McCain: Russian cyberintrusions an 'act of war'
The Arizona Republican, who is chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, also has scheduled a hearing for next week on foreign cyberthreats to the US, which will also focus on Russian cyberhacking, a committee aide told CNN earlier Friday.
McCain, who is one of Washington's most prominent foreign policy hardliners, has criticized the recent sanctions and expulsions announced by the Obama administration this week as insufficient and belated. He made his latest comments in Ukraine, a nation threatened by a resurgent Russia, after meeting with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.
"When you attack a country, it's an act of war," McCain said of the recent hackings on Ukrainian TV, according to a transcript compiled by Reuters. "And so we have to make sure that there is a price to pay so that we can perhaps persuade Russians to stop this kind of attacks on our very fundamentals of democracy."
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/30/politics/mccain-cyber-hearing/index.html
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only weapons of mass destruction are nuclear? WE ARE DEPENDENT ON OUR INTERCONNECTED SYSTEMS FOR LIFE. We can't survive without.
The typical household couldn't maintain for more than a week, many far less, even where people weren't frozen out before. Millions of people live in homes heated only by electricity. And municipal water pumps stop pumping when any backup power generators stop. Obama has advanced preparedness a great deal over what we had. Local governments are required to have disaster plans for just this kind of thing and are empowered to take control and confiscate supplies for common use. Hospitals are now required to be able to supply their own power for four days. The fifth...
Imagine power down for weeks in that western grid--in August. The rest of the nation'd be scrambling to limit deaths, but bulldozers would be digging mass graves across the region anyway.
Btw, speaking of nuclear also, just one well-designed nuclear bomb COULD take out power to much to most of the U.S. for a very long time if exploded at high altitude as an electromagnetic pulse weapon--too high for us to be hurt by blast wave or radiation but the right height to take out much to most of our electronic systems, with various degrees of possible catastrophic damage to our power grids, building systems, communications, the electronics in our cars and homes. ISIS might launch a low-tech bomb from a ship off one of the coasts for more limited but still devastating damage to that side of the country.
Cyber or nuclear, other advanced nations do have this capability, we have the capability, a mutual deterrence, thing--but. First of all, WHO did it? As for who's most damaged, most of Russia is poor and not that developed, able to live without our HVAC systems, our constant food deliveries to many thousands of supermarkets, our water piped in from far away; and of course Iran, North Korea, China, Iraq, etc., are not exactly well known for their U.S.-level concern for their populations' lives, much less modern comforts and conveniences. We are far more dependent for life on our systems than most of the world. 300 million of us.
And sanction Exxon while we're at it. Keep Tillerson from getting his precious billions. 
(but he will be happy to send your kids to do the fighting for the Republican Fat Cats)
Where is everyone else?
This is a major event in American history and not a good event.
Where are the Democrats? Real leaders?
This should never be considered normal and if it had happened even 5 years ago, the media coverage would be wall to wall.
Where's the outrage?
