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.
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Obama has offered ZERO proof of any “russian tampering” with our election. Could it have happened? Sure. But Obama has been trying to provoke war with Russia for a long time...
Soros has been pushing it, for starters......
Obama the Islamic hates Christians and Jews.....meaning USA, Russia, UK, ,most of Europe, and Israel...
and is just trying to do them all as much more damage as he can manage to cram into the next 3 weeks.
He needs to be forced to stand down right now!
This is ridiculous behavior by an outgoing president.
I have no idea how, but only a coup could likely stop this petulant child-boy president. Can the Congress do anything?
You nailed it. Obama is trying to set the non-Muslim world on fire. and do everything possible to create chaos to spread the Caliphate.
...like in 2008 election where obambi's fund raiser had all the credit card security checks turned off.
Hang on. I need to go buy some popcorn!!
That will be rescinded by Trump.
Based on the same proof that 0 is a natural born U.S citizen and not a Kenyan safari guide.
Putin should out the weasel for everything he’s done over the past 8 years. The msm will spin it but it’ll be out there for the world to see.
Putin is smart enough to see what Obama is doing and is just biding time til Trump takes office....
The Russian’s did not interfere. LIE
Mr. “I’ll be able to do more when I’m re-elected” is off the rails trying to cover up his real collusion with Russia and attempt to interfere with Israel’s election.
If we had a Congress instead of an obama rubberstamp. If we had an opposition political party instead of obama rubberstamps........ Things might have been different.
“He wants to start a war. That is much preferable to him to losing power.”
Obama can’t start a war with Russia unless he launches a first strike which he won’t so I’m not understanding the premise of your post.
“He wants to start a war. That is much preferable to him to losing power.”
Obama can’t start a war with Russia unless he launches a first strike which he won’t so I’m not understanding the premise of your post.
If Obama was to order any military action, hopefully our military will refuse...
Trump is too busy.
fine. blame the russians. I couldn’t possibly care less — and, I’m not going to fall into the logic trap that many in this thread are (and will continue to) blundering into. you don’t have to defend the freaking russians because you oppose the obamites. “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” only made sense to Mao, FFS.
the point is that as long as they are blaming their loss on something that had nothing to do with it, they WONT be fixing their real problem, towit; crappy candidates, crappy messaging, crappy campaign strategy, and profoundly crappy politics and campaign themes. as long as they run on group rights/identification, class warfare, race warfare, gender warfare, potty politics, open borders, big labor, and government enforced shitty healthcare, they will lose. let their delusion continue forever.
Unless we are attacked, I can’t see the US military following any of Obama’s illegal war orders.
He plays with him every day. Every single day. Each and every time he plays.
Agree.....
“Whatever China wants, China gets.”
And China wants hard feelings between the US and Russia.
I wonder if Obama is paying off for Chinese donations to Dems in 2016, or paying forward on China’s 2018 donations to Dems.
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