{"id":69577,"date":"2016-12-28T10:10:07","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T15:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69577"},"modified":"2016-12-28T10:10:07","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T15:10:07","slug":"obama-seeks-to-punish-russia-for-hacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69577","title":{"rendered":"Obama seeks to punish Russia for hacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/the-white-house-is-scrambling-for-a-way-to-punish-russian-hackers-via-sanctions\/2016\/12\/27\/0eee2fdc-c58f-11e6-85b5-76616a33048d_story.html?utm_term=.eb8a1871671b\">Washington Post<\/a> reports that the Obama Administration is close to taking measures to punish Russia for their hacks of the Democrat email system, even though there really is no proof that the Russians hacked the emails.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With the clock ticking, the White House is working on adapting the authority to punish the Russians, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. President Obama pledged this month that there would be a response to Moscow\u2019s interference in the U.S. elections.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One consideration is that the Trump Administration would reverse any sanctions;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Administration officials would also like to make it difficult for President-elect Donald Trump to roll back any action they take.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPart of the goal here is to make sure that we have as much of the record public or communicated to Congress in a form that would be difficult to simply walk back,\u201d said one senior administration official.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It seems to me that a more fruitful endeavor would be to teach Democrats to stop gaming the system &#8211; in fact, the reason that folks voted against Democrats was because of the content of the emails, not the fact that the system was hacked. So, the Obama Administration is siding with the actual criminals by punishing the whistleblowers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post reports that the Obama Administration is close to taking measures to punish Russia &hellip; <a title=\"Obama seeks to punish Russia for hacks\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69577\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obama seeks to punish Russia for hacks<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}