US no longer holds moral high ground on global issues: Activist
The United States no longer upholds moral standards on world affairs and is not in a position to impose sanctions against China over cyber attacks, an American political activist says.
“The US unfortunately, or should I say sadly as a citizen, no longer holds the moral high ground on any global issues,” Charles Coburn told Press TV on Tuesday.
“For us to impose sanctions for hackings while the NSA and other alphabet soup spying organizations are doing the same, probably as bad or worse” is hypocritical and counterproductive, Coburn said.
He made the comments after US Senator Marco Rubio called on President Barack Obama to stop using mere rhetoric against China and impose sanctions on the country over the recent hacking allegations.
Rubio, a US presidential candidate from the Republican Party, sent a letter to Obama on Monday, calling China’s measures “irresponsible” and “destabilizing.”
Chinese-based hackers appear to have gained access to sensitive background information on US intelligence and military personnel that could potentially expose them to blackmail, US media outlets reported earlier this month, citing several unnamed US officials.
The report said US investigators are looking at two separate attacks, widely believed to be from China, accessing the records of as many as four million government employees stored in a database at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
The data breach, which had started in March, 2014, and may have started earlier, was noticed by the OPM in April 2015.
Later, FBI Director James Comey put the number of employees at eighteen million. It has been described by federal officials as among the largest breaches of government data in the history of the United States.
China has dismissed the recent hacking allegations as "irresponsible and unscientific."
Beijing says Washington’s cyber attack accusations are hypocritical, since intelligence leaks have revealed that the US itself is the most active perpetrator of cyber espionage against foreign countries, especially against China.
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