Obama says US will retaliate against Russian hacking

[rangerrebew]

Obama says US will retaliate against Russian hacking
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By Andrew BEATTY, Paul HANDLEY (AFP)     8 hours ago in Politics

Barack Obama on Thursday said the United States would retaliate against Russian hacking after the White House accused Vladimir Putin of direct involvement in cyberattacks designed to influence the US election.

The outgoing US president's remarks dramatically upped the stakes in a dispute between the world's leading nuclear powers over interference that may have swayed last month's tight election in which Republican billionaire Donald Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton.

"I think there is no doubt that when any foreign government tries to impact the integrity of our elections that we need to take action," Obama told NPR radio.

"And we will, at a time and place of our own choosing."

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[rangerrebew]

Still another red line in the sand.  After Obama's "follow through" on his other threats, I'll bet Putin slept well last night.

[Sanguine]

Whatever...

[Frank Cannon]

The guy that can't call a muslim terrorist attack a muslim terrorist attack is going to after Russia based on Leftist conspiracy theory? Sounds like a fitting way to spend the last ten minutes of a failed Presidency.