What happened in 1973?
Nixon was President. Spire Agnew was VP. Agnew was investigated on suspicion of criminal conspiracy, bribery, extortion and tax fraud from time as Maryland Governor. Agnew resigns.
Nixon then has to nominate someone who will receive House and Senate confirmation. Enter Gerald Ford.
Ford is sworn in as VP. The deep state hangs Watergate on Nixon and forces his resignation at threat of impeachment. (Remember Hillary’s role in this investigation?)
President Ford considers multiple people for his VP: Donald Rumsfeld, George H W Bush, Nelson Rockefeller. Settles on Rockefeller.
In pop culture, ABBA is topping charts in various countries during this time, along with their new album and hit title track, Waterloo (reminiscent of Battle of Waterloo and Napoleon’s loss and resignation). Notable line from Waterloo: “ The history book on the shelf Is always repeating itself.”
Do you love ABBA? John McCain did. His favorite song was said to be “Dancing Queen,” which also played recently (and oddly?) at Colin Powell’s funeral - who also was a big ABBA fan.
Are you following ABBA’s new album and reunion tour, “Voyage?” Will you buy a ticket to watch their virtual ABBA-taur’s perform?
History repeats.
WOAH: There's talk on Capitol Hill about the mechanics of a confimation hearing to fill a VP vacancy amid Kamala's nose-diving approval numbers and reports of a strained relationship between Biden and Harris
CISA issues sweeping federal directive for government cybersecurity
It comes as there has been two major hacks in the last 10 years.
The Biden administration is ordering federal agencies to fix hundreds of vulnerabilities in software and hardware that hackers have been known to exploit, according to a new government directive released Wednesday. The first-of-its-kind directive, issued by the DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, includes a list of vulnerabilities "that carry significant risk to the federal enterprise" with technical specifics that agency leaders are required to review and address within 60 days. Some areas will require a more immediate fix, according to CISA.
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Now flashback in time:
(1) https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/PSA_CyberThreats_Final-508.pdf
(2) https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/alerts/aa20-283a
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