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Re:Obama Strikes Back at Russia for Election Hacking by hehheh on Thursday December 29, 2016 @04:55PM (#13280504)
Unless I'm mistaken GWB didn't have to deal with a foreign government interfering with our elections.

Besides, this sort of thing will only be relevant a few times in the President's career and the odds are pretty good that if it were to happen it would happen in their "lame duck" phase. So what?

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Re:Obama Strikes Back at Russia for Election Hacking by toehead2000 on Thursday December 29, 2016 @04:58PM (#13280528)
Well there's this and the UN Israel resolution, both of which are things Trump would have been unlikely to do. Then there's the raft of executive orders..
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Re:Obama Strikes Back at Russia for Election Hacking by heurist on Thursday December 29, 2016 @06:43PM (#13281241)
It's almost like Trump's win was entirely unexpected and the outgoing administration is playing catch-up on things they thought Clinton would take care of...
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Re:Obama Strikes Back at Russia for Election Hacking by mcphage on Thursday December 29, 2016 @08:12PM (#13281742)
Whether or not Trump would do those things is immaterial; he's not yet president, so what he would have done if he was already doesn't matter. Executive orders, that's pretty common.
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