Four years ago, we called on the Obama-Biden administration to strike hard at the Kremlin BEFORE the 2016 elections. All they did was appease Putin.
It was an easy plan, published August 16, 2016, in Forbes.
I urged the Obama-Biden administration to collect intelligence to dox Putin and his inner circle in retaliation for - and to prevent further - Kremlin interference in the 2016 election.
jmichaelwaller.com/2016/08/16/wik…
I urged the Obama-Biden administration to collect intelligence to dox Putin and his inner circle in retaliation for - and to prevent further - Kremlin interference in the 2016 election.
jmichaelwaller.com/2016/08/16/wik…
3) Before the Russia "collusion" narrative was cooked up:
"For the first time since the 1950s, Russian subversion of the American political process has become a presidential campaign issue."
"For the first time since the 1950s, Russian subversion of the American political process has become a presidential campaign issue."
4) "The Kremlin’s latest act of espionage-driven propaganda–document dump of Democratic National Committee emails via WikiLeaks–achieved its desired effect of immediate politicization. We should step back to learn two lessons, and creatively fight back."
5) "Lesson one: Moscow’s subversion of American democracy is nothing new."
"The second lesson from the DNC WikiLeaks affair is that history shows that when American leaders resist and make Moscow pay a price, the Kremlin backs off."
"The second lesson from the DNC WikiLeaks affair is that history shows that when American leaders resist and make Moscow pay a price, the Kremlin backs off."
6) "Which is why we should be focusing, not on Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, but on the current commander-in-chief. Barack Obama has done nothing to discourage Russian misbehavior that led to the WikiLeaks dump. His passivity arguably encouraged it."
7) "Obama is the only person on earth who can respond in-kind to the Putin regime’s egregious intervention in the American democratic process. Putin and his inner circle are vulnerable to exposure of their own shameful actions, habits, actions and fetishes."
8) But of course, Obama remained passive and weak toward the very vulnerable Putin.
I argued, "In the electronic age, the Kremlin fortress has become a glass house."
I argued, "In the electronic age, the Kremlin fortress has become a glass house."
9) "For starters, Obama should order the intelligence community to compile properly-sanitized dumps of emails and social media among select targets in Putin’s inner circle."
@JohnBrennan wouldn't hear of the idea.
@JohnBrennan wouldn't hear of the idea.
10) "The personal electronic communications should expose the widely-suspected but seldom proven details of the staggering corruption at the top of the Russian gangster state, including Putin’s family members and loyalists," I wrote.
11) "Judiciously selected, the exposures will show Putin and others that we, too, can play hardball.
"If disciplined enough, the U.S. can outplay the Putin-WikiLeaks team. Russia’s political system is far less resilient than ours."
"If disciplined enough, the U.S. can outplay the Putin-WikiLeaks team. Russia’s political system is far less resilient than ours."
12) "The increasingly-centralized yet divided Russian Federation is potentially much more fragile and vulnerable to public exposure of the colossal scale of greed and organized criminal behavior of its national leadership."
Team Obama-Biden was never up for that.
Team Obama-Biden was never up for that.
13) My ideas horrified the PC set: "And then there are national cultural norms that no present Russian leader could politically survive once the glass of invincibility is electronically shattered. Above almost all else, Putin nurses a deep-seated hostility to male homosexuality."
14) The idea was to out Putin and wreck him in Russia: "Putin-centric political elites could never endure the humiliation and ridicule following a skillful intelligence dump of their private emails, text messages, social media posts, photos and Web browser histories."
15) "No doubt Putin and his inner circle anticipated a cost-free scheme to embarrass Hillary Clinton and, by extension, Obama.
"If that is the case, all Americans who strive for political authority are wearing an electronic 'kick me' sign on their backs."
"If that is the case, all Americans who strive for political authority are wearing an electronic 'kick me' sign on their backs."
16) "They should expect Russia & other powers like China to be scooping up and storing their electronic communication for future use. We can’t allow that to continue.
"For the sake of America’s democratic society, Obama must strike back hard at Putin and his inner circle. Now."
"For the sake of America’s democratic society, Obama must strike back hard at Putin and his inner circle. Now."
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17) Obviously Obama and Hillary did nothing except weaponize a false narrative of Russian collusion against @realDonaldTrump. Now @JoeBiden is trying to talk tough. As vice president in 2016 he had the strongest foreign policy credentials in the Obama White House. He did nothing.
