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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Well now..why would you say that? After all, they have to keep the enemy, being us, at heel.
The enemy of the people IS the US Government. I can think of NO federal government agency that is NOT a threat to the people in some way.
So we are running major infrastructure on public networks?
Someone should be shot if true.
Letters of marque and reprisal are a thing.
Congress should start issuing them.
They’ll get right on targeting the CIA/FBI goons behind it.
Could be an inside job by a Crazy Democrat
The FBI, with it all encompassing assessment, has already stated that white supremacists are a worse threat than this pipeline closure, by far.
The attack origination Point is known but the democrats, rinos and liar media doesn’t have their stories for backup yet .... give them time ...
Or big oil themselves to get the price up. They can’t boost the prices substantially without an excuse that was not their fault. Or so they say...
From the way Biden and his cronies are responding to this makes me think that THEY are the ones behind the attack..after all, the higher the gas prices, the more people will have to get electric cars, and that is the lefts plan from the start
Pretty sure Biden and the Democrats are ok with this attack. The hackers just beat Biden to the punch.
(I)Whenever I hear Newt’s name, I picture him and Nancy cuddling on that couch(\I) Yeah, but he was always on top!!!!!
Remember what they did to Kevin Mitnick for very little and nothing will happen for this
I should sign up. I really liked his two books Trump Vs. China and Trump's America. Good stuff.
Really? crazy talk?
Your comments are exactly what I thought, and I agree.
I saw this article this morning. It’s worth reading the whole thing (it’s long) because it has a lot of details about the hackers, their group, things they’ve already done. They’ve hacked and “kidnapped” for ransom something like 80 companies, although none as important as Colonial.
And the Dems have done nothing.They’re clueless.
Newt is right: this type of hacking should be a death penalty offense, it’s an act of war and an attack on the US, and we should hunt these people down.
But our military is too busy posing with their all gay helicopter crews and our intelligence services are busy spying on anybody on the Democrat “enemies list,” which probably includes most of us here. Meanwhile, the Chinese, the Iranians and the just plain criminals are having a field day and are not even slightly intimidated by the US.
After all, it’s probably time for rave night on the helicopter.
Observations:
We are certain somebody hacked our pipelines but just as certain nobody hacked our elections?
We meddled in Russia pipeline to Germany. Is that an act of war?
We took sides with Ukraine against Russia involving a territorial dispute that involved a Russian majority. Is that an act of war?
Do we expect we can meddle in other country’s affairs without consequences, particularly when we have a weak leader?
That’s exactly what it is - piracy. Kill them on the spot. No trial.
Probably Greenpeace did it.
Are you kidding newton. ? Are you really kidding me buddy ?
Biden and his cronies are BEHIND THIS ! They hate gas. Gasxcars. Freedom Obama probably thought of this
They WANT DISRUPTIONS.
THEY DID THIS ON PURPOSE.
Prove me wrong. Please
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