Intelligence Officials Warn of Continued Russia Cyberthreats
Source: New York Times
WASHINGTON On the same day that President Trump went on Twitter to renew his claim that the focus on Russian hacking was a Democrat EXCUSE for losing the election, his two top intelligence officials told the Senate on Thursday that Russian cyberactivities were the foremost threat facing the United States and were likely to grow only more severe.
The officials delivered the warning as the nations intelligence agencies released their annual worldwide threat assessment, which described the Kremlins aggressive cyberposture, evidenced by Russias efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. election.
Dan Coats, Mr. Trumps director of national intelligence, repeated and endorsed, almost word for word, the Obama administrations conclusion that only Russias senior-most officials could have authorized the 2016 U.S. election-focused data thefts and disclosures, based on the scope and sensitivity of the targets.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/us/politics/intelligence-officials-warn-of-russia-cyberattacks.html?ref=politics&_r=0
dalton99a
(81,656 posts)lpbk2713
(42,770 posts)"And then I says ... "
"BWAHAHAHA. I can't believe he's that stupid."
NRaleighLiberal
(60,028 posts)We are already there.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,060 posts)dhill926
(16,377 posts)director of national intelligence. He is one seriously dumb fucker....