Thread by @Monaheart1229

Yest, NYT reported that the US has escalated online attacks on RU power grid, & there was also reporting that the DOD didn't brief Trump on some of what is happening w RU bc they were concerned he'd tell RU. This is very important. #SundayMorning nytimes.com/2019/06/15/us/…

2-"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

3-"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

4-"Moscow’s disinformation and hacking units around the 2018 midterm elections...But now the American strategy has shifted more toward offense, officials say, with the placement of potentially crippling malware inside the Russian system at a depth and with an aggressiveness that

5-" had never been tried before. It is intended partly as a warning, and partly to be poised to conduct cyberstrikes if a major conflict broke out between Washington and Moscow...But the action inside the Russian electric grid appears to have been conducted under little-noticed

6-"new legal authorities, slipped into the military authorization bill passed by Congress last summer. The measure approved the routine conduct of “clandestine military activity” in cyberspace, to “deter, safeguard or defend against attacks or malicious cyberactivities against

7-"the United States.” Under the law, those actions can now be authorized by the defense secretary without special presidential approval...Two administration officials said they believed Mr. Trump had not been briefed in any detail about the steps to place “implants” —

8-"software code that can be used for surveillance or attack — inside the Russian grid. Pentagon and intelligence officials described broad hesitation to go into detail with Mr. Trump about operations against Russia for concern over his reaction — and the possibility that he

9-"might countermand it or discuss it with foreign officials, as he did in 2017 when he mentioned a sensitive operation in Syria to the Russian foreign minister." ~NYT

10-Consequently, Trump last night, called this story in the Times "a virtual act of Treason". Is he upset @ the security leak to the Times & handling it this poorly, or did the DOD REALLY not tell him? Hmmm... #SundayMorning
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