US EXPELS 35 Russian diplomats, closes two compounds.

[eddiew37]

McCain involved,,,
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has scheduled a hearing for Thursday on cyber threats to the United States.

The Senate Armed Services Committee chairman has been an outspoken critic of Russia, whom U.S. officials have said is responsible for the hack and release of documents from Democratic groups, including the Democratic National Committee, leading up to the election.

According to CNN, McCain's hearing next week will address Russia's alleged hacking campaign during the election.

The hearing will come a week after the Obama administration announcednew sanctions on Russia in response to the election interference.



Witnesses invited to the hearing include Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Marcel Lettre and Adm. Michael Rogers, head of U.S. Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency.

The Senate Armed Services Committee indicated there is also a possibility of a closed session following the hearing Jan. 5, allowing lawmakers to receive an update on sensitive information.

The announcement comes in the wake of a new intelligence report, released Thursday, that summarized Moscow's hacking effort of multiple Democratic Party officials for the purposes of interfering in the election.

The administration announced retaliatory measures in response to the Kremlin's hacking campaign, including new sanctions against top Russian officials and expulsion of 35 Russian "operatives" from the U.S.

And like the ****'s they are Repubs refuse to man up

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

Obama the petulant prat is looking so silly right now. Let's hope Putin just swats him away for the next 20 or so days.

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I don't call that QUACK QUACK QUACK when Obama slap Putin with................... Crippling economic sanctions, install missile system in Poland next to Putin ass, ejected 35 diplomats, closing 2 Russian compounds.
But you can continue your quaking.

For 20 days. Ha ha ha. Putin wishes you happy New Year. Lol.

Quack Quack Quack Quack ............... Its fun to see Obama kicking Putin ass. I'm sure all you Putin lovers and Obama haters didn't like that.
GOOD JOB OBAMA.

"Quack Quack Quack Quack"

 

[Flopper]

In all seriousness......
Would you rather russia work with the US against China or with China against the US?

Obama has no imagination. Smarter player are involved

Russia is far more likely to work with the Chinese against the US because they have far more interest in Common with China than the US. China is Russia's top trading partner. Russia needs Chinese investments and China needs Russian Oil. They share the same major allies, North Korea, Iran, Syria who both countries supply arms and have defense agreements. Russia recognizes China's claim to Taiwan and Tibet which the US doesn't. China supports Russia's claims in the Ukraine and opposes US support for the Ukraine. Both countries have lukewarm to occasional hostile relations with Israel, a close alley of the US. Both countries have opposed NATO since it's very beginning of which the US is a major supporter. China and Russia are the only two major communist countries left and their leaders are strongly opposed to American democracy.

About the only the issue that the US and Russia are in agreement is limiting the proliferation of nuclear weapons. However, with Trump's statements encouraging other countries to get nuclear weapons and his lack of opposition to a nuclear arms race, even that agreement is questionable.

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

No sum game move by the disaster.

Time to kick Putin ass.

Oh so you want war with Russia?

How many people dying will make up for democrats losing?

That's funny....... you should ask yourself and your fellow Putin kisser......... Why they hack DNC but not Trump?
You all keep telling Obama is a pussy........ now he is kicking pussy Putin ass.

Because trump isn't stupid enough to fall for a phishing scam?

Putin humiliated Obama this morning with his response to his childish move

No he didn't........ All he said this morning was that he is very scared to retaliate and he knows there are more coming.

"All he said this morning was that he is very scared"

Putin scared?

 

[Avatar4321]

So the information that democrats don't even dispute the accuracy of, that may have come from Russian hacking, is screwing with our election process?

How exactly is revealing the truth detrimental to our election? How does telling the truth about what Democrats plan hurt the integrity of the process?

I've explained it twice already. Others have done so as well. Read the thread.

So you think the american people being informed about Democrat corrupt practices hurts the integrity of our republic?

Do you know how screwed up that is?

And you want to provoke a foreign power because your party was exposed?

Our nation is more important than you getting petty revenge for being exposed

It's not surprising that you don't understand that it has nothing to do with what was exposed but rather how, by whom and for what reason.

You're reaction to and view of it is why it was successful.

So you're upset that the Russians tried to undermine our "democracy"?

It only took you 100 pages to glean that rather obvious fact.

By exposing actual Democrat plots to undermine our "democracy"....

You seriously took the bait on that one?

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Time to kick Putin ass.

Oh so you want war with Russia?

How many people dying will make up for democrats losing?

That's funny....... you should ask yourself and your fellow Putin kisser......... Why they hack DNC but not Trump?
You all keep telling Obama is a pussy........ now he is kicking pussy Putin ass.

Because trump isn't stupid enough to fall for a phishing scam?

Putin humiliated Obama this morning with his response to his childish move

No he didn't........ All he said this morning was that he is very scared to retaliate and he knows there are more coming.

"All he said this morning was that he is very scared"

Putin scared?

Putin isn't afraid of Obungles...only an Obamabot would think so

 

[Hutch Starskey]

I've explained it twice already. Others have done so as well. Read the thread.

So you think the american people being informed about Democrat corrupt practices hurts the integrity of our republic?

Do you know how screwed up that is?

And you want to provoke a foreign power because your party was exposed?

Our nation is more important than you getting petty revenge for being exposed

It's not surprising that you don't understand that it has nothing to do with what was exposed but rather how, by whom and for what reason.

You're reaction to and view of it is why it was successful.

So you're upset that the Russians tried to undermine our "democracy"?

It only took you 100 pages to glean that rather obvious fact.

By exposing actual Democrat plots to undermine our "democracy"....

You seriously tool the bait on that one?

Imagine that.You only had to make yourself look like a dope to accomplish that.

 

[EverCurious]

McCain involved,,,
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has scheduled a hearing for Thursday on cyber threats to the United States.

The Senate Armed Services Committee chairman has been an outspoken critic of Russia, whom U.S. officials have said is responsible for the hack and release of documents from Democratic groups, including the Democratic National Committee, leading up to the election.

According to CNN, McCain's hearing next week will address Russia's alleged hacking campaign during the election.

The hearing will come a week after the Obama administration announcednew sanctions on Russia in response to the election interference.



Witnesses invited to the hearing include Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Marcel Lettre and Adm. Michael Rogers, head of U.S. Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency.

The Senate Armed Services Committee indicated there is also a possibility of a closed session following the hearing Jan. 5, allowing lawmakers to receive an update on sensitive information.

The announcement comes in the wake of a new intelligence report, released Thursday, that summarized Moscow's hacking effort of multiple Democratic Party officials for the purposes of interfering in the election.

The administration announced retaliatory measures in response to the Kremlin's hacking campaign, including new sanctions against top Russian officials and expulsion of 35 Russian "operatives" from the U.S.

"The Kremlin's hacking campaign" ...So our government claims to have evidence of a direct link to Putin's directive then, how intriguing. Why then throw us the Guiccfer 2.0 and the fishing bears... and why make us wait a week but for... ah yes bait... for whom though? Is it a "we don't actually know so we're hoping someone spooks" or is it "we haven't managed to kill the damn fly yet"?

Either is mildly embarrassing of course since they've known of this vulnerability for quite a while - hell the public was informed in October. Did they let someone slip through their fingers?

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

Oh so you want war with Russia?

How many people dying will make up for democrats losing?

That's funny....... you should ask yourself and your fellow Putin kisser......... Why they hack DNC but not Trump?
You all keep telling Obama is a pussy........ now he is kicking pussy Putin ass.

Because trump isn't stupid enough to fall for a phishing scam?

Putin humiliated Obama this morning with his response to his childish move

No he didn't........ All he said this morning was that he is very scared to retaliate and he knows there are more coming.

"All he said this morning was that he is very scared"

Putin scared?

Putin isn't afraid of Obungles...only an Obamabot would think so

Why would a man like Putin be afraid of Obama?

 

[aris2chat]

>>
The report provides no evidence that the hacking was the work of Russian intelligence agencies. It merely states it as a fact

The U.S. Government confirms that two different RIS actors participated in the intrusion into a U.S. political party.

The two “actors” in question are the two groups of hackers known as Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear. As I have pointed out previously, the claim that these two groups of hackers act for Russian intelligence has so far been based purely on inference, with no hard facts behind it.

There is nothing in this report that changes that, or which substantiates this claim, and nothing in the report that remotely resembles a hard fact to support it. On the contrary as the paragraph I have quoted above shows, the claim is still based purely on inference . That the claim is entirely inferential, and may be based on completely false reasoning, is it turns out also the opinion of an expert in this field.

The rest of the report – which is to say nearly all of it – is taken up with technical information intended to confirm the existence of the hacking – something which no-one denies happened – and various suggestions for ways to mitigate against such hacking in the future. Whilst this is no doubt helpful, it is hardly the issue under discussion. Frankly it looks like padding, made to make the report look longer and more substantial than it actually is.<<

>>Previous JARs have not attributed malicious cyber activity to specific countries or threat actors. However, public attribution of these activities to RIS is supported by technical indicators from the U.S. Intelligence Community, DHS, FBI, the private sector, and other entities. This determination expands upon the Joint Statement released October 7, 2016, from the Department of Homeland Security and the Director of National Intelligence on Election Security. This activity by RIS is part of an ongoing campaign of cyber-enabled operations directed at the U.S. government and its citizens. These cyber operations have included spearphishing campaigns targeting government organizations, critical infrastructure entities, think tanks, universities, political organizations, and corporations leading to the theft of information. In foreign countries, RIS actors conducted damaging and/or disruptive cyber-attacks, including attacks on critical infrastructure networks. In some cases, RIS actors masqueraded as third parties, hiding behind false online personas designed to cause the victim to misattribute the source of the attack. This JAR provides technical indicators related to many of these operations, recommended mitigations, suggested actions to take in response to the indicators provided, and information on how to report such incidents to the U.S. Government.<<


This is what Obama wants to start a war over

 

[EverCurious]

OMG Aris2chat, of course the BEARS are Russian, Bears, Russian, come on you have to see the connection there! Oh and of course, they went on holiday the same day as the Russian gov - it's iron clad I tell you, iron fucking clad. [/sarc]

~sigh~ Our government is fucking with us by not coming straight out with their damned evidence and I'm rather irked by it. I fucking pay the bastards the least they could do is fucking tell me what I need to know without the god damn political games...

 

[Tehon]

It's not surprising that you don't understand that it has nothing to do with what was exposed but rather how, by whom and for what reason.

What was exposed is the only factual information we have. The rest is just conjecture on your part. It is not surprising that someone such as yourself who is ideologically driven would place so much faith on something you have no way of verifying. You're responding emotionally. That's how propaganda works, it is designed to elicit emotional responses.

It's not speculation. It's been said many times by public officials. Your unwillingness or your inability to recognize that fact only points to your partisan nature.

It is speculation and will remain as such till it can be factually verified. The frequency with which it is repeated does nothing to alter that fact.

 

[eddiew37]

Republicans and Chump resent Obama acting Presidential

 

[MindWars]

The president lied.
Congress lied.
The Republicans lied.
The Democrats lied.
All the intelligence agencies lied.

Amazing.

Nope, just the democrats, Obie, and Brennan. 21 more days.

President, Congress, Republicans, Democrats, Intelligence agencies ......... ALL LIED........... But you believed Putin thug. Good for your comrade.

CIA CAUGHT LYING
FBI CAUGHT LYING and buying WHORES and drugs
OBAMA caught lying
Oh yes a total Government we can trust to the soul aye.

And Putin is telling the truth. See? YOU CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH.

We aren't saying Putin is an angel, the points you Russian haters miss is " He is being set up " to look like the bad guy.
Putin does not want a war, PUtin is not hacking our system your own shit licking Gov tells you that because they are the very a holes doing the hacking they turn around tell you clueless that " RUSSIA DID IT" .....
Remember they blamed BUSH Obama included c'mon the fkr is lying all the way around. Obama that is.

YOU AND OHTERS ARE VICTIMS OF PYSCHOLOGICAL WARFARE/SOCIAL ENGINEERING....

 

[MindWars]

Republicans and Chump resent Obama acting Presidential

lol

 

[AvgGuyIA]

G-d only knows what else he has in store during his epic temper tantrum

That butt pirate isn't beyond being arrested for treason after his regime ends. Atty General Sessions may very well do that.

 

[EverCurious]

Republicans and Chump resent Obama acting Presidential

Well it is comforting to know that ya'll are cutting your nose off your faces to spite yourselves - after all this gives Trump your full permission to act without any evidence at all. It's really beautiful for the Trump agenda in the end - ooo I wonder if the Russian's hacked the DNC so hard they're actually working for Trump now?!? ~ orders tin foil ~

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

Republicans and Chump resent Obama acting Presidential

"Republicans and Chump resent Obama acting Presidential"

He's not acting Presidential, he's acting like a toddler having a tantrum.

 

[aris2chat]

In all seriousness......
Would you rather russia work with the US against China or with China against the US?

Obama has no imagination. Smarter player are involved

Russia is far more likely to work with the Chinese against the US because they have far more interest in Common with China than the US. China is Russia's top trading partner. Russia needs Chinese investments and China needs Russian Oil. They share the same major allies, North Korea, Iran, Syria who both countries supply arms and have defense agreements. Russia recognizes China's claim to Taiwan and Tibet which the US doesn't. China supports Russia's claims in the Ukraine and opposes US support for the Ukraine. Both countries have lukewarm to occasional hostile relations with Israel, a close alley of the US. Both countries have opposed NATO since it's very beginning of which the US is a major supporter. China and Russia are the only two major communist countries left and their leaders are strongly opposed to American democracy.

About the only the issue that the US and Russia are in agreement is limiting the proliferation of nuclear weapons. However, with Trump's statements encouraging other countries to get nuclear weapons and his lack of opposition to a nuclear arms race, even that agreement is questionable.

Hence the smarter heads setting things in play.
Russia can be made a better ally and work against china with the right leadership.

 

[AvgGuyIA]

Thank you Putin also, for destabilizing Europe by increasing the flood of refugees due to your bombing campaign targeting civilians...I had forgotten about that. I wonder if that is a deliberate ploy in revenge for Europe's part in the sanctions?

U.S. NPR & OSCE: Russia Bombs Syria to Force Refugees into Europe

Merkel opened the doors wide.