Might as well add the Vice President suddenly being required to stay in Washington DC early on July 2nd, to the list. Even if it involved the Russians attempti

Might as well add the Vice President suddenly being required to stay in Washington DC early on July 2nd, to the list. Even if it involved the Russians attempting to tamper with underseas communications cables (and US service providers being forced to respond), we'll never get confirmation of it from either side. I don't know why you're being downvoted. The Russians trying to screw with US communications makes perfect sense as an explanation for such a comically implausible whoops one-after-another result like this. People here are saying that it wouldn't be possible for all the companies to conspire together to cover that up. Sure, tell me how it wasn't possible for numerous of the forced-to-join NSA programs to be covered up for years, all of which involved the participation of huge US service providers. Of course it's not only possible but very easy, major US service providers routinely work with US Government agencies.