Russian President Vladimir Putin
By Katie Bo Williams
The Obama administration is reportedly finalizing a package
of sanctions and diplomatic censure to punish Russia for its attempts
to meddle in the 2016 U.S. election.
U.S. officials told The Washington Post
that the response is expected to include covert cyber operations. An
announcement describing the public elements could come as early as this
week, the newspaper reported.
Holding up the announcement is an
internal debate over how best to adapt a 2015 executive order that gave
the president the authority to levy sanctions against foreign actors who
carry out cyberattacks against the U.S.
The order was used as
the “stick” in negotiations over a highly publicized 2015 agreement
with China that neither nation would hack the other for economic gain.
But
officials concluded this past fall that the order does not cover the
kind of covert influence operation that the Intelligence Community
believes Russia carried out during the election — hacking political
organizations and leaking stolen emails with the goal of influencing the
outcome.
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Source: The Hill (via The Huffington Post)
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