It’s ‘pretty clear’ Russia did it, Pompeo
says of massive U.S. government
hack attack
by
Laura Italiano
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
12/19/2020 5:57:41 AM
Russia is behind the ongoing hack of a spectrum of government agencies and corporations, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday night.“This was a very significant effort, and I think it’s the case that now we can say pretty clearly that it was the Russians that engaged in this activity,” Pompeo said during an interview on the Mark Levin Show.Pompeo is now the first Trump administration official to pin the hack on Russia.“We’re still unpacking precisely what it is, and I’m sure some of it will remain classified,” Pompeo, who formerly headed the CIA, told Levin, according to a transcript of the interview
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 12/19/2020 7:21:30 AM (No. 636152)
The precise opposite of collusion.
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I was listening closely to Pompeo's thoughts, but when I read "Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois called the hack of government agencies and corporations “'virtually a declaration of war'.”....all my red flags went up! I know that the Deep State and the CIA have kept us in a state of war for decades for their own purposes and their own financial benefit.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
TruthFetish 12/19/2020 8:26:58 AM (No. 636193)
Russian hired by China.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
anniebc 12/19/2020 8:57:21 AM (No. 636213)
Yep, never leave out Russia. And, don't forget about Iran. These people want all the power and all the money. What a dangerous world they will create as these greedy and power hungry people unrelentingly jockey and vie for position.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
justjoe1237 12/19/2020 9:12:04 AM (No. 636232)
You are worried about China unleashing a deadly virus on us? China taking over control of the South China Sea and all trade routes? China filling the American government, and academia, and the media, and big tech, and entertainment with spies? China's economy rapidly gaining on ours, which it crippled? China moving more and more aggressively and openly for world domination? Well-- LOOK! OVER THERE!! RUSSIA!!!!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/19/2020 9:33:10 AM (No. 636254)
Yep, without enemies we would not need the CIA and without thousands of criminals we would not need the FBI. We have an endless supply of created job opportunities. Too bad that neither agency likes to do its real job.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
MDConservative 12/19/2020 9:34:21 AM (No. 636257)
A send off for Trump...a reminder for Biden and those behind his chair.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Zigrid 12/19/2020 9:35:51 AM (No. 636260)
Ah... Russia... Russia...Russia...here come the swamp creatures... looking for a war to line their pockets...war is good business for the pentagon... that's why they've been working on it for four Trump years... they see an opportunity with the obama/biden joke of an election...well folks... I think God has different plans...
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 12/19/2020 9:43:04 AM (No. 636267)
No surprise, Mr. Secretary. So, what are we doing about it?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Speedypetey 12/19/2020 9:49:27 AM (No. 636279)
Reply 6 is spot on. Add to that the NSA that is too busy spying on law abiding with the help of their seed money upstart Facebook and let us not forget the lounge lizards at CISA.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
walcb 12/19/2020 9:50:37 AM (No. 636280)
It is called spying. Governments have been doing this since the creation of governments. We just have to be better at detecting and doing it ourselves--move on.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
stablemoney 12/19/2020 9:57:46 AM (No. 636290)
Create an emergency, then when Trump leaves Biden's masters will have total power, including whether there are elections ever again. The Republicans are already agreeing to a slush fund for the Democrats as Biden is scheduled to come into office.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
RU4us 12/19/2020 9:59:29 AM (No. 636293)
Aren't they basing this on the assumption that it was done by the same hackers that hacked the DNC and Hillary, namely Cozy Bear? Has Pompeo or any other "friendly", seen Seth Rich's computer? Has any objective source confirmed that the earlier hacks were the Ruskies? I keep hearing statements like "sure looks like the Russians". Are we going to war on that evidence?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
red1066 12/19/2020 10:12:00 AM (No. 636312)
Russia and all our adversaries know the U.S. is in a weak spot right now because of the election, and they're just taking advantage of the opportunity the demosluts and media have given them.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 12/19/2020 12:01:07 PM (No. 636417)
The Russians and the Chinese communists are competing with each other and with multi-national billionaires for the chance to dominate and loot America. We see a little splash now and then on the surface as the Democrats sink our ship but under water it's a feeding frenzy.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Twinkle93 12/19/2020 12:02:51 PM (No. 636418)
Russia on your mind.
Brazil has a larger economy than Russia.
Russia is rank #11 in economy.
China is #2. But the NBA, media, NFL, high tech, the DNC, and probably the CIA are all in bed with China. So blame Russia for everything.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
dst4life 12/19/2020 12:36:04 PM (No. 636448)
Could Pompeo be engaging in a "head fake?" Perhaps a deliberate distraction? Whenever there is a war, that's what happens--"head fakes," distractions, disinformation, misinformation, etc. When the Allied Forces invaded Normandy, the British dropped in dummies that exploded on impact to get the Germans to look in and fire in another direction. Just saying.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Trapper 12/19/2020 1:18:41 PM (No. 636501)
What short memories we have. Remember Wikileaks? It disclosed that the American agency which must not be named can hack anyone, anywhere, and leave behind fingerprints that make it look like Russia did it.
https://conservativefiringline.com/wikileaks-can-the-cia-hack-you-and-make-it-look-like-someone-else/
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
bighambone 12/19/2020 3:11:13 PM (No. 636605)
If the Trump Administration knows who perpetrated the hack or the real extent of the damage to national security, all that information would be “top secret” and the Trump Administration would not be publicly telling the world the true poop. Just as always during the Trump era, the fake news has been egging on President Trump to make a comment, and then takes a snippet of information from Trump and creates their own hyped up stories in an attempt to make Trump look bad. The truth be known, both China and Russia probably were in cahoots and had something to do with whatever hack attack, or multiple hack attacks, that actually took place.
Also for the last four years if the CIA and the FBI had been keeping a weather’s eye out for real Chinese and Russian spies operating against America instead of trying to fraudulently portray Trump as a Russian spy to the American people and the world, it is possible that they would have caught on to the hacking before nine months past and whatever damage that was done could have been limited.
Don’t worry Joe Biden has spoken up and said that he has a plan to hold the Russians responsible! How is he going to do that, take Putin out behind the barn as he said he would do to Trump? Give us a break, as common sense will tell you that the real hackers are someplace in China or Russia beyond the reach of US law enforcement. Clearly it was up to the USA to protect its infrastructure either civilian or military from unauthorized intrusion or outright theft, as after the fact, beyond in return hacking the Chinese or the Russians, there is not much that can be done to countries that have large numbers of nuclear and biological weapons without starting a very dangerous war.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
EQKimball 12/19/2020 7:09:02 PM (No. 636737)
Or it was a false flag operation, i.e. China leaving finger prints making it look like it was the Russians.
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