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Report: Cyber experts find Chinese infiltration of US election software, but things take sick turn after call from Washington FBI Office By Elizabeth Stauffer The Western Journal

EDITOR’S NOTE—This section is reserved as an editorial and may not necessarily reflect the policy of this publication.

Last week, Valery Zaluzhny, the Commander in Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, posted a photo on his Twitter account showing him wearing a bracelet that has a swastika imprinted on it. ***** The New York Times have now changed the term “Election Deniers” to “Election Skeptics.” This could be due to Donald Trump’s lawsuit with CNN. But it’s likely MAGA probably prefers “deniers” because the 2020 election was stolen and only the communist funded corporate media addicts are left that don’t realize it. This includes Fox News by the way. ***** At what point do Democrats and Republicans finally realize that there is one party and one party only and politicians only masquerade as “Ds” or “Rs.” Once upon a time, Democrats hated the war -mongering Bush/ Cheney regime. The Bush/Cheneys are no different than the Obama/ Bidens. As George Carlin so eloquently stated, “It’s a big club and you ain’t in it.” ***** President Donald Trump's social media app Truth Social soared to the No. 1 downloaded app on the Google Play store Friday after its longawaited debut. Truth Social sat atop the free apps list ahead of such brand names as Tik Tok, Amazon, WhatsApp and Instagram. ***** The government of Saudi Arabia released an official statement saying that the Biden regime asked them to delay their planned oil production cuts for one month, which raises questions of a possible attempt to influence the 2022 midterm elections. ***** War Room Pandemic

The group whom the Times’ writer referred to as “election deniers” is led On Monday, The New by Catherine Engelbrecht York Times published a and Gregg Phillips. They condescending story about “a group of election are the founder and a board member, respecdeniers” who had gathered “at an invitation-only tively, of True the Vote, an conference in August at a election integrity group based in Houston. You secret location southeast might recognize their of Phoenix” and names from Dinesh “unspooled a new conD’Souza’s documentary spiracy theory about the “2000 Mules,” which 2020 presidential outmakes the case that coorcome.” dinated voter fraud changed the outcome of The story involved the 2020 presidential elecKonnech Corp., a small election software compa- tion. ny based in Michigan, which the group claimed At any rate, a September “had secret ties to the Chi- article published by Substack’s Kanekoa News nese Communist Party provides some disturbing and had given the Chibackground information nese government backabout the events that led door access to personal to Yu’s arrest. The title of data about two million poll workers,” the Times the piece is “FBI Conceals Chinese Infiltration reported. of U.S. Election Software.” The very next day, the company’s CEO, Eugene The report cited a live Yu, 51, was arrested on suspicion of stealing iden- chat on TruetheVote.locals.com in which tifying information on hundreds of Los Angeles Engelbrecht and Phillips County poll workers and appeared together and storing the data on servers shared some of their findlocated in China, a viola- ings. tion of Konnech’s conIn January 2021, Phillips tract with Los Angeles said, he was working with County. a cybersecurity analyst who noticed an “oddity in The Times reported the some of the URLs” used story of Yu’s arrest withby one of Konnech’s softout mention of the hit ware applications. Using piece published the day software designed to help before by the very same companies detect cyber writer, Stuart A. Thompbreaches, he and the exson. pert “began to look at The Los Angeles County where do these URLs District Attorney’s Office resolve to,” he said. said in a news release Tuesday that Yu had been “We found that most of taken into custody by in- them resolve to one I.P. address and that I.P. advestigators from its Bureau of Investigation with dress — the URL resolved in China,” Phillips assistance from police in said. Meridian Township, Michigan. Trending: Photos: Why Does Jill Biden With this software, he Dress in Patterns Similar explained, “you can figure out what type of datato That of Home Furniture, Curtains, Wallpaper? base they are using, their

database port, and all the different services offered by ports in this particular application living in China. It turned out that not only did it live there, but they left the database open.”

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Prosecutors: U.S. election firm gave Chinese workers 'superadministration' access to election data Supervisor described policy as "huge security issue."

By Just the News staff

They discovered the database “stored the personally identifying information of over a million Americans,” Phillips said.

A U.S. election technology company currently embroiled in scandal gave Chinese subcontractors high-level security access to American elecSeeing this to be a “major tion data, according to a national security risk,” he warrant filed by prosecuand Engelbrecht contact- tors this week in Los Aned the FBI, according to geles. the report. Agents said Konnech was already “on Authorities earlier this their radar.” There were month arrested Eugene “lots of other problems” Yu, the CEO of the elecwith the company. tion software company Konnech, on charges of The FBI told Phillips and grand theft and embezEngelbrecht “a counterzlement related to his intelligence op was work with that firm. Conopened up in January or troversy has also swirled February of 2021.” over Konnech's alleged storage of poll worker “They engaged us in the data in servers located in operation, they were com- the People's Republic of municating with us on a China. regular basis. They were communicating with Konnech says on its webCatherine regarding com- site that it offers its Pollmunications with the tar- Chief "election logistic get and this went on for software" to nearly three approximately 15 dozen clients across the months,” Phillips said. United States. The war“These were legitimate rant for Yu's arrest, meanpeople who believed that while, made startling althis software posed a na- legations related to the tional security risk to the handling of sensitive data United States of America for those clients. and they were working with us closely to try to The charging document, stop this from being in filed in the Superior place during the midCourt of the State of Caliterms.” But everything changed after Engelbrecht received a call in April 2022 from one of the agents, who told her the FBI’s “Washington D.C. headquarters” was now handling the investigation. “There was no more goodwill, there was no more let’s work together, the script had been

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fornia for the County of Los Angeles on Thursday, claims that a project manager in August "wrote that any employee for Chinese contractors working on PollChief software had 'superadministration' privileges for all PollChief clients." The project manager reportedly described the decision as a "huge security issue;" He later stressed to workers at the company the "need to ensure the security privacy and confidentiality [of] our client data." The warrant also alleges Konnech employees “sent personal identifying information of Los Angeles County election workers to third-party software developers who assisted with creating and fixing” the company’s PollChief software. Konnech did not respond to a request for comment from Just the News on Saturday. Yu's arrest warrant recommended that he be given no bail while being detained. Yu could reportedly face up to a decade in prison if convicted on the charges.

From Durham to CIA, evidence mounts FBI was warned Russia collusion story might be disinformation

"This has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation run through the Hillary Clinton campaign," retired FBI intel boss says.

By John Solomon In one of the more dramatic exchanges during Igor Danchenko's trial on charges he lied to the FBI during the Russia collusion probe, Special Counsel John Durham confronted a lead agent with evidence he had been warned that the Russian businessman he

was using as an informant might be an intelligence asset for Moscow. Agent Kevin Helson acknowledged that a female member of the FBI's Human Intelligence Validation Unit, with two decades of intelligence experience, had raised concerns that Danchenko may be a member of the Russian

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