Posted on 12/31/2016 1:54:58 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
As Donald Trump continues to shower president Vladimir Putin with praise, Sen. John McCain is leading GOP criticism of Russia's recent hacking.
The Arizona senator called Russia's alleged cyber attack to influence the 2016 presidential election an 'act of war' on Friday.
'When you attack a country, it's an act of war,' he said on Ukrainian TV after meeting with President Petro Poroshenko.
'And so we have to make sure that there is a price to pay so that we can perhaps persuade Russians to stop this kind of attack on our very fundamentals of democracy.'
McCain, who serves as chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, also scheduled a hearing next week on foreign cyber threats that will focus on Russia, according to CNN.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, NSA Director Mike Rogers and Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Marcel Lettre are scheduled to testify....
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Evidence? We don’t need no stinking evidence!
too much time in captivity rots the brain
Shut up Johnny and eat your Jello!
So I wonder why no outrage at the Chinese and Iranian (among other) ‘Acts of War’?
Can someone go to his office and explain to this senile old fool that the machines were not and impossible to connect to the internet?
Thanks again AZ for re-electing this wretched, miserable scumbag.
McLame is not happy unless the U.S. is in a war somewhere.
He truly is a madman.
This fool needs to be exiled to a pup tent on the Polar Ice Cap!
Poroshenko is a nutcase, too.
Can we stop paying for mccain finally?
The Chinese hack us all the time and yet...silence.
I was one of those who did NOT vote for him. If it were not for his flithy rich wife, he’d be a nothing.
Exactly.
When hundreds of thousands of OMB personnel data files were stolen, the director was allowed to retire and that was pretty much the end of it.
Let’s say Russia did hack or influence our election. Hillary won the popular vote! She got more votes than Trump! So how can Russia pump out those mysterious votes and yet, couldn’t use their powers to flip the electors?
“so that we can perhaps persuade Russians to stop this kind of attack on our very fundamentals of democracy.”
Let’s threaten to send US Senators over to ‘splain things to ‘em...starting with the senior senator from Arizona.
That’ll bring them to their knees...
McCain is pathological in his hatred for Russia-if he had been elected in 2008, we’d have been in a nuclear war with Russia before he was done with his 1st 100 days...
Senile John McCain?
I still don't believe Russia leaked the Podesta emails. Even if Russia did, they had very little impact on the race since the media tried to ignore them. Perhaps a few Bernie supporters refused to vote for Hillary as a result.
But to treat that as an act of war is insane.
Please retire this decrepit old warhorse, Arizona.
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