Set aside everything else about this entire contentious debate and can this be viewed as anything other than an admission of politically motivated treason.
The Obama administration didn't respond more forcefully to Russian hacking before the presidential election because they didn't want to appear to be interfering in the election and they thought that Hillary Clinton was going to win and a potential cyber war with Russia wasn't worth it, multiple high-level government officials told NBC News.
"They thought she was going to win, so they were willing to kick the can down the road," said one U.S official familiar with the level of Russian hacking.
Again, let's set aside everything else.
We have admissions by top government officials that they didn't do anything about the hacking because they thought Hillary would win. If they thought Hillary would lose, as she did, they would have done something.
Their basis for responding to a threat isn't national interest, but party interest.
This is a point that I made back in October.
Obama shrugged at Snowden. His former DOJ stooge, Eric Holder, claimed that the enemy traitor had performed a public service. But that was back when Russia was merely compromising national security secrets. And endangering national security meets with a shrug and a yawn from Obama.
If not, as from Eric Holder, with outright praise.
But suddenly it wasn’t our defense secrets that were being spilled. It was the Democratic Party’s dirty dealings. And all the outrage and anger that had lain slumbering while our national defense secrets were being plundered by the enemy was suddenly roused to a boiling pitch.
Obama has gone to the featherbed mattresses. This means war.
Reports claim that the CIA is “is contemplating an unprecedented cyber covert action against Russia in retaliation for alleged Russian interference in the American presidential election”.
The right time to launch such an “action” would have been after Snowden or after the theft of top national security secrets by China. The OPM database hack should have merited such a response. Instead the corrupt left-wing elites running this country only respond to threats to their political power.
The CIA wasn’t allowed to strike back when its operatives were endangered. But humiliating Hillary Clinton and John Podesta must not be allowed. National security is disposable. Dem security isn’t.
What's being communicated here is that Dem officials function like a state within a state. Their concern isn't for the country, it's purely for the party.
If the Dems are endangered, then they might contemplate taking action. If the country is endangered, they don't care.