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Related: About this forumPressure Grows on Obama to Name DNC Hackers
U.S. officials say the hackers who hit the DNC and Hillary Clinton campaigns are Russian. Lawmakers want the White House to show the evidence for whos behind the hack.ASPEN, Colorado Pressure is mounting on the Obama administration to publicly identify the source of a cyber attack against the Democratic National Committee, which law enforcement and intelligence officials say has been traced to Russia and appears to be part of a campaign to meddle with the presidential election.
This week, a bipartisan group of lawmakersas well as former intelligence officials, retired military officers, and security expertsurged President Obama to call out Russia for the hacking campaign. After all, these experts say, thats what he did when North Korea was blamed for a damaging cyber attack against Sony Pictures in retaliation for a satirical film. That hack was seen as an assault on core American values of freedom of expression. Similarly, the breach of the DNC is viewed as an affront to the U.S. electoral process that cannot go unanswered.
Officially, the White House and intelligence agencies have taken no public stance on who is behind the attack, which was first revealed in June and took on new urgency when DNC staff emails were leaked last week, showing that the organization tried to undermine the campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders. DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz was forced to resign amid the scandal. And the email leak cast a shadow over the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia this week. But six U.S. officials and security experts have told The Daily Beast that the evidence linking Russia to the hack appears conclusive. Obama himself stepped closer to pinning the hacks on Russia when he told NBC News that experts have attributed this to the Russians and that it was possible the leak was designed to help the Trump campaign.
Three U.S. officials told the Daily Beast that it is too early to discuss possible retaliation against Russia, noting that the FBI is still investigating the breach. But privately, the officials said, there are discussions underway about a response that is at least as public and as aggressive as the U.S. response to the Sony hack, in 2014.
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Pressure Grows on Obama to Name DNC Hackers (Original Post)
DonViejo
Jul 2016
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randr
(12,408 posts)1. Do not believe that the Administration is not ahead of this
They probably have a retaliation plan in effect. Of course the destruction of the Russian economy by Obama has already occurred without much fanfare. Our State Department and Military operatives are not prone to tipping their hand.