Posted on 12/20/2014 2:05:25 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Outgoing Senate Intelligence Committee chair Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said on Friday the U.S. is "going toward bloodshed" and "getting into the arena of major" acts of cyber terrorism.
"There can be an attack on the electrical system of the United States, on airport computers of the United States," she said. "We're getting into the arena of major attacks. Right now, it has to do a great deal with private industry. But the cost for private industry is now in the trillions of dollars. And it has to be stopped."
Feinstein's comments came after President Obama said Sony Pictures "made a mistake" by pulling its controversial film "The Interview" from theaters, a movie about the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The studio was the target of a massive hack attack in October, which the FBI on Friday linked to North Korea.
Feinstein said the U.S. government has not developed a clear plan for dealing with cyber attacks since they became prevalent.
"Now, right now, you can look at North Korea, taken off the terrorist list, you can see this attack is in a sense a terrorist attack," Feinstein said. "You could put them back on. You can levy financial sanctions against them."
Hard to imagine we would go to war with NK over any situation, let alone this one
We're being teed up for total surrender.
Obama Apologizes to Castro "Cuban communist leader lectures Obama for 30 minutes."
Whatever she is going to do will help the enemy and not our country. She is a traitor.
The light dimly dawns, perhaps?
".......................The current fuss about tummy-slapping and sleep deprivation not only shows ignorance, but a naive assumption, a Darwinian assumption, that man is getting better and better, so much so that even playing loud music is too terrible to consider. After all, that other grisly stuff happened in the distant past -- those who don’t study history tend to lump all of the past together, but note that those practices were common only five or six centuries ago.....
........Liberal fantasies notwithstanding, man has not evolved into a pussycat -- not by a long shot. Many Americans have, however, become so removed from reality that they think they can just call things by different names and thereby change what-is into what-ought-to-be. They, like one of Dickens’ characters who couldn’t “look on anything that wasn’t perfectly prim, proper, and pleasant,” want to just ignore the terrifying realties of war. Even our president doesn’t want to call our efforts to stop Islamic militants “war.” He doesn’t even want to call them “Islamists.” But they are Muslims and we are fighting for our national existence. But they’ll like us better if we stop keeping them up at night, if we give them prayer rugs and home-style cooking, volleyball courts and Korans. They’ll like us even better now that we’ve come clean about how we treat “detainees.”
In what lopsided, topsy-turvy world would that work? Not in this one. In this world the Islamists will use this CIA document as a training manual. They’ll probably use it as a joke book. We will no longer know what they’re planning, no longer be able to prevent attacks. Feinstein, by releasing this document, has given aid and comfort to the enemy and has put every one of the brave and dedicated men and women who protect us in danger. It has flipped on a spotlight that’s aimed right at them.
And who wants to protect a country that will turn on you the way the Democrats have done here? Our intelligence officers, regardless of which agency, must be free to act quickly, dispassionately, decisively and do so without any hyper-prissy hesitation – to protect themselves and to protect us.
Nothing is more unattractive than superior uber-fastidious self-righteousness, especially when you stack it up against self-less devotion to duty and nation that we find in our military and investigative institutions. I am furious at what this vindictive, traitorous woman has done to us all. To use a word wrongly, to fill it with baggage it was not meant to carry, to debase the only way we have to make sense of this world is the worst crime of all."
“Hard to imagine we would go to war with NK over any situation, let alone this one”
Well, when dealing with the Wing Nuts in NK, law of unintended consequences has to be considered. Example; their nuclear capability is primitive and can’t reach the USA at this time. However, NK could quite easily strike Soul, an American base in SK, Japan, etc if they so choose. Would we retaliate with a nuke? Nope, not likely.
Premise: Diane Feinstein lies 100% of the time.
Argument: She says NK did the Sony hack.
Conclusion: NK did not do the Sony hack.
Exactly - she seems either unaware that her treason will result in more Americans killed or she considers it an acceptable situation to "atone for our torturous ways".
I can’t believe anything this disgraceful woman has to say.
islamist or facilitator. What’s new?
Something just does not seem right with this picture - bombs and bullet armies vs. cyber armies. The question is will brawn succeed over brains in this world. Or, put another way, are conventional military armies quickly being rendered obsolete by computers, drones, robots, electronic Internet sabotage, and spies.
QualityBeerMug needs to get on Cuba’s torture record...
When chicken little couldn’t scare them with evil republican economy, climate change, imminent earthquakes, fuel shortages, and torture by our military; she desperately switched to the doom of war with a little country that threatens movie companies.
If our infrastructure is that easy to hack, what’s the Senator been working on in her long, long, career and where’s the money?
A very good question.
Yes , I smell Obama’s plan to Control the Internet and shut down everything he hates
Don’t think we need this multi-chinned harridan’s advice on national security. She should stick to her specialty: Funneling billions of tax dollars to her hubby.
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