Obama Administration Fuzzy On Who Was Supposed To Stop Russian Meddling In 2016 Elections

Someone should have been responsible for protecting the integrity of the electoral process, but, well, who knows who that might be?

Washington, March 1 – Former officials of the previous presidential administration and public figures who accuse Russia of interfering in the last presidential election admitted their uncertainty over who was in power in the US at the time and therefore responsible for preventing or addressing the problem.

Cabinet and federal department heads expressed uncertainty today in separate interviews about who might have overseen systems lax enough to enable Russian operatives to manipulate public opinion to a degree that might have altered the outcome of the election. Journalists and pundits voiced similar bafflement, including the occasional idle observation that someone should have been responsible for protecting the integrity of the electoral process, but, well, who knows who that might be?

“It’s a crime that Trump is in the White House now, and it’s got collusion with Putin written all over it,” declared former FBI Director James Comey. “The fact that the Bureau doesn’t seem to be taking this thing seriously right now seems highly suspicious. At the very least, you’d think they would be interrogating the heck out of whoever was supposed to be in charge of the organization when this fiasco went down. It’s the FBI that’s responsible for monitoring enemy espionage and other activities in our domestic scene. That’s the guy who should be getting in trouble for all this.”

“There’s a ministerial responsibility issue, as well,” added former Attorney General Loretta Lynch. “It’s not just the FBI itself, but the whole Department of Justice that has to answer for this colossal failure. The person they had running the department should really be getting the third degree right now, and should have as soon as this episode came to light. I don’t know what everybody’s waiting for. It all makes it look like someone is covering for the people who are most at fault. That itself should be a major scandal, but you don’t see the media or government watchdogs pursuing the story. As an American I find it embarrassing.”

Media personalities voiced similar sentiments. “Where are the hard-hitting stories on who was responsible for letting this happen on their watch?” wondered Washington Post Editor-in-Chief Bob Woodward. “You’d think there might be someone in media with experience bringing major government failures, cover-ups, and scandals to light who would leap at this journalistic opportunity – if not an entire newspaper, then at least a reporter with a nose for the right story. Where are those people?”

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