{"id":64837,"date":"2021-05-12T09:19:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T13:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=64837"},"modified":"2021-05-12T09:19:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T13:19:05","slug":"blame-russia-the-msm-propaganda-piece-below-proves-a-conspiracy-to-further-unjustly-sanction-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=64837","title":{"rendered":"“BLAME RUSSIA!” — The MSM Propaganda Piece Below Proves a Conspiracy to Further Unjustly Sanction Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republicans bash Biden over pipeline cyberattack, shutdown<\/strong><\/h1>\n

By Samuel Chamberlain
\nNew York Post<\/p>\n

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Republicans criticize President Joe Biden over a cyberattack that shut down most of a major U.S. oil pipeline.Chris Kleponis – Pool via CNP \/ MEGA<\/span><\/div>\n

Prominent\u00a0Republicans criticized President Biden<\/a>\u00a0over a cyberattack that had shut down most of a major US oil pipeline as of Monday evening.<\/p>\n

Colonial Pipeline, which delivers about 45 percent of the fuel consumed on the East Coast, halted operations late last week after revealing a ransomware attack that it said had affected some of its systems. On Monday, the FBI identified a criminal syndicate named\u00a0DarkSide<\/a>\u00a0as creators of the ransomware used in the attack. The group\u2019s members are Russian speakers, and their malware is coded not to attack networks using Russian-language keyboards.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo cyber-gang in Russia can conduct this kind of attack against an American piece of critical infrastructure without the tacit or explicit knowledge of Vladimir Putin\u2019s government,\u201d Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told \u201cFox News Primetime\u201d Monday night. \u201cIt shows that Joe Biden\u2019s weak policy on Russia is having consequences for the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Hackers took down Colonial Pipeline, one of the US\u2019s biggest pipeline operators.<\/figcaption>
\u00a9 Kevin G. Hall\/TNS\/ZUMA24.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cWhen you give away the store to Russia, when you\u00a0extend a nuclear arms treaty<\/a>\u00a0that favors Russia over the United States, you allow Russia to\u00a0build a gas pipeline to Germany<\/a>\u00a0under the Baltic Sea, when you\u00a0invite Vladimir Putin to a summit<\/a>\u00a0\u2026 you just embolden Vladimir Putin and his minions to launch these kinds of attacks on the US \u2026,\u201d Cotton added.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe [Biden] calls\u00a0Vladimir Putin a killer<\/a>\u00a0once, and he acts like he\u2019s a tough guy. The Democrats have been beating their chests about Russia for the past four years, but as soon as Joe Biden got into office, they returned to their weak, dovish roots once again \u2026 we should immediately go on offense if that\u2019s what it takes to get Russia to pull in its horns.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anne Neuberger, White House deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technology, told reporters Monday that the Biden administration is not blaming any country for the cyberattack. DarkSide itself posted a statement on its dark website claiming its purpose \u201cis to make money, and not creating problems for society.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Colonial Pipeline passes through 12 states between Texas and New Jersey and plays a key role in transporting gasoline, jet fuel, diesel and other petroleum products.<\/p>\n

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Sen. Tom Cotton told Fox News that the cyberattack shows \u201cJoe Biden\u2019s weak policy on Russia.\u201d<\/figcaption>
Pool via CNP \/ SplashNews.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Former Texas Gov. and Energy Secretary Rick Perry said the forced shutdown should serve as a \u201cwake-up call\u201d to Biden to \u201cbuild more pipelines instead of shutting them down.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m pretty sure the Clinton administration, Bush administration, the Obama administration, all worked to get America to be independent of other countries\u2019 oil and gas,\u201d Perry told Fox News\u2019 \u201cHannity.\u201d \u201cAnd we did that under the Trump administration. We not only became independent, we became dominant, and this administration wants to take that away and stop building pipelines.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the same program, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich called for legislation to elevate cyberattacks to the same level as terror attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe ought to pass a law immediately that makes this kind of hacking subject to a death penalty, and the law should include a provision that the president, through a judicial process, should be able to order the killing of anybody overseas who\u2019s doing this,\u201d Gingrich said. \u201cI mean, we have now spent like 15 years on defense. We have no idea who they are, we have no idea where they are, and if we did know who they were, we\u2019d have no mechanism to do anything about it. A great country cannot allow people to come in and savage it, have no consequences, and then wait for the next attack, and yet that literally is where we are right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Colonial Pipeline announced late Monday that its Line 4, which runs from Greensboro, NC, to Woodbine, Md., was operating under manual control \u201cfor a limited period of time while existing inventory is available \u2026 some smaller lateral lines between terminals and delivery points are now operational as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

The company said earlier Monday it hopes to \u201csubstantially\u201d restore service by the end of this week.<\/p>\n

With Post wires<\/em><\/p>\n

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