Thu
Dec 29 2016
05:03 pm
Obama Issues Sanctions for Alleged Russian Hacking
By: B Harmon

Obama Issues Sanctions for Alleged Russian Hacking

President Obama has expelled 35 Russian nationals and sanctioned five Russian entities and four individuals for an alleged cyber assault on Democratic political organizations during the 2016 presidential campaign, the White House announced today.

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It's time for our country to move on to bigger and better things

Submitted by Mike Knapp on Thu, 2016/12/29 - 8:19pm.
"It's time for our country to move on to bigger and better things. Nevertheless, in the interest of our country and its great people, I will meet with leaders of the intelligence community next week in order to be updated on the facts of this situation," Trump said in a statement.

Daniella Diaz @ CNN - Trump on Russian hacking: It's time to 'move on

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Getting played

Submitted by Mike Knapp on Thu, 2016/12/29 - 11:29pm.

Andrew Weisburd et al at War on the RocksTrolling for Trump...

The United States and its European allies have always placed state-to-state relations at the forefront of their international strategies. The Soviet system’s effort to undermine those relations during the Cold War, updated now by modern Russia, were known as “active measures.”

A June 1992 U.S. Information Agency report on the strategy explained:

It was often very difficult for Westerners to comprehend this fundamentally different Soviet approach to international relations and, as a result, the centrality to the Soviets (now Russians) of active measures operations was gravely underappreciated.

Knoxgal's picture

This article is

Submitted by Knoxgal on Fri, 2016/12/30 - 11:25pm.
(in reply to Mike Knapp)

Chilling

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Why the sanctions are so

Submitted by B Harmon on Fri, 2016/12/30 - 3:06pm.

Why the sanctions are so devastating.

Knoxgal's picture

Glad to know that

Submitted by Knoxgal on Sat, 2016/12/31 - 8:57am.
(in reply to B Harmon)

Glad to know that Obama's actions are more harmful to the Russians than it appears to the uninitiated. I only wish he'd done something before the election.

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