What Is The Obama Regime Up To? — Paul Craig Roberts

Written on January 2nd, 2017 in politics Comments Off

Published on his blog, Dec 30, 2016.

Obama has announced new sanctions on Russia based on unsubstantiated charges by the CIA that the Russian government influenced the outcome of the US presidential election with “malicious cyber-enabled activities.”

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued a report “related to the declaration of 35 Russian officials persona non grata for malicious cyber activity and harassment.”

The report is a description of “tools and infrastructure used by Russian intelligence services to compromise and exploit networks and infrastructure associated with the recent U.S. election, as well as a range of U.S. government, political and private sector entities.”

The report does not provide any evidence that the tools and infrastructure were used to influence the outcome of the US presidential election. The report is simply a description of what is said to be Russian capabilities. https://diplopundit.net/2016/12/29/dhsfbi-issues-joint-analysis-report-grizzly-steppe-russian-malicious-cyber-activity-read-report/

Moreover, the report begins with this disclaimer: “DISCLAIMER: This report is provided ‘as is’ for informational purposes only. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) does not provide any warranties of any kind regarding any information contained within.” https://diplopundit.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/jar_16-20296.pdf

In other words, the report not only provides no evidence of the use of the Russian tools and infrastructure in order to influence the US presidential election, the report will not even warrant the correctness of its description of Russian capabilities.

Thus the DHS report makes it completely clear that the Obama regime has no evidential basis for its allegations on the basis of which it has imposed more sanctions on Russia … //

… As expected, Putin’s response to the latest provocation is low key as the “sanctions” appear to be meaningless on the surface (http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2016/12/30/stephen-lendman-reports-president-putins-response-to-obamas-new-sanctions/). However, in the event that something dangerous is below the surface, the Russian government might want to consider putting its military forces on alert.

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(Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts’ latest books are The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West, How America Was Lost, and The Neoconservative Threat to World Order).

Links:

Trump questions claim of Russia hacking DNC, says he ‘knows things other people don’t’, on RT, Jan 1, 2017;

… Underreported stories of 2016, on RT, Dec 31, 2016;

Suspicion of Muslim women has returned to western scholarship, on The National.ae, by Rafia Zakaria, Dec 29, 2016: once upon a time, the central project of the western world, as it concerned Muslim women, was to “save” them. In those days not long past, the Muslim woman was imagined as an eternal captive to her culture and faith, submissive and exotic and quietly awaiting rescue …;

News with Ed Schultz, on RT, Dec 22, 2016;

Russia not on Trump’s defense priority list [VIDEO, 28.51 min], on News With Ed, Dec 21, 2016: belonging to an US Dept of Defense leaked Docu … and other items;

Ancient Secrets The Samurai Don’t Want You To Know [40 PHOTOS], on historical guru, Nov 22, 2016;

Was passiert in der besten Schule Deutschlands? 10.37 min, von Galileo … Galileo Lunch Break;

… and this:

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