNC emails, I think they deserve a Pulitzer.

Posted by: xnycpeasant at January 03, 2017 06:26 PM (QtQaN)

95 ..."Plus he handed Egypt to the Muslim Brotherhood."
-Posted by: TexasDan at January 03, 2017 06:25 PM (yL25O)

And failed to support the "Greens" during the Iranian uprising.

He is a failure in every sense of the word.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 06:27 PM (6gk0M)

96 @95 "Failure" implies a mistake.
So not really.

Posted by: xnycpeasant at January 03, 2017 06:27 PM (QtQaN)

97 If the Russkies did, actually leak the DNC emails, I think they deserve a Pulitzer.

Posted by: xnycpeasant at January 03, 2017 06:26 PM (QtQaN)

Sorta like The Pentagon Papers in reverse. What say you NYT?

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 03, 2017 06:27 PM (JO9+V)

98 @ 97
No. Not. At. All.
That was different.

Posted by: Josh "Pajama Boy" Ernest at January 03, 2017 06:28 PM (QtQaN)

99
And failed to support the "Greens" during the Iranian uprising.

He is a failure in every sense of the word.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 06:27 PM (6gk0M)

Only if you think that the expansion of freedom and liberty were his goals.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 03, 2017 06:29 PM (92kX2)

100 1 Just a few days until we awaken from this bad dream.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 03, 2017 05:59 PM (LTHVh)

I think of it more as a bad acid trip, and we're going to have flashbacks for years.

I do believe that much of the damage TFG has done to the country is irreparable. It was intended that way, of course.

Posted by: rickl at January 03, 2017 06:29 PM (sdi6R)

101 -Posted by: xnycpeasant at January 03, 2017 06:27 PM (QtQaN)

You know I meant that in the larger sense of the word, so I'll let you off your leash to do what you will.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 06:29 PM (6gk0M)

102 94 If the Russkies did, actually leak the DNC emails, I think they deserve a Pulitzer
------------------------------------------------

This.

The emails were accurate and genuine. Truth was revealed.

It probably wasn't determinative in the election, but it certainly reinforced the perception among GOP voters that the Democrats were lying sacks of shit and among Bernie bots that the primary was fixed.

Posted by: MTF at January 03, 2017 06:29 PM (X4ZNp)

103
You know, Putin hacked me too, you guys. He's everywhere.

Posted by: Hope Solo at January 03, 2017 06:29 PM (DW+jj)

104 @101
Yes I do, so same page bro.

Posted by: Josh at January 03, 2017 06:30 PM (QtQaN)

105 Okay, okay... I'll eat that and restate it.

He is an anti-American douchebag in every sense of the word.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 06:30 PM (6gk0M)

106 I thought that when Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham traveled to China and accepted the Mao Zedong Red Badge of Courage, this matter was laid to rest.

Posted by: Fritz at January 03, 2017 06:30 PM (uWHRB)

107 word(s).

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 06:31 PM (6gk0M)

108 They want to blame the Russians because the Russians kept them from giving Syria to ISIS.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at January 03, 2017 06:31 PM (+wjl1)

109 Josh is such an amateur.

It is really simple. We all know who's fault it is. As Mary C would say, "it's all Booshes fault."

Never gets old.......

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 03, 2017 06:31 PM (5VlCp)

110 And by mild response they mean is Obammy said let me be CLEAR!! And then went on to talk about how great he was the end.

Posted by: SOMESASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at January 03, 2017 06:31 PM (nQHw/)

111 >>The emails were accurate and genuine. Truth was revealed.

They were a corrective to the 100% #I'mWithHer media.

They would not have been shocking if the MSM had been accurately covering Hillary *and* had not been so thoroughy owned by the DNC, Podesta, etc.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 03, 2017 06:32 PM (NOIQH)

112 Shit. When I worked at an AR&D arsenal in NJ, we had Chinese guys working with us who would save up their leave and take an entire paid month off every summer to go visit family in China...and take their Army and DoD-issues "secure" laptops with them.

Posted by: Cranky J Anne at January 03, 2017 06:32 PM (9c+Dl)

113 I do believe that much of the damage TFG has done to the country is irreparable.

You rubes don't know the half of it.

Posted by: Josh Earnestine at January 03, 2017 06:32 PM (Tyii7)

114 It is hard for Earnest to pull his quarter inch weenie out of a half inch of clothing Ace.
Posted by: HugoStiglitz at January 03, 2017 06:19 PM

The water was cold. Shrinkage! Like a frightened turtle!

Posted by: J. 'Constanza' Earnest at January 03, 2017 06:34 PM (DMUuz)

115 Try being black next time Hillary.

Posted by: Lord Sir x at January 03, 2017 06:34 PM (nFwvY)

116 I am really enjoying The Expanse, but Jared Harris' accent seems to change from word to word.

Considering the melange of dialects they are trying to shoehorn into this show, I am not sure if that is not intentional.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 03, 2017 06:34 PM (92kX2)

117 Yeah it was really fun writing letters of apology to my family and friends and former employers, etc. because the shitheads at OPM gave a Chinese spy the keys to the background investigation database.

Funny how these political assholes get all bent out of shape when America's enemies fuck with their sinecures.

All depends on whose ox gets gored I guess.

You have to wonder how many other of these Congressional and Obama administration assholes got phished.

Nervous, assholes?

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at January 03, 2017 06:34 PM (zu88C)

118 By doing all this complaining about those emails, Barky's administration is admitting that the emails were genuine and the content was the actual content.

And if it really was the Russkies, which I personally doubt, but still if it was the Russkies, then they most certainly have every single one of Hillary!'s emails from her Clinton.com server.

So place your bets, when do we get to see the 33,000 deleted emails, and who releases them?

Posted by: Boots at January 03, 2017 06:34 PM (0E+WY)

119 wanted to repost this from the prervious thread, about fifteen minutes ago:

Angela Merkel: Beat Terrorism with Love and Compassion
(on the bottom of the screen right now, Fox Biz)

she stinks.

Posted by: mallfly on horseback salad at January 03, 2017 06:35 PM (b7fwp)

120 Biggest scandal of the Obama era was how hardly anyone was fired, no matter how much incompetence or law-breaking was done.

Was anyone ever fired besides whistle blowers and Inspectors General?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 03, 2017 06:35 PM (LTHVh)

121 115 Try being black next time Hillary.
Posted by: Lord Sir x at January 03, 2017 06:34 PM (nFwvY)

Just think of it Hillary, a brand new liver to despoil on the next turn of the wheel!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 03, 2017 06:35 PM (92kX2)

122 It's not the irreparable damage (which exists), it's the electorate that would give Obama or Clinton (or McCain, really) even cursory consideration for the WH. Obama (and all the idiots and lightweights and sleazes in his wake/choir) are a symptom. The cause is all around us.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 03, 2017 06:35 PM (QDnY+)

123 Angela Merkel: Beat Terrorism with Love and Compassion

or beat them with a shovel.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 03, 2017 06:36 PM (LTHVh)

124 We're outta here in like two weeks. Standard answer to all questions from here on in will basically be a variation of "Go fuck yourself".

Posted by: Joshy Earnest at January 03, 2017 06:36 PM (qJhUV)

125 They really are fully prepared to start WWIII because the election didn't go their way.

Posted by: Maritime at January 03, 2017 06:36 PM (be9Th)

126 The real big threat of the OPM hack is to be able to hack our systems in combat where all our electronic systems tracking unit locations on the battlefield suddenly start feeding bullshit. Units led into ambushes, units in the wrong grid square, chaos on the battlefield. Now the CHICOMs have multiple ways to try and gain entry through the PII of everybody.

But DNC emails?? HOLY FUCKBALLS

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at January 03, 2017 06:36 PM (MCL1g)

127 27 Wonder what Josh will do when his master is out of the White House - go work at NBC?
Posted by: kathysaysso at January 03, 2017 06:06 PM (43OZ6)

fluffer for Me-again Kelly

Posted by: the Butcher at January 03, 2017 06:37 PM (AGJqR)

128 Angela Merkel: Beat Terrorism with Love and Compassion

Yes.

Posted by: The Rapey Yoots at January 03, 2017 06:37 PM (Tyii7)

129 122 It's not the irreparable damage (which exists), it's the electorate that would give Obama or Clinton (or McCain, really) even cursory consideration for the WH. Obama (and all the idiots and lightweights and sleazes in his wake/choir) are a symptom. The cause is all around us.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 03, 2017 06:35 PM (QDnY+)

As conservatives we tend to be dour and cynical about some things. The thing is the culture is the problem. Why? The Progs changed it. That also implies it can be changed back.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 03, 2017 06:37 PM (92kX2)

130 Try being black next time Hillary.

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Maybe if she had a heart transplant from a black child.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Trumpius! at January 03, 2017 06:38 PM (Nwg0u)

131 125 They really are fully prepared to start WWIII because the election didn't go their way.
Posted by: Maritime at January 03, 2017 06:36 PM (be9Th)

Like a psycho jilted boyfriend: "If I can't have you, no one will!!!"

Posted by: rickl at January 03, 2017 06:38 PM (sdi6R)

132 At Drudge: "Bitter Larry Summers Says Markets Underestimating Risks of Trump Presidency..."

---------

Would this be the same Larry Summers whose fingerprints were all over the CRA? The same Larry Summers who engineered the Stimulus?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 03, 2017 06:38 PM (ZO497)

133 OT.

Looks like the Ewok has some big plans.

http://tinyurl.com/j8hmdea

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 03, 2017 06:38 PM (J+eG2)

134 Because Fuck You That's Why sums up the Obama years nicely I do think.

Posted by: alexthechick - Darth Victory Tits at January 03, 2017 06:38 PM (dEQP3)

135 "As ~~conservatives~~ Morons we tend to be dour and cynical about some things. The thing is the culture is the problem. Why? The Progs changed it. That also implies it can be changed back."
-Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 03, 2017 06:37 PM (92kX2)

Yup.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 06:39 PM (6gk0M)

136 Like a psycho jilted boyfriend: "If I can't have you, no one will!!!"
Posted by: rickl
-----------

My favorite line; "I kilt her 'cause I loved her."

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 03, 2017 06:39 PM (ZO497)

137
Try being black next time Hillary.

She could take lessons from Rachel Dolezal.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 03, 2017 06:39 PM (IqV8l)

138 As I understand it, the China OPM hack wans't a hack. The Chinese idiot that the Obamanite scrunt hired gave it to them.

NBC did a one hour expose' on it; background, names, photos, complete details then asking the WH why it didn't prosecute the spy. N.O.T.

Posted by: gNewt at January 03, 2017 06:39 PM (reARY)

139 43 At least Obama can be proud that he had eight years of greatness with no scandals whatsoever.
Posted by: Chi at January 03, 2017 06:11 PM (wVYbe)
----------------------------
Given that it takes media outrage to produce a scandal, he's right.

GW Bush, whatever else one might think of his politics, was about as squeaky clean as a politico can be. So the MSM just made up scandals out of nothing.

Obama, OTOH, has his minions commit actual crimes --- major crimes --- but there's no scandal. The media sweeps it away and, if anyone tries to deal with it, the media attacks them as "being political."

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 03, 2017 06:39 PM (Nox3c)

140 Whitson - at age 56 the world's oldest and most experienced spacewoman
===

oh FFS...

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at January 03, 2017 06:40 PM (zu88C)

141
123 Angela Merkel: Beat Terrorism with Love and Compassion

or beat them with a shovel.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 03, 2017 06:36 PM (LTHVh)

Sharpen up those Kraut entrenching tools and get ready to rumble!

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at January 03, 2017 06:40 PM (FtrY1)

142 just wait till the Russians release all of Hillary's deleted emails and it turns out they really are all about yoga lessons and Chelsea's wedding plans and Hillary's colostomy bag prescriptions...

Posted by: mallfly on horseback salad at January 03, 2017 06:40 PM (b7fwp)

143 Angela Merkel: Beat Terrorism with Love and Compassion

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I'll rename my Ruger "Love" and my Glock "Compassion".

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Trumpius! at January 03, 2017 06:40 PM (Nwg0u)

144 Look China has paid way more then Russia for the Clintons and the Democrat party. Why shouldn't the government be used to return the favor?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 03, 2017 06:41 PM (aZq03)

145 Angela Merkel: Beat Terrorism with Love and Compassion

-
"I'll rename my Ruger "Love" and my Glock "Compassion"."
-Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Trumpius! at January 03, 2017 06:40 PM (Nwg0u)

*HAH!*

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 06:41 PM (6gk0M)

146 It'd been easier for him to just shrug and say, "What evs, bruv." But I guess that's why he makes the big bucks.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 03, 2017 06:42 PM (ppaKI)

147 @140...I thought that would have been Nina Hartley.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 03, 2017 06:42 PM (n3MnG)

148 I'd reject all three descriptions - conservative, dour, or cynical - but that might just be a pointless semantic taffy yank.

Theoretically everything can always change. Realistically, over relevant time frames (my life expectancy), not likely.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 03, 2017 06:42 PM (QDnY+)

149 Jeebus! Watching Westworld is like watching an animated movie scene on PS4 game.

Does it get any better after the first 10minutes? because I hate it so far.

Posted by: Pepe at January 03, 2017 06:42 PM (X/5o4)

150 Did John Podesta get free credit monitoring?

Posted by: Jean at January 03, 2017 06:43 PM (2RVmA)

151 The "Maneater" shred from the sidebar is pretty damn funny. Daryl Hall was as pretty as a girl back in the day wasn't he?

Posted by: Tuna at January 03, 2017 06:44 PM (JSovD)

152 >>>Angela Merkel: Beat Terrorism with Love and Compassion

I know we told the Krauts to dial it back with the aggression, but jeez...

Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 03, 2017 06:44 PM (ppaKI)

153 >>Does it get any better after the first 10minutes? because I hate it so far.

Not really
Stuff finally starts happening in the last few episodes and by then you're siding with the non-humans...

Posted by: Lizzy at January 03, 2017 06:44 PM (NOIQH)

154 My level of contempt for and disgust with this administration, the MSM and the GOPe is indescribable in polite terms.

Posted by: Mitch the Bitch and his Band of Feckless GOP Senators at January 03, 2017 06:44 PM (g+ibI)

155 What gets me about the OPM hack isn't just what was taken out, it was what might have been put in. Think about it. If a foreign agent really had sysadmin access on the machines, you can't trust any of the information on them anymore.

Posted by: gingeroni at January 03, 2017 06:44 PM (GIqnq)

156 Somewhat OT but can Trump recommission the "USS Harvey Milk" and "Gabriel Giffords"?
How can you possibly ask a young men to go to war on ships named for pioneers in dick and gun grabbing?

Posted by: xnycpeasant at January 03, 2017 06:45 PM (QtQaN)

157 Was not us.

Posted by: Starbucks Beijing at January 03, 2017 06:45 PM (HgMAr)

158 ..."Theoretically everything can always change. Realistically, over relevant time frames (my life expectancy), not likely."
-Posted by: rhomboid at January 03, 2017 06:42 PM (QDnY+)

Thus self-adhering the "cynical" chains.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 06:45 PM (6gk0M)

159 Angela Merkel: Beat Terrorism with Love and Compassion
***
Had Churchill had the same policy to the National Socialists in Germany where would Germany be today?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 03, 2017 06:45 PM (aZq03)

160 I've been saying this forever about the OPM breach. And it always seems like the worst intelligence breaches always happen under Democratic presidents.

Posted by: Brisco_County at January 03, 2017 06:45 PM (3prOo)

161 He is a failure in every sense of the word.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 06:27 PM (6gk0M)

You misspelled "traitor."

When we got our briefing from the FBI Special Agent concerning all our info being obtained by the Chicoms, the S/A said the real danger isn't now but years down the road. The Chicoms have identified who they want to compromise and will wait for a while. They want the classified material and are not so interested in bank fraud: the Chicoms have sold-off that data.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 03, 2017 06:45 PM (5Yee7)

162 125 They really are fully prepared to start WWIII because the election didn't go their way.
Posted by: Maritime

Except for the part about actually enlisting to fight it or even buying a gun to fight a civil war

Posted by: Jean at January 03, 2017 06:46 PM (2RVmA)

163 140 Whitson - at age 56 the world's oldest and most experienced spacewoman
===

oh FFS...
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at January 03, 2017 06:40 PM (zu88C)

???
What are you quoting?

Posted by: rickl at January 03, 2017 06:46 PM (sdi6R)

164 You know how you stop all this hacking?
Close down Starbucks in Moscow and Beijing, amirite?

Posted by: wth at January 03, 2017 06:46 PM (HgMAr)

165 I saw "Beat Terrorism" perform at Freaknik in Atlanta,1996.

Posted by: wooga at January 03, 2017 06:46 PM (4rniU)

166 Summers even used "voodoo economics" as a derogatory comparison in his stupid statement.

Ya know, the throwaway line that elder Bush used to ridicule Reagan's economic plans. The policies that helped lead to that little itty bitty turnaround and growth period in the 80s.

There was a time (in Summers' life-time) where Dem treasury secretaries were not vapid partisan dimwits. Actually one of the most stark examples of the civic culture, but esp. the Dems, sliding off the table to become the vile cretins they are.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 03, 2017 06:47 PM (QDnY+)

167 Angela Merkel: Beat Terrorism with Love and Compassion
***
Had Churchill had the same policy to the National Socialists in Germany where would Germany be today?

-
Masters of the universe using the French for domestic servants.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Trumpius! at January 03, 2017 06:47 PM (Nwg0u)

168 -Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 03, 2017 06:45 PM (5Yee7)

Yeah, I revised my statement because people had real facts and shit.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 06:47 PM (6gk0M)

169 If we were serious about the hacking from China and "Russia" we'd take the internet back...and turn them off.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 03, 2017 06:47 PM (aZq03)

170
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer

==

You and me?

We should talk sometime.

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at January 03, 2017 06:47 PM (zu88C)

171 Whitson - at age 56 the world's oldest and most experienced spacewoman
...........

Not Barbarella?

Posted by: wth at January 03, 2017 06:48 PM (HgMAr)

172 There was a time (in Summers' life-time) where Dem treasury secretaries were not vapid partisan dimwits.
***
Hell, there was a time when not ALL democrats were crooks, traitors, or crooks and traitors.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 03, 2017 06:48 PM (aZq03)

173 N Korea might have ICBMs? Quick, Mr Trump, bring Hillary back to the State Department! She's incredibly ackomplished!

Posted by: mallfly on horseback salad at January 03, 2017 06:48 PM (b7fwp)

174 What are you quoting?

Posted by: rickl
==

The AP article linked above by VIA

133
OT.

Looks like the Ewok has some big plans.

http://tinyurl.com/j8hmdea

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at January 03, 2017 06:49 PM (zu88C)

175 recommission the "USS Harvey Milk"

Too late to recommission.
We've already paid for the "filled with seamen" jokes.

Posted by: wooga at January 03, 2017 06:49 PM (4rniU)

176 N Korea might have ICBMs? Quick, Mr Trump, bring Hillary back to the State Department! She's incredibly ackomplished!
___
She can borrow my basketball!

Posted by: Madeline Albright at January 03, 2017 06:49 PM (aZq03)

177 Hell, there was a time when not ALL democrats were crooks, traitors, or crooks and traitors.

-
Of course, then they were Confederates.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Trumpius! at January 03, 2017 06:50 PM (Nwg0u)

178 Somewhat OT but can Trump recommission the "USS Harvey Milk" and "Gabriel Giffords"?
How can you possibly ask a young men to go to war on ships named for pioneers in dick and gun grabbing?

Posted by: xnycpeasant

They might be appropriate for the LCS class

Posted by: Jean at January 03, 2017 06:50 PM (2RVmA)

179 Retired Buckeye Cop - my point exactly, above.

This info loss, I'm guessing, has no analogue in modern intel history.

Basically providing the basic research material for a generation's worth of targeting and recruitment. Prior to the digital age, this was of course technically improbable.

I am still astonished that the SF86s (I think) were even converted to digital form.

Much like voting, sensitive personnel and intel info is perfectly adequately handled with paper and ink.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 03, 2017 06:50 PM (QDnY+)

180 >>Somewhat OT but can Trump recommission the "USS Harvey Milk" and "Gabriel Giffords"?

Also the Cesar Chavez

Posted by: Lizzy at January 03, 2017 06:50 PM (NOIQH)

181 So which is better - Chinese hackers or Rooskie hackers?

Posted by: Weasel at January 03, 2017 06:51 PM (Sfs6o)

182 just wait till the Russians release all of Hillary's deleted emails and it turns out they really are all about yoga lessons and Chelsea's wedding plans and Hillary's colostomy bag prescriptions...

Posted by: mallfly on horseback salad at January 03, 2017 06:40 PM (b7fwp)
...........

and order confirmations from DildosRUs

Posted by: wth at January 03, 2017 06:51 PM (HgMAr)

183 Any talk yet of a moron inaugural ball; none of us are getting tickets.

Posted by: Jean at January 03, 2017 06:51 PM (2RVmA)

184 So which is better - Chinese hackers or Rooskie hackers?

Posted by: Weasel at January 03, 2017 06:51 PM (Sfs6o)
..........

Chinee, because with two you get eggroll.

Posted by: Starbucks Beijing at January 03, 2017 06:52 PM (HgMAr)

185 Also the Cesar Chavez

Posted by: Lizzy

He was against illegal immigration, so I'm thinking that one stays,

Posted by: Jean at January 03, 2017 06:52 PM (2RVmA)

186 153 >>Does it get any better after the first 10minutes? because I hate it so far.

Not really
Stuff finally starts happening in the last few episodes and by then you're siding with the non-humans...

Posted by: Lizzy at January 03, 2017 06:44 PM (NOIQH)

++++

Not me. That was my biggest problem with the series. I never found myself caring at all about the mechanicals. Nor the humans, for that matter.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 03, 2017 06:53 PM (R+30W)

187 OT: It's a new age.

http://tinyurl.com/hdmmpkg

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Trumpius! at January 03, 2017 06:54 PM (Nwg0u)

188 I still say we all pitch-in for an Aircraft Carrier. North Korea would shit itself over a bunch of "Morons" sailing through the South China Sea.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 06:54 PM (6gk0M)

189 There is a link to a really interesting article about this written by a former Reagan cabinet person. He basically accuses Obama of questionable loyalties!

Posted by: Chilling the most at January 03, 2017 06:54 PM (Cl52v)

190 At least the Caesar Chavez case is arguable; Giffords and Milk are ridiculous, absolutely inappropriate divergence from ship-naming history and convention.

But how many of the Crappy Little Ships have been designated for "training only" due to their outstanding performance and design? Several, I think. Maybe those stupidly named ships can be kept in that category.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 03, 2017 06:54 PM (QDnY+)

191 That should have been Little Crappy Ships, of course.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 03, 2017 06:55 PM (QDnY+)

192 as a hackie, FU Earnest and your asshole boss. Hell we don't count. We are the military industrial complex.

Posted by: talgus da deplorable at January 03, 2017 06:56 PM (fJQAI)

193 186 153 >>Does it get any better after the first 10minutes? because I hate it so far.

Not really
Stuff finally starts happening in the last few episodes and by then you're siding with the non-humans...

Posted by: Lizzy at January 03, 2017 06:44 PM (NOIQH)

++++

Not me. That was my biggest problem with the series. I never found myself caring at all about the mechanicals. Nor the humans, for that matter.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 03, 2017 06:53 PM (R+30W)

A woman I know was an extra on it. I really didn't want to watch, but I don't know how to ask her if she was nekkid.

Posted by: Gaylord Perry at January 03, 2017 06:56 PM (7qAYi)

194 Any talk yet of a moron inaugural ball; none of us are getting tickets.

-
I see some people are throwing Deplora-Balls.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Trumpius! at January 03, 2017 06:57 PM (Nwg0u)

195 But how many of the Crappy Little Ships have been designated for "training only" due to their outstanding performance and design?

Posted by: rhomboid

I'm thinking lend-lease to Egypt.

Posted by: Jean at January 03, 2017 06:57 PM (2RVmA)

196 Dateline: China, (AP) - A group of independent U.S. citizens has sailed a warship through the South China Sea with unknown motives, reports multiple foreign governments...

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 06:58 PM (6gk0M)

197 185 Also the Cesar Chavez

Posted by: Lizzy

He was against illegal immigration, so I'm thinking that one stays,
Posted by: Jean at January 03, 2017 06:52 PM (2RVmA)
------------------------------
Yeah, he was VEHEMENTLY against it and not fond even of legal immigration.
Which clearly made him a raaaacist xenophobe.
Yup.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 03, 2017 06:58 PM (Nox3c)

198 NOOD. I got willowed.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 06:59 PM (6gk0M)

199 I am still astonished that the SF86s (I think) were even converted to digital form.

Much like voting, sensitive personnel and intel info is perfectly adequately handled with paper and ink.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 03, 2017 06:50 PM (QDnY+)

You are correct: the SF-86s are now digital and we are fvked.

The reaction of the Obama administration to this unmitigated disaster of a data breach? Zip.Zero.Zilch.Nada. The nicest thing I can say about those a$$holes is that they are feckless.

Heads need to roll and I hope the Trumpenfuhrer is ready to do so.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 03, 2017 07:00 PM (5Yee7)

200 I've been saying this for weeks; I and a lot of other feds got all our info ripped by the Chinese and I got a free credit watch for 12 months. That's it. The Russians maybe hurt Fat Cersei Lannister and Obama is a tough guy suddenly.

Fuck off.

Posted by: UGAdawg at January 03, 2017 07:00 PM (HL3BI)

201 Chinese spy, it's not only what he took out but what he put in. A bit of the old in and out. Maybe they retrieved Obama's birth, SSN, and passport records.

Posted by: gNewt at January 03, 2017 07:00 PM (reARY)

202 Looks like the damn Russkies are hacking Drudge again.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Trumpius! at January 03, 2017 07:01 PM (Nwg0u)

203 I forgot to say the link is in my mic. It is very interesting.

Posted by: Chilling the most at January 03, 2017 07:02 PM (Cl52v)

204 Netflix question - I added a true crime series "Real Detective" to my list yesterday. Today, it's not there. I can see it when I do a search for it, but the only option I have is to remove it from my list. It's not an expired show, since I found it by browsing through the new releases. Anything like this happen to anyone before?

Posted by: josephistan at January 03, 2017 07:02 PM (7qAYi)

205 180 >>Somewhat OT but can Trump recommission the "USS Harvey Milk" and "Gabriel Giffords"?

Also the Cesar Chavez
Posted by: Lizzy at January 03, 2017 06:50 PM (NOIQH)

At least Cesar Chavez was opposed to illegal immigration.

Posted by: rickl at January 03, 2017 07:02 PM (sdi6R)

206 Jan 20 can not get here fast enough. I will dance a little jig when the Jef is gone. gone gone.

Posted by: USNtakim at January 03, 2017 07:07 PM (hMqvx)

207 Who was supposed to be in charge of foreign intelligence hacking prevention over the last 8 years?

Posted by: Weasel at January 03, 2017 07:16 PM (Sfs6o)

208 "Any talk yet of a moron inaugural ball; none of us are getting tickets."

There's gonna be a parade! Chap asses optional.

Posted by: fleaked at January 03, 2017 07:19 PM (BO/km)

209 48 I'm one of those whose info was exposed by the Chinese. The government gave me a free one year subscription to Life Lock.

...seriously
Posted by: Albie Damned at January 03, 2017 06:12 PM (HzqYP)

I gotta question your credibility in that claim.

In fact, I'm just going to come right out and call you a liar.

Posted by: ghbucky at January 03, 2017 07:32 PM (D2q91)

210 Ain't it psychopaths who supposedly can say utterly false and easily debunked lies and completely believe theirselves. I.e., feel no shame.

Cause that's a liberal. Truly kool-aid drinkers of the highest order.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 03, 2017 07:37 PM (pUDQf)

211 I wonder if Josh's interview included questions like, 'can you lie with a straight face?'

'Is there anything you just refuse to say?'

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 03, 2017 07:39 PM (pUDQf)

212 For the progressive left the only "real" war is the one fought with their domestic political rivals. Party uber alles. The Chinese OPM hack would have been thought a serious problem if it interfered with their hold on power, but it didn't, so far.

The "Russian hack" is just an excuse for losing power. A scapegoat. Whether the Russians had anything to do with the disclosure of the DNC and/or Podesta emails? Who knows, there are powerful intelligence agencies that have "skin in this game" now. Any truth will be swarmed around with lies.

Truth, once these people are involved, is a bare quark, never seen without its screen of virtual gluons, virtual quark pairs, and others more exotic. Pull hard on Truth and you'll only get another truth/quark surrounded by new virtual lies/particles.

Posted by: geoffb5 at January 03, 2017 09:31 PM (d3wbb)

213 *cough*

http://tinyurl.com/gt9xuzl

How Microsoft Is Trying to Calm Fears About Spy 'Back Doors' in Its Code

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at January 03, 2017 09:45 PM (zu88C)

214 The
effort to build trust follows heightened suspicions in the region after
former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden leaked
documents in 2013 that showed the agency was capturing massive amounts of data from emails handled by major U.S. technology companies, including Microsoft.

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at January 03, 2017 09:47 PM (zu88C)

215 The Chinese Hack endangers our National Security, opening up individuals to blackmail and identifying others who should not be identified.

In other words, Obama loves it. Retaliate? For what? Helping Obama in his treasonous project? I'm surprised he didn't give them a medal.

What's rich is hearing the Left call Trump a "Putin pawn". Obama was Putin's blow-up doll--and they didn't object once. Fix your make-up, man; you're an embarrassment.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at January 03, 2017 09:53 PM (Ndje9)

216 "60 I'm a vet who may have been affected...."

For every vet who had a security clearance (and I can't imagine there are many who don't), there's no "may" about it. If you're a vet, you have been affected.

And it isn't just the vets. If you have a parent, sibling or child who has or had a security clearance, then you're affected too.

"...These people need to burn in hell."

Goes without saying. Their neglect made millions of those in service to the country vulnerable to whatever the Chinese might come up with. The press and the D's (BIRM) just breezed right past this scandal, but this was a huge loss.

Somewhat OT, but the other one that still chaps my ass is that Obama lost an entire Marine squadron of Harriers to the Taliban, and because nobody talks about it, it is as if it never happened.
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Posted by: Action Jackson is my name. Bold adventure is my game. at January 03, 2017 11:06 PM (0SPyv)

217 #209: I got a letter from the government telling me my personal info was part of that so-called "hack". They offered to pay for identity protection for me for... a while.

IIRC, it was more than a year, and it was some other company besides Life Lock. But Albie's version isn't too far from what was in that letter.

He might just be exaggerating a bit; I don't think he's being dishonest.

Posted by: The Deplorable Prothonotary Warbler at January 04, 2017 09:09 PM (0OG8D)

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