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Dec. 16 (UPI) -- The federal government's former top cybersecurity expert on Wednesday defended his assessment that last month's elections were secure during questioning at a Senate hearing.
Christopher Krebs, who was fired last month by President Donald Trump after he refuted false claims of voter fraud, told members of the Senate homeland security committee he stood by his earlier statement that the Nov. 3 election was 'the most secure in American history.'
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'I've yet to see anything from a security perspective ... that would change my opinion on that,' he said after three earlier witnesses called by Republican committee members reiterated claims of voter fraud which have been rejected by various courts.
'I think we're past the point where we need to be having conversations about the outcome of this election,' Krebs said while noting that outgoing Attorney General William Barr has also said that no evidence of widespread fraud has been discovered.
'Continued assaults on democracy and the outcome of this election only serve to undermine confidence in the process and is ultimately corrosive to the institutions that support elections,' he added.
Krebs, former director of the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, made his first public appearance since his departure.
The CISA under his direction called the Nov. 3 election 'the most secure in American history' and said Trump's claims of widespread voter fraud were either 'unsubstantiated' or 'technically incoherent.'
No evidence has been presented to support any of the Trump campaign's claims of voter fraud. President-elect Joe Biden won 306 electoral votes, far more than the 270 needed to win the presidency. The Electoral College formally elected Biden on Monday.
Three witnesses who helped Trump press legal claims that the election was tainted -- attorneys James Troupis and Jesse Binnall and Pennsylvania state legislator Francis Ryan -- opened the hearing by repeating voter fraud arguments made in since-dismissed court challenges in Wisconsin, Nevada and Pennsylvania.
Sen. Gary Peters of Michigan, the committee's ranking Democrat, denounced the legal efforts by Trump and his Republican supporters as designed to sow public doubt about the election outcome.
'Whether intended or not, this hearing gives a platform to conspiracy theories and lies and is a destructive exercise that has no place in the U.S. Senate,' he said. 'Joe Biden won the election.'
No evidence has been presented to support any of the Trump campaign's claims of voter fraud. President-elect Joe Biden won 306 electoral votes, far more than the 270 needed to win the presidency. The Electoral College formally elected Biden on Monday.
Three witnesses who helped Trump press legal claims that the election was tainted -- attorneys James Troupis and Jesse Binnall and Pennsylvania state legislator Francis Ryan -- opened the hearing by repeating voter fraud arguments made in since-dismissed court challenges in Wisconsin, Nevada and Pennsylvania.
Sen. Gary Peters of Michigan, the committee's ranking Democrat, denounced the legal efforts by Trump and his Republican supporters as designed to sow public doubt about the election outcome.
'Whether intended or not, this hearing gives a platform to conspiracy theories and lies and is a destructive exercise that has no place in the U.S. Senate,' he said. 'Joe Biden won the election.'
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The State Administration of Market Regulation has kicked off investigations into the Alibaba Group, laying claim that the company has been involved in monopolistic conduct such as 'forced exclusivity' by requiring e-commerce merchants to pick only one platform as their exclusive distribution channel, according to the South China Morning Post.
The paper says the investigation is being led by a former official from the state-owned China Communications Network Information Center (CCNIC), which oversees internet censorship and content management. The CCNIC was responsible for censoring the country's most popular social media platforms like Weibo and QQ after they were launched in 2009.
Alibaba has denied any wrongdoing and said it will fight the accusations. 'We are confident that we have not broken any laws,' an Alibaba spokesman told the newspaper. A spokesman for the government's Administration of Government Bureaus told the paper, 'If we find evidence, we will take strict action.'
Alibaba Group started out as a online Alibaba.com marketplace, and now encompasses several other services and companies. The company's affiliate Cainiao, which handles logistics, is reported to be one of the targets of the market regulation investigation.
Alibaba is China's biggest online retailer by total sales, and its Tmall platform — similar to Amazon's online marketplace — has also become a shopping destination for many in the country.
The company's founder, Jack Ma said in a speech in 2014 that if the government shut down Alibaba, more than 4,000 offline companies that depend on it would fail.
Tmall launched in 2013 and now has more than 500 brands and 30 million products, according to its website.
It is not the first time that the company has faced government scrutiny.
In 2012, Bloomberg reported that Alibaba was under investigation by the Cyberspace Administration for suspected financial fraud and a potential security threat in the wake of the September 11 attacks. The company denied those allegations, and the investigation was reportedly closed by the CACAB months later.
Alibaba was also reported to have faced a similar investigation by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC), which is part of the State Council, over allegations that online food sales platforms like Eat天下 and Amazon Food were illegally selling hard to get medical drugs and other goods. The company said at the time that it would 'not bow down to external pressure and we will continue to operate as normal.'
In December, the company pulled its online food delivery service in Shenzhen for health and safety reasons.
Alibaba's future in the country has been called into question as well.
In early December, a media report said Jack Ma was looking to sell a 40 percent stake in the company.
