Top Democrat says Obama shares responsibility for Russia’s meddling
Mike Memoli..Feb.16,2018...NBC News
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s muted response to the 2014 Sony hack may have laid the groundwork for Russia’s meddling in the 2016 elections, a top Democrat argued Friday.
Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said the previous administration should have established a “more forceful deterrent” against potential adversaries considering cyberattacks against the U.S. or its institutions.
“I think that others around the world watched that and determined that cyber is a cost-free intervention,” Schiff said during an interview with NBC’s Andrea Mitchell at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York
Russia’s unusually brazen and “ham-handed” cyber campaign against the U.S. unfortunately coincided with a Republican candidate willing to embrace the help of an adversary, Schiff said.
“We should have called them out much earlier,” Schiff said. “While I respect the motive in terms of the Obama administration, they didn’t want to be seen as meddling, the American people had a right to know what was going on and could be trusted to do the right thing with it. And they should have defended being more public and aggressive at the time, at least in my view.”
First, the leaking monster with no control goes silent after the Standard Hotel thing, now this.
What's a simple deplorable to make of all this skullduggery. I ask you.
And then The Donald steps on his throat. No mercy. Haha.