Posted on 03/28/2017 8:45:39 AM PDT by usafa92
Former Vice President Dick Cheney says Russia's alleged interference in the U.S. presidential election could be interpreted by some as an "act of war."
"There was a very serious effort made by Mr. Putin and his government, his organization, to interfere in major ways with our basic, fundamental democratic processes," Cheney said, referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin. "In some quarters that would be considered an act of war."
Cheney's statement comes at a time when both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives intelligence committees are investigating alleged Russian meddlin in the election that brought President Donald Trump to power.
U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Russia conducted a covert hacking operation to undermine the U.S. election process, which evolved into an attempt to help Trump win the White House. They also believe with "a high level of confidence" that Putin became personally involved in the campaign to interfere in the election.
Cheney's comments came up in the context of him speaking about the changing nature of the U.S. -Russia relationship being a threat to U.S. security and globalization.
In his speech to the Economic Times Global Business Summit in the Indian city of New Delhi on Monday, Cheney listed off some of Putin's recent actions as examples of how he believes Russia is flexing its muscles as a global power.
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That is a really odd photo. Do you think it is a manipulated image (ie. photoshop)?
I never cared for Cheney, personally.
What exactly did the Russians do to interfere in our elections?
Was it hacking into Podesta’s emails and letting the Americans know how Hillary and the DNC really felt about us?
Bush/Cheney, I am severely embarrassed I vote for them. Of course they were and are part of the swamp, it just wasn’t as obvious before.
RUSSIA DID NOT INFLUENCE MY VOTE FOR TRUMP.
Hillary belongs in jail. Most of us believed that before WikiLeaks.
Hey This is a Family show.
LOL
Oh my!
I would have thought this idiot would have had enough of ill thought out threats of war with the Iraq imbroglio - 5000 of our finest dead, tens of thousands impaired for life, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians dead, 5 TRILLION in debt and a real mess left of the Middle East. I would do the exact opposite of what Cheney told me.
Dick Cheney is one sick piece of communists Democrat junk.
The Clinton’s and Obama sent teams to other nations to influence their elections openly.
Were those acts of war?
McCain, Graham, now Cheney, what is it with these folks and their groundless provocations of Russia charging them with act of war?
I’ve never seen anything to compare with this.
Just kidding. But what does he want. War?
....wonder where Cheney is getting his info?....sounds like someone just filled his lunchbox with all kinds of sugary bits
Well gee, I guess no one’s going to be happy until Trump launches a few hundred nukes into Russia.
When was this conclusion made? I must have been in a coma when it happened.
Unfortunately, that’s not how the world works.
They make a ton of money off lending money to buy weapons from companies they own (plus the interest). They don’t care about human life one bit.
Since this is a questionable news source I’m going to refrain from commenting.
Really, Dick? I mean.... really?
Where is the evidence Russia interfered in our election, or tried to interfere for that matter? Not one shred that I am aware of.
I get it. All the corruptocrats are terrified that Trump and his cabinet are going to expose the treasonous deeds of both parties for the past several decades, and they are willing to bring on a nuclear Armageddon to prevent that.
Russians had nothing to do with our election. That's all a smokescreen. The only commies that are a threat to the USA right now are the commie Democrats and commie neo-cons. May they all burn in Hell.
How many people died so this Neo-Con and his buddies could Cash-in on the Iqaq War.
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