Posted on 12/29/2016 1:02:01 PM PST by kindred
When a United States President reaches for the “red phone,” the reason behind the message MUST be worthy of such a communication.
Obama used the red phone to contact Vladimir Putin to demand Russia stop inserting itself into the 2016 presidential race– which they didn’t do! Apparently, unsupported claims of hacking into the Democrat Party emails was enough for Obama to call Putin on the emergency line which has always been reserved for far more important things, like discussions of acts of war.
At least one of Obama’s senior advisers urged him to pick up the red phone and call Vladimir Putin, NBC News reports. Obama allegedly did not want to further inflame Russia so he used calming and less specific language when “warning” Putin about the consequences he would levy if the hacking and interference did not stop.
The red phone was part of the Cold War communication system with Russia. It directly connects Washington, D.C. with Moscow. Obama could have used a regular Oval Office land line to call Putin, but he was apparently trying to make a statement when opting instead for the emergency line.
During the conversation Barack Obama reportedly even used the phrase, “armed conflict” when warning Vladimir Putin to stop hacking emails of Democrat elites and members of Hillary Clinton’s senior campaign staff. During the G20 Summit in September, Obama also reportedly warned the Russian leader to steer clear of the 2016 presidential election.
“International law, including the law for armed conflict, applies to actions in cyberspace,” part of Obama’s message sent over the Red Phone on October 31, said, according to a senior administration official. “We will hold Russia to those standards.”
The red phone system was created to communicate between the two nations during a moment of crisis, such as the September 11, terror attacks. It is not a real phone but instead began as a teletype more than five decades ago. It has since been converted into a fax machine and now an email transmitter link through the two nation’s Nuclear Risk Reduction Centers.
Obama’s administration added a specific line that is intended to deal with cyber threats, which is the line Obama used for this communication. The releases of the hacked Democrat Party emails continued after this. Either Russia was not behind it, or Putin simply didn’t find Obama all that intimidating.
“It’s a dramatic step to pick that ‘phone’ up and use it,” Retired Admiral James Stavridis, the former head of NATO, said. Obama has never used the red phone system to contact Vladimir Putin before.
Whining chants of “Russia hacked our election” are vastly misleading the uninformed members of the American public. When asked about exactly what Russia did, the vast majority of Liberals and their millennial snowflake offspring can’t respond with any specifics, just that the Russians “hacked” our “election.” In reality, the DNC and Podesta’s email were leaked.
The phrase now commonly used by Liberal political elites and their cohorts in the mainstream media who make it sound as if Putin’s KGB goons pilfered with election results, committed voter fraud, or secreted away cast ballots. All the leakers, whomever they were, did to impact the election was to reveal the nasty insults and bias at play inside the Democrat Party and the Clinton campaign.
So Obama placed the nuclear equivalent of a false 911 call?
How many more days left? Can’t come soon enough.
I know the word "blog" is anathema to certain sphincters on this site, but this one has a lot of inside info on the NSA, COMSEC and SIGINT. Very informative reading.
Obama used a cybersecurity link for the first time to warn Russia"Shortly before the recent US presidential election, a dedicated cybersecurity hotline with Moscow was used by president Obama to warn the Russian government not to interfere with the election process through hacking operations.
Press reports compared the cybersecurity with the "Red Phone", which many people believe is used on the Hotline between Washington and Moscow. That's not true, and also Obama's message seems not to have been transmitted by phone, but through an e-mail channel which is maintained by the Nuclear Risk Reduction Center (NRRC).
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As the press reports say that Obama's message was sent via the NRRC, we have to assume that it was in the form of an e-mail, and not a call through the secure voice channel. It was also reported that "the Obama administration had never used the cyber line before", but it's not really clear whether that means that the president never sent a message this way, or that the system was never used in any way.
The latter would mean that since 2013 no information about suspicious network intrusions has been exchanged between Russia en the US. The secure voice line for cybersecurity incidents has then probably also never been used - this kind of high-level direct phone lines seem rarely used in general."
> America has had an illegitimate government for eight years.
If you’d said “twenty-eight” that would be closer to the mark.
If you’d said “one hundred fifty one” you’d hit the bullseye.
None of the states ever agreed to be subservient provinces of an Imperial Washington. But that is exactly what the case has been since Lincoln broke the compact.
some one will take him out after Trump is sworn in
Amen!
Red, that is what people always say—”it can’t happen here”. I think you might be a few shades naïve. All of these acts involve many variables; such goes without saying.
You are probably right, but I do remember that it was dimocRATS that orchestrated the Gulf of Tonkin incident to justify the Vietnam war. No telling what a deranged crowd of pond scum will do.
Even the liberals that I know, some very, think this ‘Russians hacked us’ meme is stupid and embarrassing.................
The following part of this post:
“During the conversation Barack Obama reportedly even used the phrase, “armed conflict” when warning Vladimir Putin to stop hacking emails...”
made me leery of believing the entire post. Reportedly by who?
We should all keep in mind that both sides of the aisle are going to run with the Russian angle, if it’s true or not, because they are all crapping their pants about having their emails made public.
Heck he told Vladdie to ‘cut it out’!
There is ‘red phone’ service, which is an encrypted telephone to our own and NATO powers. However, this is not the same as the secure data link to Russia which has always been teletype, or printed words. If you are threatening war, or trying to stop one, the precision of written communications is essential. Still, I shudder at his ability to create a crises out of nothing.
When Obama threatened “armed conflict”, hopefully he meant that he would send all of the brave street soldiers who keep shooting up the streets of Chicago. One hand to hold the gun sideways, and the other hand to hold up their pants.
Obama and Hitlery are trying to start a war with Russia asap and my guess is to impose martial law to change the e
Oh, see the Duck! Quack! Quack! said the duck.
It would be funny if Putin’s men kidnapped Obama and sent
Trump a note asking what to do with him, then delivering him in diapers to the White House and its new occupant.
Little baby child is long past the point where he should have had his mouth slapped and his butt spanked.
People, our enemy is the media which made this fool possible. They covered up his stupidity and insanity and presented him as the second coming of Jesus.
The media needs to be beaten to death with sledgehammers for putting this cretin on the world stage.
A "Mouthy little child" is the best description of Obama.
He is the "little brat" president.
This is completely incorrect. Yes, Obama is indeed stupid. If you've studied his life history as have I, you realize this man is a moron who only got by in life by being black and playing the race card.
Obama can't even manage his own money.
Obama is an idiot. He has always been an idiot, and he shall always bee an idiot.
This sounds like Bammy trying to fix his legacy with Fake Stories.
Trump needs to assure the World that sanity is coming.
POST #47 ROFL LOLOLOLOL
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