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Obama Authorized a Secret Cyber Operation Against Russia, Says Report (engadget.com)
Jessica Conditt reports via Engadget: President Barack Obama learned of Russia's attempts to hack U.S. election systems in early August 2016, and as intelligence mounted over the following months, the White House deployed secrecy protocols it hadn't used since the 2011 raid on Osama bin Laden's compound, according to a report by The Washington Post. Apparently, one of the covert programs Obama, the CIA, NSA and other intelligence groups eventually put together was a new kind of cyber operation that places remotely triggered "implants" in critical Russian networks, ready for the U.S. to deploy in the event of a pre-emptive attack. The downed Russian networks "would cause them pain and discomfort," a former U.S. official told The Post. The report says CIA director John Brennan, Obama and other officials had at least four "blunt" conversations with Russian officials about its cyber intrusions beginning August 4th. Obama confronted Vladimir Putin in person during a meeting of world leaders in China this past September, the report says, and his administration even sent Russia a warning through a secure channel originally designed to help the two countries avoid a nuclear strike. Moscow apparently responded one week later -- after the U.S. election -- denying the accusation.
Seems like Obama tried to start an incident with Russia. Naturally, the Russians aren't too fond of Democrats, so it's entirely possible that this spurred them on to try to ensure Trump won. Seems like Obama may be responsible for the Russians meddling in the election. Obama appears to have sabotaged the Democrats' chances of winning.
There was just an article about Russia now requiring major US companies to be vetted. Russia now has access to these companies "secrets" as the articles suggested. Nice going, dumbo!
Why should I believe any of this crap?
Obama had shown himself to be a lying weasel.
Trump isn't afraid to tell the truth.
The report is that Obama would not go public unless Republican Senators would back him up, but they refused, warning him that they would attack him for playing politics with foreign affairs.
Either the evidence didn't convince them, or they didn't care about the attacks. You can decide for yourself which it is.
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This is the same paper that held a clandestine fund raiser with the DNC after their own lawyers told them not to [1]. It's stories rely heavily on anonymous stories and undisclosed facts, and the people who own it are not the same any more.
Top Obama officials and intelligence agencies have told me that their sources are nonsense. Who are you to question them?
[1] To spare you trying to decode the HTML email: