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originally posted by: SlowNail
How can the FBI go after Russia?
I thought they were internal and couldn't operate internationally.
originally posted by: SlowNail
How can the FBI go after Russia?
I thought they were internal and couldn't operate internationally.
originally posted by: carewemust
It's funny that Podesta feels that he's "tangling with Russian intelligence agencies". It sounds like they have bugs on his phones, men in black sitting in front of his house, attempting to poison his lunch, and pretty women propositioning him for lap dances, LOL.
National security adviser Lisa Monaco spoke in general about what the government might do last week at a Washington Post event, before the Russia statement had been released.
"We will respond in a time and place and manner of our choosing, and when we do so, we will consider a full range of tools, economic, diplomatic, criminal law enforcement, military, and some of those responses may be public, some of them may not be," Monaco said.
Pressed by moderator Ellen Nakashima, Monaco said the range of options include private diplomatic channels, intelligence operations, prosecutions and sanctions -- all taking into account broader considerations on the world stage.
"We will act responsibly, proportionately, and do so in a time and place of our choosing," Monaco said. "The primary guiding and overarching focus in those discussions is about what is in the national security interest of the United States. That is the North Star for those discussions."
President Barack Obama signed an executive order in April 2015 authorizing a new sanctions power that allows retribution for cyberattacks, but it has never been used.