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CIA Prepping for Possible Cyber Strike Against Russia
NBC News ^ | 10/14/2016 | WILLIAM M. ARKIN, KEN DILANIAN and ROBERT WINDREM

Posted on 10/14/2016 3:31:24 PM PDT by SpeedyInTexas

The Obama administration is contemplating an unprecedented cyber covert action against Russia in retaliation for alleged Russian interference in the American presidential election, U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News.

Current and former officials with direct knowledge of the situation say the CIA has been asked to deliver options to the White House for a wide-ranging "clandestine" cyber operation designed to harass and "embarrass" the Kremlin leadership.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cyberwar; obamarussia
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To: CommieCutter

John Fogerty comes to mind about the war starting Democrats:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec0XKhAHR5I


61 posted on 10/14/2016 4:13:57 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (I don't want better government; I want much less of it.)
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To: gaijin

I believe him too. The Russians have been fighting Islamists a long time. They are NOT going to have another school attacked by Islamists like the last one (I’m having a brain freeze; can’t remember the name of the place - a horrendous killing).

But how many people in the US will see ANY of this stuff, from anonymous, from Wikileaks, from Snowden, from ANYBODY except what the corrupt/threatened media will put in front of their faces. 2008 was literally a coup; the media was told they would be annihilated if they reported on the 2 things that would have alerted the public to the fact that a coup was in process: his ineligibility and his Muslim leanings.

I have always thought that a person should abstain from voting in any issue where they have not personally fact-checked what the media reported. I have lived by that standard; I abstain from anything on the ballot that I have not researched. The most dangerous thing to our republic is ignorant voters. Yet that is exactly what the coup of 2008 instituted. What stands in the way of that evil plan is the internet - which Obama has attacked, calling alternative news/reports unbelievable, living in an alternate reality. It is an alternate to his propaganda-based fantasy world.

Last night my brother-in-law said this election is about whether there are enough voters in the US who are interested in truth. If not, America dies.

And it may well be Russia that euthanizes us, if we don’t have the sense to choose life.


62 posted on 10/14/2016 4:14:28 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: CatOwner

What time, and against which servers is it scheduled?


63 posted on 10/14/2016 4:15:06 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: butterdezillion

Beslan.

64 posted on 10/14/2016 4:18:00 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: SpeedyInTexas
The "clandestine" cyber operation isn't clandestine any more.

Among all the stupid things Obama has done, this will rank among the stupidest. Let's see, where would I counter attack if I was the Russians?

The banks? Or just the ATMs?

The power grid?

Military comms? Supposedly they had an outage of their super secure network in September. A prelude?

The water supply?

The rail network?

If Putin really wants to play hardball he could attack all the MSN sites. No more studpid groping stories.

65 posted on 10/14/2016 4:20:03 PM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (Gold and Silver are real money. Everything else is a derivative)
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To: CatOwner
seriously bad idea....

Please tell Sid Blumenthal that his get-out-of-jail card may be revoked and substituted with an evening pass to Ft. Marcy Park.

signed Fan-of-Vince-Foster

66 posted on 10/14/2016 4:22:16 PM PDT by ptsal
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To: gaijin

Is that verified as being from the hacking group anonymous?

It’s not streaming well; it’ll be all night for me to get to the end of it at this rate.


67 posted on 10/14/2016 4:22:55 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: SpeedyInTexas
He's so covert, that Obama. Nobody will ever know it was him! Go Obama. Super secret covert master spy will save us from those bad Russians.

This idiot is plumbing yet unprecedented depths of stupidity. Gen Patton is spinning in his grave, Guam is capsizing and Hillary is telling the truth in all 57 states.

Donald better win to make America smart again.

68 posted on 10/14/2016 4:24:08 PM PDT by Bon mots
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To: TigersEye
Why are the Democrats so hot to go to war with Russia?

a) Short term political advantage.

If Obama thinks a war with Russia will unite a country so polarized as Pearl Harbor united America, he is nuts. That will not happen. It may keep attention away from Hillary, but it will also force the media to halt all talk of the BS sexual assault allegations against Trump. Hillary wants war, but Trump does not. The Dems will look like the war party and will be blamed for the catastrophe.

b) Reduced population.

That will not help Democrats at all. A Russian nuke over NYC, LA, SF, Chicago, Seattle or any city in a blue state will instantly turn that state red.

c) War profits.

Most likely those who would be counting them would be vaporized.

d) Great excuse for more government controls on the people.

DC will get hit. What government?

Will Obama. who could not back up his talk of a "red-line" in Syria actually be willing to go to war with Russia?

69 posted on 10/14/2016 4:30:15 PM PDT by eekitsagreek
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To: OwenKellogg

I think Barky may be surprised if Red October launches a nuke just off the Maryland coast, four minutes away from the White Hut. He might regret the decision to junk the P3 Orions.


70 posted on 10/14/2016 4:31:11 PM PDT by batterycommander (Surrounded? Stay clammed and call for artillery. USNA 65)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Dear Mr. Putin.

We the decent American people are not a part of this insanity. If you decide to target the US because of it’s insane leaders, please look for the ones responsible, rather than those innocent people who think they are insane. Am sure you are well aware of whee DC is on the map.

We pretty well knew something like this was coming though. The uni-party is desperately trying to find a way to “fix” this election. Blaming Russia is probably just one of their stunts. This one is beyond stupid and dangerous.


71 posted on 10/14/2016 4:31:56 PM PDT by suzy02 (Holding breath too.)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

These bumbling, snowflake demoncrat fools...sure, give them a heads up.

Was it not Killary who warned cyberattacks were acts of war??

Clinton: Treat cyberattacks ‘like any other attack’
08/31/16
http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/293970-clinton-treat-cyberattacks-like-any-other-attack


72 posted on 10/14/2016 4:32:40 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: butterdezillion

It is from a YouTube channel titled with one word — Anonymous.

That is where I get their vids.

Here is the list of all their vids:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8WViDKvDsaYrX0FDKwEvCw/videos

I find some of their vids are sort of MEH (”We’re so crafy and great, we’re Jason Bournes, only somewhat fatter...”)

There was one released in the past two weeks or so, however, that really blew my socks off, explaining what is going on out at Orgy Island:

It’s not just an apolitical baccanal but is rather a large-scale intel op with political objectives using blackmail against powerful people (who in my opinion should really, really know better).


73 posted on 10/14/2016 4:36:46 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Trumpisourlastchance
The lunatics have taken over the asylum. CIA appears totally corrupted, too. Arming terrorists and now going to start a “war” with Russia. Get ready.

A war with Russia would accomplish what the rats are trying to do anyway, destroy the country, and get millions killed off. It would also get the e mails, and Bill's sexual peccadilloes off the front page. This way, they can blame America's destruction on the Rooskies, instead of themselves.

74 posted on 10/14/2016 4:37:07 PM PDT by Mark17 (Calvary's love has never faltered. All it's wonder still remains. Souls still take eternal passage.)
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To: butterdezillion
The Russians have been fighting Islamists a long time. They are NOT going to have another school attacked by Islamists like the last one

From AP via FoxNews.com...

Last Living Beslan School Attacker Sentenced to Life in Prison
May 28, 2006

VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia - AP
A southern Russian court on Friday sentenced the sole surviving Beslan school attacker to life in prison, capping a yearlong trial that survivors and victims' relatives say has left the most essential questions about the tragedy unanswered.

They demand to know just who bore the most responsibility: Nur-Pashi Kulayev and his 31 fellow militants, or the officials whose negligence or even alleged complicity allowed them to seize hundreds of children and parents on the first day of school in September 2004.

Countrywatch: Russia

"I did not go to court to become convinced of Kulayev's guilt, but to reconstruct all the circumstances of the terrorist attack and find the truth," said Aneta Gadiyeva, whose daughter was killed. "But I did not learn anything new and did not get any answers." ..."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,197093,00.html

75 posted on 10/14/2016 4:38:02 PM PDT by ETL (Trump-PENCE 2016!!!)
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To: eekitsagreek

0bama is nuts. Leftists have long wanted to reduce the population. The elitists who profit from war don’t live in D.C. There will always be a government and there’s no better way to institute one with total control of the people than to build one from the ashes of the last one.


76 posted on 10/14/2016 4:43:42 PM PDT by TigersEye (~Questionable Hillary thinks Putin made me post this!~)
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To: eekitsagreek
Will Obama. who could not back up his talk of a "red-line" in Syria actually be willing to go to war with Russia?

Why would he care? In a few weeks he will be dumping it in the lap of a new president and if it's a Pubbie the left will do as they always do ... blame it all on him.

77 posted on 10/14/2016 4:45:49 PM PDT by TigersEye (~Questionable Hillary thinks Putin made me post this!~)
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To: CatOwner

It’s not, it’s just more theater.


78 posted on 10/14/2016 4:46:26 PM PDT by Gator113 (Vote TRUMP!! -- "Because you'd be in Jail!")
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Top Comment:

“Obama is starting to sound like Kim Jong Un.”


79 posted on 10/14/2016 4:49:05 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Terry Mross
But the campaign, and the government, wants us to think it’s the Russians so they can eventually say that the emails were actually made up.

Perhaps. I thought the motive was to resurrect the Russians as bad guys, and link Trump to them as irresponsible and unpatriotic, for short-term vote gain. If that's the case, Putin will eventually laugh it off, privately, of course.

80 posted on 10/14/2016 4:50:34 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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