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Obama administration is close to announcing measures to punish Russia for election interference

WaPo ^ | 12/27/16 | Ellen Nakashima

Posted on by ColdOne

The Obama administration is close to announcing a series of measures to punish Russia for its interference in the 2016 presidential election, including economic sanctions and diplomatic censure, according to U.S. officials.

The administration is still finalizing the details, which are also expected to include covert action that likely will involve cyber operations, the officials said. An announcement on the public elements of the response could come as early as this week.

The sanctions part of the package culminates weeks of debate in the White House about how to revise an executive order from last year meant to give the president authority to respond to cyberattacks from overseas, but which did not originally cover efforts to influence the electoral system.



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To: ColdOne

On the basis of what proof?



To: ColdOne

Where is the PROOF that any of this actually happened?? Or is it just another excuse to blame SOMEONE ELSE for the DemocRat party failure in this election?



To: Uncle Miltie

Exactly!!!



To: ColdOne

One can only hope that Trump has already spoken with Putin, and reassured him that, barring actual proof of interference (which has so far been absent), he will rescind these actions once in office.



To: Uncle Miltie

Proof? No proof needed. Lil Obamatard just wants to feel relevant because he did nothing for 8 years except faggot “rights”.



by 6 posted onby max americana (For the 9th time FIRED LIBERALS from our company at this election, and every election since 2008)

To: ColdOne

A strongly worded message and a wrist slap.



by 7 posted onby Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)

To: ColdOne

Barky trying to start major war with Russia AND one in the Middle East on his way out the door.



To: ColdOne

Trump is going to have to clean this toilet.

Lots of cleaning up for him to do.

I don’t envy him.



To: Little Pig

This is all designed to try and box Trump in. If Trump cancels this punishment on taking Office, watch the Democrats cry “collusion” & “treason”.



by 10 posted onby rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)

To: ColdOne

Oops! Obama is out of his league on this one. Reminds me of the cartoon “Willie and Ethel” where Willie is walking away from a gorilla cage holding his hand in serious pain. The sign on the gorilla cage: Do not put your hand into the cage  the gorilla will hit it with a hammer.



by 11 posted onby StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)

To: ColdOne

We may see our worst fears with this doosh realized. A mental defective (psychopath) in charge of the executive branch.



by 12 posted onby x1stcav (Leftism is like rust: It corrodes 24 hours a day until eradicated.)

To: ColdOne

Wasn't it Barky that said that ‘I don't know what people are talking about, you, you, you can't rig elections’... And then what about his elections...there had to be plenty of voter fraud...same as when Clinton was elected the second time: “I didn't vote to put him back in, then if everybody says they didn't vote for him, how did he get into office?”... And the biggest one of all: Barky’s Sec. of State sold Uranium to Russia, not on America's approval but on her’s because she got to benefit from it to her foundation, and if you don't think Barky didn't know about all this, along with responding to her ‘email account that was illegal’ I have the George Washington Bridge to see you...



by 13 posted onby HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)

To: Drango

Hussein didn’t have fellow traveler Brennen off the Russian Ambassador to Turkey?



by 14 posted onby Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)

To: ColdOne

He wants to start a war. That is much preferable to him to losing power.



To: ColdOne

What can Dorkbama the Muslm eunuch do? Fart in their general direction? I am sure that Putin is quakng in his boots while Dorkbama assembles her plan.



To: ColdOne

I’ll bet Putin immediately fled to his bunker and is holed up there nervously glancing at the flickering ceiling lights.



To: ColdOne

“Diplomatic censure,” whatever the heck that is, is probably within the Constitutional prerogatives of the Executive. However, without some sort of Congressional authorization, economic sanctions are not with the Executive’s Article II powers. “Economic Sanctions” are specifically reserved to Congress as the power “To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations” under Article I, Section 8, Clause 3.



To: x1stcav

Can we get someone he idolizes to invite him to golf?



To: ColdOne

Do they have any evidence? NB: NY Times stories don’t constitute evidence.



by 20 posted onby oblomov (We have passed the point where "law," properly speaking, has any further application. - C. Thomas)

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