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.
Our hope is SOMEONE in the military will balk. Too bad the rinos won’t stand up. Ryan is on board.
Since when is transparency called hacking? It’s their own emails and own words.. what’s wrong with seeing what they really are up to?
Homosexual drama queens are dangerous.
LOCK HIM UP!
Suggest padlocks, time lock, combination lock. Use extra precaution - a dangerous, armed perpetrator. Use of chains might prove helpful as well.
When you pick up the Red Phone and then say, “cut it out”, it sounds almost like an SNL skit.
I think he’s angling for enough chaos to consider martial law.
One of the best ever movies.
Obama is far from stupid nor is he insane...he has a reason and is desperate to block Trumps Inauguration. Is Sessions on the trail of the “smoking gun”???
What is worse, he gave it to them. They didn’t even have to guess.
My feeling is the Russians have a whole lot more that hasn’t been revealed, just as we likely have a lot on them. These days everybody can gain access to everything. Why would the dems be dumb enough to commit anything in writing?
Hope this SOB joins Carrie Fisher ASAP!
While those tactics will work fairly well in a 3rd World country full of illiterates, they will not work here................
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Just a thug.
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Hey, Soros. Here’s your tin pot dictator, usurper Islamarxtist Obama, threatening war.
Congress declares war, not the president.
Obama: “Listen here, I’m going to bomb yer ass, or sumpthin.”
LOL. I love it :)
Was this adviser Ben Rhodes the famous van driver who was promoted thru no fault of his own to National Security Adviser? What a joke, sorry I’m not laughing.
My BS Meter is going off on this one.
Was this adviser Ben Rhodes the famous van driver who was promoted thru no fault of his own to National Security Adviser? What a joke, sorry I’m not laughing.
Off topic...
What does this mean:
“Pray for Sky, 20, two gunshots to abdomen, college student, hostess, easy prey n transformed US”
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