Read all about it! The US was attacked by Russia! Listen to the eruptions of democrat outrage over these hacking attacks, each one trying to outdo the other:
“We are in a 9/11 national emergency, because our country is under attack,” Blumenthal told CNN. “Literally, that attack is ongoing and pervasive, verified by objective and verifiable evidence.”
“Republicans have a historic responsibility as do all of us, because the red light is flashing, as the Director of National Security Dan Coats put it, much as it was before 9/11,” he said.
Rep Steve Cohen (D-TN) went even farther:
Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) on Tuesday said that Russian hacking efforts against the U.S. amount to an act of war and the U.S. should have countered by launching cyber attacks against the Kremlin.
“No question about it,” Cohen told Hill.TV’s Buck Sexton and Krystal Ball on “Rising” when asked whether the Russian hacking and propaganda effort constituted an act of war.
“It was a foreign interference with our basic Democratic values. The underpinnings of Democratic society is elections, and free elections, and they invaded our country,” he continued.
Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.)
“I think this attack that we’ve experienced is a form of war, a form of war on our fundamental democratic principles,” Coleman said during a hearing this week at the House Homeland Security Committee.
“I actually think that their engagement was an act of war, an act of hybrid warfare, and I think that’s why the American people should be concerned about it,”
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s ranking member, has similarly described the election meddling as an “attack” and likened it to the United States’ “political Pearl Harbor.”
“The Russian attack on our election system, on the very core of our democracy, is up there with Pearl Harbor in terms of its seriousness as a challenge to this country,”
In 2016, our country was targeted by an attack that had different operational objectives and a different overarching strategy, but its aim was every bit as much to devastate the American homeland as Pearl Harbor or 9/11. The destruction may not send pillars of smoke into the sky or come with an 11-digit price tag, and there’s no body count or casualty statistics—but the damage done has ravaged our institutions and shaken our belief in our immovability.
According to democrats, Russia committed an act of war on the US. In the fall of 2016. So who are they blaming?
Donald Trump.
Of course, that’s complete idiocy. Someone else was President at the time. That would be one Barack Obama.
Steve Cohen said a response to this “act of war” was indicated:
Cohen went on to say that the U.S. should have countered with a cyber attack on Russia.
“A cyber attack that made Russian society valueless. They could have gone into Russian banks, Russian government. Our cyber abilities are such that we could have attacked them with a cyber attack that would have crippled Russia,” he said.
Well, OK, Obama should have responded. And what did he do?
Absolutely nothing.
Not only did he do nothing, he ordered US cyber security teams to stand down in the face of Russian electronic incursions.
Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, asked about a “Russian Roulette” passage in which one of Daniel’s staff members, Daniel Prieto, recounted a staff meeting shortly after the cyber coordinator was ordered by Susan Rice, President Obama’s national security adviser, to stop his efforts and “stand down.” This order was in part because Rice feared the options would leak and “box the president in.”
“I was incredulous and in disbelief,” Prieto is quoted as saying in the book. “It took me a moment to process. In my head, I was like, did I hear that correctly?” Prieto told the authors he then spoke up, asking Daniel: “Why the hell are we standing down? Michael, can you help us understand?”
Daniel confirmed to the intelligence panel that the account was “an accurate rendering of what happened” in his staff meeting. He said his bosses at the NSC — he did not specifically mention Rice in his testimony — had concerns about “how many people were working on the options” so the “decision” from his superiors at the Obama White House was to “neck down the number of people that were involved in developing our ongoing response options.”
Obama rolling over for Putin in the fall of 2016 was just one more in a line of capitulations for Russia.
- Obama dismantles the missile shield in Poland
- Crimea
- Ukraine
- Syria
- Flexibility for Putin
- Venezuela
Despite Obama’s best efforts, including a unilateral withdrawal of the Bush anti-ballistic missile plan for Eastern Europe, Putin traveled to Venezuela, shook hands with a beaming Hugo Chávez, and announced (video here) that Russia would provide Chávez with both a nuclear energy capacity and a rocket program, the same as it has done for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran.
Iran’s quest for strategic dominance in the region has been ongoing for decades. In recent years, Iran has been aided by three fundamental events: ISIS’ wrought chaos has provided new opportunities for Iranian interventionism; the Obama administration’s incomprehensible decision to release $170 billion in Iranian assets, and the Obama administration’s intrusion into Operation Casandra, an American intelligence operation directed against the Hezbollah’s ferrying drugs and cash between it and the Venezuelan communist dictatorship.
So obsessed was the Obama administration with nuclear “agreement” with Iran that a large-scale American operation designed to stop the drugs for cash operation between Iran’s terrorist proxy and the communist dictatorship was halted.
Obama was the poster boy for Russian collusion and capitulation.
Of course he took some minor action – AFTER the election. Trump, OTOH, is actually doing something.
Brennan, Clapper, Comey were nowhere to be seen.
This was never supposed to be an issue. This was never supposed to see the light of day. Hillary was never going to lose to Donald Trump.
What democrats have done (once again) is to emphasize just how impotent Obama was in the face of Putin. When Russia attacked the US, Obama surrendered. Now the cacophony you hear from the left is simply a means of trying to distract you from the truth.
Karma can be a real b*tch.
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Except for liberals being foolish.
Hey now everyone keep it in perspective when a dog poops the floor does he clean it up? Idiots yell at the dog expecting it to understand, the dog gets all this attention but learns nothing from the lecture you just gave it.
So if you dont clean it up its your fault your house stinks. It would be nice if the damn dog woudnt bite you as you grab the lysol.
Lets rerun
The comparison to Pearl Harbor is succinct. Like with the Russian interference, the US had prior warning the Japanese was going to attack (MAGIC). Like with the Russian interference, the US was still, inexplicably, taken by surprise. However, there the comparisons cease. The surprise of the attack on Pearl Harbor was due to bureaucratic bungling. The ability of the Russians to insert themselves into our election was willfully ALLOWED by the Obama regime.
But, as some whiny liberals like to whine, in chorus, “Stop blaming Obama. Waa, waa, waa, stop blaming Obama. He did what all his leftist supporters WANTED him to do; make America weaker and expose it to foreign attacks. Waa, waa, waa, stop blaming Obama for his own failures. Waa.”
The Democrats have been caught colluding with the Russians. Obama has been caught allowing the Russians to interfere while illegally spying on Trump and his campaign to somehow find a premise to blame HIM. All they hyperbole in the world cannot disguise this FACT.
According to the bogus FISA warrant application, Russia has been meddling in our elections since the 1960’s. Why is it now a catastrophic issue? Call them out. Congress has the power to declare war. Challenge one of these bozos to introduce a declaration of war before Congress. Then watch the cockroaches flee and go back to the Stormy Daniels’ non-story.
Just passing through in a busy moment and didn’t read dj’s obviously rabid screed because he’s such an incredibly partisan hack and his incoherent gibberish (yeah, I l know, a redundancy) will simply be justified by his head bobbing troll patrol but this argument popped in my head of how hypocritical you guys are.
Imagine for a moment had Obama said of Osama bin Laden: “Well, we met privately and he told me he didn’t do it so that’s good enough for me”.
Go ahead if you remotely possibly can, what your reaction would have been. Now, explain to your very own bigoted selves why you give your Saint Donald a pass.
@Ajay42302: You should not have stopped since your makes no sense and has no applicability to the post. Must be that vacant space between your ears that is characteristic of most liberals.
@Ajay42302: Obama paid terrorists for Osama after he became a pathetic porn addict, locked down in a walled compound. Wanna know the payment fool? https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/05/09/obama-put-a-target-on-their-backs-seal-team-6-family-members-say
Nothing Obama touched wasnt contaminated.
@Ajay42302: Imagine if Obama told Putin, “After this election, I’ll be more flexible.” Meaning, he’ll be able to do what Putin wants as soon as his trained idiots vote for him one last time. Oh, wait… that’s exactly what he said.
What was your reaction? Oh, that’s right… you became a Soros suck-boy and loved it, wrote lies and ran away from questions like a cowardly useful idiot.
@Randy:
“your makes no sense”.
Okay.
@Ajay42302: Just an extra r, but the vacant space makes sense!
@Randy: The “vacant space” being AJ.
@Deplorable Me: @Randy: When AJ has less than nothing he becomes a spell checker
@Ajay42302: Of which country was osama President?
@DrJohn: Give him the options John
A. Afghanistan
B. Pakistan
C. Dumfukistan
@DrJohn:
I assume that distraction is as relevant as grammar?
That seems to be all you’ve got.
Dan Coats’ 9/11 red flags warning has to do with our nation’s vulnerability to cyber-attack. This isn’t only a warning about having our democratic election process undermined by Russian hackers. It’s a warning about the vulnerability of the internet, which pretty much controls everything from our power grid to our economy. There are plenty of red flags flying and blinking red lights at the moment, and a lot of people in high places determined to ignore what they could mean.
@Greg: So maybe our government should be concentrating on foreign hackers instead of a Trump witch hunt?
@Greg: Dope, it can be taken down with planned explosive attacks or EMP. Is there anything you actually know about? https://www.wired.com/2010/07/hacking-the-electric-grid-you-and-what-army/
@kitt, #17:
Among other things, I know whether or not I’m understanding what I’m reading.
Michael Tanji, in the linked article, concerning the difficulties of hacking the nation’s digitally controlled infrastructure:
Who do you think Dan Coats is warning us about? Trump’s “400-pound hacker on their bed?” Hostile nation-states—Russia being one—are the focus of Coats’ concern, because several can easily check off all of the necessary resource boxes Tanji goes on to list.
It might also be worth noting that he’s making a pitch for reliance on private-sector contractors such as himself and tax incentives for information sharing and tighter security as part of the antidote to such vulnerabilities. To me, that’s suggestive of a point of view that that isn’t entirely free of a personal economic and/or political agenda.
@Greg: Using real experts and not some appointee? Thats a bad thing? The congress doesnt seem to get off its keester and demand the grid is hardened, they make bills that do nothing lest they lose the lobby cash. Killed in the Senate by Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski from Alaska, the chairperson of the committee for the Shield Act, has killed the bill twice in a row, and she disbanded the congressional commission to study it, even though it had bipartisan support. The same one the democrats are counting on to block the Supreme Court pick. She is a doozy a republican with a liberty score of 22% an F grade, along with Mc Cain, Ryan, and McConnell America will win as they are replaced.
@Greg:
Yet you leftists’ answer to Obama leaving our elections vulnerable is to launch an cyber attack on Russia while ours is vulnerable?
July 31, 2018 — Facebook says it has uncovered a coordinated disinformation operation ahead of the 2018 midterm elections
What a surprise. Who ever would have expected such a thing.
I wonder how many there are that they haven’t found?
@Greg: Gary Miller provided this example on Sobieski’s post. Along with your citation, I notice a trend; they are all leftist. I have YET to see anything that looks to me like it is dangerous to free though and decision making.
If those anti-Trump posts are deemed subversive, false and misleading, Facebook should suspend the vast majority of the New York Times’ posts. They are all virulent, anti-Trump, full of innuendo and falsehoods and totally biased left. But, of course, the NYT is allowed to freely ply it’s propaganda trade.
Could Facebook be trying to rebuild it’s credibility by “exposing” this cadre of anti-Trump and anti-conservative sites? Democrats certainly couldn’t move to exploit it any faster than they did, blaming Russia and Trump. Frankly, I don’t trust them. They’ve been caught lying, it cost them a butt-load of money and now they are putting the corpses of the “criminals” they “caught” out on Main Street for the grateful citizens to view and appreciate.
If people could easily identify manipulative content by viewing a single sample post made on the account, the process wouldn’t be effective. People would instantly know what they were looking at.
@Greg: Well, as I have repeatedly asked… show me. If all you can provide are samples, I will base my opinion on that. You think I am going to take the word of Facebook or the seditious elements in our government that there were ads and posts that altered decisions?
If there was a danger out there, wouldn’t it be the best course to SHOW everyone what it was so people could decide what to look for? If it was something they had seen and seriously considered, they would know to be more discretionary. We aren’t just told the Brown Recluse Spiders exist, so be careful; we are provided with pictures of them so we know what they look like and how to avoid them. Basically, this is people with a long history of lying and manipulating telling us “Trust me.”
Sorry. No.