Luckily the Ariana-Grande hates-Americans-and-America story popped up on the front page just in time to sweep a national security crisis right off the front pages. Wouldn’t want the low-information crowd to get overly concerned about The hack to end all hacks: China now has sensitive info on 21.5 million Americans, feds say ~
According to OPM (Office of Personnel Management), if you applied to work for the federal government and received a background check at any point since the year 2000, it’s “highly likely” that China has your entire biography, possibly replete with your history of sexual relationships and any history of mental illness to that point. It’s an endless supply of intelligence with which to blackmail people in sensitive government positions.[…]
On the positive side, although it’s much too late in coming, Mitt Romney has been vindicated on foreign policy ~
If nothing else good comes of this, at least conservatives are having some fun on Twitter this afternoon mocking the many, many leftist halfwits who scoffed at Mitt Romney during the 2012 campaign for claiming that China was cyberspying on the U.S. (For a variety of examples, scroll through Free Beacon reporter Lachlan Markay’s timeline.)
That makes Romney two-for-two on foreign policy today: Earlier, the commandant of the Marine Corps told Congress he considers Russia to be America’s top national security threat. When Romney made that claim three years ago, our schmuck president sneered at him that “the 1980s called and they want their foreign policy back.” This is the same guy who’s now promising us that a final deal this month will keep nuclear weapons out of Iran’s hands.
In the wake of the Chinese hack OPM chief Katherine Archuleta has resigned. And Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford (mentioned above), currently the Corps’ commandant, announced yesterday: President to Get ‘Full Range of Options’ For Response to OPM Cyber Attack. Even though this was essentially an act of war, we can pretty much bet that nothing will be done ~
Asked how the United States should respond, Dunford said: “From my perspective, if confirmed, my role will be to provide the president with a full range of options to deal with these cyber attacks, which is what the OPM breach was.”
President Obama in the past has rejected plans proposed by military and intelligence leaders to conduct offensive cyber counterattacks on China, preferring a legal and diplomatic approach.
Yep. The same feckless, ineffective approach he takes to every international challenge.
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Related:
OPM Announces More Than 21 Million Affected by Second Data Breach ~ The federal personnel agency finally announced Thursday the scope of a massive hack of security-clearance information first revealed last month.
Cyber Attacks on U.S. Companies in 2014
Chinese cyber attacks on West are widespread, experts say ~ (Feb. 2013)
