In the 1944 film Gaslight, the villain manipulates his victim psychologically, eventually causing her to believe she's going insane. Undoubtedly, the origin of today's fashionable phrase gaslighting.
The film, and Charles Boyer, had nothing on Russian hackers and bots. On the heels of Robert Mueller's testimony to two House committees, the Senate Intelligence Committee dropped a bomb. The document produced by the Senate was significantly shorter than the 448 pages of Mueller's findings. The Intel Committee's work product was 67 pages. to be exact. Another difference:: the Senate report is even more heavily redacted than Mueller's document; most of the Senate pages are completely blacked out. But what's visible is also quite scary.
Russia seems to have focused its hacking on voter registration information in all 50 states. The Senate Report even indicates there's evidence that, in at least a few states, voter registration data has been deleted.
As in, the folks whose registration has been dumped will be turned away if and when they try to vote in 2020. As in, the average number of votes per precinct in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania by which Donald Trump won was two. That's right - two. Rua. Bi. Dui.
Two votes per precinct got Mr. Trump a win in the Electoral college vote of at least three states. But to this day he continues to deny that any action by any non-United States entity contributed to his victory.
Gaslighting in the 21st Century ...
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