Listening to Obama this week, one might wonder if he realizes that he is the president of the United States. Addressing reporters at the G-7 Summit in Germany, Obama spoke of ISIS and healthcare as though musing on the job performance of another administration. When it came to the Chinese cyberattack on the Office of Personnel Management, he took the same aloof approach that has come to characterize his presidency.
“We haven’t publicly unveiled who we think may have engaged in these cyberattacks,” Obama said. “But I can tell you that we have known for a long time that there are significant vulnerabilities and that these vulnerabilities are going to accelerate as time goes by, both in systems within government and within the private sector.”
Right. And, just to follow-up, Mr. President…uh…what are you actually doing about it?
Perhaps Obama is stuck in limbo when it comes to cybersecurity, much the way he has yet to think up a strategy for defeating ISIS. Just one more thing he’s going to kick down the road for another president to worry about. It’s been known for a long time that Democrats aren’t thrilled about the concept of personal responsibility, but it’s still shocking to see this level of apathy from the White House.
Republicans are coming out in force. Presidential contender Mike Huckabee advised the U.S. to “hack the cellphones of some prominent Communist party leaders, hack the bank accounts of intelligence officials, publicly humiliate Chinese families for political corruption, or wipe out a few critical Chinese computer systems.”
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham was harsh as well, taking to Facebook to warn that we could be facing a “cyber Pearl Harbor” if we don’t take steps to shore up our security methods.
The attack on OPM is thought to be the largest cybersecurity breach in history, leading to one of this nation’s largest leaks of government personnel data. Security analysts have said that two Chinese hacker groups were likely behind the attack, including one called “Deep Panda.” This group is also believed to have been the primary actors in the attack on Anthem. While China denies having any part in the attack, U.S. officials believe that an attack of this scope would be impossible without state sponsorship.
A Lagging Response
President Bush saw the writing on the wall more than a decade ago. Advised that using simple username/password systems for authentication was going to leave gaps in security, he signed a directive ordering all federal agencies to switch to personal identification cards. These cards are intended to give the agencies a secure second way to authenticate employees on the network. Eleven years later, only about 40 percent of non-Pentagon federal employees have been issued these cards.
In the meantime, spending has increased on cybersecurity. But much of the budget goes to the Defense Department, where it is an obvious priority to keep access under lock and key. That still leaves much of the federal government exposed to sophisticated attacks, and it puts data of varying classification levels at risk.
This needs to be a priority for both parties and the president. We can’t afford to wait for Graham’s “cyber Pearl Harbor” before we take the threat seriously.
lots of big talk but no guts to impeach./
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ProfessorPBZ….
Pretty well everyone is thinking the same like with you, except the Pied Piper dimwits who voted him in govt office. The black POTUS has relied on 2 major issues to keep him in office;
(1) his ethnic race and (2) the civility of the Government of the United States of the America.
The USA would have to resort to a coup (temporary Banana Republic) to remove him out the back door, pursuant to no one in Congress had/has the courage and audacity to start ANY legal action to remove him. Impeachment is a convoluted legal manner to remove a rogue/disingenuous/lying POTUS for cause.
It takes months of hearings. (William J. Clinton was impeached by the House on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice in relationship to his affair with then White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
Clinton was eventually acquitted by the Senate.)
In other words, the process of impeachment is not very efficient; especially in the case of a black POTUS. We’re stuck. Very sad times for USA.
Best regards….Joe T
And this azz is only HALF black–think how bad he’d be if he were full black!
Yeah….he’s so bad…he’s giving the black people a bad name.
I agree he should be arrested!
Just an arrogant self absorbed, lying fraud. and the enemedia supports this incredible behavior….
It is amazing the degree of arrogance that you can get from an empowered N—-R! Thanks again to the masses of unwashed and uneducated, but always on-the-dole, Americans (and anyone else the Dems can import).
The reason Obama lies so much is because he’s
adlibbing the presidency. The idiots voted to have a neighborhood organizer run
the most powerful country in the world; it’s like hiring a plumber to perform a
triple by-pass. I hate the word “stupid”
but it’s the only word that describes the lunacy. There’s only one solution but the dead-beats in
congress are more worried about the race card, then they are about the country.
Our leaders are brainless dim-wits who have trouble pronouncing the word “IMPEACHMENT
Joe the plumber could have done a better job. There is only FEAR among our “leaders” in WDC and they can’t think because they are being too emotional.
mallen11………..good thinking! In retrospect, they are more concerned with their egotistical jobs of staying in Congress than they are of doing the right thing in a wrong situation with a black POTUS like Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama…whose almost traitorous-like words and action are minatory to the peace and security of all of the USA citizens…..and the world. Obama is a defender of Islam and the Muslims before the interests of the United States of America.
Best regards, Joe T
Mickey Mouse could have done a better job; I don’t believe it’s emotion; but rather, the lack of patriotism.
Their emotions wipe out their patriotism.
I hate to say this but the congresses and the White House are serving the same master the PTB. They scratch each other back.
I think he lies so much because you never know who will be sticking their hand up his ass, working the mouth. He actually said 22 times that he could not write an executive order on illegal immigration, then he did it anyhow. I think he’s so full of sh1t that he needs constant dialysis.
….enema………..
I hope you’re not blaming President Obama for cyber-attacks. Blame Republicans and TPs. These people do not want college education for Americans. We have now to import doctors, computer engineers etc to staff sensitive areas of our government. Repubs enabled only their sons and daughters to attend university education while many developed and developing countries enable smart kids to attend university education free. In Wisconsin Governor Walker is trying to do away with universities. Walker says if he is now supervising professors, then there is no need for university education. He dropped out school.
WHF are you talking about–but more importantly is WTF ARE YOU SMOKING?!? You’re so full of BS I can smell you from here!!!
Please call the Chancellors of the University of Wisconsin system. They will tell you what Walker is doing-getting rid of universities in Wisconsin.
You are an absolute exaggerating, lying, libterd. Walker is attempting to get the fraud and waste out of the university system. UW system here is so loaded with excess’s that it’s laughable if it weren’t so tragic. He does not want to eliminate the system he wants to clean it up. Why do you libs always take a situation and exaggerate it beyond stupidity and think you are making a worthwhile input to the dialog?
Did you call Wisconsin university chancellors? You chickened. Even Walkers GOP leaders are starting to question where he taking the state. We are under Sharia law in Wisconsin.
Again you are totally out of your mind. I have no idea where you get this bogus crap from unless maybe you just make it up yourself. There is no sharia law in WI. That is just absolutely ridiculous. I don’t even know why I try to talk to morons like yourself. You are obviously totally delusional.
Please call any woman in Wisconsin. Of course it does not affect me because I am a male. Walker signed in law allowing CEOs to pay women less than men doing exactly same job.
Everyone tell your Rep. that their vote will decide how you vote in 2016. Put the pressure on them to vote the right way, Your way comes first not what this tyrant wants them to vote being that he is such a bully. Lets make them vote that any of obama’s bills don’t go through. PEOPLE WE HAVE TO TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK AND NOW. It is vital that we do so now. Because what he has planned is not going to bode well for us. And we need to kick the TN out of our country. !!!
How a fool can vote for HillABeast is beyond me.
Obama believes the only way to secure the IT/internet, is government takeover and some of his biggest backers don’t want that.. Comcast, Verizon, Google ect. He is aware they could hammer him because they own the medias in part, some in whole.
There is another way, that is a partnership with the Military/Defense, whom Obama doesn’t trust and for-said commercial enterprise doesn’t want that either.
Anyway one looks at the issue, we haven’t someone to lead America and the discussion.
The negro sodomite looks awfully happy the past few days. He just RELISHES what happened to America and going to happen to America when they realize what the Chinese will do with that goldmine of data.
Watch & Learn America…..
skippy hasn’t a clue. All his efforts are on dividing, destroying, and duping.
I think why Obama has problem in finding solution(s) to deal with Cybersecurity and ISIS because both issues are the products of the US government. The backdoors to software and hardware are created by the NSA and ISIS is the creation of the CIA and NATO (which is under the US control).
So in this situation anybody would have problem dealing with these conflicting issues.
This president, Mr.Obama will likely turn out to be one of the worst, if not the very worst presidents this country ever experienced, and that Virginia is putting it politely.
Our “Affirmative Action POTUS” is being his normal incompetent self again as usual.
president who ? Methinks DUH ! should be his middle name .. oh where is that teleprompter when you need it.
Welcome to the three ring circus of the US government! The clowns are definitely running/ruining the show!
Hi Dan.
the Black deranged clown aka the POTUS…………..
Hey Joe, I see were both still at it.
Hi buddy…………yes……..and take a gander at this info about the black POTUS and his overtly (treasonous) words and actions; that others are starting to challenge and expose to the world and USA.
Best regards, Joe T
Joe T • 3 minutes ago
Ret. General Drops Bombshell: Obama Should Be Arrested For This ‘Treasonous Activity’
Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Paul E. Vallely stated recently during a radio interview that President Obama should be “arrested for treasonous activities.”
Vallely, while a guest on the Real Side radio program earlier this month, stated above anything else that Obama should be held accountable for his sympathies for the Muslim Brotherhood in particular and his actions regarding the Benghazi tragedy. The retired general said one group that should hold the president’s feet to the fire are high-ranking members of the military. The program’s host, Joe Messina, asked whether Obama would just replace those military leaders with others who agree with him, as he has done several times in the past.
Vallely responded: “Well then we arrest him for treasonous activities.” He noted that the group he helps lead, the Citizens Commission on Benghazi, counts at least fourteen different actions the president has taken that could be considered treasonous.
The general listed bringing the Muslim Brotherhood into the White House, supporting the Muslim Brotherhood against President el-Sisi in Egypt, supporting the Muslim Brotherhood in Libya, and supporting the Muslim Brotherhood’s operations in Syria among the acts amounting to treason.
Vallely believes Obama has taken these actions because he has an agenda. “We know he’s a radical Islamic sympathizer. He sympathizes with the Muslim Brotherhood,” he said.
He noted the Middle East is in disarray because of the policies of the administration. “Baghdad is under complete threat.” Further, Vallely pointed out that Major General Qasem Soleimani, from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, is “going to fly in, from what we hear, 8-15 thousand Iranian troops in to bolster Assad in Damascus and save that regime.” Newsweek reported on this move by Iran earlier this month.
Vallely also took Obama to task for stating a few weeks ago that he is waiting on the Pentagon to give him strategic plans to defeat ISIS. Obama’s remarks also prompted a military official to respond: “What the f— was that? We have given him lots of options, he just hasn’t acted on them,” as reported by Fox News.
Vallely was not surprised at this response. The DOD is always working on multiple operational plans to address threats to the United States, he said. The problem is Obama “has no heart. He is a loser. I think he’s a coward, and he does not want to engage.”
Vallely believes it is up to Congress to “shut down” the president on multiple fronts using the power of the purse, among other tools.
“I’m tired of the deceit, the lies, the deception of this administration,” Vallely told Real Side.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) released a report last year listing the Benghazi cover-up and continued aid to Egypt following a military coup among the 76 “lawless acts” for which the Obama administration needed to be held accountable. (The coup took out Muslim Brotherhood-backed Mohammed Morsi, but Cruz highlighted that the aid continued without congressional authorization and contrary to federal law.)
(TRAITORS SHOULD BE HUNG PUBLICY.)
if the shoe fits….hang ’em!
Joe T • 3 minutes ago
Ret. General Drops Bombshell: Obama Should Be Arrested For This ‘Treasonous Activity’
Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Paul E. Vallely stated recently during a radio interview that President Obama should be “arrested for treasonous activities.”
Vallely, while a guest on the Real Side radio program earlier this month, stated above anything else that Obama should be held accountable for his sympathies for the Muslim Brotherhood in particular and his actions regarding the Benghazi tragedy. The retired general said one group that should hold the president’s feet to the fire are high-ranking members of the military. The program’s host, Joe Messina, asked whether Obama would just replace those military leaders with others who agree with him, as he has done several times in the past.
Vallely responded: “Well then we arrest him for treasonous activities.” He noted that the group he helps lead, the Citizens Commission on Benghazi, counts at least fourteen different actions the president has taken that could be considered treasonous.
The general listed bringing the Muslim Brotherhood into the White House, supporting the Muslim Brotherhood against President el-Sisi in Egypt, supporting the Muslim Brotherhood in Libya, and supporting the Muslim Brotherhood’s operations in Syria among the acts amounting to treason.
Vallely believes Obama has taken these actions because he has an agenda. “We know he’s a radical Islamic sympathizer. He sympathizes with the Muslim Brotherhood,” he said.
He noted the Middle East is in disarray because of the policies of the administration. “Baghdad is under complete threat.” Further, Vallely pointed out that Major General Qasem Soleimani, from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, is “going to fly in, from what we hear, 8-15 thousand Iranian troops in to bolster Assad in Damascus and save that regime.” Newsweek reported on this move by Iran earlier this month.
Vallely also took Obama to task for stating a few weeks ago that he is waiting on the Pentagon to give him strategic plans to defeat ISIS. Obama’s remarks also prompted a military official to respond: “What the f— was that? We have given him lots of options, he just hasn’t acted on them,” as reported by Fox News.
Vallely was not surprised at this response. The DOD is always working on multiple operational plans to address threats to the United States, he said. The problem is Obama “has no heart. He is a loser. I think he’s a coward, and he does not want to engage.”
Vallely believes it is up to Congress to “shut down” the president on multiple fronts using the power of the purse, among other tools.
“I’m tired of the deceit, the lies, the deception of this administration,” Vallely told Real Side.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) released a report last year listing the Benghazi cover-up and continued aid to Egypt following a military coup among the 76 “lawless acts” for which the Obama administration needed to be held accountable. (The coup took out Muslim Brotherhood-backed Mohammed Morsi, but Cruz highlighted that the aid continued without congressional authorization and contrary to federal law.)
(TRAITORS SHOULD BE HUNG PUBLICY.)
if the shoe fits….hang ’em!