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Submission + - FBI Was Ordered to Destroy Evidence of China's 2020 Election Plot to Help Biden (justthenews.com)

An anonymous reader writes: On Monday, FBI Director Kash Patel handed Congress an intelligence report exposing a Chinese plot to interfere in the 2020 election. The report details how Chinese operatives mass-produced fake U.S. driver’s licenses to flood the system with fraudulent mail-in ballots, which helped Joe Biden in the process. However, the intel wasn’t investigated, corroborated, or acted on. In fact, it was quietly pulled from intelligence agencies even as then-FBI Director Chris Wray told Congress there were “no known plots” of foreign interference.

The report was sent out on Aug. 24, 2020, but was abruptly recalled by the FBI with a vague excuse about needing to “re-interview” the source. But it didn’t stop there. The bureau didn’t just recall the report; it ordered its destruction.

According to the recall notice, intelligence agencies weren’t just asked to disregard the report — they were ordered to “destroy all copies” and “remove the original report from all computer holdings.” This wasn’t routine bureaucratic cleanup. It was a deliberate effort to wipe damning evidence from existence. The FBI didn’t just bury credible intelligence about Chinese election interference; it tried to scrub it from history.

According to the report, the Chinese government had secretly produced and exported a large batch of fraudulent U.S. driver’s licenses in late August 2020. The goal? To enable tens of thousands of ineligible Chinese nationals — particularly students and immigrants sympathetic to the Chinese Communist Party — to vote for Biden using mail-in ballots.

Comment Re:Can we just bomb the Kremlin already? (Score 2) 93

And put Russia out of its Vladolf Putlery?

If that's really the goal, then we should stop dilly dallying and fully support the Ukrainians who have not only wiped out the Russian Black Sea fleet and done serious damage to the 12 mile land bridge to Crimea for both rail and automobiles, but have wiped out a large portion of Russia's strategic bomber fleet capable of launching nuclear missiles at us. The Ukrainians are doing all the fighting and dying for their own democracy, and ruining Russia in the process. Why can't we fully support them? Oh right, because our current admin is corrupt.

Thanks to the Ukrainian military, the Russian military has been seriously degraded, all while we sold off our old artillery stockpiles that were aging out anyway, not to mention the F-16s donated by our European allies.

Comment Re:Time to drop intel support (Score 1) 125

You're correct, and your most splendid, detailed, and technically informative comment is insightful.

Meanwhile upon reflection I just want to correct something I wrote earlier. I wrote, "People understand Apple, Microsoft, Linux, SAMSUNG", but what I meant to write, "People understand Apple, Microsoft, Google, SAMSUNG", (because of paid marketing).

I'm sorry, but as I get older I keep messing up like this.

Comment Re:Time to drop intel support (Score 1) 125

My oldest Intel NUC circa 2016 is still my primary workstation, the others are all servers. All have 32 GB of RAM, run Linux, with no software issues as to modernity. So far, so good, with no end in sight.

Apple is consumer grade hardware that comes with limited hand-holding if you visit the Apple Store where you bought it, it seems. For those that can afford anything, I won't knock it, especially if they're pros, but for most folks Apple is a poor value due to planned obsolescence, but then go and try to explain Linux to everyone.

People understand Apple, Microsoft, Linux, SAMSUNG, because they saw an ad financed by a product that costs real money. This is why Linux always loses. #marketing

Submission + - Trump's media company says it's buying $2.5 billion in Bitcoin (latimes.com)

echo123 writes: President Donald Trump’s media company could soon own $2.5 billion in Bitcoin. On Tuesday, Trump Media announced that it’s working with “approximately 50 institutional investors” to sell and issue $1.5 billion in stock and $1 billion in convertible notes. The company, which operates Truth Social among other services, will be used to establish a large holding of Bitcoin.

Trump Media says Crypto.com and the crypto banking platform Anchorage Digital will provide custody services for the company’s Bitcoin treasury.

”We view Bitcoin as an apex instrument of financial freedom, and now Trump Media will hold cryptocurrency as a crucial part of our assets,” Trump Media CEO Devin Nunes said in the press release. “Our first acquisition of a crown jewel asset, this investment will help defend our Company against harassment and discrimination by financial institutions.” The announcement comes just months after Trump revealed plans for a federal cryptocurrency reserve that includes Bitcoin, one of numerous close ties to the crypto industry. The Trump administration has softened the government’s scrutiny of industry misconduct, with the Securities and Exchange Commission dropping lawsuits and investigations involving Coinbase, Kraken, and Robinhood.


Comment Re: History Repeats? (Score 4, Insightful) 64

Control the agenda. People in the MS world will become dependent on it and it becomes the defacto standard in a narrow industry segment. Its a pretty common business tactic. You gotta start somewhere.

Q: How many Microsoft engineers are required to screw in a lightbulb?

A: None, because Microsoft can declare Darkness the new Standard.

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