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The day of reckoning is here. President Obama vowed to strike back against Russia after the DNC hacks. The attack window was set between Election Day and Inauguration Day. And since Trump won, Obama cannot defer it to the next administration. Any counter-strike must happen now or never. Assuming a CIA covert operation (as NBC reported ) it may have already begun. Yesterday CIA officials briefed Congressional leaders on the DNC breach, offering credible evidence it was

Conspiracy theories sprout like mushrooms in the fertilized hothouse known as Twitter. Today, in the wake of news reports that Russian hackers stole Trump opposition research from the Democratic National Committee, Twitter is abuzz with speculation that Russia carried out the operation on behalf of Donald Trump. After all, why else would Russia want those files? After all, aren’t Putin and Trump BFFs? By #twitterlogic it must be true. DNC called in CrowdStrike to investi