NEWSLINK Newsweek: “U.S. MULLING RETALIATORY CYBER ATTACK AGAINST RUSSIA: REPORT”

The Obama administration has asked the CIA to deliver options on possible retaliatory cyber attacks on Russia designed to “embarrass” the country’s leadership, NBC News reports.

Unnamed sources who NBC says have direct knowledge of the conversations say no decisions have been made on the style and scope of any attack, but the CIA has “reams of documents that could expose unsavory tactics by Russian President Vladimir Putin.”

Any such attack, covert or otherwise, would be in response to Russia’s alleged meddling in the American presidential election, with numerous damaging leaks in recent months from hacks on Democratic Party organizations and alleged attempts to break into state voting systems. …