Friday, July 21, 2017

President Obama's Plan to Counter Russian Hacking on Election Day


President Obama’s White House quietly produced a Plan in October 2016 to Counter a possible Election Day Cyber attack that included Extraordinary Measures like sending Armed Federal Law Enforcement Agents to Polling Places, Mobilizing components of the Military and launching Counter-Propaganda efforts.

The 15-page Plan stipulates that “in almost all potential cases of malicious cyber activity impacting election infrastructure, state, local, tribal, and territorial governments” would have Primary Jurisdiction to respond.

But in the case of a “Significant Incident” the White House had several “Enhanced Procedures” it was prepared to take.

The Plan allowed for the Deployment of “Armed Federal Law Enforcement Agents” to Polling Places if Hackers managed to halt Voting. It also foresaw the Deployment of “Active and Reserve" Military Forces and Members of the National Guard “upon a request from a federal agency and the direction of the Secretary of Defense or the President.”

For Three days after the Election, a Special Interagency effort would be tasked with addressing “any post-election cyber incidents,” including “planted stories calling into question the results.”

The Plan reflects how thoroughly the Russian effort to undermine Public Confidence in the U.S. Electoral system had succeeded. The U.S. Intelligence Community had concluded the Primary and abiding Goal of the Russian operation was “to undermine public faith in the U.S. democratic process.”

By Election Day, with widespread coverage of Russian Hacking and then-Candidate Trump’s assertions that the Vote would be Rigged against him, Gallup found that only 30% of Americans had Faith in the Honesty of Elections, while 69% did not.

The Document’s formatting has been changed from the original.

CLICK HERE to read the 15 page report.











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