Obama seeks to punish Russia for hacks
The Washington Post reports that the Obama Administration is close to taking measures to punish Russia for their hacks of the Democrat email system, even though there really is no proof that the Russians hacked the emails.
With the clock ticking, the White House is working on adapting the authority to punish the Russians, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. President Obama pledged this month that there would be a response to Moscow’s interference in the U.S. elections.
One consideration is that the Trump Administration would reverse any sanctions;
Administration officials would also like to make it difficult for President-elect Donald Trump to roll back any action they take.
“Part of the goal here is to make sure that we have as much of the record public or communicated to Congress in a form that would be difficult to simply walk back,” said one senior administration official.
It seems to me that a more fruitful endeavor would be to teach Democrats to stop gaming the system – in fact, the reason that folks voted against Democrats was because of the content of the emails, not the fact that the system was hacked. So, the Obama Administration is siding with the actual criminals by punishing the whistleblowers.
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden
Maybe President Obama will punish Putin by being “less flexible”.
Vlad is over there in his office in the Kremlin, snorting with laughter and toasting Trump’s victory with shots of turnip vodka.
Yes, it’s usually made from turnips, not potatoes, and it’s much smoother because turnips have a lot of sugar that potatoes don’t have. And vodka should be interspersed with serious food, such as smokes sausages, pizza w/everything, potato salad. Durn, now I’m hungry.
I’d like to punish the entire odabadman’s administration for the fractured English that has come out of that pisshole structure for the last EIGHT EFFING YEARS!
Walk back? Have these morons never heard of the word ‘RETRACT’????? or ‘RECANT’???? Or for that matter, have any of them ever used a dictionary or done anything besides sleep through English classes?
When are these idiots leaving? I will be SO GLAD when they are GONE!!!!!
Putin doesn’t drink alcohol.
It’s only a metaphor, Lily.
Obama is going send Putin the “Nigerian prince e-mail”.
I still have not seen anything that convinces me all this churn is real. When the FBI and CIA refused to brief Congress, that was a “tell” for me that this was all kabuki theater. I have a funny feeling their case would fall apart under questioning.
Same here, refusing to brief the appropriate committees behind closed doors says they have no information on what happened. But, Obama and his minions wouldn’t lie, right?
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Agree – all the4 WaPo has is unnamed sources for their stories. Too many of those stories have turned out to be false, even made up by the reporters. No official report or even statement has been made, and Wikileaks has already said they did not get the emails from Russia.
Maybe the DNC and Dems in general need to learn a bit about internet privacy and security.
“Unnamed Sources” and wasn’t the WaPoo one of the outlets bawling about “Fake News” after Trump’s election victory?
I would love to see them face Trey Gowdy.
Oh, yeah!!!!
His icy stare would have them melting, melting, melting!!!
Another “Red Line” maybe?
The intelligence agency heads are only “confident” that it was a Russian hack. The agencies haven’t even come to a consensus and have yet to brief the Senate Intel committee. However, it’s looking like Obama is trying to start WWIII because the DNC was made to look bad by the email leaks showing how they were trying to rig the election. This is nothing more than a lame duck trying to make himself look important and screw up the next administration as much as possible. I mean, look what he did to Israel.
Dear Leader has truly shown himself to be a fucking Grade A First Class scumbag extraordinaire.
All this crap he is pulling in the last days of his admin will eventually be his legacy as a pissant whiny vindictive crybaby.
President Stompy-foot strikes again.
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That could also be President Stompmyfoot Stutterbucket.
Indeed the Israel resolution and the comment about he could have won if he could have run really make it clear what kind of man he actually is. The petty, petulant kind unfortunately.
He could have won? Really? That’s the story you want to go out with?
Whether one liked him or hated him he could have left with some dignity by wishing his successor well and staking his claim around the ACA, because as many people love it as do hate it and it would have been left to history to decide if it’s a good thing long term or a bad thing long term. Instead he chose to go out looking like a dick…’nuff said.
INHO B. Hussein 0bama is going out like a pissy, whiny, spoiled toddler having a hissyfit. He spat on Israel with the United Nothing resolution and now he wants to fuck our relations with Russia up as fast and hard as he can. He said he could win if he could run again. What does he see himself as, a stretch version of Ferdinand Marcos? it’s likely he’s just as corrupt.
Because America wants to see him shoot par at the Andrews Golf Course. Those putts ain’t gonna sink themselves.
I’ve seen his swing (there’s a video online somewhere), I seriously doubt that he can break 100 without cheating heavily,
I’ve seen that video, I doubt that he’s ever shot under 110 in his miserable life.
Shoot under 110? Sure he does! Every single time he goes bowling.
Obama: “I have a phone and a pen. I dont need Congress and the Constitution.”
Obama: “And Trump better not use the same methods or roll back what I have done.”
DJT: “FU”
Alternate response from DJT: “You’re still here?”
Russian hacking? Ban AR-15s!!!
Isn’t this special. Almost makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. Or not.
Petty tyrant wannabe making yet another idle threat? Yeah, color me, and Russia, concerned.
I wonder if Putin isn’t looking at this and thinking “0bama? Fuckski himski!”? It’s rumored that while off mike and camera, Vladimir Putin once compared dealing with B. Hussein 0bama to playing chess with a pigeon, his rumored quote being “The bird knocks all the pieces over, defecates on the board and then struts around like he won the game.”
So. F.R.I.G.G.I.N. tired of the Big Zer0bama and his petulant, small-minded, self-centered tantrums.
Remember, this “hack” of the DNC was not some guy sitting in a darkened room looking for vulnerabilities in the DNC’s firewall or security.
The “hack” was a phishing scam, the same type of which you and I get on many days and are smart enough to ignore.
So not only were the contents of the emails the major issue, the minor and smaller issue is that the DNC IT and cyber security people as well as the general workforce were and remain dumber than a box of rocks.
These are the same people who wanted to have control over cybersecuity for the entire country.
And the nukes, and the economy, and DoJ…
Does Putin consider this little snit by his longtime-bitch turned-lame duck Barry to be worthy of a response? He’s almost certainly looking at this and thinking, “Short of launching the nukes, what the hell can this pussy do at this point that will actually stick? Besides, it wasn’t us (this time)!”
It would be funny if Putin issued a response and stated; at this point what does it matter.
And we have a winner here my friends !!!
Methinks it’s time for one of those “strongly worded letters”. . .
This isn’t about punishing the Russians, for allegedly hacking the e-mails. It is about diverting attention away from all the corruption of the DNC.
Nothing to see over here folks… move along now.
Ding, Ding, Ding!!!
Got to distract the Bernie-bots so that they will stay on the Dem plantation. If they focus on how the DNC itself screwed their socialist hero they might not dutifully continue to pull the lever for whatever corrupt turd the Donks run out there next time.
Can’t Hillary Clinton just push the “reset” button? That should make everything right.
Was wondering if anyone else had that reset button in mind with this silliness. Part of the picture is of a cartoon character running around the oval office shouting “RESET! RESET! RESET!”
Just send Lars “Zika-Commie” Taylor over, maybe he can tickle Putin into submission.
Maybe they’ll reopen a gulag just for him!
Fantastic!
Lars could give “pubic raspberries” as hard labor.
For 8 years we’ve had an immature, passive aggressive puke as president. On his way out the door he pisses on our leg one final time and tells us it’s raining. I would enjoy seeing Trump ignore him on the podium at the inauguration.
O trashed Bush the first many years of his presidency. Will Trump do the same? I don’t think so. I believe he sees little value in maligning his predecessor. He won’t take it in the shorts, though, and be silent as Bush did, and he’ll respond when lied about by O and his minions.
At the inauguration? Oh, no. No, no, no. I want to see bodaprez’s plane grounded in Hawaii due to heavy rain, tropical storms that peter out to nothing on their way to Indonesia, and more heavy rain that blocks all incoming/outbound flights until January 22nd, 2017.
There’s no requirement for him to even show up at the festiva in January, y’know.
I don’t know if this is true or not, I would bet it’s probably true – the GRU probably did do hack the dems and give the info to the wikijerk to release. What I think odd is the number of people on this blog, the ones who spent a lifetime chasing oscars in the Atlantic and Med, the ones preparing to stop the soviets in the Fulda gap, siding with pooty poot. That guy is a two bit commie thug hell bent on world domination. If the CIA and FBI, Americans all, said pooty poot did it then we should kick him square in the nuts. He appears to be doing the same thing in Europe as well. Funding useful idiots and fellow travelers to cause trouble. Screw the Russians. The world would be a better place if Patton had rolled them up when we had the chance. Pooty poot is a filthy KGB commie and can piss off.
Why are you, or anyone else for that matter, assuming this is the -first- time the Russians have tried to influence a US election?
Really?
Anyone else remember the eighties?
Oh come on! Really?
No one on the Dem side got annoyed and leaked dirt? Dirt on the most vindictive thug ever to run on the Jackass ticket? Seriously?
The Donkey Party couldn’t lose on their own, because Destiny! Right?
sheesh… put down the Kool-aide, or go drink with the Zampolit elsewhere.
I remember the 80’s, and how later on it was revealed none other than Drunk Teddy tried to get the Soviets to interfere in the 1984 election.
And we see how well that turned out.
Dude, I ain’t drinking any kool aid. The Russians have never been our friends and that’s my point. They have tried to meddle in our affairs since the end of WW II. This isn’t about the right or left, at the end of the day Americans all. It’s about a two bit commie thug meddling in our affairs, regardless of what those affairs may be. If they had hacked the NYSE instead of the dumbasses at the DNC my response would be the same. Pooty poot is a filthy commie and needs to be dealt with accordingly – like Reagan dealt with Gorbachev. Pooty poot seeks to divide and weaken the west / NATO. Then he can use fear and intimidation to bring the old soviet block states back into Russia’s orbit while the West bickers and fights among itself. Look at Crimea, Ukraine and the Baltic states as examples. It’s a play right out of the old commie playbook. Reagan would not have tolerated any of this hanky-panky and neither should President Obama or President Trump.
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Just saw it phrased this way somewhere else this morning: The Demkcratic party is not the U.S. Government.” If the Democrats cannot keep thei internal communications secure, so as to avoid embarrassment via “hacked” e-mail, that is the party’s problem and not one that requires action by the government. Does anyone believe that king Putt would be preparing to take similar action if a foreign power had backed the Republicans and perhaps cost them the election? Of course not. Recognizing that does not put me “on Putin’s side”
Who said we support Putin?
I’m saying that this crap from Obama and the rest of the progs looks suspiciously like kabuki theater.
IF there was real evidence, the FBI and CIA should have no problem meeting with Congress. Why won’t they?
I’ve worked in intel for over 30 years. That they won’t brief Congress stinks to high heaven.
Until they do, then there should be no action against the Rooskies. Not cause I love them, but cause I don’t fucking believe anything that comes out of this government anymore.
Pretty sad when the Russians are more believable than our own government.
Mustand Cryppie do you mean this government as in the current administration or the US government as a whole? If it’s the US government then pooty poot wins without firing a shot. That’s what that filthy commie wants, for us to disbelieve our government. People are sighting RT as a credible news source for christ sakes. Reagan would never have sighted Pravda, exept to show what a contemptible, wicked and dehumanizing system authoritarian communism was in the old soviet union.
Personally, I’m not ready to nuke Moscow because John Podesta can’t resist opening email with the subject: Natasha Wants To Have Your Love Child.
What also seems missing in this discussion is the extent to which it’s a strictly Whitehouse dog-and-pony show. If the FBI and CIA actually wanted to testify before a congressional committee, it would mean not only revealing what they know, but also how they know it. Then too, nobody is hearing from either the NSA or the DNI, and the last thing those guys want is an increase in network security at a broad level.
Perry Gaskill you make a good point and I agree that maybe the CIA and FBI don’t want to reveal too much to the blowhards in Congress. Maybe they already briefed those with a need to know and left it at that. We’ve already seen too much sensitive information get leaked because of the dumbass stuff people are always doing / saying. Congress spills it, and you get more cyber awareness training. Screw that.
“Maybe they already briefed those with a need to know and left it at that”. If that was the case, the only ones they’d have briefed would have been Chuck U Schumer and Nasty Pelousy.
And, odds are that more classified info was leaked when the bored 13 year old in Tehran or Riga hacked Wideload’s emails.
Or that 400 pound hacker dude, living in his mom’s basement in Jersey, right? I’m not making any excuses for the dumbasses at the DNC or Hildacankles. I am saying we should resist any attempts by a foreign government to meddle in our affairs. The CIA and FBI said it happened. They said they didn’t want anyone to know how they know. That’s good enough for me. I spent 24 years in uniform and there were a lot of times I didn’t know something because I didn’t need to know it. I trusted that those who did know were doing what they were supposed to while I worked on what I was supposed to. The fact the FBI and CIA didn’t trot out their tricks before the senate and house intelligence committees doesn’t concern me all that much. If the fact that I trust them makes me an 11B mailclerk described “kool aid drinker” so be it. But since we’ve all been in the military, and didn’t know everything about everything, but still believed in others / our superiors who did know to do the right thing, I guess that makes us all kool aid drinkers now don’t it?
If you continue to give Putin relevance, you continue to serve his aims.
Any Russian meddling was -irrelevant- to the outcome. The Dems lost on their own,
by fielding a lousy candidate,
by shredding what few party rules they have to throw Bernie under the HRC bus,
by being stupid enough to document in emails the incessant corruption they practice, and the unvarnished contempt they express for voters who are not true-believers,
by having such utter contempt for all others,and such god-like certainty of their own magnificence, that they ignored basic tech security and thus created breach after breach after breach,
by being -themselves-, out in the sunshine, to such a degree that even many of their most devout supporters abstained or voted Trump,
by being so self-centered that the only possible explanation they can possibly come up with is that some foreign party had to rig the system against them, preferring to wreck the whole damn system at Putins gain versus admitting the unthinkable:
They got -beat- by -Trump- because -they- SUCKED this time around.
Yup. The two-time Super Bowl winners came out for the “our-just-due” threepeet and got their asses handed to them by the pick-up-team Bugtussel Wombats.
Knock off the bullshit! Putin had -jack shit- to do with this own-goal fiasco by the Dems. I will -not- drink the koo-koo kool aide and blame it outside the rightful owners – the Dems and especially the HRC machine. -They- did the dumb deeds that were revealed, not Russia! Or was Putin chipping the brains of zombie-pols like some bad B-movie? They said Benghazi was the fault of a bad flick by a nobody, now the election is another boogieman?
Riiiiiiiiiiigggggghhhhhhhtttttt!!!!!! Take another sip of that Kook-aide.
Fuck Putin and his windbag bullshitters. Hillary and the Jackass party -own- their fiasco.
Gee. Thank goodness we didn’t try to influence any foreign (Israeli) elections during Obama’s term.
Goose – Gander…..
Get it while it’s hot! The article I’ve linked to tries to elaborate further on this whole business, but what I found more fascinating than anything else is the picture of Putin and odabadman sitting in the usual wedge arrangement. Note which one of them sits with his widdew feets together.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-cyber-idUSKBN14H1SR
As stated above, the Russian involvement was irrelevant. The HRC machine and jackass party own this epic own-goal -themselves-, by being epic-arrogantly themselves, and being so arragantly stupid as to document it in all its electroning eternal splendor, where any random annoyed person might flush it out into public view,
and then to empower a determined enemy like Putin by trying to give him the “credit” for their -own- epic fail.
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No, Benghazi was not a spontaneous riot over an obscure film. No, Trump’s win was not a Putin op. HRC is squarely in the saddle of the Jackass, and rode it over the cliff.
No, we wont drink the HRC kook-aid.
At the end of the day, we are asked to trust the oBaMa regime on all of this. Count me out. This isn’t about Putin or the Russians in terms of tapping into voting machines. IF–as in IF–the Russian government duped DNC members and operatives with providing their Gmail passwords, we need to send Vlad a note of thanks.
I figured it was just a matter of time before the transformation was complete and you strongman-loving US military guys went over to Putin’s side.
Quit huffing paint, dude.
The one time the Russians -don’t- support the left in elections here, and suddenly the rest of us are Russia fans?
“Non Sequitur” is insufficient terminology for the dumb in your position.
Putin’s side is pro-Russia. Our side is pro-USA. We can mock the left for insisting that they lost due to cheating, instead of arrogant incompetence, without being in the slightest “pro Russian”.
But you and your fellow lefties would burn the whole American house down, rather than admit you done screwed the pooch this time around. We now see your whole philosophy of politics reduced to “Heads Dems win, tails CHEATER CHEATER CHEATER!!!! (Stamp stamp stamp!!!)”
Go have a Vodka with the Zampolit. You two can cheer each other up, and plan your next gloriously dumb political move.
What ya smokin’ there, Joe? Not only has you reading comprehension deteriorated, your judgment has actually declined as well. Who knew that either of those was even possible?
A significant number of us supporting Putin is almost as likely as the man in the moon being selected as the next Pope. It takes a very special type of snowflake to pretend otherwise. How’s all that delusion working for you, Joe?
“What ya smokin’ there, Joe?” A nice indica-dominant hybrid, “Crystal Chunk”.
That explains a lot Joe.
It occurs to me that there is a very good reason the left is so very outraged over the alleged Russian action in favor of Trump.
Hell hath no fury like a Woman scorned.
The left has been in bed with Russia for so long, they assumed it was a marriage. Now they think Moscow is getting some strange on the side, and they are Wrath incarnate.
And like the metaphor, watch for epic stupid level of “burn it all down” bughouse-insane wrath as “payback”.