Speaking today, President Obama promised a “response” to North Korea to punish them for hacking Sony Pictures and spoiling the release of comedy “The Interview,” which was scheduled to come out at Christmas.
Obama refused to get into details of the form of the retaliation, but said it would be “in a place and time and manner that we choose.” Obama was asked if a military attack was possible, but declined to answer.
The FBI insisted today that they’ve confirmed North Korea’s responsibility, but they offered little evidence for it, and many experts continue to believe that an inside attack from a disgruntled Sony employee is the more likely explanation.
The hackers’ familiarity with internal Sony networks certainly would be hard for North Korea to have come by, but growing publicity around the incident had the US under growing pressure to assign blame somewhere, and North Korea ended up being that somewhere.
The FBI held off its promised report twice this week, and when they finally issued the statement today, they insisted all of the really convincing evidence was classified, offering only suppositions and circumstantial evidence beyond that.
President Obama was also critical of Sony for not releasing the movie, saying “I wish they had spoken to me first,” and that he would’ve convinced Sony to release it after all. Sony, which previously said they aren’t going to release it, now says they are exploring possible routes for a release after all.
The most likely scenario is the NSA hacked it. It gives Obama a reason to screw with North Korea now.
For keeping the war face and war parties happy, USG/English always been able to create a buggy man from somewhere in this world for a plan of war with somewhere in this world.
I'm shocked, shocked I tell you that there is cyber warfare going on! Let's not forget that the U.S. and Israel initiated a much more potentially lethal cyber attack on Iran.
Yeah but we're good guys.
Free publicity for an incitement to assassination.
" The hackers’ familiarity with internal Sony networks certainly would be hard for North Korea to have come by," Most likely details of the network were easily accessed and unencrypted just like the emails.
Funny how this happens at the same time there's a chance peace might break out.
Didn't N Korea just release the US Christian fundamentalist tourist who left a bible in a restaurant wash room?
ANTIWAR to it's credit posted three articles all saying What if NK did not do it or that they most probably did not do it. All from mainstream media sources: One from Yahoo.com, one from the LATimes and one from The Guardian. This is obviously just another false flag. One of a long long long list.
ANTIWAR to it's credit just posted another link to ABC news that the investigation into the Anthrax attacks was flawed. Another False Flag attack. This FF is particularly screaming obvious in the extreme.
But when it comes to 9/11? ANTIWAR is nowhere to be found. In spite of all the voluminous research comprising nine books by David Ray Griffin and all the work of the 2300 Architects and Engineers, ANTIWAR still discusses 9/11 as if the official story as put forth by the 9/11 Commission is somehow the essential truth.
Even after an investigative journalist of the stature of Seymour Hersh comes out and says the story of the killing of Osama bin Laden in 2011 is "one big lie from beginning to end, and not one word of the story is true". ANTIWAR is silent on this? Why?
What if Sy Hersh is correct? If they would tell you a lie that big what lie would they not tell you? How about, we don't spy on the American people without a court order? Oh that was a lie! How about we don't torture? oh that was another kid ! How about WMD in Iraq? Oh that was a lie!
How many lies do they have to tell you and still you refute to look at the 9/11 evidence? Really!? You can easily accept that everything EXCEPT 9/11 can be a lie, but 9/11? let's put our heads in the sand now.
Actually, Justin Raimondo of Antiwar.com has written an entire book (The Terror Enigma: 9/11 and the Israeli Connection) questioning parts of the "official story."
This is not something I can speak for Antiwar.com itself on, but my attitude toward 9/11 has always included significant questions/problems with the "official story." On the other hand, I don't just automatically buy every proposed alternative theory for which even less evidence has been presented and for which most presentations of alleged "evidence" disintegrate even under the most cursory examination.
John Kerry's famous 1971 quote about Vietnam needs to be updated:
How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in North Korea? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for Sony's right to release a movie?
"…insisted all of the really convincing evidence was classified…"
And as such we are required to just trust them that 1. they are telling the truth, and 2. they are protecting us from "danger", and 3. they are going to ratchet up the tensions so they can continue to "spread Democracy" around the world – because it works so well here.
Well, the US obviously has the ability to find out for sure. But another thing is for sure, the US won't admit it is wrong about the accusations against N. Korea if that turns out to be the case.
Didn't the Sony hackers only start to talk about "The Interview" only after the press started to speculate that the hack had something to do with "The Interview" in the first place?
But it looks like Obama really wanted to see that movie.
Revenge killing
Black man executes two white NYPD cops
This afternoon as two white NYPD cops sat in their squad car, a black man having declared his intent on the internet, walked up to the squad car and executed the two cops with shots to the head.
Something had to break, as government was doing nothing to stop the epidemic of bigoted white cops executing innocent men for no other reason then they were black.
So, will the police become more militarized and their police state mentality more brutal? We shall see.