re: #650 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The question was “why didn’t we”?, that included the GOP congress as well as the the prez, and yes, there was obviously a reason that the GOP was not about to act against their own interests

I think it was all about the timing. By the time they heard about hacking and started to understand it occurred and how, it was late in the game and Obama and the FBI hesitated for political reasons.

They knew how it would look if they came out and said it looked like the Russians were throwing the race to Trump. Really think about the dynamics of the media, Trump and Clinton and how would a revelation like that be played?

So they waited to more or less let the election happen. But at that point they didn’t really know the depth and influence it has.

So it was a wrong call because they probably had no real clue of how far it really went what with all the fake ads, Facebook, backdoor contributions…all coordinated.

So, Trump and the Russians were effective because they went unnoticed for so long and when noticed it was already well underway and working. And no one but they knew it until later. Like just after the election when they could confirm what had happened.

That’s my take. It would have been hard to actually stop it.