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CIA Prepping for Possible Cyber Strike Against Russia
NBC News ^ | 10/14/2016 | WILLIAM M. ARKIN, KEN DILANIAN and ROBERT WINDREM

Posted on 10/14/2016 3:31:24 PM PDT by SpeedyInTexas

The Obama administration is contemplating an unprecedented cyber covert action against Russia in retaliation for alleged Russian interference in the American presidential election, U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News.

Current and former officials with direct knowledge of the situation say the CIA has been asked to deliver options to the White House for a wide-ranging "clandestine" cyber operation designed to harass and "embarrass" the Kremlin leadership.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cyberwar; obamarussia
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Would this operation be conducted be the same administration that couldn’t build a simple shopping cart system for health insurance?

Or maybe it’s by the administration that coiuldn’t ensure classified email was secured and recorded?

Or maybe this clandestine operation is being conducted by the administration that paid $11 million for an email service it couldn’t use:

https://www.treasury.gov/tigta/auditreports/2016reports/201620080fr.pdf

Why should we even think they have the technical skills to mount this double-secret-clandestine hacking operation?


81 posted on 10/14/2016 4:52:08 PM PDT by RusynMama
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To: thoughtomator

Here is my input. Against Obama/Clinton and the rest of the corrupt bastards in DC, I will stand with Russia. I just wish their language was going to be easier to learn.


82 posted on 10/14/2016 4:52:27 PM PDT by Gator113 (Vote TRUMP!! -- "Because you'd be in Jail!")
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To: Bobalu

That is a very ugly and cold looking fish.


83 posted on 10/14/2016 4:54:00 PM PDT by Gator113 (Vote TRUMP!! -- "Because you'd be in Jail!")
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To: SpeedyInTexas

BTTT


84 posted on 10/14/2016 4:54:17 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: SpeedyInTexas; All

It’s Wag the Dog Freepers!

The Globalist are panicking over Trump.


85 posted on 10/14/2016 4:55:11 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: CatOwner

Trump is right again...we always broadcast what we’re going to “covertly” do...it is asinine.


86 posted on 10/14/2016 4:55:46 PM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man a subject)
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To: HereInTheHeartland
Last night I saw a fire burnin on the palace lawn...
87 posted on 10/14/2016 4:56:03 PM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: SpeedyInTexas

I think cyber war by our government is more likely against internet media... against us.


88 posted on 10/14/2016 4:59:33 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: Terry Mross

You are so very right.


89 posted on 10/14/2016 5:00:27 PM PDT by Gator113 (Vote TRUMP!! -- "Because you'd be in Jail!")
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To: SpeedyInTexas

90 posted on 10/14/2016 5:01:02 PM PDT by Bobalu (Trump Is The Bitch Slap This Country Needs)
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To: Enlightened1
It’s Wag the Dog Freepers! The Globalist are panicking over Trump.

Bingo! Plus ... it takes attention off the contents of the leaked emails.

91 posted on 10/14/2016 5:06:10 PM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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To: eekitsagreek

“A Russian nuke over NYC, LA, SF, Chicago, Seattle or any city in a blue state will instantly turn that state red.”

I am having trouble seeing a downside to this.


92 posted on 10/14/2016 5:07:50 PM PDT by Gator113 (Vote TRUMP!! -- "Because you'd be in Jail!")
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To: eekitsagreek
A Russian nuke over NYC, LA, SF, Chicago, Seattle or any city in a blue state will instantly turn that state red.

Actually it will turn it black from carbonized buildings, plants and humans.

93 posted on 10/14/2016 5:10:08 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: Former Proud Canadian; Travis McGee

Exactly correct.

Question for anyone with at least half a brain:

Who relies more on the Internet and data communications to do essential business in the world, The USA or Russia?

Image if we lost our networking infrastructure in a hot cyber war? I’m not talking banking or financial data, but just the network everything travels over...

Where would Walmart point of sale registers connect to to restock the shelves? How about Krogers? Albertstons? Winn Dixie?

Check out a modern grocery store. No warehouse. Just a small area in the back with over stocked items ready to put on shelves when there’s room, but no longer a ginormous warehouse with crates of food... Because the USA uses just-in-time inventory everywhere. Trucks are dispatched by computer to restock when items are almost low or gone, rather than wait around to find room to unload them.

What about the sensors that tell a gas station that the buried fuel tank is getting low? Could the trucks even run to resupply? Many gas stations don’t even have that long stick to measure how much gas they have because it’s all computerized...

What if the hit the utility networks? No water, no sewage, no electricity? No natural gas?

IT would be a DISASTER. Food would RUN out in the big cities. I’m serious. Total shutdown roving bands of hungry Yutes...

This is insane.


94 posted on 10/14/2016 5:11:17 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Even if they were, isn’t it sort of dumb to tell your enemy your prepping for an attack on them???


95 posted on 10/14/2016 5:12:55 PM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
I thought the motive was to resurrect the Russians as bad guys

They are bad guys, as are the demonRats.

96 posted on 10/14/2016 5:16:22 PM PDT by ETL (Trump-PENCE 2016!!!)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

I can’t freaking believe this crap...I mean I believe it, I just don’t believe it. That and coupled with that we are reportedly at Defcon 3 Jeez. And I am a long way from home. Just three more days is all I need...

I remember the old saying back in the pre-Y2k days from a poster who’s name I can’t remember but his tag line was “If You Live Within Five Miles of a 7-11, You are Toast...”

I am too old for this sh*z time to dust off the blunderbust I suppose.


97 posted on 10/14/2016 5:17:41 PM PDT by abigkahuna (How can you be at two places at once when you are nowhere at all?)
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To: Terry Mross

Syria has the key world peace or World War III...

“Syria has the key to the solution of world peace or the Third World War.” - Our Lady of the Roses, May 30, 1981


98 posted on 10/14/2016 5:22:18 PM PDT by angelcindy (haf)
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To: TigersEye

The “Masters of the Universe” inside of the Beltway are not happy with Russia. The PNAC plan will proceed, or else.
Putin stood up to our proxy forces in Syria. Therefore, Russia must become America’s enemy. Obama and Hillary are puppets in their camp.


99 posted on 10/14/2016 5:22:58 PM PDT by Tours
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To: ETL

The neocons pushing for WW 3 are THE evil ones....


100 posted on 10/14/2016 5:24:32 PM PDT by Tours
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