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A personal email account of White House Chief of Staff John Kelly was hacked, according to an email obtained by Buzzfeed via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. "As we discussed ... my folks are nervous about the emails you send and ask that you no longer include them on any postings," Kelly wrote. "Then there is hacking which one of my own personal accounts has suffered recently. I do almost everything now by phone or face-to-face comms."
The FOIA email confirms previous reports from Politico that Kelly used a compromised smartphone for months. If it's the same incident (the White House never confirmed the original reports), the attack happened during Trump's transition in late 2016 while Kelly was secretary of homeland security.
https://www.engadget.com/2018/06/11/john-kelly-hacked-foia-request/
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday June 12 2018, @09:29PM (1 child)
No they can't because that's not how your electoral system is set up.
You have two state-sponsored parties, set up for the benefit of the people who pay for them, to continue to pass the laws they pay for.
Third parties are not ever going to be a feature of American government.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 13 2018, @12:58AM
because it is too easy for the issues & memes that power 3rd party movements to be co-opted by the 2 major parties (Tea Party movement), or the 2 major parties work together to cut off the oxygen (Ross Perot), or the 3rd movement just has no real general merits besides "we're differenter than they are!" Sorry libertarian, green, constotutional, Independent et al parties in the US.
Granted, in hindsight it looks like the Peroistas, by way of Tea Party movement, managed to hijack the Republican Party...