Yesterday, there was a hearing in the Senate that contained the most alarming information about president Obama and his administration I've ever come across. The Obamacrats knew as early as December of 2015 that the Russians were hacking the Democrat National Committee and trying to interfere in the 2016 elections. The cyber command developed counter measures and other ways to thwart the Russians but in 2016, they were given an order to "stand down". That's right a conscious decision was made by Obama that there would be no retaliation or other response to the Russian meddling in our election. All that happened was that Obama told Putin to "cut it out" at a meeting in the fall of 2016.
This is not a new claim, but it has been dismissed in the past by some Democrats and much of the media as untrue. Yesterday, however, the chief cyber official under Obama testified in an open hearing and confirmed that it is in fact the truth. Victoria Nuland who was the Assistant Secretary of State also confirmed the validity of this information in testimony yesterday.
Think about this for a moment. For two years we have heard endlessly about how the Trump campaign is being investigated for colluding with the Russians. There has never been any confirmation or other proof of any collusion, but the story goes on and on. Now we learn that long before the public knew of the hack of the DNC, the Obama administration was aware of it and decided to do nothing about it. Obama decided to do nothing as John Podesta's emails were hacked. It's important to remember that the Obamacrats knew what the Russians were doing in December of 2015 according to Nuland and that the hack of Podesta concluded four months later. That means that an action by Obama might have stopped that hack, but he did nothing.
Even more alarming than the inaction is the reason given for it. Supposedly, Susan Rice, the dishonest National Security Adviser, told everyone to stand down in order not to limit the options available to president Obama. The chief national security adviser actually thought that doing nothing while the problem continued was the best option for moving forward, so she stopped the development of counter-measures. We know that doing nothing was ultimately the go-to position of the Obamacrats. Just think of the red-line in Syria set by Obama and then ignored or the response to the rise of ISIS which Obama just derided as the jay-vee at a point where they could easily have been wiped away. Still, the idea that Obama and/or Rice thought that the best move was to do nothing really puts into perspective the whole Russia-Trump investigation.
This is not a new claim, but it has been dismissed in the past by some Democrats and much of the media as untrue. Yesterday, however, the chief cyber official under Obama testified in an open hearing and confirmed that it is in fact the truth. Victoria Nuland who was the Assistant Secretary of State also confirmed the validity of this information in testimony yesterday.
Think about this for a moment. For two years we have heard endlessly about how the Trump campaign is being investigated for colluding with the Russians. There has never been any confirmation or other proof of any collusion, but the story goes on and on. Now we learn that long before the public knew of the hack of the DNC, the Obama administration was aware of it and decided to do nothing about it. Obama decided to do nothing as John Podesta's emails were hacked. It's important to remember that the Obamacrats knew what the Russians were doing in December of 2015 according to Nuland and that the hack of Podesta concluded four months later. That means that an action by Obama might have stopped that hack, but he did nothing.
Even more alarming than the inaction is the reason given for it. Supposedly, Susan Rice, the dishonest National Security Adviser, told everyone to stand down in order not to limit the options available to president Obama. The chief national security adviser actually thought that doing nothing while the problem continued was the best option for moving forward, so she stopped the development of counter-measures. We know that doing nothing was ultimately the go-to position of the Obamacrats. Just think of the red-line in Syria set by Obama and then ignored or the response to the rise of ISIS which Obama just derided as the jay-vee at a point where they could easily have been wiped away. Still, the idea that Obama and/or Rice thought that the best move was to do nothing really puts into perspective the whole Russia-Trump investigation.
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