Right Wing Blames Obama For Russia’s Hacking

From today’s lead story on World Net Daily:

The White House was on the defensive Wednesday, explaining why it didn’t respond more quickly to alleged Russian hacking of the U.S. election while critics accused President Obama of hypocrisy. Talk host Laura Ingraham, who has been discussed as a possible press secretary in the new Trump administration, told WND that Obama didn’t seem to have been worried about foreign hacking during his previous nearly eight years in office.

“China hacked millions of sensitive background checks of U.S. government employees and President Obama said nary a word,” Ingraham said. “The selective moral outrage is glaring.” In July 2015, U.S. officials announced two major breaches occurred the previous year of U.S. government databases holding personnel records and security-clearance files of at least 22.1 million people, including current and retired federal employees.

Fox News host Sean Hannity said Obama “pretends to be morally outraged over Russian hacking and influence, but he’s done next to nothing on cybersecurity in the entire eight years he’s been president.”

“During his time in office, we have seen hacks of NASA, the Department of Energy, the FEC commission networks, the U.S. Postal Service, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the State Department, the Department of Defense, the IRS, the Office of Personnel Management and the White House itself,” Hannity said. “If the White House ever addresses cybersecurity, it’ll be under the Trump administration. This president had his chance, and he failed to act.”