Obama Threatens Cyber War on Russia Turning G20 Summit Into a Political Event
Sputnik/ Alexei Druzhinin
President
Barack Obama took a hardline during discussions with his Russian
counterpart Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the G20 Summit parroting
the theory of Hillary and the Democrats that Moscow has nothing better
to do than intervene in America’s election.
Following
the G20 conference in Hangzhou, President Obama said that the issue
of Russian hackers invading America’s cyberspace was a critical issue he
raised during the summit amid a bout of anti-Russia hysteria in the
United States provoked by claims that Putin has converted Republican
nominee Donald Trump into an agent of the Kremlin in addition
to concerns regarding the DNC Leaks. © AFP 2016/ JIM WATSON Federal
Probe into 'Russia's Influence' in US Election Aims to Smear Trump "We
have had problems with cyber intrusions from Russia in the past," but he
cautioned that the United States would not immediately seek to play
into a "cycle of escalation." "What we cannot do is have a situation
where this becomes the wild, wild West, where countries that have
significant cyber capacity start engaging in unhealthy competition or
conflict through those means," said Obama.
It
was then that President Obama hurled headlong into threatening a cyber
war against Russia saying, "Look, we’re moving into a new era here where
a number of countries have significant capacity. And frankly, we’ve got
more capacity than anybody, both offensively and defensively."
The
comments made by President Obama do not exist in a vacuum with the
White House initiating a federal probe into Russian intervention in the
2016 presidential campaign following a letter by Senator Harry Reid
to FBI Director James Comey asserting that Putin may alter Election Day
results to benefit Trump who he referred to as a treasonous agent
of Russia in three out of five paragraphs. Reid’s claims and the ensuing
investigation follow in the wake of the much publicized DNC email dump
by WikiLeaks that exposed a concerted scheme by Hillary’s campaign
to collude with the DNC and mainstream media pundits to spin false
narratives about her primary election opponent Bernie Sanders. © AFP
2016/ JIM WATSON Obama Crashes G20 by Warning Beijing of ‘Consequences’
in the South China Sea While Russia has denied any involvement in the
leak, the Hillary campaign claims that Russian hackers had breached
their systems and occupied the DNC server for over a year conflating the
issue of a hack and the leak. In previous election cycles, both
political parties have been hacked by as many as a dozen countries that
seek to garner information on the potential next president of the United
States. Hysteria took full force last week when it was reported that
the election systems of Arizona and Illinois were breached by hackers
with officials immediately pointing the finger at Russia despite a lack
of evidence. What was actually hacked in Illinois, however, was not an
election system, but rather a voter file that is already accessible
to people online with names, phone numbers and party affiliation –
supposedly 200,000 or so records were "exfiltrated" (copied and pasted)
which is hardly anything of value to a state actor. In Arizona, a hacker
obtained the login key for an employee at the Gila County Recorder’s
office, but no voter records were modified. Due to redundancies
in Arizona’s electoral system, even if a record were modified it would
have no effect because three different government agencies maintain a
file of voters. Not only has Russia faced continued insinuation that
they are responsible for hacks that have potentially impacted the tone
and tenor of the 2016 election cycle, but the country has also come
under fire due to Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort’s
connection to former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych who Russia
favored. © AP PHOTO/ MANU BRABO, FILE Battle for Aleppo: Syria Reimposes
Siege, Chokes Off Rebels’ Supply of Weapons From there, theories have
been concocted that a three-star US General who was America’s top
intelligence official, Michael Flynn, was somehow in league with the
Russians because he attended a Gala to celebrate Russian funded news
station RT’s 10th anniversary. Green Party candidate Jill Stein has
faced similar personal accusations of disloyalty to the country for her
attendance at the same event.
President
Vladimir Putin vehemently denies the allegations of Russia’s
involvement in the DNC leak saying "I don’t know anything about it and
on a state level Russia has never done this" but regarded the
transmission of the information of potential malfeasance by Hillary’s
campaign and the DNC as a "public service."
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