Russiagate witch-hunt investigations are part of a diabolical scheme to oust an elected US president from office.
It’s commonplace in banana republics. The plots show America is much like despotic regimes elsewhere.
On February 16, attorney Alex Van der Zwaan was indicted for making “false, fictitious, and fraudulent statements and representations in a manner within the jurisdiction of the executive branch…to the special council’s office” and FBI.
His indictment includes no evidence of possible Trump team improper or illegal dealings with Russia – nor anything about allegations of Russian US election meddling.
It relates to help he provided former US orange revolution-installed Ukrainian prime minister/billionaire mega-thief Yulia Tymoshenko – imprisoned earlier for embezzlement of hundreds of millions of dollars and abuse of public office.
Van der Zwaan is accused of lying to investigators about communications with Richard Gates – political consultant and lobbyist connected to former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, indicted last October on charges unrelated to Trump and Russia.
Van der Zwaan was also accused of deleting and failing to produce emails sought by Mueller’s office.
Years earlier, his law firm, Skadden, Arps, Slate Meagher & Flom, prepared a report defending Tymoshenko’s prosecution and conviction.
It exposed the US/Brussels Big Lie, claiming the case against her was politically motivated.
The Bush/Cheney administration orchestrated the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine, replacing its democratically elected government with illegitimate pro-Western rule.
At the time, US and other Western officials praised illegally installed prime minister Tymoshenko as a force for democracy and freedom.
She was up to her ears in wrongdoing, stashing her ill-gotten super-wealth in around 300 secret foreign bank accounts.
Called the “gas princess” for controlling Ukraine’s United Energy Systems, she used her position for grand theft.
She was a US favorite for being militantly Russophobic, caught on tape saying she wanted to mass-murder Russians, wanting Putin dead.
Van der Zwaan’s indictment appears part-revenge, along with Mueller’s witch-hunt attempts to build a case for improper or illegal Trump team connections to Russia.
He’s found no evidence proving it. His indictments have nothing to do with Russia or Trump.
Media scoundrels are using them to suggest otherwise, complicit in the plot to oust him from office.
US President Donald Trump speaks during his address to the nation from Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Arlington, Virginia, on August 21, 2017. Trump warned Monday that a hasty exit from Afghanistan would create a “vacuum” that would benefit America’s jihadist foes, in a major policy address on his strategy in the 16-year conflict. / AFP PHOTO / Nicholas Kamm (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)
The Times long ago destroyed its credibility – suppressing hard truths on vital issues, substituting willful disinformation.
The self-styled newspaper of record is part of a cabal trying to oust Trump from office for the wrong reasons – a coup d’etat plot to remove a sitting president for defeating Hillary, a media darling, guilty of wrongdoing throughout her public life.
The Times went all-out to denigrate the Russiagate FISA memo, exposing high-level FBI and DOJ wrongdoing, wanting its contents suppressed.
A previous article explained that the FBI and DOJ sought multiple FISA warrants based on unverified information from former MI6 spy Christopher Steele’s dodgy dossier on Trump – his work funded by Hillary and the DNC to denigrate him during the 2016 presidential campaign, continuing once in office.
It attempted to smear him with specious, unproven allegations of improper or illegal connections to Russia – including phony accusations of Russian US election meddling.
Former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe admitted in testimony that without the Steele dossier, he couldn’t have gotten FISA court warrants.
America’s DOJ, FBI and intelligence community have a well-documented history of abuse of power – notably against Jack and Bobby Kennedy, along with Martin Luther King, eliminated to silence them and end their influence over US policymaking.
Russiagate investigations are a scam. House and Senate investigations are vitally needed to expose abusive practices by the above agencies.
The NYT lobbied against release of the FISA memo. Following its release, it continued its campaign against important information it revealed, publishing multiple articles and commentaries.
A Sunday one headlined “Trump’s Unparalleled War on a Pillar of Society: Law Enforcement,” saying:
“Under attack by the president, the deputy FBI director, Andrew G. McCabe, was pushed out in recent days. Mr. Trump has hinted that he may fire the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein.”
“And his aides fear that Christopher A. Wray, his FBI director, may resign over the dispute with the bureau, although associates doubt it.”
“The war between the president and the nation’s law enforcement apparatus is unlike anything America has seen in modern times.”
Fact: McCabe, Comey, and Rosenstein sought FISA warrants to investigate Trump’s team based on fabricated allegations.
Fact: Trump sacked Comey earlier. McCabe resigned to avoid sacking for wrongdoing. Rosenstein should be sacked.
Fact: All three and others involved at the FBI and DOJ should be prosecuted for wrongdoing, establishing a precedent to hold high-level US officials accountable for their crimes.
A Times commentary headlined “The Memo Doesn’t Vindicate Trump. It’s More Proof of Obstruction,” saying:
Trump “said…the memo’s release…’vindicates’ him in the probe,” including for “obstruction. (I)t does no such thing.”
Fact: Trump is guilty of serious wrongdoing, major war crimes especially. No evidence suggests he obstructed justice. Claims otherwise by the Times, other media scoundrels and undemocratic Dems are phony.
Another Times commentary headlined “The Nunes Memo Is All Smoke, No Fire,” saying the memo “does not establish an ‘abuse of the foreign intelligence laws.”
Probable cause is required to get FISA warrants, wrongdoing committed if the DOJ and FBI “intentionally or willfully omit(ted) important information that could defeat the probable cause finding.”
“(T)he memo doesn’t make its case. It should prompt more confusion than outrage,” the Times falsely claimed.
Fact: Former MI6 spy Christopher Steele’s dodgy dossier was funded by Hillary and the DNC to denigrate Trump and help defeat him in the 2016 election.
Fact: As explained above, McCabe admitted that without Steele’s dossier, he couldn’t have gotten FISA warrants – several because they expire in 90 days.
Fact: Steele failed trying to get his dossier published, getting no takers. Media he approached turned him down because his information was unverified.
Fact: DOJ and FBI applications to the FISA court failed to mention Steele’s dossier was funded by Hillary and the DNC – even though high-level officials in both agencies knew it.
Fact: Privately, Steele told later demoted FBI agent Bruce Ohr he wanted Trump prevented from becoming president.
The FBI, DOJ and intelligence community have well-documented histories of abuse of power, including by targeting political leaders.
Based on unverified information in Steele’s dodgy dossier, no probable cause existed to justify issuance of FISA warrants.
Times reports failed to explain this and other vital information. It remains furious over Trump’s electoral triumph, defeating its campaign to get war criminal, racketeer, perjurer Hillary elected president – still smarting from her defeat.
They come from a four-page memo released to House members – discussed in previous articles.
Investigative journalist Sara Carter’s sources called the memo’s classified revelations shocking and explosive – possibly “lead(ing) to the removal of senior officials in the FBI and Department of Justice,” adding:
It “contains information regarding the (fabricated Christopher Steele) dossier that alleges President Trump and members of his team colluded with the Russians in the 2016 presidential election.”
House Republicans want the document made public. So does Trump. According to Carter, it reveals “problematic” issues on how FISA warrants were obtained for the Russiagate investigation – serious abuses, according House members who’ve read the memo.
An unnamed GOP House member said “(w)e probably will get this stuff released by the end of” January. The House Intelligence Committee voted to make it public.
Another unnamed source said the House Intelligence “committee document…deals with the assessment on the Department of Justice, FBI and the oversight work that is being conducted by the committee.”
Since initiated by CIA director John Brennan in 2016, Russiagate is all about delegitimizing Trump for the wrong reasons and bashing Russia – a colossal scam.
Not a shred of credible evidence supports the allegations, nothing warranting endless witch-hunt congressional and special counsel investigations.
If serious wrongdoing was committed by FBI, Justice Department and perhaps other US officials, it should be made public – followed by accountability, the way to end the Russiagate scam.
The NYTsupports coverup. It wants Russiagate investigations continued, Russophobic anti-Trump federal officials free to continue their witch hunt – instead of responsibly ending the scam, along with sacking and prosecuting culpable US officials.
The Times mocked House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes, saying:
“In nearly every crime-caper movie there’s a shifty guy on the street corner who, seeing the cops in hot pursuit, flips over a fruit cart to slow them down and give the culprits a chance to get away.”
“In Trump-era Washington, that role is being played with impressive conviction by Devin Nunes…supported by a rotating coterie of conspiracists in Congress and the usual suspects on right-wing cable news…tossing out sinister-sounding allegations of wrongdoing by federal law enforcement officials.”
If wrongdoing was committed by federal officials, it should be revealed, not suppressed.
Clearly Russiagate investigations lack credibility. They never should have been initiated. They should be ended straightaway.
Evidence of high-level wrongdoing in Washington is how how to end the most disgraceful chapter in Capitol Hill history since the shameful Joe McCarthy era – a despicable figure Harvard Law School dean Ervin Griswold once described as “judge, jury, prosecutor, castigator, and press agent, all in one.”
The Times: “The whole point of (Nunes’) game is to make the job of the actual investigators harder while confusing the public about where the true scandal lies.”
It lies in DNC headquarters, the offices of undemocratic Dem leaders and other party members, as well as in scoundrel media editorial board rooms – plotting ways to remove Trump and endlessly bash Russia.
The Times: “Democrats have called the memo ‘profoundly misleading’ and have said its factual allegations are taken out of context.”
How do they know? They haven’t seen it. Fact-checking is vital to learn if information it contains is shocking and explosive as claimed. Coverup is complicity with wrongdoing if it occurred.
The Times disgracefully suggested Russia may be involved in wanting the memo’s information released. It mocked an FBI “secret society” allegation, instead of calling for an investigation to learn if it exists.
It relates to a possible high-level FBI cabal wanting Trump’s presidency undermined. If true, the truth should be revealed with credible evidence supporting it, along with individuals involved held accountable.
The Times: “Mr. Nunes and his ilk are causing real and possibly lasting damage for nothing more than a short-term political win.”
Sunshine is the best disinfectant. It’s absent in Times reporting. The same goes for other media scoundrels.
It’s sorely needed to expose wrongdoing in the Washington swamp.
Russiagate is a scam. Special counsel Mueller never should have been appointed – his mission a witch-hunt, not a legitimate investigation.
His conflicts of interest should have disqualified him. He’s close to fired FBI director Comey. He sought reappointment as agency head, serving in the post for 10 years under Bush/Cheney and Obama.
Reportedly he interviewed for the job the day before being appointed special counsel.
The NYT broke the story about Trump allegedly wanting Mueller fired last June – appointed special counsel on May 17, 2017 by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
His witch-hunt investigation involves probing “any links and/or coordination between Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump, and any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation.”
Not a shred of evidence suggests just cause for his investigation. After eight months on the job, he found nothing. Nor have House and Senate committees after over a year of fruitless work.
According to the Times, “(a)fter receiving the president’s order to fire Mr. Mueller, the White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, refused to ask the Justice Department to dismiss the special counsel, saying he would quit instead,” according to unnamed sources.
Mueller learned about Trump’s intention before he backed down, the Times added. Reportedly he cited three Mueller conflicts of interest as justification for sacking him:
• a dispute over fees at Trump’s National Golf Club in Sterling, Va. involving Mueller;
• his work for the law firm that earlier represented his son-in-law Jared Kushner; and
• as explained above, he interviewed for FBI director after Trump fired Comey the day before his appointment as special counsel.
Mueller was appointed under 28 CFR 600.7. It state “(t)he Special Counsel may be disciplined or removed from office only by the personal action of the Attorney General.”
“The Attorney General may remove a Special Counsel for misconduct, dereliction of duty, incapacity, conflict of interest, or for other good cause, including violation of Departmental policies.”
Mueller’s conflicts of interest make him a potential witness in his own investigation – alone what should have disqualified him for the special counsel job. It warrants his dismissal – though sacking him would be politically disastrous.
It would give Trump opponents just cause for impeachment on obstruction of justice charges – despite the illegitimacy of Mueller’s witch-hunt investigation.
Appearances are everything in Washington. Dark forces want Trump ousted. So far, there’s no justification for removing him.
Sacking Mueller in the middle of his investigation could create one, undemocratic Dems and perhaps some Republicans jumping on the chance to call for his impeachment and removal from office.
Surely this was explained to Trump. He backed off to save his presidency, not because White House counsel Donald F. McGahn II threatened to quit – a minor issue compared to the main one.
(image: Slate. Aleksey Nikolskyi/Getty Images and Jim Watson/Getty Images.)
At the Danang, Vietnam APEC summit, Trump and Putin met several times briefly, no formal meeting.
Putin told Trump that no Russian US election meddling occurred last year – an indisputable fact!
Trump asked Putin about it, explaining “(h)e said he absolutely did not meddle in our election. He did not do what they are saying he did.”
“I really believe that when he tells me that, he means it…I think he’s very insulted, if you want to know the truth.”
Indeed! No Russian meddling occurred. No evidence suggests otherwise. The Big Lie continues anyway, along with endless witch-hunt congressional and special council investigations finding nothing – because there’s nothing to find.
Western media scoundrels went wild over Trump’s remarks. Below are some of the many headlined stories:
New York Times: “Trump Says Putin ‘Means It’ About Not Meddling”
Washington Post: “Trump says Putin sincere in denial of Russian meddling”
Wall Street Journal: “Trump Tempers Skepticism on Russian Meddling”
Los Angeles Times: “Trump says Putin again denies meddling in 2016 election”
Chicago Tribune: “…Trump blasts critics on Russia as ‘haters’ “
Philadelphia Inquirer: “Questions about Russian meddling follow Trump to Asia”
Boston Globe: “Putin again denied meddling in the 2016 election, Trump says”
CNN: Trump says he believes Putin’s election meddling denials”
CNN: “Trump downplays past skepticism of Russian election meddling”
Numerous other US media headlined stories on this issue were much the same. So were European ones from Britain and elsewhere – criticizing Trump for daring to suggest Putin’s denial of Russian meddling is true.
Trump is a moral coward, proved again by backing off from believing Putin spoke truthfully, saying “(a)s to whether I believe it or not, I’m with our agencies, especially as currently constituted with their leadership. I believe in our agencies. I’ve worked with them very strongly.”
Separately, he tweeted: “When will all the haters and fools out there realize that having a good relationship with Russia is a good thing, not a bad thing.”
“There always playing politics – bad for our country. I want to solve North Korea, Syria, Ukraine, terrorism, and Russia can greatly help!”
Undemocratic Dems blasted Trump’s remarks on Putin. Rep. Ted Lieu tweeted: “I have seen the classified information on Russian hacking. @realDonaldTrump has received classified briefings. I can tell you that @POTUS is LYING. Trump knows the Kremlin hacked America last year.”
Fact: Intelligence community claims were fabricated, disgraceful Big Lies to delegitimize Trump and bash Russia.
Rep. Adam Schiff disgraced himself tweeting: “You know who else is insulted by it, Mr. President? The American people. You believe a foreign adversary over your own intelligence agencies.”
Neocon John McCain ranted: “There’s nothing ‘America First’ about taking the word of a KGB colonel over that of the American intelligence community.”
Former DNI James Clapper lied, saying “the president was given clear and indisputable evidence that Russia interfered in the election. His own DNI and CIA director have confirmed the finding in the intelligence community assessment. The fact that he would take Putin at his word over the intelligence community is unconscionable.”
A CIA statement said director Mike Pompeo “stands by and has always stood by the January 2017 Intelligence Community assessment…with regard to Russian election meddling.”
No comment so far from John Brennan, the CIA head behind the fabricated accusation of Russian US election meddling – one of numerous diabolical plots cooked up in Washington, the way all rogue states operate.
The Big Lie about alleged Russian meddling has a life of its own. Most Americans believe it, manipulated by repeated official and media propaganda, suppressing hard truths, substituting disinformation.
Along with lots more, it’s proof of America’s deplorable state – too debauched to fix. The only solution is nonviolent grassroots revolution. Nothing else can work!
Obama Administration blasted by President Trump at G20 press conference for not doing something about Russian interference of the election in 2016
HAMBURG (INTELLIHUB) — President Donald Trump addressed Russia’s alleged interference with the 2016 election at a press conference in Germany Friday where he told reporters that “other countries” may have been involved and that Obama knew about it.
“I won’t be specific [which countries] but I think a lot of people interfere,” President Trump said. “It’s been happening for a long time […] many, many, years.”
Additionally, President Trump told reporters that Obama knew about the issue in August of 2016 but failed to act because he thought Hillary Clinton was destined to win.
“Why did he do nothing about it?” Trump questioned.
“He was told in early August by, presumably, the CIA that Russia was trying to get involved or meddling pretty strongly with the election [but] he did nothing about it. The reason is: he thought Hillary was going to win. And if he thought I was going to win he would have done plenty about it.,” Trump said.
While President Trump agreed he thinks that Russia was interfering, he said that a few other countries probably were as well.
The whole Trump-Russian conspiracy angle that the dishonest media keeps foisting on us, despite there being zero evidence to that effect, is getting tired by now. Conveniently ignoring the fact that there is plenty of evidence of dealings with the Russian; just not on the Trump side. And now, President Trump has used one of his favorite political weapons, Twitter, to ask the questions no one has been asking.
In the following video, Right Wing News dives deep into the true dealings with the Russians that our politicians have entered into. Namely how Hillary Clinton allowed 20% of our uranium to go to Russia, and John McCain attempting to solicit campaign funds from the Russians. Then there’s the issue of John Podesta’s own Russian connections. But that’s just scratching the surface; the rabbit hole that is the Clinton uranium deal goes deep, far deeper than you can imagine. Will the public ever realize the full extent of the Clintons’ corruption?
Following a day of drama involving the Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes, who has been under constant onslaught by Democrats ever since his disclosure last week that Trump had indeed been the object of surveillance, and whose Democrat peer at the Intel panel, Adam Schiff, on Monday night called for Nunes to recuse himself, moments ago Trump waded into the news cycle when he asked on Twitter why the House Intelligence Committee is not investigating the Clintons for various ties of their own to Russia. He then slammed the ongoing anti-Russian witch hunt, saying “the Russia story is a hoax.”
“Why isn’t the House Intelligence Committee looking into the Bill & Hillary deal that allowed big Uranium to go to Russia, Russian speech, money to Bill, the Hillary Russian ‘reset,’ praise of Russia by Hillary, or Podesta Russian Company. Trump Russia story is a hoax. #MAGA!” Trump wrote in two tweets Monday night.
Trump’s rhetorical questions come amid a news cycle which as discussed on various occasions today has focused on the Republican chair of the Intel Committee, Nunes, who is under fire for briefing Trump about classified material he reviewed last week without sharing the information with committee Democrats. On Monday it was revealed that Nunes had secretly visited the White House grounds one day before announcing incidental surveillance of President Trump’s transition team. His visit raised questions about whether the White House could have been was the source of the intelligence Nunes reviewed.
Democratic lawmakers have now called on Nunes to recuse himself from the committee’s probe into Russia’s interference in the United States presidential election. Nunes on Monday evening said the chairman would not step aside from the investigation.
The republican lawmaker has claimed that his findings had no relevance to the Russia probe, even as the committee examines the unmasking and leaking of surveillance information as part of that investigation.
In a follow up tweet, Trump took another stab at the House Freedom Caucus, who he said snatched “defeat from the jaws of victory” – following Friday’s failure to repeal and replace plan for ObamaCare. That followed a Sunday tweet in which he said the conservative House Freedom Caucus, along with the Club for Growth and Heritage Action for America, had “saved” Planned Parenthood and ObamaCare.
Finally, Trump brought it full circle, touching on Friday’s failure to repeal Obamacare, saying “the Democrats will make a deal with me on healthcare as soon as ObamaCare folds – not long. Do not worry, we are in very good shape!
Unbeknownst to most Americans, the point President Trump made about the Clinton/Russia Uranium deal actually goes down an almost bottomless rabbit hole that leads to levels of corruption that go WAY beyond what even the President himself probably realizes.
How many of you remember when an armed militia took over and occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon back in January of 2016? Aside from the opening paragraph (below), almost everything else Wikipedia says about the occupation is utterly false:
On January 2, 2016, armed militants seized the headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Harney County, Oregon, United States, and continued to occupy it until law enforcement made a final arrest on February 11, 2016. Their leader was Ammon Bundy, who participated in the 2014 Bundy standoff at his father’s Nevada ranch. Other members of the group were loosely affiliated with non-governmental militias and the sovereign citizen movement.
Sadly, because of how grossly dishonest and anti-gun the mainstream media is, most Americans have no idea what “really” transpired during the standoff at the Bundy Ranch in 2014, or they would almost certainly have a much different opinion of it. In some ways, the standoff at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon was almost like a continuation of the original Bundy standoff.
Very few Americans know that on both occasions when the Bundy’s and their militia faced off against law enforcement (during the original standoff at the Bundy Ranch in 2014, and then again in January of 2016 at the wildlife refuge in Oregon), both times the Bundy’s were joined by members of armed militia groups from across the country. They were men and women who travelled from across the country to stand should to shoulder with the Bundys. Why do you suppose that is?
Furthermore, why do you suppose you never heard about it? Doesn’t it seem reasonable to think that if there were members from armed militias convening from all across the country for a purpose that it might make the news? It wasn’t covered for good reason! The following video is from a post titled, Obama Orders Hammond Ranch Destroyed, which explains in much furhter detail what all this has to do with Hillary Clinton, Russia, or Uranium, however the following video will provide a high level explaination.
To summarize the video above, essentially the Hammnonds were the last remaining holdout on a large piece of land that the federal government was interested in because of the vast natural resources that were beneath the land. There were several natural resources the government was interested in, but the one relevant to this story is the Uranium. You can verify that for yourself here using this U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1740-B.
When the Hammonds refused to leave, the father and son were wrongfully imprisoned by Obama’s tyrannical federal government, which ultimately led to what took place at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon. The mainstream media hardly went never went near any of that story, and what few parts they were forced to cover, such as the two armed standoffs, they lied incessantly about.
Strange how with all the Democrats and their whining about Russia, none of this ever came up isn’t it? Furthermore, as for collusion, and rediculous levels of corruption, might I suggest someone in Congress begin an investigation into Congressmen DeFazio, and the role he played in all what was just explained…
AND A HUSH FALLS OVER THE CROWD…
THE VOICE OF REASON is the pen name of Michael DePinto, a graduate of Capital University Law School, and an attorney in Florida. Having worked in the World Trade Center, along with other family and friends, Michael was baptized by fire into the world of politics on September 11, 2001. Michael’s political journey began with tuning in religiously to whatever the talking heads on television had to say, then Michael became a “Tea-Bagging” activist as his liberal friends on the Left would say, volunteering within the Jacksonville local Tea Party, and most recently Michael was sworn in as an attorney. Today, Michael is a major contributor to www.BeforeItsNews.com, he owns and operates www.thelastgreatstand.com, where Michael provides what is often very ‘colorful’ political commentary, ripe with sarcasm, no doubt the result of Michael’s frustration as he feels we are witnessing the end of the American Empire. The topics Michael most often weighs in on are: Martial Law, FEMA Camps, Jade Helm, Economic Issues, Government Corruption, and Government Conspiracy.
Claiming it is utter nonsense. Not a shred of evidence suggests it. Irresponsibly blaming Moscow for hacking DNC emails or any other type interference in America’s electoral process reflects longstanding Russia bashing.
In response to being named Time magazine’s person of the year, Trump told the publication that accusing Russia is politically motivated. “I don’t believe it. I don’t believe they interfered,” he said, adding:
“I believe that it could have been…any one of many other people…It could have been some guy in his home in New Jersey.”
DHS, DNI and Hillary’s claims weren’t supported by evidence because none exists. Accusations without proof are baseless. Legitimate tribunals would dismiss cases without it.
DHS and DNI claiming Russia tried influencing America’s presidential election outcome was hokum. Utter rubbish! Shameless Big Lies. Responsible parties knew it all along. Media scoundrels promoted what they should have condemned.
Russia is a convenient punching bag, vilified for its sovereign independence and Putin’s anti-imperial, anti-war, multi-world polarity agenda.
Ranking House Intelligence Committee Democrat member Adam Schiff shamefully criticized Trump for “contradict(ing) our intelligence professional and carry(ing) water for the Kremlin.”
Republican House Homeland Security chairman Michael McCaul, a member of Trump’s national security team, lied about nonexistent Russian cyberattacks, nonsensically claiming interference with America’s electoral process, saying:
Its (nonexistent) “hacks and attacks should be a wake-up call and a call to action. There needs to be consequences to these actions. On the international stage, if we don’t respond and show them that there are consequences, the bad behavior will continue.”
Obama indicated a “proportional” response was coming. Nothing so far. Hopefully Trump will extend outreach to Putin, following through on saying both countries should cooperate in combating terrorism and find ways to get along.
McCaul is part of Washington’s neocon infestation, rabidly anti-Russia. “We can’t allow foreign governments to interfere in our democracy, and when they do so we must call them out on it and respond forcefully, publicly, and decisively,” he ranted.
“The United States should respond to cyber attacks in a way that will make our adversaries think twice before they do it.” again.”
His committee plans introducing what he calls “serious (cybersecurity) reform,” without further elaboration on what he intends.
Russia bashing won’t end once Trump succeeds Obama. Hopefully he’ll go the other way and seek normalized ties – in the interest of world peace and stability.
Shepard Ambellas
