Robert Denbow News Today

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s statement “everyone has a right to a trial to prove innocence” was a thumb in the eye to the Age of Enlightment concept “innocent until proven guilty.” Lord Acton and his observation “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely” would love her. Robert Denbow Saco

Letter to the editor: U.S. failed to heed early warning of cyberattack Share The headline on Page A7 on Friday read “Hack against U.S. is ‘grave threat,’ cybersecurity agency says.” Cited in the Associated Press article is the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which terms the hack, as paraphrased by the reporter, “a long-undetected intrusion.” Evidently, they didn’t read the Portland Press Herald. A headline on Page B1 in that newspaper on Aug. 17, 2017, more...