'Obama cyber saber-rattling against Russia possible ploy to boost Clinton camp' -- RT Op-EdgeIt is almost as if US intelligence officials are daring themselves to do something that may turn out to be quite destructive for everybody/rt.com
RT: What do you think are the reasons behind such an aggressive attitude?
RM: I think a part of it, as President Vladimir Putin has said, has to do with the election. But you know, fine tuning it, it all has to do with what started it -- from Hillary Clinton trying to divert attention from the fact that she stole the election from Bernie Sanders. That's the content that was in those emails; that content has completely disappeared from the press. Now [the question is] "Who did it?" And as President Putin himself said, and he's quite right, "who cares who did it? It's factual, these are emails that happened!" And it shows she stole the nomination. So this is a magnificent diversion, and everyone in the mainstream press in this country has fallen in for it.
RT: What would the US stand to achieve by launching a cyber-attack against Russia though if it's actually serious?
RM: Well, I don't believe it's serious. You know the initial reports from NBC and others said that it's going to be secret. If it's secret, why do you leak it to NBC and the major media? So I think it's an idle threat, and if it's a real threat, that's very serious because Russians and others are just as adept at cyber as the United States, and once you get into that realm, you're in a much more even playing field, because it doesn't matter how many satellites you have, or how many aircraft carriers [you have], if they don't work because of cyber-warfare the playing field is much more even. So I don't think this is a serious threat, this is all rhetoric and Joe Biden cannot be relied upon to be a serious source here.
In Russian, you would say "U niego yazik bez kostey"; he blabbers on at the mouth except when he's told to say things, as he was told on Friday. And the timing is important, the timing is important because the CIA and Biden seem to be determined to scuttle the resumption of ceasefire talks in Switzerland. That is serious, the question is, was Obama aware of this, or did the CIA and Biden go off on their own? I don't know the answer to that.
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