Former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs and former State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland spoke about plans to respond to Moscow's alleged interference in US presidential elections. Proposals for response intervention were developed by the White House coordinator for cyber security Michael Daniel and the expert on the Russian Federation in the National Security Council Celeste Wallander, who worked on this together with Nuland, Yahoo said.. com.

This is written by the authors of the book "Russian roulette: an insider story about the war of Putin against America and the election of Donald Trump" ("Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of the Donald Trump"), which will be released on March 13, - journalist Yahoo Michael Ishikof and editor-in-chief of Mother Jones magazine David Corn.

In a conversation with reporters, Nuland, in particular, said that Wallander offered to disclose information about the classified bank accounts of the daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Latvia. The second idea was to spread on Russian Internet resources information about "Putin's money, the friends of high-ranking Russian officials, about corruption in Putin's party" United Russia ", Yahoo writes. com. "We wanted to increase the price of reckoning to the level that Putin set," Nuland explained..

Among the proposals were also cyber attacks on Russian intelligence agencies and the National Security Agency's cyberattack, which would expose the sites created by Moscow and Russian hackers Guccifer 2. 0 and DCLeaks, involved in the promulgation of documents of the Democratic Party.

However, the White House decided not to respond to Russia's possible intervention.

Obama's internal security advisors Susan Rice and Lisa Monaco felt that if the information about the preparation of the answer leaks in the media, Obama will be "pressed against the wall".

In June 2017, The Washington Post wrote that Barack Obama, as president of the United States, in 2016 approved the development of electronic measures against Russia. The journalists found out that Obama made such a decision in August 2016 when the secret services published a secret report saying that Putin "personally took part in organizing a cyber campaign aimed at harming or discrediting the US presidential election".