Posted on 12/14/2016 8:22:18 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Democrats are indulging in selective moral outrage in their accusation that Russia hacked the communications of the Democratic National Committee and party leaders to influence the U.S. election, charged former U.N. ambassador John Bolton, who could end up in a high post in the State Department.
“Where was all the outrage, for example, when China took hundreds of thousands of – many millions – of personnel records from the federal government and lifted them and sent them to Beijing?” Bolton asked in an interview with the Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity Monday night.
“It’s no wonder the people thought they could get away with it, because the Obama administration had downplayed the damage that was being done, for years,” he said.
Bolton – who was a finalist for secretary of state before Trump announced he will nominate ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson and is now being considered for Deputy Secretary – said that whether it was Russia or China who hacked into the DNC and the RNC, “it followed years, years, of hacking into the government and private sector with no response, effectively, by the United States.”
“They thought they could get away with it.”
In June 2015, the Office of Personnel Management announced that a database containing the personal information of about 4 million current and former federal employees had been hacked.
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Rather, “They KNEW they would get away with it.”
Obama was collecting his Retirement Fund check
Golf course . . . of course!
Obama was all FOR that.
Counting the days....
Good question.
“John Bolton: Where was Obama when China hacked U.S.?”
At the 13th hole...
I know John Bolton is sort of a neocon warmonger, etc. But I wouldn’t have a problem if he is appointed to be the undersecretary of China-Asian affairs. The Chinese, which is much a bigger threat than Russia, needs to be dealt with a strong hand and a watchful eye.
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