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Obama’s Cyber Chief: Susan Rice Gave ‘Stand Down’ Order In Response To Russian Meddling

  

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Via:  norman-d  •  6 years ago  •  33 comments

Obama’s Cyber Chief: Susan Rice Gave ‘Stand Down’ Order In Response To Russian Meddling

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Former President Barack Obama’s cybersecurity czar confirmed Wednesday that former national security adviser Susan Rice told him to “stand down” in response to Russian cyber attacks during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Michael Daniel, whose official title was “cybersecurity coordinator,” confirmed the stand-down order during a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing held to review the Obama and President Donald Trump’s administrations’ policy response to Russian election interference.

In the book, authors Michael Isikoff and David Corn reported that Daniel was developing strategies to respond to Russian cyber attacks on U.S. companies and political campaigns. He proposed using what’s known as denial of service attacks to take down Russian propaganda news sites and to attack Russian intelligence agencies. (RELATED: Christopher Steele Visited State Department Shortly Before 2016 Election)

Another idea was to announce a bogus “cyber exercise” against a Eurasian country. The goal was to put the Kremlin on notice that its infrastructure could easily be targeted by the U.S.

Rice opposed the proposals, according to “Russian Roulette.”

“Don’t get ahead of us,” she told Daniel in a meeting in August 2016, according to the book.

Daniel informed his staff of the order, much to their frustration.

“I was incredulous and in disbelief,” Daniel Prieto, who worked under Daniel, is quoted saying in “Russian Roulette.”

“Why the hell are we standing down? Michael, can you help us understand?” Prieto asked.

Daniel confirmed the exchange on Wednesday, during a round of questions from Idaho Sen. Jim Risch.

“That is an accurate rendering of the conversation at the staff meeting,” he testified.

“You were told to stand down, is that correct?” Risch, a Republican, asked Daniel.

“Those actions were put on the back burner, yes. That was not the focus of our activity during that time period,” Daniel replied.

He noted the White House cybersecurity team did continue working to respond to Russia, but with a smaller staff and a less aggressive approach.

“It’s not accurate to say that all activity ceased at that point,” he said, declining to describe the activities in an unclassified hearing.


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Sean Treacy
Professor Principal
5  Sean Treacy    6 years ago

More evidence that Obama, rather than TRump, looks like what a President working for Russia would look like...

Syria, free hand to meddle in election, missile defense, refusal to arm Ukraine,  Iran, uranium, restricting energy production, you name it, Obama served Putin's interests. 

 
 
 
The Magic 8 Ball
Masters Quiet
7  The Magic 8 Ball    6 years ago

 another straw added to that traitors back - soon it is going to break.

every day we seem to learn what we already knew.  yesterdays conspiracy is now todays fact.

  there is so much more to come. deep down you know it. it is in the air.

am I the only one who has noticed people are happier and smiling more in public? maybe a regional thing.

am I the only one who has noticed the lack of cities burning? the lack of antifa and blm?  perhaps. but regardless... to me it looks like:

more mayberry less fallujah - gotta love it.

Cheers :)

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
Professor Principal
8  Sean Treacy    6 years ago

Given how so many on the left have spent the last eighteen months obsessing about Russia and purporting to be outraged about Russian interference in the election, you’d think the left would be outraged over the obama administration actually ordering a stand down in face of such interference. You’d think the same people who yell treason at conventions with an ambassador would be beside themselves over this.

unless, of course, The Whole Russian outrage thing was as phony as a three dollar bill and was just a made up vehicle to smear the president.

 
 
 
Studiusbagus
Sophomore Quiet
9  Studiusbagus    6 years ago

This seed is a wonderful example of how gullible the right can be.

Daily Caller chops up and chops out facts so someone like the seeder can post this and have a whole bunch of zombies just clambor in with "uh huh, so right".

The "stand down" order was given because there were so many people and agencies working on this. Daniels was aggressively trying to implement actions that would have started a cyber war. He was getting loud and Rice was afraid that there would be leaks that would box Obama in from options and he was told to thin his personell to minimize that worry of leaks.

They then decided that a direct discussion from Obama to Putin may be the first course. Obama did confront Putin and things cooled for a short time only to have Russia come back with a new tactic. That being social media and using sites like RT which so many on the right started posting propaganda articles from. Again getting easily bamboozled. Which seeing by history and this seed doesn't seem to difficult to do.

Don't believe me? Try reading directly from the author. No ring in the nose needed.

 
 

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