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Romney: 'Stunning' for White House not to respond on Russian cyberattack
The Hill ^ | December 17, 2020 | Kaelen Deese

Posted on 12/18/2020 3:05:13 AM PST by Stravinsky

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) on Thursday said it was "stunning" for the White House to not issue a response regarding multiple alleged U.S. government cyber attacks stemming from Russia.

The senator from Utah tweeted an abbreviated version of the statement he told SiriusXM’s Chief Washington Correspondent Olivier Knox in a prerecorded interview, noting the recent reports of Russian hacks into government agencies showed "alarming U.S. vulnerability" and "apparent cyber warfare weakness."

“I think the White House needs to say something aggressive about what happened. This is almost as if you had a Russian bomber flying undetected over the country, including over the nation's capital, and not to respond in a setting like that is really stunning," Romney told Knox.

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KEYWORDS: magicunderwear; miltromley; pierredelecto; romney; russia; waytogoutah
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To: Dutch Boy

we don’t know that why he wasn’t fired...for trying to paper over a mess


21 posted on 12/18/2020 3:39:39 AM PST by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: RealVirginia

“How many knuckle dragging morons will question this?”

Russia got Trump elected in 2000. Russia only started hacking things after biden was elected. Thankfully Russia was caught before they could get Trump back into office. Russia loves Trump!

P.S. - I have no idea why Russia loves President Trump so much. I only know what I hear from CNN.

P.P.S. Russia seems to be very withdrawn and isolated today compared to 10 to 20 years ago; I don’t think the USA is priority one anymore. China on the other hand....


22 posted on 12/18/2020 3:43:56 AM PST by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful!)
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To: 21twelve

RussiaRussiaRussia never ends, Mitt? give it up:

16 Dec: UK Express: Google disclosed ‘cyber attack’ by China was ‘highly sophisticated’ hack on security data
GOOGLE was on the receiving end of an alleged “cyber attack” originating from China, in what was a major breach of its security infrastructure.
By Callum Hoare
Google suffered a global outage this week, with failures reported across the company’s services, including Gmail, Google Calendar and YouTube. The US tech company said it was caused by an issue with its authentication tools which manage how users log in to its services. But some, including security expert Will Geddes, feared Gmail – which has more than 1.5 billion global users – may have been sabotaged by hackers.
Speaking after the worldwide crash, Mr Geddes said: “The sky is the limit in terms of what data they could have stolen.”...

Operation Aurora was the name given to a series of cyber attacks believed to have originated in Beijing, China and said to have links to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
They began in mid-2009 and were first publicly disclosed by Google in a 2010 blog post...
Operation Aurora reportedly also targeted at least 34 other companies, including Adobe, Juniper, Rackspace, Symantec, Northrop Grumman, Morgan Stanley, and Yahoo!...
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1373272/google-gmail-youtube-down-hack-cyber-attack-china-operation-aurora-security-breach-spt

18 Dec: LiveMint: Chinese hackers targeted millions of Indians with shopping scams: Report
by Abhijit Ahaskar
Cyberpeace Foundation found that domain links created for the scams were registered in China to an entity called Fang Xiao Qing. Domains were registered using Alibaba’s cloud computing platform...
Some of these scam contests used elements from actual sales campaigns used by Amazon India and Flipkart to make them look legitimate and trick users.
For instance, “Big Billion Days Spin the Lucky Wheel” and “Amazon Big Billion Day Sale” surfaced within days of Flipkart announcing its Big Billion Day Sale...

“E-commerce scams are not new but what’s more alarming is the covert cyber warfare Chinese entities are launching in India on a repeated basis,” Vineet Kumar, Founder and President, CyberPeace Foundation said in a statement...
Following the border dispute with China in May- June, such attacks have risen. In June, cyber intelligence firm Cyfirma had warned several government agencies, media houses, pharma companies, telecom operators and a large tyre company of a possible cyberattack by Gothic Panda and Stone Panda, two well-known hacking groups with direct affiliation to the China’s PLA (People’s Liberation Army)...
https://www.livemint.com/technology/tech-news/chinese-hackers-targeted-millions-of-indians-with-shopping-scams-report-11608278583471.html


23 posted on 12/18/2020 3:46:29 AM PST by MAGAthon
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To: McGavin999

Mormons are anti-American space alien Jesus and Lucifer worshippers. We’re the only country that would put up with that shithole cult.


24 posted on 12/18/2020 3:47:28 AM PST by angmo (#joeknew)
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To: caww
He’s such a disgusting excuse for a worm of a man let alone a politician

We resent that comment! Please do not compare us to Romney!


25 posted on 12/18/2020 3:49:51 AM PST by McBuff (To be, rather than to seem)
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To: Stravinsky

Gee... one wonders how much money the senator from Utah was paid by the Red Chinese to sell out this country.....


26 posted on 12/18/2020 3:51:36 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Stravinsky

What are Romney’s chi-com connections? His behavior is very, very strange.


27 posted on 12/18/2020 3:56:34 AM PST by riri (Hope is not a strategy at this point- Sam Andrews)
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To: All

Where does Milt think we should bomb? How many Russian farmers, working schlubs, and conscripts should we kill to make Milt feel good?

He’s an idiot.


28 posted on 12/18/2020 3:58:03 AM PST by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: Starcitizen

Re cyber threat from China.

Not to give too much away but I know for a fact that this has been the FedGov advisory to critical industries since @2010. China is threat #1. Their constant and vast and complex attempts to break through US systems defenses is entirely malicious. Other bad actors generally are after money. China is out to destroy, or to put in trojans or backdoors to use as needed come the day.


29 posted on 12/18/2020 4:01:13 AM PST by buwaya
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To: Stravinsky
said it was "stunning" for the White House to not issue a response regarding multiple alleged U.S. government cyber attacks stemming from Russia.

This stupid imbecile wants us to respond before we even know the full extent of what happened. Just shooting off his ignorant mouth again.

30 posted on 12/18/2020 4:01:49 AM PST by BiglyCommentary
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To: Stravinsky

Don't look over here at Communist China! Look over there!!! Russia, Russia, Russia!!!!!!!!!

31 posted on 12/18/2020 4:04:06 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: EnquiringMind
Who gives a rats ass what this doofus says? Stop posting his crap.

I instinctively react negatively to any attempt to censor any other Freeper from posting relevant news and I especially object to any attempt to censor what I can read.

This might be a very important piece of news to ponder, if you were wondering why it should be posted. Romney is laying down markers for a potential presidential run or for a potential power grab to run the Senate. Maybe he is laying the groundwork to jump parties. Maybe he is trying to lead the rump of the Republican Party back to the George Bush establishment if and when Republicans split.

He is distancing himself from Trump, he is establishing himself as a hawk on a new crusade, cybersecurity. At worst, he is establishing himself as a swing vote in the Senate playing much the same role that Justice Kennedy or Chief Justice Roberts enjoyed for a period on the court.

Conservatives should stay informed to stay a jump ahead of this conscienceless opportunist.

Please don't tell me what to read or what to say, you can tell me what to think but that is something very different.


32 posted on 12/18/2020 4:04:30 AM PST by nathanbedford (attack, repeat, attack! Bull Halsey)
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To: Stravinsky

Now do China, Mitt


33 posted on 12/18/2020 4:05:56 AM PST by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
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To: Stravinsky

Someone didn’t hear that the Russian Hoax has been exposed already, that dog don’t hunt


34 posted on 12/18/2020 4:07:31 AM PST by dila813
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To: Stravinsky

The poster boy for why the Republican party needs toppled. Disgusts me that I voted for him once, even though doing so was under the lesser of 2 evils premise.


35 posted on 12/18/2020 4:12:51 AM PST by WinMod70
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To: Dutch Boy

The problem is not Trump, it is the intelligence agencies. We pour billions into them and get mediocre if not moronic leadership. They are not as smart as they think they are.


36 posted on 12/18/2020 4:19:34 AM PST by Bookshelf
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To: Stravinsky

the Russians HELP(ED) America and Pres. Trump
more than RAT Romney (leader of GOP child rapists
and enforcers of socialized medicine).

Romney and his family are international criminals working
with Soros against America and the US Constitution.


37 posted on 12/18/2020 4:26:02 AM PST by Diogenesis ("when a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced" )
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To: Stravinsky

The Russians hacked our systems and did absolutely nothing with that power? Didn’t rig the elections? Didn’t take anything, didn’t move anything, didn’t do anything at all? Wow. Nice Russians.


38 posted on 12/18/2020 4:27:42 AM PST by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: Stravinsky

“Romney? He sucks. Bad.” Obamaphone Lady, circa 2012.


39 posted on 12/18/2020 4:36:55 AM PST by cdcdawg (Turn off Fox!! You can do it! )
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To: riri

He hates trump as much as roberts..so it could just be revenge over being jerked around about the SoS job.


40 posted on 12/18/2020 4:38:40 AM PST by RummyChick (I BLAME KUSHNER)
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