Posted on 06/05/2021 5:40:35 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich called the cyberattack suffered by the Colonial Pipeline Company “an act of war” and said the U.S. should respond by killing whoever was responsible for it.
“We ought to pass a law immediately that makes this kind of hacking subject to a death penalty, and the law should include a provision that the president, through a judicial process, should be able to order the killing of anybody overseas who’s doing this,” Mr. Gingrich, a Republican, said Monday on Fox News while speaking about the ransomware attack that recently disrupted the Colonial Pipeline system.
Mr. Gingrich, 77, who presided over the House during the Clinton administration, suggested others will feel similarly if the attack on Colonial leads to lingering disruptions.
Mr. Gingrich said. “It’s an act of war against the United States to do stuff like this,” he added. “We need to react to it as an act of war, and the American people are going to look at their representatives and their senators and they’re going it say, ‘If you don’t fix this, your successor will. Because I’m not going to put up with it, and I’m going to put up with you if you don’t fix it.’”
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Newt is 10000% correct.
He is,
You’re 100% right, SWB. SPJNK. We need to hunt them down, ID them and exterminate them. In the next 3+ years, we’re going to take a real hard beating, if we don’t. They need to pay a heavy price.
Suppose it was North Korea or Iran?
What is the plan, exactly?
North Korea is crazy and Iran may be retaliating for hacks against them.
Newt is not thinking this through at all.
Yes Newt IS right. No doubt people died as a result of the attack. They are murderers!!!!
Yeah an attack on our oil/energy grids is coolio food supply and electric grid too Newt’s just a Reagan Neocon globalist Ronald Reagan endless war CFR Neocon yep a NEOCON!!!.
Those Reagan-Neocons a conspiracy minded kooks
Yeah the Iranians and Norks would ever do such things.
Probably Reagan Neocon-Zionist Jooooooooooooooooish kooky conspiracy theories right? Yep right.
While in principle I agree with Newt, I think it should extend to those who call to tell me they are going to send the “cops” after me.
Newt is such a disappointment touting Title Lock. What a scam. Thread hijack!
I remember when I was appreciative of what he did in Congress.
At some point, he drifted off and became less focused. He often took somewhat ridiculous positions.
I do believe he is correct in calling these attacks (if made by a national entity) was an act of War. The idea of killing foreign citizens without trial and conviction, is insane.
I found Newt’s podcasts on my iPhone & I’m enjoying them. He has a lot of interesting guests.
I have not followed Newt for a long time. Not sure what he has been doing. I do know he writes books and has a reputation for that.
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