Lacking any real evidence of North Korean culpability in the Sony Pictures hack, the Obama Administration has gone with the allegation, and continues to threaten unspecified action against them.
The US threats were reiterated today as North Korea’s entire Internet presence went down to a DDoS attack, though it was a brief outage and North Korea recovered fairly quickly. It’s unclear if the US was involved, and the White House refused to comment.
The FBI’s only evidence was that the code used in the hack looked similar to code used in previous attacks that they similarly had blamed on North Korea, which is far from decisive proof, and a number of experts say they think it was more likely an inside job from a disgruntled Sony employee.
Sony seemed to be investigating in that direction too early on, until the FBI started playing up the North Korea possibility. Since then, they’ve let the inside job theory drop, and are willing to accept whatever the FBI says it thinks happened.
North Korea, for its part, denied involvement, and it’s not like them to not take credit for things they’ve done. They’ve been pushing the US to agree to a joint investigation into the hack, though with the FBI having already declared the matter settled, there seems to be no US eagerness to investigate further.
The threatened US “retaliation” against North Korea is still on the table though, so long as the matter remains unresolved, and that’s got North Korea threatening to retaliate against the potential retaliation for something they may well not have done in the first place.
I believe nothing coming from the US government unless independent proof is forthcoming or available. A mainstream press article simply repeating a government press release is not independent proof.
North Korea may have done this, but there is just too much alternative explanation about for me to pass judgement.
Amazing how folks will believe this because this is their boy in charge. Therefore, gov't no longer lies, and the MSM is suddenly once again objective…at least until the other team gains control again.
Obama's belligerence leads me to believe that the NSA engineered a false-flag attack on Sony.
Well he has to be belligerent, just look at the picture of Obama mulling action in the photo included with this article!
Oh wait, that's just a stock photo being used to negatively propagandize against him.
LOL
Lacking brains and a spine, Obama Mulls Saying Something Stupid and Untrue About North Korea
Are we trying to start multiple wars in multiple theaters that DON'T have to be fought?
Wow, my friends and I thought he would be much different than Bush.
This corrupt USG regime is quick to make accusations that aren't worth a damn.
Lacking any real proof, the hacks in the corporate media have placed the blame
on North Korea, another USG (bogeyman). The media clowns have also labeled
N. Korea a (rogue) state. It appears that Oboomer, like the bozo who sat on the
stool before him, doesn't need proof.
As for N. Korea being a rogue state; the only (rogue) state that I'm aware of
is currently occupying Palestine.
In fact the cyber attack gave Sony a free advertising campain.I do not like cyber attacks but the attitude of Mr.Obama is very childish : first shout than think.He has had this kind of attitude before.Other strange attitude : recently he refused the invitation of Moscow to celebrate the 70th anniversary of defeat of nazism : not very polite attitude.(maybe we should offer him a guide of good manners).
Obama is petty. Probably was driving him nuts that Putin enjoyed such high approvals, while his own shrink daily the more idiotic he acts. So he decided, in his spiteful and vindictive way, to hurt the Russian people for supporting Putin, with little to no regard for the future effects of this.
So what is all this nonsense about? Who is the audience for this crap? Who is he trying to please?
Dunno, everyone is out shopping or watching crap movies on TV.
For a country whose technology appears to have stopped evolving in 1965, it seems that this "attack" on Sony (just as private correspondence between execs about certain actresses is leaked, making all parties look like unprofessional and childish idiots) is being hyped way beyond any actual credibility.
I mean, does he just repeat what they tell him to? I know the Kool-Aid drinkers and true believers will swallow whatever he says, but what about the rest of us?
Since When the US government or for that matter the Us people cared about proof ,evidence or the truth?"We do not need no stinking proof"Iraq,9/11,Afghanistan,Iraq,and so on!
President Obama — Accomplice to murder
So, if someone now assassinates the President of north Korea exactly as depicted in the movie, would not Obama be in fact a coconspirator and equally guilty for the murder?
Surely, for it you were to make showing how best to murder our President and someone was to do it exactly as you instructed, would you even survive the SWAT team that came to hunt you down?
WaPo makes up a propaganda headline, which should simply read –
"China says no proof NK behind cyberattacks". down with the MSM:
WaPo: Simon Denyer: China reluctant to join U.S. in punishing North Korea over cyberattacks
China said Tuesday there was no proof that North Korea was behind a cyberattack on Sony Pictures Entertainment, signaling its reluctance to side with the United States over the incident, while also rejecting speculation it could have cut off Pyongyang’s Internet access as punishment…
She said Beijing had not seen proof of who was behind the attack on Sony. “We need sufficient evidence before drawing any conclusion,” she said at a news conference… http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/…