So, the most "eggregipous attack on our Democracy since Pearl Harbor", according to the TDS Russsianistas of the Obama Swamp and elsewhere...WASN'T EVEN WORTHY OF DEALING WITH...until Hillary LOST THE ELECTION. Obama cyber chief confirms 'stand down' order against Russian cyberattacks in summer 2016 WASHINGTON — The Obama White House’s chief cyber official testified Wednesday that proposals he was developing to counter Russia’s attack on the U.S. presidential election were put on a “back burner” after he was ordered to “stand down” his efforts in the summer of 2016. The comments by Michael Daniel, who served as White House “cyber security coordinator” between 2012 and January of last year, provided his first public confirmation of a much-discussed passage in the book, “Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump,” co-written by this reporter and David Corn, that detailed his thwarted efforts to respond to the Russian attack. Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, asked about a “Russian Roulette” passage in which one of Daniel’s staff members, Daniel Prieto, recounted a staff meeting shortly after the cyber coordinator was ordered by Susan Rice, President Obama’s national security adviser, to stop his efforts and “stand down.” This order was in part because Rice feared the options would leak and “box the president in.” “I was incredulous and in disbelief,” Prieto is quoted as saying in the book. “It took me a moment to process. In my head, I was like, did I hear that correctly?” Prieto told the authors he then spoke up, asking Daniel: “Why the hell are we standing down? Michael, can you help us understand?” https://www.yahoo.com/news/obama-cy...ssian-cyberattacks-summer-2016-204935758.html Well LESS THAN HALF OF LINKED ARTICLE POSTED. Rule 11
Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, darn those pesty warrior like patriots in idaho https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Risch
Of course they were told to STAND DOWN; any digging into that might have EXPOSED the Obama Swamp "London Operation"....
It was always a scam. From the FBI colluding to run a fixed "investigation" of crooked Hillary to the same crooks spying on Trump and joining the Mueller Witch Hunt. The fix was in with Hillary because Obama was in on the wrongdoing and he was the head of the executive branch at the time. When Obama spoke, as he did, FBI Director James Comey took his cues from him. She meant no harm, Obama said, and in his July 5 statement Comey followed suit. “Clinton Emails: What the IG Report Refuses to Admit,” Andy put on a master class exposing the lengths to which James Comey and now IG Michael Horowitz had to go to arrive at the conclusion that no prosecution of Hillary Clinton was warranted in the email case. Andy is a natural teacher. His related McCarthy Report podcast with Rich Lowry expanding on his column is worth taking in for those who, like me, are still trying to deepen our understanding of what happened. http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/06/understanding-hillarys-crimes-the-podcast.php
Weird! Good Question! WHY OBAMA WANTED THE RUSSIANS TO HACK THE ELECTION How the two deep state intel operations fit together. . “Why the hell are we standing down?" That was the question that the White House's cybersecurity coordinator was asked after Susan Rice, Obama's national security adviser, issued a stand down order on Russia. The central paradox of the Russia conspiracy theory. If Russian interference in the election represented the crisis that we are told it did, why did Obama fail to take any meaningful action? Susan Rice told the cybersecurity team to “knock it off” and Obama’s people who hadn’t wanted him to be “boxed in” and forced to respond to Russian actions. Why didn’t Obama and his team want to stop Russian hacking? Because they needed the Russians. The 2016 election is really the story of two deep state intelligence operations that dovetailed neatly with each other. One was an ongoing Russian operation that took advantage of a weak president to sow chaos in America and Europe. The other was a domestic political operation utilizing counterintelligence resources in the United States and Europe to spy on, undermine and try to bring down Trump. Contrary to claims made by Obama operatives, the Russian operation was not new. They had succeeded so well because the mission of the intelligence community had shifted from deterring foreign adversaries to suppressing domestic political opponents. And this new mission made the Russians attacks irrelevant. Obama didn’t want to fight the Russians, but the Russian attacks were very useful because they justified the NSA’s powers, which he was abusing not to go after the Russians, but after American political rivals. And the Russian election hacks played perfectly into his hands by justifying the counterintelligence investigations supposedly aimed at the Russians, but really aimed at domestic political opponents. The Mueller investigation is only the latest of these disguised counterintelligence police state gimmicks. Without the Russians, Obama’s people would have just been nakedly abusing their powers to spy on Americans. But as long as the Russians were active, his deep state had the excuse that it needed. https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/270544/why-obama-wanted-russians-hack-election-daniel-greenfield
