Obama Tells CIA To Prepare For Cyber War With Russia

Zerhedge ^ | 10/14/2016 | Tyler Durden

[Former Proud Canadian]

In what is looking more and more like a season finale of the HBO series "House of Cards" with each passing day, the Obama administration is now literally threatening a cyber war with Russia over allegations it was behind the hacking of Clinton's emails. According to an exclusive NBC report, the Obama administration "is contemplating an unprecedented cyber covert action" (though it's unclear how exactly it's covert if Biden is announcing it to the world via an interview with Chuck Todd) against Russia, in "retaliation for alleged" interference in the American presidential election, and has asked the CIA to draft plans for a "wide-ranging "clandestine" cyber operation designed to harass and "embarrass" the Kremlin leadership."

[Former Proud Canadian]

This would be the stupidest, most idiotic action this administration has taken. This would top it all.

The US is a target rich in a cyber war. If this happens I just hope Putin's counter attack focuses on the leadership and its propaganda arms and leaves the rest of us alone.

Speaking of alone. If the US goes ahead with this, it does so without a single ally. No one else is stupid enough to risk a cyber war, a this point, with Russia.

[Rebel2016]

Obama-Hillary-neocons are hell bent to start a war with a nuclear Russia, unless Trump wins in November

[The_Republic_Of_Maine]

Be nice if President Putin would authorize his GRU or the Mossad to take out the threat to the world.

[Delta 21]

We have been in a cyber war with Russia since they hacked Cankles Server and backdoored the State Department OVER 4 YEARS AGO.

[WENDLE]

This will shut down our internet by Russian retaliation. Obama wants our internet shut down so they can steal the election. Get ready.

[The_Republic_Of_Maine]

we may not have 24 days.

[GregoTX]

Yeah right. When a lying con-man says to look at what he is holding in his right hand, you better watch his left. Election games.

[InterceptPoint]

Dear Obama:

Thanks for the heads-up.
-- Vladimir

[Cboldt]

-- This would be the stupidest, most idiotic action this administration has taken. This would top it all. --

The story is pure propaganda targeted at the US population. There won't be any "ramped up" US cyber attack. Clandestine network activity will continue as usual, and both sides know it.

[Liz]

Obama waging “cyber war” has to be a joke.

He “didn’t know” his Cabinet Secy at the State Dept was jerking US foreign policy around to get-rich-quick.....that the Clinton Foundation was in possession of, and selling, classified US documents

Obama is so stupid he doesn’t even know the difference between emails from a private server and those from a dot.govt server.

[phoneman08]

Not a bad idea to print out your bank accounts, and have some actual cash on hand.

[Helicondelta]

War is all they have left. The tracking polls show the bimbo attack on Trump failed.

[MayflowerMadam]

Obama is putting the wheels in motion to blame Putin when Trump wins the election. Then Obama can cry, “Foul!”, negate the results, and ... then it gets even uglier.

[FrankR]

Or, the updated version; Patrick Swayze in “Road House”: “people who go looking for trouble aren’t much of a problem for those who are ready for it.”

I think oblammy is looking, and Putin has been chomping at the bit to accommodate him.

[ReaganGeneration2]

Beyond-stupid announcement on many levels.

Here’s just one level - a third party actor (from China to a teenager) could take the opportunity to covertly cripple a critical Russian asset; maybe even lives are lost. Because of this insane announcement, guess who is blamed, and retaliated against?

[SERKIT]

So was it the Russians, or Donna Brazile and Debbie Wasserman Schultz that influenced the Democrat primaries and cheated Bernie out of supposedly legitimate victories? Can Bernie have the benefit of a reset button as a self-avowed socialist?

[Helicondelta]

“The story is pure propaganda targeted at the US population”

There’s more to it than that. If the e-mail leaks don’t stop it will just seem that the cyber offensive failed. The hackers will obviously call their bluff.

[grania]

This would be the stupidest, most idiotic action this administration has taken

That's a pretty high bar. Destroying civilization in Syria, Libya, and Iraq? Using Benghazi for gun-running to terrorists?

I've been thinking about this insanity. Russia has superior hackers; the gripe this administration has is the claim they can't secure our technology from their hacking. Russia and its allies are much better equipped from tougher lives and less high-tech lives to persevere if this spreads to other aspects of life, I'd think. Could cyber warfare bring down ALL aspects of our lives....transportation, utilities, food supply, even things like medical records? What happens when everyone globally starts weaponizing drones they bought at Amazon or wherever? What happens when satellite transmissions get hacked? There goes communication.

Am I speaking impossible stuff, or could things really get very, very out of control?

[joshua c]

Wow! I cant wait to see the next batch of Wikileaks emails. They must be really damaging to Hillary.

[GregoTX]

They are scared the media might eventually break ranks and report some of the corruption exposed by wikileaks. No time to focus on wikileaks... We may be on edge of WWIII! Its all a distraction.