Jim Himes: Obama ‘Didn’t Do Enough’ on Russia; It Was a ‘Slap on the Wrist’

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HIMES: "In my opinion he didn’t do enough. You know, Putin is like a schoolyard bully. Every once in a while that guy needs to get knocked down to understand that particularly in a realm in which we are better than he is — and, by the way, that’s most realms — but in the cyber realm, we are better than he is. And I always felt that, you know, guided by the idea of proportionality, which means that you hit back about as roughly you’ve been hit, that we should have done more, and that could have taken a lot of forms. Sadly, what I think Russia sees today is a slap on the wrist and an unwillingness on the part of the United States to use its offensive capability to make sure that anyone who attacks us, as they did on Election Day or prior to Election Day, is going to pay a pretty significant price for doing so."