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<\/a><\/p>\nIn the last year, we\u2019ve learned a lot regarding the security of the election infrastructure around the country. We\u2019ve found out that the People\u2019s Republic of China had hacked and stolen voter registration records of hundreds of millions of Americans. Then we have a report of a hacker who broke into the Maricopa County registration system and confessed to Federal Agents. What happened to him? Nothing. Here are the details from RedState<\/b><\/a>:<\/p>\n Newly declassified FBI documents released Thursday detail a 2020 breach of Maricopa County\u2019s<\/a> voter registration system.\u00a0<\/b>According to the files, a hacker used a vulnerability on the county recorder\u2019s website to extract 633,000 voter records in the days leading up to the election. About 930 of those files contained sensitive, non-public information.<\/b><\/p>\n The suspect later confessed to federal agents and acknowledged destroying the data by wiping hard drives and deleting Google Cloud copies after realizing investigators were closing in.<\/strong><\/p>\n So, even though he destroyed all the evidence, he confessed to, frankly, enough criminal activity to get him locked up for at least 10 years. So what happened?<\/p>\n Nothing. Nothing happened next.<\/b><\/p>\n The FBI presented the full case, including the confession, to the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for Arizona, the Arizona Attorney General\u2019s Office, and two county prosecutors. All of them declined to bring charges.<\/b><\/p>\n “Today, the White House Government Transparency Task Force released intelligence community and FBI documents detailing an election cyber incident in which a self-described hacker extracted 633,000 voter registration files from a Maricopa County site on the eve of the 2020 election,” chairman John Solomon wrote on X<\/a> early this morning.<\/b><\/p>\n “The FBI expended significant resources to solve the case and even got the suspect to confess,” he added. “But the Biden DOJ via the U.S. attorney in Phoenix and three state and local prosecutors all declined to prosecute. No accountability.”<\/b><\/p>\n I\u2019m not at all surprised. Anything that would have shown that President Trump was correct about the election and that Biden didn\u2019t actually win it, had to be suppressed at all costs, even if it meant covering up actual, confessed crimes of tampering with election data.<\/p>\n “The FBI confirmed that voter records were illegally extracted from the site and identified a suspect who admitted the crime,” a letter from<\/a> the Bureau to the Task Force reads.<\/b><\/p>\n I suspect that these were local agents who hadn\u2019t been contaminated by the Washington HQ environment. They found something, investigated it, caught a suspect, the suspect confessed and they handed everything to the U.S. Attorney to prosecute the case. The U.S. Attorney? He may have run it up to Merrick Garland, and then been told to drop the charges and bury everything. I looked up who the U.S. Attorney was under Joe Biden. The individual was Gary M. Restaino<\/a>. I think he needs to be asked some very pointed questions.<\/p>\n For years, the public only got scraps of information about the breach. These new files finally lay out just how complete the evidence was and how thoroughly it was ignored. Jeff Clark, former Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division during that timeframe, was one of many who found the revelations nothing short of befuddling.<\/b><\/p>\n “Standing alone, the Maricopa County, Arizona hack was one of the largest compromises in U.S. history of confidential voter data. Yet the culprit was allowed to get off scot-free,” he said. “Was the hacker told he was golden and skate? Is that why he maintained he acted alone?”<\/b><\/p>\n “That tends to happen when a target knows they\u2019re not going to be prosecuted.”<\/b><\/p>\n Definitely, the fix was in, and as far as I\u2019m concerned, this is a classic case of obstruction of justice. My original thinking regarding the last US Attorney was that he should be hauled up in front of an oversight committee. Now I think he needs to be brought in front of a Grand Jury. If he was ordered to drop the case from higher authority in Washington, he should have records. If he did this on his own? Indict him and put him on trial.<\/p>\n Arizona election officials have long pushed back on claims of widespread 2020 vulnerabilities.\u00a0After President Trump\u2019s July primetime address on election security, Secretary of State Adrian Fontes (D) called the disclosures \u201cunimpressive\u201d and \u201ca rehash of the same grievance.\u201d\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n Yeah, about that. I looked this clown up<\/a>. He has every reason to want to memory hole this thing. He was the recorder of Maricopa County when this happened and has since been elected as the Secretary of State. With this revelation, both he and Katie Hobbs, the current Govno of Arizona, might just find themselves in legal jeopardy.<\/p>\n The new documents may not change the fundamental distinction Arizona officials have drawn between voter-registration data and the systems that actually cast and count ballots.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n What they <\/b>do\u00a0<\/b><\/em>make clear is that when a significant breach of confidential voter information happened, multiple layers of authority chose not to act. It was a real-world test case. And nearly six years later, those decisions remain unexplained.<\/b><\/p>\n Which is why a Grand Jury needs to be impaneled. The FBI agents on the scene did their jobs. It was the U.S. Attorney who buried the case, either on his own or under orders from the DoJ.<\/p>\n Rather than pursue the case, several Arizona officials spent years telling the public that 2020 was historically secure. <\/b>Gov. Katie Hobbs (D), then the Arizona Secretary of State, said the state had conducted \u201ceasily the smoothest\u201d and \u201cmost secure election in recent history\u201d as she certified the results<\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n