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White House Vows 'Proportional' Response For Russian DNC Hack (go.com)
After the Director of National Intelligence and Department of Homeland Security publicly blamed Russia for stealing and publishing archived emails from the Democratic National Committee on Friday, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said today that President Obama will consider a "proportional" response. ABC News reports: "We obviously will ensure that a U.S. response is proportional. It is unlikely that our response would be announced in advanced. It's certainly possible that the president could choose response options that we never announce," Earnest told reporters aboard Air Force One. "The president has talked before about the significant capabilities that the U.S. government has to both defend our systems in the United States but also carry out offensive operations in other countries," he added. "There are a range of responses that are available to the president and he will consider a response that's proportional." The Wall Street Journal report mentions several different ways to response to Russia. The U.S. could impose economic sanctions against Moscow, punish Russia diplomatically, opt to allow the Justice Department to simply prosecute the hacks as a criminal case, and/or launch a U.S. cyberattack targeting Russia's election process. Of course, each response has its pros and cons. "They could escalate into a more adversarial conflict between both countries," writes Carol E. Lee for the Wall Street Journal. "But the absence of a response could signal that such behavior will be tolerated in the future."
Seriously, hacking Russia back is the dumbest way they could respond to the DNC (a private organization, so they keep stressing every time voter fraud is brought up) hack.
Is ANYONE really taking anything ANY politician says about ANYTHING for face value after all these Snowden, Manning, WikiLeaks and hack-leaks it should be utterly clear that the entire political class in the USA is beyond redemption and corrupted to the bone.
There is no rational discussion to have at this point. The whole system and the power players in place today are so corrupted and criminal its PROOF the media is completely in the bag to pain a picture - facebook, google, twitter, the media, the government - they all LIE by default - they lie, omit and change the narrative AT ALL TIMES.
Even secondary sources like slashdot, fark, reddit, this versioning of reality and total disregard of the facts and evidence is quite commonplace.
The reality you see online is YOUR version. You BELIEVE this version and look for snippets to support it.
But the SOURCE for many things, such as the LEAKS and EMAILS, and the like show and PROVE there is a vast concerted effort to propagandize and "PR" the news.
Liberty is dead. Publius is dead. Free speech is on the chopping block and anonymous use of the internet is about to come to a close as it has in China. We will be in mind-prisons.
Best find an Oculus and live in a false reality - the base reality we live in has turned so "1984"-ish its really quite scary.
We are afraid. Afraid of losing our jobs. Afraid of being found out. Afraid of spending time a pariah - like snowden, manning, assange.
The level of arrogance of the political class, the oligarchs and billionaires is utterly unhinged. They buy media outlets, they collude, they weave stories and narratives the media parrots.
Try and get your "news" from many places and look at PRIMARY sources like the leaked emails for information. Anything "reported" has been changed and lied about.
if only to more easily convince his people to use domestic IT products rather than the US-made stuff (which contains backdoors for at least the US government agencies and backdoors for some far-east agencies which were added by the manufacturers who actually produced the hardware).
The DNC supposedly got hacked, not the US government. The US government has absolutely no reason to offer *any* response. The DNC might get angry about it (and maybe they can use that to continue to try to change the story away from their internal corruption) but they're not the US government.
Do you have ESP?
Two words: due process.
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OK, let me rephrase that to be more accurate:
Explain how and why based on the leaks so far that Hillary HAS NOT BEEN INDICTED.
If you disagree, please post your argument. (-1, Overrated) isn't your personal censorship tool for views you don't like
Anyone who doesn't believe that the media and this administration is corrupt after the head of the FBI admitted under oath that Hillary Clinton committed multiple crimes, from storing classified information on an unsecured private server to destroying evidence (both digitally and physically) and lying repeatedly under oath...but the big issue we are supposed to care about is Trump and Billy Bush comparing who gets the most groupies? Well I have a bridge you might be interested in.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
If there's not enough evidence to actually convict you in court, then absolutely, yes.
Leaving aside the fact that you never read any of those emails either, if these so-called facts were so self-evident, then there would be sufficient basis to convict her, wouldn't there? Just how small a town do you think the entire USA actually is that you could even believe it to be realistically possible that any such incriminating evidence could have been overlooked after this amount of attention has been given to it?
But hey.... if you know of some evidence that all of the other would-be prosecuters have missed, then maybe you should consider trying to pass that along.
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