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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (362919)	2/10/2018 7:31:43 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) of 541805

Tillerson has good reason to be worried. Russia has been interfering with his department with few consequences since long before he became secretary of state. The State Department’s email system has been serially hacked. Back in 2014, the Russians intercepted and leaked an embarrassing phone call between senior State Department official Victoria Nuland and a colleague. It was a sign, Nuland told Politico recently, that “the gloves were coming off and the knives were coming out.” But the Obama administration couldn’t agree on an aggressive response. There was a debate, she said, about whether there “should have been countermeasures taken that would have raised the cost at the time, and preempted further interference.” Obama took a few symbolic measures over the course of his presidency, including personally confronting Vladimir Putin and expelling Russians from diplomatic compounds in the U.S. But the response didn’t satisfy American officials alarmed by the Russian interference campaign. “I feel like we sort of choked,” one official told The Washington Post. theatlantic.com Maybe the conservatives were right about Obama being a weak president after all :-/

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