Posted on 05/11/2021 4:13:05 PM PDT by conservative98
Newt Gingrich on Monday night said Joe Biden should be authorized to 'order the killings of anybody overseas' who was found to be behind attacks on America's infrastructure, describing the cyberhack of the Colonial Pipeline as 'an act of war'.
Gas shortages were beginning to be reported across the East Coast on Monday evening, as the pipeline was slowly brought back on line after a four-day shutdown.
Hackers from DarkSide, a Russia-based network of cybercriminals, were said by the FBI to be behind the ransomware attack. On Monday they said they were mistaken to cause 'societal consequences', and only sought money. They said they would not target critical infrastructure again, and wanted no part in any geopolitical battles.
But Gingrich said that the United States needed more power to go after those responsible.
'On the national security part, we ought to pass a law immediately that makes this kind of hacking subject to a death penalty and the law should include a provision that the president, through a judicial process, should be able to order the killings of anybody overseas who is doing this,' he told Sean Hannity on Fox News.
'It's an act of war against the United States to do stuff like this.
'We need to react to it as an act of war, and the American people are going to look at their representatives and their senators and say, if you don't fix this, your successor will. I won't put up with it, and I won't put up with you if you don't fix it.'
Gingrich, 77, the former Speaker of the House, said it was pitiful that the U.S. was falling prey to such attacks.
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Ditto
What a concept. The CIA worries about external threats instead of who is the POTUS.
I won’t forgive him for literally cuddling on a couch with Pelosi.
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They are too busy apologizing to the people who knocked down the World Trade Center and promoting Sexual oddities to do that. That would be hack “phobic”.
Kind of hard to order a killing on people who work for you. LOL
Russia....Russia....Russia....
Yeah...they’re too busy looking at video of the capitol protest!
IMHO, (And my tinfoil hat may be wrapped too tight) In order to meet Newt’s demand, Biden would have to order the killing of his own people.
Exactly! Don;t we have a Cyber Command? We do...it’s a Command, not a platoon! If the FIB goes radio silent we know they’re behind this!
Newt, it was a waggy doggy thinggy from the Deepers.
yes and getting gender fluid all over it
The FBI is so quick to point the finger at Russia for everything. Putin has to be laughing knowing he has a number of high ranking American officials compromised and on his payroll!
Don’t forget I40 bridge in Memphis shut down.
Biden, et al, care about 1 thing: consolidating their power domestically. That’s it.
At least the federal work force is diverse.
Thanks for clarifying that. The only Nancy that came immediately to mind was Nancy Reagan. What an eyeopening mental picture!
How do we know that it was even really hacked? Sounds like a lie for profit to me.
100% agree with Newt.
Send a kill team to their mommy’s basements, ventilate them, destroy their precious computers then burn the house down.
The Elephant in the room that everyone fails to notice is that the controls for this pipeline are connected to the internet.
To me the obvious solution to the hacker problem is to not use an open network (internet) for control of a critical infrastructure.
Air Gaping controls for systems is an obvious barrier to hackers.
Yes it is expensive but one ransomware attack probably going to eat that cost and then some.
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