Obama Implanted Cyber-Bombs Into Russian Infrastructure

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Before leaving office President Obama secretly ordered a covert hacking operation to implant cyber-weapons in sensitive Russian infrastructure in retaliation for their alleged meddling in U.S. elections, the Washington Post reported Friday.

Anti War reports: While most of the article is simply rehashes and calls for sanctions, they also revealed a secret order by President Obama in the course of “retaliation” for the alleged hacking.

This previously secret order involved having US intelligence design and implant a series of cyberweapons into Russia’s infrastructure systems, with officials saying they are meant to be activated remotely to hit the most important networks in Russia and are designed to “cause them pain and discomfort.

The US has, of course, repeatedly threatened “retaliatory” cyberattacks against Russia, and promised to knock out broad parts of their economy in doing so. These appear to be the first specific plans to have actually infiltrate Russian networks and plant such weapons to do so.

Despite the long-standing nature of the threats, by the end of Obama’s last term in office this was all still in the “planning” phases. It’s not totally clear where this effort has gone from there, but officials say that the intelligence community, once given Obama’s permission, did not need further approval from Trump to continue on with it, and he’d have actually had to issue a countermanding order, something they say he hasn’t.

The details are actually pretty scant on how far along the effort is, but the goal is said to be for the US to have the ability to retaliate at a moment’s notice the next time they have a cyberattack they intend to blame on Russia.

Unspoken in this lengthy report, which quotes unnamed former Obama Administration officials substantially, advocating the effort, is that in having reported that such a program exists, they’ve tipped off Russia about the threat.

This is, however, reflective of the priority of the former administration, which is to continuing hyping allegations that Russia got President Trump elected, a priority that’s high enough to sacrifice what was supposed to be a highly secretive cyberattack operation.

By Jason Ditz

2 Comments

  1. The US is one of the most penetrated and compromised governments by other nations. First off, US law specifically states that US government officials can not posses dual citizenship however Israel is excluded. And with this comes, Israel first. After the Soviet Union collapsed, there were Russians in high places spoke about the US infrastructures which were rigged. This included damns, power facilities, the postal services and communication grids. Israel has this going on too at present. Because the US dollar is still the world’s currency, Russia could do more damage to the US economy that what the US could do to Russia.

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