“The disclosure that Obama scrapped a cyber plan to retaliate against Moscow for election interference comes as a former senior counterintelligence official, Michelle Van Cleave, revealed in congressional testimony last week that the Obama administration weakened American counterintelligence programs by downgrading a top counterspy office.”
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/ex-cia-chief-says-obama-rejected-cyber-action-russia-election-meddling/
But it didn’t stop Brennan from laying shade on Trump today.
This, coming from a person who voted for Gus Hall in 1976, then has the temerity to claim he’s a defender of The Constitution. Wake me up I must be dreaming…
"We’ve all had indiscretions in our past," he said. "I would not be up here if that was disqualifying."
http://freebeacon.com/politics/cia-director-once-voted-for-communist-presidential-candidate/
Back to Obama. Why did he ‘soft soap’ the issue of Russian meddling while on his way out-the-door. Here is some insight into his mindset…
Obama said of Russia’s interference, “This was not some elaborate, complicated espionage scheme. They hacked into some Democratic Party emails … routine stuff.”
The president said that he had worried the hacks of the Democratic National Committee — and of Clinton campaign chair John Podesta — might presage an attack on America’s voting infrastructure.
“So in early September when I saw president Putin in China, I felt that the most effective way to ensure that that didn’t happen was to talk to him directly and tell him to cut it out and there were going to be serious consequences if he didn’t,” Obama explained. “And in fact we did not see further tampering of the election process.”
In other words, Russia didn’t ultimately do anything extraordinary to us. Foreign governments are going to, occasionally, succeed in hacking email systems. What was extraordinary was what we did to ourselves.
“I am finding it a little curious that everyone is acting surprised that this looked like it was disadvantaging Hillary Clinton, because you guys wrote about it every day,” Obama said.
“I do think it’s worth us reflecting how it is that a presidential election of such importance, of such moment, with so many big issues at stake and such a contrast between the candidates came to be dominated by a bunch of these leaks,” the president continued. “It just took off. And that concerns me, and it should concern all of us.”
“The Russians can’t change us or significantly weaken us,” the president said. “But they can impact us if we lose track of who we are,” Obama continued. “They can impact us if we abandon our values.
“If fake news that’s being released by some foreign government is almost identical to news being released though partisan news venues, then its not surprising that foreign propaganda would have an effect,” he reasoned, “because it’s not that different than what folks are hearing from domestic propagandists.”
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/12/obama-says-russia-didnt-undermine-our-democracy-we-did.html
Conclusion. What have is an incredibly biased press. Even Obama admits it. And what we have here is a clear case of selective indignation on the part of liberals. They cherry pick their indignation based on which party has the White House.
I thank you and have a blessed night!
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/ex-cia-chief-says-obama-rejected-cyber-action-russia-election-meddling/
But it didn’t stop Brennan from laying shade on Trump today.
This, coming from a person who voted for Gus Hall in 1976, then has the temerity to claim he’s a defender of The Constitution. Wake me up I must be dreaming…
"We’ve all had indiscretions in our past," he said. "I would not be up here if that was disqualifying."
http://freebeacon.com/politics/cia-director-once-voted-for-communist-presidential-candidate/
Back to Obama. Why did he ‘soft soap’ the issue of Russian meddling while on his way out-the-door. Here is some insight into his mindset…
Obama said of Russia’s interference, “This was not some elaborate, complicated espionage scheme. They hacked into some Democratic Party emails … routine stuff.”
The president said that he had worried the hacks of the Democratic National Committee — and of Clinton campaign chair John Podesta — might presage an attack on America’s voting infrastructure.
“So in early September when I saw president Putin in China, I felt that the most effective way to ensure that that didn’t happen was to talk to him directly and tell him to cut it out and there were going to be serious consequences if he didn’t,” Obama explained. “And in fact we did not see further tampering of the election process.”
In other words, Russia didn’t ultimately do anything extraordinary to us. Foreign governments are going to, occasionally, succeed in hacking email systems. What was extraordinary was what we did to ourselves.
“I am finding it a little curious that everyone is acting surprised that this looked like it was disadvantaging Hillary Clinton, because you guys wrote about it every day,” Obama said.
“I do think it’s worth us reflecting how it is that a presidential election of such importance, of such moment, with so many big issues at stake and such a contrast between the candidates came to be dominated by a bunch of these leaks,” the president continued. “It just took off. And that concerns me, and it should concern all of us.”
“The Russians can’t change us or significantly weaken us,” the president said. “But they can impact us if we lose track of who we are,” Obama continued. “They can impact us if we abandon our values.
“If fake news that’s being released by some foreign government is almost identical to news being released though partisan news venues, then its not surprising that foreign propaganda would have an effect,” he reasoned, “because it’s not that different than what folks are hearing from domestic propagandists.”
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/12/obama-says-russia-didnt-undermine-our-democracy-we-did.html
Conclusion. What have is an incredibly biased press. Even Obama admits it. And what we have here is a clear case of selective indignation on the part of liberals. They cherry pick their indignation based on which party has the White House.
I thank you and have a blessed night!
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