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BACKSTORY Obama Was Briefed On Russian Hacking But Did Nothing
Weekly Standard ^ | 3:45 PM, DEC 13, 2016 | By MICHAEL WARREN / FR Posted by drewh
In the extensive report on the massive Russian-backed operation to hack American political and government severs—including a successful hack of the Democratic National Committee's server—the paper reveals that then-President Barack Obama had been "briefed regularly" on Russia's effort to target servers at the State Department, the White House, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Here's the Times: Mr. Obama was briefed regularly on all this, but he made a decision that many in the White House now regret: OBAMA did not name Russians publicly, or issue sanctions.
There was always a reason: fear of escalating a cyberwar, and concern that the United States needed Russia's cooperation in negotiations over Syria.
"We'd have all these circular meetings," one senior State Department official said, "in which everyone agreed you had to push back at the Russians and push back hard. But it didn't happen."
So the Russians escalated again — breaking into systems not just for espionage, but to publish or broadcast what they found, known as "doxing" in the cyberworld.
It was a brazen change in tactics, moving the Russians from espionage to influence operations. In February, 2014 they broadcast an intercepted phone call between Victoria Nuland, the assistant secretary of state who handles Russian affairs and has a contentious relationship with Mr. Putin, and Geoffrey Pyatt, the United States ambassador to Ukraine. Ms. Nuland was heard describing a little-known American effort to broker a deal in Ukraine, then in political turmoil. (Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
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CONCLUSION Too bad the Royal Idiot is too stupid to realize what a jerk he looks like. Obama is the fall guy here......the janitor mopping up the mess of Hillary's decrepit campaign.
The Democrat Party is filled w/ people who are mentally unstable. That's why they are so anti-American in many cases, and while they are attempting to go after President Donald Trump over being "mentally unstable," something that Iran's Ayatollah basically just said, they would do well to deal with their own mentally unstable people, starting with Senator Dianne Feinstein (R-CA).
Senator Feinstein took it upon herself to release the 312-page transcript of the interview of Glenn Simpson, a former journalist and co-founder of Fusion GPS, which commissioned the infamous and debunked Trump dossier that has led to untold millions being spent on a witchhunt in DC that has basically turned up nothing.
Of course, Feinstein offered a previous excuse, one that is a bit more sinister and walked it back. She then offered another excuse for her behavior on Wednesday.
“The one regret I have is that I should have spoke with Senator Grassley before,” she told NBC News. “And I don’t make an excuse but I’ve had a bad cold and maybe that slowed down my mental facilities [sic] a little bit.” Of course, she is making an excuse.
When Feinstein was first called out on her actions, she said, “I just got pressured." “I meant to tell him, and I didn’t have a chance to tell him [Charles Grassley], and that concerns me,” Feinstein said. “I just got pressured, and I didn’t do it.”
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/951184876648239104
Of course, it makes one wonder who was doing the pressuring, or was it just that Feinstein saw the opportunity and took it?
However, Senator Feinstein began to immediately back peddle her statements, claiming that she was not pressured.
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/951195517618409472
As you can see, she never did clear up the discrepancy in her statements, and that concerns me!
On Wednesday, President Trump called out "Sneaky Dianne Feinstein" for what she did. more at freedomoutpost.com ...
There was NO Russian hack of the DNC, Seth Rich passed off the filesand they murdered him