Admiral Michael Rogers, director of the National Security Agency and commander of the U.S. Cyber Command, said on Tuesday that President Donald Trump had not given him the authority to fight back against Russian attacks on the 2018 U.S. election. In testimony before a Senate committee, Rogers was asked by Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) about the…
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This is a huge issue.
Warfare in the future will be fought in cyberspace and not on the battlefield between opposing armies.
What sort of cyber policy would the screamers in the Democratic Party like us to follow? Aside from condemning the Russian’s for perpetrating every evil in the world since the poisoning of Plato.
Hacking into our voting machines is the least of our problems.
The answer to that is Paper Ballots.
But what do we do if our electric grid is hacked or the computers running our oil refiners?
Rather then acting like twits and yelling at the wind, the Democrats should be offering concrete solutions to these real problems.
Because we all know that the Republicans “are not the men that will be blamed for nothing” because they will do nothing.
Admiral Michael Rogers is full of shit. No DOD element needs Presidential authorization to carry out their primary function, protection of the United States of America from aggression by a foreign power. The Admiral needs to re-read his oath.