President Obama Vows To Retaliate Against Russia For Election Hacking

ABC News: Poking the Bear: Obama Says US Will Respond to Russian Hacking

President Barack Obama today promised the U.S. would "take action" in response to Russia's pre-election hacking, in comments that come more than two months after the U.S. intelligence community publicly implicated the Russian government in a plot to interfere with the U.S. election.

"I think there is no doubt that when any foreign government tries to impact the integrity of our elections ... that we need to take action and we will. At a time and a place of our own choosing. Some of it may be explicit and publicized; some of it may not be," Obama told NPR.

Obama said Russian President Vladimir Putin "is well aware of my feelings about this, because I spoke to him directly about it."

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Update: Russia has responded to President Obama's threat .... US hacking claims: Russia says 'indecent' without evidence (BBC). More here .... Russia Calls U.S. Hacking Allegations ‘Unseemly’ (WSJ).

What's my take .... President Obama is out of office in 5 weeks .... I doubt (and I hope) that he does not initiate a cyber war against Russia .... a conflict where no evidence has been provided to the American people .... where the case to initiate such a conflict has not even been made .... and where President Obama would then just pass it on to the incoming Trump administration who are making it very clear that they believe the evidence is not conclusive that Russia was involved.

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