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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."
Something about the government retaliating over a private organizations poor security seems off putting... even if it is about the election. It is sad that showing the truth and what politicians say to moneyed interests behind closed doors is seen as a danger to our democracy.
Oh, for Clinton, well then we have the exception for all rules! Let's talk about grabbing pussy instead.
In times of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
So lets shit can the major two parties and vote for Gary Johnson. Hillary stole the election from Bernie on top of being a liar and a criminal and enabling her husbands rape of women and the list goes on. Why anyone would vote for her is beyond me.
If you disagree, please post your argument. (-1, Overrated) isn't your personal censorship tool for views you don't like
I refuse to watch any "NEWS" and am very selective about the Radio stations I listen to. From those, I take political comments as false and if I feel like investigating will attempt to prove otherwise. The media in the US today is at the same level of propaganda we made fun of with the Pravda in Russia back in the 80s (sorry folks, I'm a hardened old cynical bastard, much worse than your ordinary cynical bastard).
The latest hysteria about Trump for example: Trump said very clearly that he would ask his Attorney General to assign a Special Prosecutor to investigate the Clinton's. Sounds reasonable to most of us considering the amount of corruption that surrounds them (worded intentionally, so read what I wrote instead of what you want to see). Media report: Trump is going to randomly jail people. He's a dictator, he's a this, he's a that.
I have taken hundreds of hours to read transcripts and watching full speeches to validate context. I can find almost nothing the media says that is true. Nearly every allegation with the exception of McCain is over hyped bullspittle which requires a complete lack of context and cherry picking.
Meanwhile, potentially real crimes are being buried under the same hype and hysteria. Perhaps the FBI is investigating the DNC, the Media, and the Ultra wealthy responsible for some things. The Media won't report it even when there is a finding, like why is either Comey or Hillary not up on perjury charges? One of them flat out lied to the US Congress.
One thing the US desperately needs is a anti-trust case to break up the media monopolies so that we can get out of the damn echo chamber. We were warned by real journalists when they started allowing monopolization that this would occur, and dang if those people were not right.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
I am pretty sure that lying to congress is a crime.
Funny how congress lying to us isn't...
"-1 Troll" is the apparently the same as "-1 I disagree with you."
I'm a bit baffled about these hacks being government sponsored by Russia. The Democrats are notoriously the weaker party in terms of military might and proud of it, and Russia has proven to outmaneuver both Obama with everything and Clinton with the notorious reset button debacle.
All jokes about Trump aside, what benefits Russia by having an unpredictable Trump presidency versus a very predictable Clinton presidency? If it's as simple as Trump having complimented Putin, then it suggests that Trump is a very good candidate to be able to flatter a brazen Communist Dictator claiming to be an elected leader.
Even more to Trump's credit, based on his debate stance of not declaring his ISIS plans, the fact that a White House Press Secretary is talking about a "proportional" cyber attack on the record is ridiculous. We're warning Russia that we might do something and we are giving Russia the ability to blame anything that may go wrong on us with some legitimacy to it, regardless of any actual tampering!
Election fraud? Now it's the US tinkering.
Power failure? The US must be messing with the power grid.
Technology demonstration failures? The US clearly sabotaged it.
Imbeciles.
Stay focused on the Russians.
Pay no attention to the actual content of the emails.
Pay no attention to the Clinton Foundation.
Pay no attention to the media running their stories past the campaign before their editors.
Pay no attention to the...