Bob Denver played the role of Gilligan on Gilligan’s Island, and later Maynard G. Krebs on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. The best way to describe this character was decidedly and hysterically weird. If anyone mentioned “work”, “marriage”, or “police” Krebs would jump with fear and sometimes faint. faint. Few people took Maynard G. Krebs seriously. Few people should take the modern version of Krebs seriously either.
Chris Krebs, is the former Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Mr. Krebs took repeated shots at President Trump for daring to suggest that there was widespread corruption in this election. Democrats swooned all over him and viewed this as proof positive that Trump was spreading misinformation. I wonder if anyone noticed that under Krebs’s watch, CISA missed a serious hack by foreign intruders that negatively impacted thousands of businesses. CISA had to issue an emergency order telling people to stop using SolarWind Orion software immediately because it had been hacked by someone. Democrats and the MSM blame Russia, but they always blame Russia. This has not actually been confirmed.
It is poetic justice to quote from an article by Krebson Security. All Krebs are not created equal.
This was certainly not prevented by CISA and it wasn’t even discovered by CISA. It was discovered by FireEye, who did the responsible thing by reporting the hack and putting people on alert. This compromised more that 425 of the Fortune 500 companies. It affected all ten of the top ten U.S. telecommunications companies, all five branches of the U.S. military, all five of the top five U.S. accounting firms, the Pentagon, the State Department, the National Security Agency, the Department of Justice, The Commerce Department, the U.S. Treasury, AT&T, CBS, Harvard, John Hopkins, Lockheed Martin, the New York Times, Smith Barny, the CDC, the U.S. Postal Service, and the White House. Nice! Way to go Krebs!
This is the same arrogant jerk bad mouthing the President and claiming, without evidence, that this was the most secure election in American history. Democrats on the committee lapped this up like it was straight from the lips of God. What a joke. It may not be his fault that this happened, but it happened on his watch and he was Director of CISA with the task of preventing exactly this kind of nonsense. At a minimum someone should have asked an obvious question. If you missed the widespread hack on SolarWind, how do you know you aren’t missing something regarding the election? His basic argument is that he is too smart, and his agency was too awesome for this to have occurred. If anything, the massive failure of CISA regarding SolarWind should give great pause regarding the credibility of CISA when it “certified” this election.
Who knows what shoe is going to drop next? There is almost certain to be a Special Counsel assigned to investigate Hunter Biden and that will include investigating Joe Biden. That demonstrates the real problem here. If the allegations against Joe Biden are true, then electing him President of the United States would constitute a clear and present danger to National Security. That should concern everyone in both parties. If you think people are unhappy now, imagine if this comes out after the inauguration, after Joe has totally botched things up and pushed our economy completely off the cliff. Imagine this coming out after there is more and more solid evidence that this election was stolen. Now imagine Biden being removed from office and replaced by Kamala Harris. Try not to throw up.
A lot of people, both Republicans and Democrat should really think about this. The only thing predictable is that virtually everyone will be angry at someone. Progressives won’t get the Green New Deal, Socialized Medicine, Gun confiscation and Defunding of the Police they expect. Even if Democrats take control of the Senate there are still some Democratic Senators who will not write a blank check for this nonsense. Joe Manchin is one and he may be joined by people like Sinema and even Kelly. Don’t assume that just because Democrats control the Senate that they control all the Democrats.
This continues to get weirder by the day. Look at how much things have changed since March. None of us would have predicted any of this last year at this time. No one can predict what will happen between now and January 6, 2021. Expect the unexpected.
TDM