Here’s a look at hacking incidents during the 2016 presidential campaign and allegations by the US that the Russian government meddled in the election. Both Republicans and Democrats have issued calls for a deeper probe of Russian interference.
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If China is Trumpa s foil, what happens here?
A copy of the local Chinese magazine Global People with a cover story that translates to “Why did Trump win” is seen with a front cover portrait of US president-elect Donald Trump at a news stand in Shanghai on November 14, 2016. During the campaign, candidate Donald Trump drew support from some Chinese Americans in Southern California.
Trump adviser says President-elect is ditching a drain the swamp’
One of Donald Trump’s advisers says the president-elect is no longer interested in his rallying cry “drain the swamp.” “I’m told he now just disclaims that.
Decline of Tea Party among 4 most severely undersold political stories of 2016
The Washington Post writes a lot of things about politics. Thousands of things per year, in fact.
John Kelly’s Homeland Security Hearing: 3 Questions Congress Must Ask
Marine General John Kelly, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head the Department of Homeland Security, has his confirmation hearing with the Senate Homeland Security Committee today. Kelly is a four-star general who served in the Persian Gulf War and the Iraq War, worked alongside Defense Secretaries Leon Panetta and Robert Gates, and led US Southern Command, which oversees US military action in South America and Central Asia.
Trump’s wiretap tweets come as NSA surveillance programs are up for renewal this year
Nearly four years after National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden blew the lid off domestic spying, the vast surveillance programs cherished as the “crown jewels” of the U.S. intelligence establishment are about to spring back into public debate – and not just because of Donald Trump’s allegation that he’s been the subject of wiretaps. The legal framework for some of the broadest U.S. surveillance programs, authorized for a five-year period in 2012, will expire Dec. 31 unless Congress reauthorizes it.
US privacy board in disarray before Trump takes office
A federal board responsible for protecting Americans against abuses by spy agencies is in disarray just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. The five-member Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board will have only two remaining members as of Jan. 7 – and zero Democrats, even though it is required to operate as an independent, bipartisan agency.
State News
Gov. Scott Walker is asking the Wisconsin state legislative body to approve a bill which directs an additional $35.5 million toward the construction of broadband infrastructures throughout the state. Friday, December 9, 2016 A special three-judge federal redistricting panel has ordered the governor and the Legislature to redraw the state’s legislative districts, in time for them to be jurisdictionally valid for the 2018 elections.