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Report: Stuxnet Cyberattack Was the Work of the U.S. and Israel

President Barack Obama secretly ordered a sophisticated wave of cyberattacks against Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities, according to the New York Times.

Obama decided to accelerate the program — started under President George W. Bush in 2006 and codenamed “Olympic Games” — which included the Stuxnet virus that wrecked Iranian centrifuges at its Natanz plant, setting the country’s nuclear program back.

American officials revealed for the first time that Stuxnet was developed by the United States and Israel.

When Stuxnet became public in 2010 after a programming error allowed it to “escape” Natanz, Obama and his team gathered to consider whether the project had become fatally compromised:

“Should we shut this thing down?” Mr. Obama asked, according to members of the president’s national security team who were in the room.

Told it was unclear how much the Iranians knew about the code, and offered evidence that it was still causing havoc, Mr. Obama decided that the cyberattacks should proceed. In the following weeks, the Natanz plant was hit by a newer version of the computer worm, and then another after that. The last of that series of attacks, a few weeks after Stuxnet was detected around the world, temporarily took out nearly 1,000 of the 5,000 centrifuges Iran had spinning at the time to purify uranium.

The revelations come amid reports of a new computer virus deployed against Iran, dubbed “Flame.” Flame appears to be at least five years old, and officials said was not part of Olympic Games, though declined to say whether the U.S. was responsible for the attack.

According to the Times, Obama was “acutely aware” that Olympic Games was pushing the U.S. into new territory and “repeatedly expressed concerns that any American acknowledgment that it was using cyberweapons…could enable other countries, terrorists or hackers to justify their own attacks.”

“We discussed the irony, more than once,” one of his aides said. Another said that the administration was resistant to developing a “grand theory for a weapon whose possibilities they were still discovering.” Yet Mr. Obama concluded that when it came to stopping Iran, the United States had no other choice.

If Olympic Games failed, he told aides, there would be no time for sanctions and diplomacy with Iran to work. Israel could carry out a conventional military attack, prompting a conflict that could spread throughout the region.

Still, Obama reportedly impressed upon aides the risks in using cyberweapons:

In fact, no country’s infrastructure is more dependent on computer systems, and thus more vulnerable to attack, than that of the United States. It is only a matter of time, most experts believe, before it becomes the target of the same kind of weapon that the Americans have used, secretly, against Iran.

The Times piece was adapted from correspondent David Sanger’s book, “Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power,” to be published Tuesday. Read the full article here.

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  • spfoam1
    Posted on June 2, 2012 at 10:21am

    The US was going to become a target of the same kind of weapons whether we use them or not. Like any other weapon, the more we use it the better we become at using it and defending against it. It is clear that Barry has simply continued what Bush put in motion. More drones is a no brainer. Cyber warfare is a no brainer. Both save lives, our lives. Obama fails terribly by refusing to capture and interrogate just so he can avoid the same criticisms he continuously belched out against Bush, and that will cost lives…our lives.

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    • RamonPreston
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 10:49am

      The new technology is beam weapons. Put in the GPS coordinates and shoot right through the earth. Yell “Clean!; it was a naturally occuring earth quake.” Things like HAARP have made this a new ball game.
      BTW: There is the allegation that the 2011 tsunami in Japan was caused by the US exploding 51 nuclear devices in the trenches north of Japan. Just waited for the right moment to do it.

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    • spfoam1
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 11:34am

      @ ramonpreston That is an insane comment. I thinhk you come here as a media matters dung beetle to push BS.

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_GOP_IN_12
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 1:39pm

      Lets just cut to the chase here.
      The Dems have and will keep the jewish vote. Sorry GOP you lose.

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    • barber2
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 1:44pm

      TIME: Dream on. “Time” is not on your side..although hypocrisy and union mobs are.

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_GOP_IN_12
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 4:47pm

      barber2
      Not only the Jewish vote but, black, Spanish speaking, unions, gays, dead, welfare, disabled, woman, illegal’s ….did I forget anyone? Sleep tight

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    • Grey Eagle
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 11:34pm

      I would like to know who released this information to the media? Probably Obama and his minions. If it was deliberate, then he is spilling secrets about Israel again. Can’t Obama keep his mouth shut? Apparently not.

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  • Ghandi was a Republican
    Posted on June 2, 2012 at 10:17am

    The article leaves out the obvious. His Czars (go betweens) already gave them a remedy and a better version to use against us Nov. 5th. Like everything else it will be thrown into a supreme Court fight while obama goes on and declares himself the President based on early voting. Urban votes will win the day for him and statewide Senate Candidates. With the help of the bogus George Soros owned and Union employed voting machines he may get the first 100% Supermajority in the history of the Universe.
    He will re-schedule the elections for 2016..

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  • dadsrootbeer
    Posted on June 2, 2012 at 10:11am

    So after HE took care of Bin Ladin HE also is a cyber warfare expert. Wow, for someone who has accomplished nothing his whole life he sure has EVOLVED into a super hero…or so he says

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  • voxpopuli2012
    Posted on June 2, 2012 at 10:11am

    If this report is accurate, Obama should be impeached immediately. This is an Act of War which the Congress did not sanction. Obama’s use of power, in this case, in many other cases related to our foreign relations, and in his use of executive orders, exceed the authority of the presidency…meanwhile, Congress fiddles while he acts like an emperor. The Republicans are afraid of being labeled racists and there is not one honorable, patriot among the Democrats. Expect the Iranians to run to the UN, where the Chinese and Russians are just waiting to bring American down a peg or two.

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    • voxpopuli2012
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 10:34am

      Of course, the New York Times is not completely altruistic in it’s actions. Reading the NYT article, it appears that they are hawking a new book, “Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power,” by David Sanger (who, ironically, is also the author of the NYT article. The book is set to be published on Tuesday.

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    • barber2
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 12:01pm

      VOX: Let’s throw in a prosecution of the The New York Times, the Left’s Leakiest Media Mouthpiece, in with that impeachment ! The NYT has been running articles continually trying to destroy Murdoch’s conservative media ( Fox. WSJ) since last year over…horrors: tabloid phone hacking ! A witch hunt aimed at closing down conservative media outlets ! Phone hacking ! ? BUT guess they and their international Left buddies don’t care a whit about leaking some seriously damaging information about the United States. The utter hypocrisy, and treasonous behavior of these Far Lefties and the NYT absolutely astounds me. Where is the Legislative Branch when Americans need them ?

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  • rickc34
    Posted on June 2, 2012 at 10:08am

    According to reports on Fox news Bush started the program in 06 .but unlike the current administratin he could keep his mouth shut and not try to bring glory to himself. There is a difference between a humble man like Bush and a foolish man like Obama.

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  • showmerancher
    Posted on June 2, 2012 at 10:04am

    Originally, the Bush plan for the virus was as a delaying tactic towards a different end… While this is meant to show how “tough” Obama is, put it into proper perspective. He was forced to resort to it due to his utter failure at “negotiations with Iran with NO pre-conditions” (remember that from his 2008 campaign???). There was actually a much better plan in place left by the Bush administration that Obama nixed in favor of his no-preconditions direct talks with Iran plan, (and in conjunction with another ill-advised campaign promise) that, upon failure, caused him to have to resort continuing the virus as a delaying tactic with no clear plan of what to do after that.

    An interesting side-note to this is that in early 2008 the media almost unknowingly and unwittingly outed the virus project; but that’s another story for another time…

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  • TJexcite
    Posted on June 2, 2012 at 10:02am

    Obama will have a press conference at Area 51 if a focus group would say it might moves the polls. Open the doors to the world on the Aliens and all the technology that the MiB have done to keep under raps. And the MFM would be just fine with it.

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  • calisun
    Posted on June 2, 2012 at 10:02am

    Wow, he is so cool using cyber attacks …. a ploy to get the young vote. Wow, we can go to war without killing anyone …. a few more votes. Wow, he was working with the jews …. kissing and trying to make up with the Jewish voters.

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  • PeachyinGA
    Posted on June 2, 2012 at 9:33am

    When I read the last paragraph quoting his concerns of America‘s vulnerability to cyber attacks like the same we’ve conducted, I felt he is spilling all the details of our programs so he can use it as an example why he needs to control the internet in America.

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on June 2, 2012 at 9:31am

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    You think with the gay sex rumors going around about Obama he would have chose another name. I mean Stuxnet must have been some kind of Frreudian slip…….

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    • G-WHIZ
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 9:51am

      This was the name the Bush adm. chose early-on, when they started it jointly with Isreal. A Progressive “outing” annother Progressive. Even if King-O’ started this one, His “people ” would still out-it by design to make us look as if we can’t keep any seacrets.

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  • teebubba
    Posted on June 2, 2012 at 9:25am

    Its all bs. The Russians are behind the Stnx virus.- Their foreign policy is to antagonize the US and NATO whenever possible but they really do not want IIran to develop nuclear weapons any more than anybody else They also have grudge because Iran funds the groups which terrorize Russia. Russia makes most of the equipment being sabotaged so they get to sell the replacement parts and devices.

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    • barber2
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 9:35am

      oh.oh. I smell a test balloon by the Obama Crowd…distraction..deflection..

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  • samnjoeysgrama
    Posted on June 2, 2012 at 9:17am

    During Vietnam, there were things my AF pilot husband would not tell me. Obama has no military background, no friends or relatives who are former or current military, and no concept of secrecy or honor. Obama’s inability to keep his mouth shut is appalling, and puts our troops in danger.. But it is a perfect match for the rest of his behavior.
    My reaction upon reading this headline was to loudly chant “USA, USA, USA”. After reading the story, I feel the same way I do about his claiming to have “killed Bin Laden”. He (and his minions) will occasionally be dragged kicking and screaming by the Joint Chiefs into doing the right thing, but they will do it only to use it for political gain (”If we do this, it will strengthen your position during the election”) Especially when they make sure the military absentee ballots don’t get counted. What a bad, bad bunch of people.

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    • randy
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 9:26am

      Move along people, nothing to see here, Just Obama Patting himself on the back again!
      What a loser!

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 9:31am

      “During Vietnam, there were things my AF pilot husband would not tell me. Obama has no military background, no friends or relatives who are former or current military, and no concept of secrecy or honor.”

      As is with most of the modern left.. these radical bass-urds would insult and undermine the Military every chance they get (and have) except when it garners votes. Frauds all day, every day.

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 9:36am

      Remember the foiled underwear bombing plot the Obama admin leaked, exposing the tactics and the players involved, and sparking ire and utter disbelief in Great Britain and Saudi Arabia? All so he could win brownie points with voters. I hope that brave man and his family are still alive. As former CIA head of counter-terrorism, Robert Grenier rightly observed: “The Americans are doing a very good job of undermining trust, and the problem starts at the top.”
      http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/05/11/intelligence-community-slams-obama-for-double-agent-leaks

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    • barber2
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 9:51am

      TIME: Agree. Remember that the Obama Far Left were all part of that nasty ” General Be-tray-us” Crowd. They are below disgusting. They hate traditional American values more than Putin does ! Some “ change” these sleaze-bags have ushered in…

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 10:27am

      BARBER. That’s exactly why I go after Ron Paul and his mob of slick internet insurgents as much as I do. We as Conservatives have to understand where the left and extreme right meet, agree and play well together. We all know where the left stands. I have made it my business on here to show where the other leftist mob stands and mirrors many of the talking points we see from the subversive Obama left. And they call me crazy… lol.

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    • recoveringneocon
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 11:31am

      TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      And your be voting for Romney, the guy who spent all his time in France during Vietnam……was he dodging the draft ? You crack me up with your “Patriotism”. Get back to paTrolling the condo complex for violators of all of you silly rules and regulations. They gotta just love your kind coming from NY to FL with all your Big Government ideas and touting that you’re a Conservative. Oh almost forgot, you were a Newt supporter too. ………. another draft dodger. LOL!!! YepimaDraftdodgingVotingPatriot.

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    • barber2
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 11:43am

      TIME: I have noted the extreme comments of the Ron Paul crowd. They are just as wacky as the Far Left Obama Crowd in their anti-American. dysfunctional hatred. Notice all of the “Obama and Romney are the same ” comments they have run lately ? Think our arrogant Democrats had 2 strategies for 2012: one, Trash every potential conservative candidate and ; two, divide the “ dumb” conservatives. Not exactly sure where the line is drawn between the “sheeple / neocons / plutocrat “ Far Right and the ” I Hate America Far Left, ” but I share your disgust with both of them !

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 11:47am

      RECOVERING. As usual you can‘t attack the message and the truth as I see it doesn’t fit your Ron Paul drone mentality, so you attack me with meaningless nonsense. I’m all for a good “dust-up” with some great lines and well thoughtout insults… but you remain a rookie. A batboy, a waterboy, the guy who hands out the towels and equipment…

      One day you might make it to the “bigs” but first finish Ron Paul summer camp and take more notes this time. Make sure you don’t wear the geranimals with the feet in them at camp eh? The other fanboys there may laugh as they’re wearing pink nighties and would consider you a little rebel without a clear cause. Lmao.

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 11:58am

      BARBER. You have a very good handle on both from what I’ve read. Kudos to you. Conservatives need to expose these leftist-lite subversive insurgants for what they truly are and not for what they “appear” to be (certainly NOT Conservatives). When Conservatives can get past the superficial liberty, freedom, Constitution, end the fed and sound money” arguments and sound-bites they provide and see them for what they truly are in ideology taken as a whole…. they are as disgusting as the left in many ways.

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    • recoveringneocon
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 12:12pm

      TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Facts, Facts you want Facts? Fact is when Dr. Paul’s Country called on him he Served and did it Honorably. When Romney’s and Newts Country called they took deferments. AKA Draft Dodging. Dr. Paul had 2 children and was married at the “Time” He could have got a Deferment from the Draft but did not. His Country call upon him and he stepped up and Served . What is your Hero’s excuses? Put that in your Patriotic Pipe and smoke it.

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    • recoveringneocon
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 12:18pm

      barber2
      Your as bad as QPWillie, you don’t have a clue what is happening. Your anger makes you blind.

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 12:45pm

      RECOVERING. Have to give Ron Paul credit for accepting the call this great nation of ours when needed. On that note, ask Dr “Liberty and Drugs” to post his DD-214 so we can actually see what daddy actually DID while he was, ahem, away while our country was preparing to warrrrrrrr-mongerrrrrrrr against Communism.

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    • recoveringneocon
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 1:17pm

      TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12

      “RECOVERING. Have to give Ron Paul credit for accepting the call this great nation of ours when needed.”
      This is where a normal person would of stopped , but NOOOO you have to go on about form DD-214 blaa blaaa Blla warrrrrrrr-mongerrrrrrrr against Communism. I don’t care if he was peeling potatoes at a bed and breakfast in New England. He Served and he Served Honorably. If you want to look up someone’s service records start with Romney’s that should not take long.

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    • barber2
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 1:40pm

      RECOVERING: Think you need more time in rehab.

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 2:01pm

      RECOVERING. You’re COVERING for your daddy RECOVERING. What does your daddy have to hide about his time spent “away from” the warrrrrrr in Viet Nam….?? So many questions. I have the answers do you? Once drafted by the “Army” (who the draft revolved around)… did he skeedaddle to the Air Force to avoid something… fear maybe? His early Service before the major ramp-up of troops into ‘Nam is in question, along with why he ran to the Air Guard during this time is also in question? Was Mr Heroic “Flight Surgeon” Viet Nam War draftee skeered to get anywhere close to the action?? What did he do in Iran when he was there during that time early on? These are questions hundreds of thousands of Combat Vets (who also hate chicken-hawks, draft-dodgers and deferment types) want to know?? If he’s going to use his “Service” as some sort of prop for his campaign… let’s hear it all??

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    • recoveringneocon
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 2:28pm

      TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      I will let you in on a Secret….. Its not about the man its about the movement. Look around. See at the crowds that KooK is attracting. They are thousands every where he goes. Romney, Santorum, Newt and Bachmann all put together cant match them. Is he going to win.??…….chances are slim to none at best. What do you think is going to happen in 2014 and 2016? If you haven’t noticed all across the country the Old Guard is losing power. We won’t be voting or making a 3rd party, we are taking back the Republican Party. ;-)

      Freedom and Liberty
      2012
      2014
      2016
      2018
      2020
      2022
      Do you see the pattern here old timer. Take Care of yourself I want you to see the R3volution with your own eyes. I can see it now, You seating there wearing your depends with your mouth handing wide open. And one of your Grandkids will be wiping the drool off your chine telling you to keep your mouth shut or the flies are going to build a nest in it. You have great Grandkids Good Job Pops.

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    • recoveringneocon
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 2:58pm

      Sorry I forgot to use the quotation marks on “ Old ”Timer“ ” Darn hope you can forgive me. You know being “one of those big Irish lugs with hands the size of baseball mits and a scowl that would make a Ron Paul acolyte head for a floating Libertarian Island in absolute fear for his life.”
      God I Love that one. LOL!!!!

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    • barber2
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 3:41pm

      Recovering: ( and I certainly hope you do ! ) Happy Revolution , you little dickens of an anarchist you ! Know you hate ” old people,” rules and authority. Just grab your hoodie and good luck. But you have NOTHING to do with the Republican Party. You can not “ take back” a party which does NOT share your disrespect for law and order. You, young dude, belong to the Anarchist Party ! “Rosta ruck ” as we used to say ….you guys can only function with chaos and mayhem. That is NOT what the Republican Party is all about. That is why you don’t fit in . And why you don’t like us. Might I suggest an Anger Management class as your first step in ” recovery ?” You sound like someone whose comments I used to read 2 years ago in the NYT: calling for ” revolution in the streets of America.” You ?

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 4:07pm

      RECOVERING. Are you asking me why Ron Paul attracts so many? Lmao… the same reason “The Grateful Dead and Phish” attract so many …. repeat customers who attend EVERY event using the same cameras that the North Koreans used to film ‘Lil’ Kim’s” funeral procession. Combine that with a little bit ‘o weed, other mind-altering substances, some lame lyrics only Dead Heads care about, the thrill of seeing all the other Dead Heads who have too much time on their hands and nothing better too do… and you’ve got a Ron Paul concert…

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    • recoveringneocon
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 8:44pm

      TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Have you been listening to Alex Jones? LOL give me a break. Forget Ron Paul is eating you up. Is your wife laughing at you? Go play with you grandkids, take them fishing or something. Soon it will be to late to go. Your grandkids will be grown and your have Great Grandkids and they won’t want to be around a man with poopy diapers mumbling about form DD-214, new letters, Lou somebody, dope smoking, Dr. blaa blaa…… you get the idea. Do me a favor, show this post to your wife and see what she thinks. What can it hurt you old “ big Irish lug with hands the size of baseball mits and a scowl that would make a Ron Paul acolyte head for a floating Libertarian Island in absolute fear for his life”. Man the Cracks me up every “Time”

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  • Silversmith
    Posted on June 2, 2012 at 9:07am

    The essence of comedy is timing. The jobs numbers are down, as are his poll numbers. He desperately wants to appear tough on SOMETHING, so here it is; his ill conceived, desperate attempt at being Presidential.

    Still not buying

    Silversmith

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    • barber2
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 9:20am

      Not buying either. But sure as hell would like to see some PROSECUTING. ( and don’t you love all of the Lefty outrage over tabloid phone hacking ?? Been persecuting conservative Murdoch for one year but am sure this huge bit of treasonous “leaking” will fly under the radar. Typical of the Left and its media mouthpiece in the Big Apple ). Disgusting.

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  • SadButTrue
    Posted on June 2, 2012 at 9:05am

    This is also orchestrated for ‘more’ Homeland Security. Wow, this is like one-stop shopping for the Obama administration.

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  • barber2
    Posted on June 2, 2012 at 9:02am

    And just who were “the American officials ” who released this information? And why are they not being prosecuted for this – as well as Sanger and the Times ? Apparently, it is no longer considered a crime to release information damaging to the safety and security of this nation. These “American officials ” and our media blabber-mouth/ politically – motivated media should be prosecuted. How vulnerable we citizens are because of these anti-American sleaze bags. Anything for a buck. Anything to damage America. Open borders . Sensitive info blabbed all over the media . FBI ? Holder ? Disgusting bunch of traitors.

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    • PeachyinGA
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 9:40am

      I had the very same question. The media should be held accountable for releasing such sensitive information without naming names. This administration/media have an army of straw men they use when they want to accuse or “inform”.

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 12:27pm

      @BARBER2
      Apparently not. You can get blacklisted, though, if you make it personal. Ask Bradley Manning: prolonged solitary confinement, stripped naked at night, no pillow, no blankets presumed guilty – and all of it justified “on account of the seriousness of the offense for which he would eventually be charged.” //image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/
      docuuments/2012/03/12/A_HRC_19_61_Add.4_EFSonly-2.pdf

      So what was Manning’s crime? He leaked docuuments that corroborated what the world already knew, namely, that Obama is a brain transplant gone wrong, a chicken in black, but no Johnny Cash. Meanwhile, AMERICA’S enemies at Club Gitmo get pillows and blankets and recently, a $750T soccer field. It sucks to be a dictator’s enemy.

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  • drbage
    Posted on June 2, 2012 at 8:59am

    I am reminded of one of the sayings from WWII, “loose lips sink ships.” As members of the intelligence community are saying, it is frightening to see an administration divulge state secrets for political reasons. However, I don’t understand how divulging US involvement in Stuxnet along with Israeli assistance could help garner Jewish support. Seemingly the only secrets this administration is able to keep secret are the ones involving how they will steal the election in November.

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    • barber2
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 9:30am

      and the secrets within Obama’s ( aka Soetoro ) school records…

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    • G-WHIZ
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 9:54am

      …and King-O’s birthcert.+SS#..

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 10:17am

      The left and especially the anti-war “Bush” hating left (including the extreme right Paul crowd) have always said the “State Secrets” are a way for [bad men] to cover up bad things (mistakes, a way to abuse/tear apart the Constitution, war crimes, crimes in general… etc).

      That’s exactly right… [bad men]. I don’t include Bush in that [bad man] category… never did. Obama said as part of his platform that he would be transparent and reform the “supposed abuses” as a way to curry favor with the Bush hating crowd (anti-war left and right alike). And he hasn’t disappointed to the detriment of our nation and our national security.

      Sometimes (many times) our elected leaders should have the leadership, honor and ability to shut their damn mouths. Not every detail of what our country does and needs to do to keep us safe should or has to be divulged. Good men with good intentions and leadership ability know this, bad men don’t. I submit that Obama is a bad man with bad intentions, ulterior motives and zero leadership ability. But I’m preaching to the choir… as we all know this to be true.

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    • dublinthewagons
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 10:22am

      Telephone * television * telOBAMA
      his big mouth is an enemy of the state.

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  • Vegascelt
    Posted on June 2, 2012 at 8:56am

    It is criminal to release these details. The only reason is an attempt to bolster his sagging poll numbers. Nothing is more important to this charlatan than re-election.

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    • barber2
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 9:15am

      Agree. He can’t run on his record, so maybe destroying American security is their new form of “ social justice ” / aka revenge .

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    • randy
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 9:30am

      Yeah and just wait until the poll numbers even show him he will not be re-elected.
      Then the destruction of America, by his hands, will be at full throttle!

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  • txblaze
    Posted on June 2, 2012 at 8:56am

    1.“Obama decided to accelerate the program”….because it’s an election year.
    2.”started under President George W. Bush in 2006″….and if it goes south he can be blamed.
    3. Do we really need to tell the world about our cyberweapons? No…see #1.

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  • sawbuck
    Posted on June 2, 2012 at 8:53am

    “Mr. Obama decided that the cyberattacks should proceed”

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    I thought this president doesn’t believe in preemptive -strikes..

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  • Revere2
    Posted on June 2, 2012 at 8:44am

    All for the Narcissist!!

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  • SERUM
    Posted on June 2, 2012 at 8:40am

    I’m just as surprised as you are…this does not sound like the president we know…or don’t know.

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  • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
    Posted on June 2, 2012 at 8:40am

    Well, from some accounts Obama is said to be a “flamer”…. OR at the very least, a part-time flamer. Let’s ask his male masseur…

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  • nostromo
    Posted on June 2, 2012 at 8:38am

    So just what is the reason that the US would divulge this cyber attack on another country? Could Obama want himself to be seen as proactive against Iran to get the Jewish vote this fall and dampen his anti Israel persona? Nothing like compromising national security, revealing sensitive info, and implicating Israel all to get re elected.

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 8:45am

      Yes… read the article (and a couple other sources) a couple times to see what the justification supposedly was for the administration to admit to this. Unclear. Will go with your assessment.

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  • wampanoag
    Posted on June 2, 2012 at 8:36am

    Providing this program‘s inside information to the press by the Obama administration in order to bolster Obama’s sagging image is criminal, anti American, and pure treason. Congress should impeach the president if he cleared the release of the information, and investigate this serious and malignant leak.

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on June 2, 2012 at 8:33am

    This administration does not seem capable of keeping a military secret.

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    • barber2
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 9:04am

      This administration is incapable of only three things : telling ” 99% ” Big Lies ; delivering Teleprompter speeches; and destroying America .

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    • barber2
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 9:13am

      BIG error: My comment should have read this administration is CAPABLE of only three things… I have NEVER been so disgusted by any previous administration of either political party ! Why are these destructive sleaze-bags NOT being pursued by the law ? Where is the outrage ?

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 10:21am

      Barber2 No your big error was calling this an administration,it’s a regime and that Marxist POS is ruling us.

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    • barber2
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 11:33am

      PRO: ok. I apologize for that error also !

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