{"id":21996,"date":"2016-10-16T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T17:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21996"},"modified":"2016-10-16T12:00:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T17:00:20","slug":"russia-slams-unprecedented-insolent-us-cyber-threats-vows-retaliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21996","title":{"rendered":"Russia Slams &#8220;Unprecedented, Insolent&#8221; US Cyber Threats, Vows Retaliation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-10-15\/russia-slams-unprecedented-insolent-us-cyber-threats-vows-retaliation\">Russia Slams &#8220;Unprecedented, Insolent&#8221; US Cyber Threats, Vows Retaliation<\/a><\/h3>\n<section class=\"messages-holder\"><\/section>\n<div class=\"tabs\">In a striking\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-10-14\/obama-administration-threatens-cyber-war-russia-save-hillary-campaign\">report released on Friday night by NBC<\/a>, the Obama administration was reportedly &#8220;contemplating an unprecedented cyber covert action&#8221; (it remains unclear how the action is covert if Biden announced it to the world via an interview with Chuck Todd), a &#8220;wide-ranging clandestine cyber operation designed to harass and &#8220;embarrass&#8221; the Kremlin leadership&#8221;, in retaliation for alleged interference in the American presidential election, and has asked the CIA to draft plans for a &#8220;wide-ranging &#8220;clandestine&#8221; cyber operation designed to harass and &#8220;embarrass&#8221; the Kremlin leadership.&#8221;<\/div>\n<section class=\"node node-type-story node-full node-nid-575160 ads-injected\" data-mediaconductor-processed=\"true\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>As we reported last night, Vice President Joe Biden said that Washington is ready to respond to hack attacks allegedly conducted by Russia and designed to interfere with the upcoming US elections.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/widget\/video-embed\/786308675872\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" frameborder=\"0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why haven\u2019t we sent a message yet to Putin,\u201d Chuck Todd, host of the \u201cMeet the Press\u201d show on NBC, asked Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p data-mediaconductor-processed=\"true\">\u201cWe are sending a message [to Putin]\u2026 We have a capacity to do it, and\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;He\u2019ll known it?\u201d Todd interfered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019ll know it. It will be at the time of our choosing, and under the circumstances that will have the greatest impact,\u201d the US vice president replied.<\/p>\n<p>The NBC sources did not elaborate on the exact measures the CIA was considering, but said the agency had already begun opening cyber doors, selecting targets and making other preparations for an operation. &#8220;Former intelligence officers told NBC News that the agency had gathered reams of documents that could expose unsavory tactics by Russian President Vladimir Putin&#8221;, NBC added.<\/p>\n<p>To be sure, this &#8220;leak&#8221; of what effectively amount to a cyberwar warning was a calculated move meant to provoke further escalation in tensions between the two nations and a trial balloon to gauge Russia&#8217;s response.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia Slams &#8220;Unprecedented, Insolent&#8221; US Cyber Threats, Vows Retaliation In a striking\u00a0report released on Friday night by NBC, the Obama administration was reportedly &#8220;contemplating an unprecedented cyber covert action&#8221; (it remains unclear how the action is covert if Biden announced it to the world via an interview with Chuck Todd), a &#8220;wide-ranging clandestine cyber operation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[135,4884,1320,471,3209,584,660,694,827,12162],"class_list":["post-21996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-cia","tag-cyberwarfare","tag-joe-biden","tag-kremlin","tag-nbc","tag-obama","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-united-states","tag-us-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21997,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21996\/revisions\/21997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}