The New York Times: U.S. Escalates Online Attacks on Russia's Power Grid

Papastox · Jun 20, 2019

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The New York: Times U.S. Escalates Online Attacks on Russia's Power Grid
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/worl...s-on-russias-power-grid/ar-AACWG5a?li=AAgfIYZ

WASHINGTON — The United States is stepping up digital incursions into Russia’s electric power grid in a warning to President Vladimir V. Putin and a demonstration of how the Trump administration is using new authorities to deploy cybertools more aggressively, current and former government officials said.

In interviews over the past three months, the officials described the previously unreported deployment of American computer code inside Russia’s grid and other targets as a classified companion to more publicly discussed action directed at Moscow’s disinformation and hacking units around the 2018 midterm elections.

Under the law, those actions can now be authorized by the defense secretary without special presidential approval.
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The Dept of Defense intentionally withheld details about this operation with Trump over concerns that he might leak it to Russia. The fact that our own intelligence officials are not comfortable sharing intelligence information with the president of the US-- two years later demonstrates what dangerous territory we're in. The fact is, they cannot trust the president of the US with the details of highly classified information, they have an obligation to protect and defend the United States.
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Who can trust "intelligence" officials after what they did to Trump for 2 1/2 years and obviously still. They are the leakers and liars...they need to be held accountable and made examples of...

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