Report: Colonial Pipeline Paid Ransom and Biden Team Has Been Buffaloing Us for Days
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Now Bloomberg is reporting that Colonial paid nearly $5 million to the hackers who are believed to be connected to Dark Side located in Russia or Eastern Europe, “according to two people familiar with the transaction.”
Not only that, the report is they paid within hours of the attack in cryptocurrency. “A third person familiar with the situation said U.S. government officials are aware that Colonial made the payment.” Oh. So when that question was asked of Neuberger, she already knew they paid the ransom, if this report is correct. But she just wasn’t saying.
According to Bloomberg, the Washington Post and Reuters apparently got it completely wrong, both reporting that the company wasn’t going to pay a ransom, according to “anonymous sources.”
So exactly what role did the Biden team play in this? And why did they buffalo us on this for days? If the ransom was paid within hours, that means it was paid sometime Friday or Saturday. It’s now Thursday when we’re finally getting the facts, and those facts aren’t coming from the Biden people.
Yes, you can “get it under control,” Joe Biden, if you completely cave and pay ransom. What happened to that concept of not negotiating with terrorists/people holding you up, because when they know it works, they’re going to do more of it?
But recall, the Obama administration had no issue with paying a ransom to Iran. So perhaps Biden wants to carry on in that inglorious tradition. In which case, expect more such attacks.
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2021/05/13/report-colonial-pipeline-paid-ransom-and-biden-team-has-been-buffaloing-us-for-days-n379542