Good day all. Last week someone released the home addresses and other personal information of several GOP members of of the United States Senate. The assumption is that the poster wanted the Antifa thugs to go their homes and behaves as they always do. Like thugs.
The three members are all on the Senate Judicial Committee and are part of the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings. According to Fox News:
Personal information of Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham, Mike Lee and Orrin Hatch were posted by an unknown person located in the House of Representatives on Thursday during the hearing of Supreme Court Nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
The information, which supposedly included home addresses and phone numbers, was posted – or doxxed – on the senators’ respective Wikipedia pages, where users are allowed to update the information at any time. The information has since been removed.
All three targeted senators were members of the Senate Judiciary Committee who questioned both Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Kavanaugh regarding Ford’s allegations that he sexually assaulted her over 36 years ago. The leaking of information occurred sometime after the three lawmakers questioned Kavanaugh.
Now, during the campaign in 2016, Candidate Donald Trump gave out the cell phone number of Lindsey Graham. Not exactly cool, but those numbers can be easily changed. The home addresses, which can be found out with a bit of work, along with their home phone numbers, (Which are probably unlisted), is a bit more difficult.
The information that the updates to the individual’s Wikipedia pages came from an IP address in the House of Representatives is very worrying. Well, it didn’t take the network security people long to track down which computer the updates came from. Surprising no one, that computer is in the office of one Representative Maxine Waters.
Mad Maxine, who has been calling for violent physical confrontations of anyone who supports President Trump has denied that the postings came from her office. Here are the details of this from Fox News:
U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters on Saturday denounced allegations that a member of her staff had posted the personal information of three Republican U.S. senators onto the lawmakers’ Wikipedia pages. The Los Angeles Democrat asserted that the claims were being pedaled by “ultra-right wing” pundits and websites.
In Mad Maxine’s world, anyone who isn’t just like her is “Ultra Right-wing.” According to information posted in The Hill:
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) denied allegations being pedaled by “ultra-right wing” pundits and outlets claiming that a member of her staff was responsible for the release of personal information regarding U.S. senators.
After the report, multiple right-wing sites like Gateway Pundit and RedState reported the IP address responsible for the leak was associated with Waters’ office and released the information of a staffer in the office.
And the response from Mad Maxine? It was about what you would expect from that lunatic.
“Lies, lies, and more despicable lies,” Waters said in a statement shared to Twitter on Saturday. “I am utterly disgusted by the spread of the completely false, absurd, and dangerous lies and conspiracy theories that are being pedaled by ultra-right wing pundits, outlets, and websites who are promoting a fraudulent claim that a member of my staff was responsible for the release of the personal information of Member of United States Senate on Wikipedia.”
There is just one small problem. They tracked the IP block back to the house of Representatives and specifically to the block used by the office of one Mad Maxine Waters. According to Red State:
Does this mean that Waters’s staff tried to expose sensitive personal information about three Republican Senators? I am not conversant with how the IT system in the House of Representatives is configured. I know that the IP range 143.231.249.0 – 143.231.249.255 is assigned to the House of Representatives. People who claim to be experts say that the odds that this woman, (Red State identifies the woman as Kathleen Sengtock, Mad Maxine’s senior legislative assistant), did it are low but the common IP address indicates it is in a block of IP addresses assigned to Waters’s office.
The IP block shown above is a Class B address, and is a public address. Frankly, I’m rather surprised at this. I would have thought that the House and Senate networks would use a private network for a bit more security. That would have required the intervention of the government network engineers to track it back.
I have a suspicion that whoever made the edits on Wikipedia assumed that they were using a private address that requires being translated into a public address at the router. (Very basic explanation here) In any case, network security will be able to track this back to the specific system, computer, tablet or smartphone, where the edits came from and then determine who was accessing the network at that time. Meanwhile, Mad Maxine continued her high dive into shallow water.
Waters’ statement quickly drew criticism online, including from former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer.
“This denial is angry,” Fleischer wrote. “This suggests she doesn’t have the temperment to be a Member of Congress. When someone is accused of something they didn’t do, they must not be angry. They must not be defiant. They must not question the motives of the accuser. They must be calm and serene.”
That most definitely does NOT describe Mad Maxine. She is, to put it mildly, a raving lunatic.
In her statement, Waters said her office had alerted “the appropriate authorities and law enforcement entities of these fraudulent claims.
“We will ensure that the perpetrators will be revealed,” she continued, “and that they will be held legally liable for all of their actions that are destructible and dangerous to any and all members of my staff.”
In other words, Mad Maxine intends to kill the messengers for daring to reveal the truth. She’s also managed to dig a nice deep hole for herself and whoever doxxed the three Republican senators. The very first thing any competent investigator is going to do is pull the network records from the House Information Technology system to either prove or disprove that the edits did come from Mad Maxine’s office.
If, as I suspect, they did, the investigators will very quickly identify the system and the users on it. After that, it gets interesting. I don’t know what laws may have been broken, but at the very least, Mad Maxine’s screeching like a harpy makes me wonder if she didn’t authorize this. If she did, then she has opened herself up to being expelled from Congress. Even the other raving loons, aka Nancy’s Nutbars, aka Democrats can’t allow this to continue.
If one of those three were physically attacked at their homes, or even murdered, the blowback on the CommuNazis in general and Mad Maxine in particular would be massive.
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