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Question of the Day By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times - Friday, December 18, 2020
Vice President-elect Kamala D. Harris is scheduled to travel to Georgia next week to put her stamp on the two Senate runoff races that will decide how much wiggle room the Biden administration has with Congress.
Ms. Harris is set to make a pair of stops Monday on behalf of Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock.
Vice President Mike Pence returned this week to the state for the fourth time since President-elect Joseph R. Biden carried Georgia by 12,000 votes in the Nov. 3 election.
“I mean, he could immediately, on his order, seize every single one of these machines around the country, on his order,” said Mr. Flynn.
“He could also order he could order, within the swing states, if he wanted to he could take military capabilities, and he could place them in those states and basically rerun an election in each of those states,” Mr. Flynn added.
Mr. Flynn acknowledged earlier in the interview that he was unsure if the president would consider either course of action but argued he should act on them immediately.
“I don’t know if he’s going to take any of these options,” Mr. Flynn said. “I mean, the president has to plan for every eventuality, because we cannot allow this election and the integrity of our election to go the way it is.”
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Navajo Nation President Jonathan New called Ms. Haaland’s nomination “historic and unprecedented for all indigenous people.”
National Congress of American Indians President Fawn Sharp said “the centuries of invisibility of American Indian and Alaska Native people are fading as our best and brightest emerge into prominent positions of leadership.”
And Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, an enrolled member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe, wrote in a tweet, “It’s a monumental step forward for the United States of America” and a “meaningful win” for Indian country.
The Department of the Interior, which oversees federal lands, encompasses 70,000 employees and nine bureaus, including the National Park Service, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the Bureau of Land Management.
Federal officials issued an urgent warning on Thursday that hackers who American intelligence agencies believed were working for the Kremlin used a far wider variety of tools than previously known to penetrate government systems, and said that the cyberoffensive was “a grave risk to the federal government”.
The discovery suggests that the scope of the hacking, which appears to extend beyond nuclear laboratories and Pentagon, treasury and commerce department systems, complicates the challenge for federal investigators as they try to assess the damage and understand what had been stolen.
Minutes after the statement from the cybersecurity arm of the department of homeland security, President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr warned that his administration would impose “substantial costs” on those responsible.