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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'If we did know who they were, we would have no mechanism to do anything about it.
'A great country can't allow people to savage it and have no consequences and wait for the next attack.
'And yet that literally is where we are.'
Maybe if the CIA and NSA actually looked for foreign threats rather than spying on Americans, we might have something to work with.
That’s one way to get rid of the DEEP STATE.
Blaming Russia again, “without evidence”, I see
The FIB has no credibility anymore
Come on, that's crazy talk.
it’s true... crimes of this magnitude should get your a$$ droned... that said, I don’t support the Biden Regime, nor do I trust them or their super corrupt institutions to carry out any op.
Whenever I hear Newt’s name, I picture him and Nancy cuddling on that couch.
Its too easy to steal from privately owned safe deposit boxes to waste time chasing someone who will be harder to find. Pirates didnt usually attack warships for a reason.
“...to ‘order the killings of anybody overseas’”
Don’t limit it to overseas!😎
Tell feebies there was ‘noose’ on the hackers computer.
newt ... how can you be certain biden’s people didn’t do the attack ?
“’If we did know who they were, we would have no mechanism to do anything about it. “
Not so.
POTUS can unilaterally order the killing of any person outside the US.
Several Presidents have done it to include Trump and Obama.
Hamas launching the worst rocket barrages I've ever seen.
Pipelines being shut down by foreign actors.
Foreign adversaries closing in on U.S. allies.
It's not a coincidence all of this is happening in Biden's first few months.
Weakness always emboldens the bad actors.— Jordan Schachtel (@JordanSchachtel) May 11, 2021
Gingrich sure seems to have grown a pair in his old age. You should see the mass mailing letter he sent me recently. Whew!
Newt knows better. The cabal that runs the demented,corrupt Biden was secretly pleased and overjoyed when the Colonial Pipeline went down. It meant much higher gas prices and much less burning of gasoline. Also the Russians claim they had nothing to do with it. Wonder, just wonder, if the hack was done right here, routed through Russia and any ransom payed will end up in the coffers of BLM.Antifa, the Soros “charities” and after careful laundering into the Democrat Party.
Well one knows the biden crowd wants to attack Israel
Just more Russia Russia Russia.
Rattlin’ those sabers!
The truth is Colonial chose to take the pipeline down. Now why did they do that?
So many details are not known, like, was the control system not airgapped? And yet I have to fill up my wife’s car from my generator reserve gas. That is what blows the most. I have to hit reserves to keep the family moving between schools and appointments, etc.
I will tell you this: I don’t believe the official line.
Welcome to OBiden’s America!
And let’s not forget JFK killing Diem in Vietnam and trying to kill Castro, who got him first.
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