U.S. will respond to North Korea hack, official says

CNN ^ | 12/18/2014 | Pamela Brown, Jim Sciutto, Evan Perez, Jim Acosta and Eric Bradner,

[SeekAndFind]

U.S. government officials are preparing to publicly blame North Korea for the Sony Pictures hack -- but haven't yet decided how to respond to the attack.

The White House and other agencies are holding a series of high-level meetings to discuss the United States' range of options, a senior official in President Barack Obama's administration said. "We do think it's appropriate to respond," the official said.

Those options could include new sanctions against North Korea, another source said.

White House press secretary Josh Earnest wouldn't confirm that the Obama administration has pinned the hack on North Korea, saying it's still being investigated by the FBI and the Justice Department.

He said the investigation is "being treated as a serious national security matter."

"There is evidence to indicate that we have seen destructive activity with malicious intent that was initiated by a sophisticated actor," Earnest said.

[Robert357]

Only question in my mind is if the President will say this ia a red line that shall never be crossed again in the future, or if he will shake his finger and say “shame on you.” Maybe he will have the Team Amercian puppets behind him and call on them to make a statement about North Korea.

[Perdogg]

They will send a very strongly written letter and Jen Psaki will defriend Kim Jung You on Facebook.

[VanDeKoik]

We will normalize relations!

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

And Dennis Rodman will be the new head of SONY Pictures....

[bayliving]

We should be thanking North Korea for preventing the release of what appears to be one long F bomb in movie form.

[struggle]

QUICK! NORMALIZE RELATIONS!

[minnesota_bound]

I bet Thomas Donohue, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce will want to do business with them as he does with Cuba.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-27614379

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/06/10/cuba-j10.html

[Uncle Miltie]

0bambi will normalize relations and put a Nork Embassy across from the White Hut.

That’ll show ‘em!

[RetiredTexasVet]

John Kerry-Heinz could contact Hillary Benghazi Clinton and ask her for the template she used for those “stern letters” she used to send out to instill fear in our countries enemies.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Send Jimmah Cahtah to Pyongyang...

[Pilgrim's Progress]

Memorandum dated 12/18/2014
From the Office of the White House

Message Follows:

STOP IT!

Signed
Barack N0bama

[SamAdams76]

Sanctions...sounds like we are finally putting our foot down.

[Rome2000]

Obama is CPUSA and Jarett is his KGB handler.

His ascension to POTUS is LUDICROUS..

The NK have two years to invade the south and WILL do so.

The communist Obama is truly of satan, giving aid and comfort to Americas enemies foreign and domsestic.

Not to mention the impact on race relations.

GOD SAVE US FROM THIS FIEND!!!!!.

To: Syncro

Supporters of Raila Odinga(BARAK OBAMAS FIRST COUSIN), the leading presidential challenger, rallied in Kibera, a slum near Nairobi.(According to the NY Times, this is a "rally")

Mr. Odinga’s (BARAK OBAMAS FIRST COUSIN, WHO HE CAMPAIGNED IN KENYA FOR)followers tried to march from Kibera to Nairobi.

A supporter of the presidential challenger Raila Odinga (OBAMAS FIRST COUSIN, WHO HE CAMPAIGNED FOR IN KENYA IN 2006) in Kibera, a sprawling slum near the capital, Nairobi.

Odinga supporters riot in December 2007(ODINGA IS BARAK OBMAMS FIRST COUSIN, OBAMA CAMPAIGNED FOR HIM IN KENYA IN 2006)

[Rockitz]

Typical Obama administration response- buying time to wait for the polls and focus group data to come in.

[deputytess]

With a strongly worded email, I’m sure.

[TChad]

Next, to show the world just how serious he is, President Barack Obama will perform Michael Jackson’s “I’m Bad.”

[AmericanExceptionalist]

Those options could include new sanctions against North Korea, another source said.

"[N]ew sanctions"?

This seems to imply that North Korea can be punished by merely isolating it from the rest of the world.

But there is a reason that it is often known as The Hermit Kingdom...

[mikey_hates_everything]

The response should be NOT cancelling the The Interview’s release, or showing Team America in its place. Any other “response” will be a joke.

[justlurking]

Fetch the Comfy Chair!