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Obama administration is close to announcing measures to punish Russia for election interference
WaPo ^ | 12/27/16 | Ellen Nakashima

Posted on 12/27/2016 12:52:15 PM PST by ColdOne

The Obama administration is close to announcing a series of measures to punish Russia for its interference in the 2016 presidential election, including economic sanctions and diplomatic censure, according to U.S. officials.

The administration is still finalizing the details, which are also expected to include covert action that likely will involve cyber operations, the officials said. An announcement on the public elements of the response could come as early as this week.

The sanctions part of the package culminates weeks of debate in the White House about how to revise an executive order from last year meant to give the president authority to respond to cyberattacks from overseas, but which did not originally cover efforts to influence the electoral system.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Russia
KEYWORDS: bho44; blamegame; hillary2016; obamarussia; roacheshatethelight; trumptransition; truthhurtsdemocrats; wikileaks
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1 posted on 12/27/2016 12:52:15 PM PST by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne

On the basis of what proof?


2 posted on 12/27/2016 12:53:26 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Higher Taxes, Less Freedom, More Bureaucracy! What could possibly go wrong?)
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To: ColdOne

Where is the PROOF that any of this actually happened??

Or is it just another excuse to blame SOMEONE ELSE for the DemocRat party failure in this election?


3 posted on 12/27/2016 12:54:21 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: Uncle Miltie

Exactly!!!


4 posted on 12/27/2016 12:56:26 PM PST by GOP Poet
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To: ColdOne

One can only hope that Trump has already spoken with Putin, and reassured him that, barring actual proof of interference (which has so far been absent), he will rescind these actions once in office.


5 posted on 12/27/2016 12:56:33 PM PST by Little Pig
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To: Uncle Miltie

Proof? No proof needed. Lil Obamatard just wants to feel relevant because he did nothing for 8 years except faggot “rights”.


6 posted on 12/27/2016 12:57:00 PM PST by max americana (For the 9th time FIRED LIBERALS from our company at this election, and every election since 2008)
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To: ColdOne

A strongly worded message and a wrist slap.


7 posted on 12/27/2016 12:57:27 PM PST by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: ColdOne

Barky trying to start major war with Russia AND one in the Middle East on his way out the door.


8 posted on 12/27/2016 12:57:32 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: ColdOne

Trump is going to have to clean this toilet.
Lots of cleaning up for him to do.
I don’t envy him.


9 posted on 12/27/2016 12:57:43 PM PST by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: Little Pig

This is all designed to try and box Trump in. If Trump cancels this punishment on taking Office, watch the Democrats cry “collusion” & “treason”.


10 posted on 12/27/2016 12:58:19 PM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: ColdOne

Oops! Obama is out of his league on this one.

Reminds me of the cartoon “Willie and Ethel” where Willie is walking away from a gorilla cage holding his hand in serious pain. The sign on the gorilla cage: Do not put your hand into the cage — the gorilla will hit it with a hammer.


11 posted on 12/27/2016 1:00:21 PM PST by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: ColdOne

We may see our worst fears with this doosh realized.

A mental defective (psychopath) in charge of the executive branch.


12 posted on 12/27/2016 1:01:02 PM PST by x1stcav (Leftism is like rust: It corrodes 24 hours a day until eradicated.)
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To: ColdOne
Wasn't it Barky that said that ‘I don't know what people are talking about, you, you, you can't rig elections’...

And then what about his elections...there had to be plenty of voter fraud...same as when Clinton was elected the second time: “I didn't vote to put him back in, then if everybody says they didn't vote for him, how did he get into office?”...

And the biggest one of all: Barky’s Sec. of State sold Uranium to Russia, not on America's approval but on her’s because she got to benefit from it to her foundation, and if you don't think Barky didn't know about all this, along with responding to her ‘email account that was illegal’ I have the George Washington Bridge to see you...

13 posted on 12/27/2016 1:01:34 PM PST by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: Drango

Hussein didn’t have fellow traveler Brennen off the Russian Ambassador to Turkey?


14 posted on 12/27/2016 1:01:45 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: ColdOne

He wants to start a war. That is much preferable to him to losing power.


15 posted on 12/27/2016 1:01:57 PM PST by Kenny
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To: ColdOne

What can Dorkbama the Muslm eunuch do?

Fart in their general direction?

I am sure that Putin is quakng in his boots while Dorkbama assembles her plan.


16 posted on 12/27/2016 1:02:10 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: ColdOne

I’ll bet Putin immediately fled to his bunker and is holed up there nervously glancing at the flickering ceiling lights.


17 posted on 12/27/2016 1:02:54 PM PST by IronJack
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To: ColdOne

“Diplomatic censure,” whatever the heck that is, is probably within the Constitutional prerogatives of the Executive. However, without some sort of Congressional authorization, economic sanctions are not with the Executive’s Article II powers. “Economic Sanctions” are specifically reserved to Congress as the power “To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations” under Article I, Section 8, Clause 3.


18 posted on 12/27/2016 1:03:17 PM PST by henkster
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To: x1stcav

Can we get someone he idolizes to invite him to golf?


19 posted on 12/27/2016 1:04:13 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: ColdOne

Do they have any evidence?

NB: NY Times stories don’t constitute evidence.


20 posted on 12/27/2016 1:04:20 PM PST by oblomov (We have passed the point where "law," properly speaking, has any further application. - C. Thomas)
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