Posted on 10/15/2016 6:28:47 AM PDT by 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."
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If this comes from Biden I am not sure I would take it seriously. It is likely one of his 3 brain surgeries talking.
Dumbest and most insane move yet, on several levels:
1) It isn’t covert if you announce it. Russia will now increase its readiness to defend itself
2) Russia won’t stand still. Maybe our banks or electric grid will get taken down.
3) Other countries, China and Iran in particular, can attack us and blame will naturally be placed on the Russians.
4) Ditto for attacking the Russians and blame being placed on us.
5) Ditto for private hackers hitting either country and the other nation getting blamed.
6) This is, essentially, a declaration of war against a nation that has thousands of nuclear weapons, and a very bloody history of being victimized by a powerful enemy in a surprise attack. The galactic level of stupidity necessary to do that is beyond anything that I have seen in my lifetime besides twice electing a gay, Moslem, America-hating communist to the Presidency of the United States.
Oh, and all of this is a fairly naked attempt to throw such a monkey wrench into the election that he can declare a state of emergency and either suspend the elections or call into question the results if Trump wins. I don’t think that this will play well with the American public, even if no shooting or other severe consequences occur with the Russians.
You never let an enemy know your attack plan...unless you want them to know that it's not really an attack at all and will only be for appearances' sake.
Can you imagine how Pearl Harbor would have turned out if Japan had told the US what it was about to do?!
Just let it be blamed on the Russians.
Furthermore, the Chi-coms have a literal army of cyber warfare troops that do nothing all day/night but attempt to hack.
The generals in Argentina started a war in the Falklands to cover their incompetence.
The fact the Odunga regime says the Russkies are doing this is proof enough it is a lie.
Yet sHrillary is running those Goldwater-throwback ads with pocket rockets worried about DJT nuking Russia. It’s all projection and it sure sounds like Øbama is pushing things to the edge.
Obama should prepare to be the most insignificant, probably most hated, ex-prez there ever was.
I think we will find out. apparently the NSC meeting yesterday wisely backed down for direct military suicide against the Russian in Syria for which I am thanking God. But to save face they come out with this cyber attack crap ( don’t tell the enemy what you are doing). I am not an expert on this at all but let me tell you this. If we attack their computers — They will annihilate ours. You might want to unplug for a week and never look at another email if this starts. The Russian have back bone and they don’t put up with crap. We are busy in our military handing out manuals for sex change medical rights!!
First, if you were going for expertise....you would go to the NSA. So I’m kinda lost on how the CIA will recruit these people and get into this fight.
Second, if you really wanted to irk the Russians and have them destroy Wall Street or your entire social security database....then this would be the move.
This is really stupid behavior but considering the twenty people around him presently....I’m just not surprised.
My guess is that one morning will come in December when two of the CIA’s cyber chiefs don’t show up for work and someone goes looking for them, and can’t find them anywhere. Weeks go by and you find out that they were grabbed by KGB guys and taken off to Moscow to reveal the whole plan.
and after the attack he’s going to put them on double secret probation
Announce it to the World ,Idiot or is it drag Trump in and call him something childish
They’re running a psyop against us, all part of the Clinton Crime Cartel agenda.
FTA:
The story about the CIA prepping for a possible cyber attack against Russia is akin to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad building wooden Aircraft Carriers for Iranian military exercises. In essence this story is, laughable domestic consumption only...So why push the ridiculous story? The motive is about propping up the failing candidacy of Hillary Clinton. There are trillions of dollars at stake, and sometimes strategic desperation calls for deployment of “The Bathtub Principle”
Or is it create a diversion as James O’Keefe’s videos drop next week?
Obama tells the CIA to prepare for covert action with a press release.
Ivan can’t hack that secret!
Now if Putin ordered cyberattacks against EPA, DEA, ATF, IRS, FBI, state revenue services, state reg agencies he would give the US an enormous economic boost and be seen as a liberator of the people.
It actually would be smart to disable the leadership and predatory agencies. No one would really care if most of the US government shut down most services other than the parasitic bureaucrats. Now, if welfare payments, SS, Medicare stopped that would be a problem. That being said, with cyber attacks, one could be very selective.
Selectively making life annoying and difficult for bureaucrats and politicians would be beautiful.
I’m actually looking forward to an EMP over Washington D.C. If Bozo is so stupid as to start a war with a country that is NOT our enemy. But they are white and Christian...so it’s a very PC war, of course.
You are absolutely correct on this one. I have realized that for a while. It is still difficult to maintain equilibrium when this stuff hits. Thanks for helping.
The same sick thought crossed my mind. Only the Internet provides a counterpoint to the MSM propaganda. Disrupt that and the propaganda goes unchallenged.
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