Posted on 08/06/2016 11:50:42 AM PDT by Mariner
As Hillary Clinton supporters fret about a WikiLeaks “October surprise,” dozens of defense and security experts from both parties are urging the Obama administration to take tough action if it concludes that Russia orchestrated a series of cyberattacks on the Democratic Party.
But based on past U.S. handling of foreign-sponsored cyberassaults, it could take months or even years to mount such a response — action that could encompass anything from public shaming or economic sanctions to indictments or retaliatory hacking. Even the most optimistic timeline, according to interviews with former security and law enforcement officials, could delay a forceful U.S. reprisal until just weeks before the very presidential election that the hackers may be trying to influence.
“I’m sure they’re cognizant of [the] timeline,” said Nathaniel Gleicher, who served as director for cybersecurity policy at the White House National Security Council until last October. “That doesn’t mean that they’re going to take action sooner or later.”
The administration insists it has improved its ability to respond quickly to cyberattacks, and officials increasingly say they support publicly calling out foreign nations that hack the United States. One administration official noted that it took just five weeks for President Barack Obama to impose economic sanctions against North Korea in response to the destructive late-2014 hacking of Sony Pictures.
Yet current and former officials acknowledge that constructing a public response isn't an instant task. Merely preparing a declassified explanation of who perpetrated an attack or readying economic sanctions takes weeks. Bringing criminal charges — as the Justice Department has done with state-backed hacking suspects in Iran and China — can require years.
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What are they going to do? Hit Hillary’s Reset button again?
As well they should have fear. They think their idealism is a substitute for competence.
third term for Klownie the Kenyan is what they’re planning.
What are they worried about unless they have something to hide?
Alternate headline: White House Hack considers response
Frankly, there are more technologically expert places than Russia. Some of them are not nations but are corporations.
One wonders why Russia would prefer a tough negotiator in Trump over a weak, pushover like Clinton, and one can’t really come up with a good reason for them to prefer Trump. Granted the world would be more stable under a Trump, but Clinton makes it possible for them to win everywhere so easily.
I suspect RATS are buying off if not killing off those whom might consider a surprise. When you live in the sewer like the Dems, and all the Agencies are populated with operatives you know whom all the players are.
What’s to worry? The January thru September surprises haven’t hurt them.
PREDICTION: Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange and possibly others in his organization get wacked in the next two months.
I’m thinking donations are really down so the DNC doesn’t have the funds to pay the asking price for the hit.
Snowden and Assange are the two most wanted men, dead or alive but preferably dead, in the world.
I understand Barky and some "friends" are going to mount a satirical review about Putin on Broadway.
Come on Ruskies! Show us what Hillary said!
They still have the massive voter fraud option. With the media running interference, nothing will be done about it.
Of all the criticisms that can be levelled against Hillary, I don’t think that “weak, pushover” is one I’d choose.
October surprise. That’s democrat for “We’re planning one”.
Perhaps the democrats should bomb some aspirin factories in Russia.
“take tough action if it concludes that Russia orchestrated a series of cyberattacks on the Democratic Party”
And if it turns out that it’s “just” one of the all-stars of the hacker community of Bulgaria or China or Sunnyvale who’s been receiving high-fives on their private websites for months?
It’s looked from Day One like they’re “all in” for a Russia-Trump connection and aren’t even entertaining that possibility.
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