When the U.S. Department of Justice before this calendar month announced indictments of 12 Russian intelligence officials for hacking the Democratic Party’s in addition to Hillary Clinton’s e-mails inwards 2016, President Donald Trump’s kickoff reaction was to blame the direction of Barack Obama for non taking activity against the interference. “Why didn’t they produce something nigh it, particularly when it was reported that President Obama was informed past times the FBI inwards September, before the Election?” he tweeted.
Trump volition take away keep no i to blame but his ain administration, however, inwards the result of some other such attack before the 2018 midterm elections. Faced amongst mounting prove of continued Russian efforts “to undermine America’s democracy,” inwards the words of Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, the direction needs to take away keep concrete steps to forestall farther unusual interference. For a 2d terminal month, it looked equally though this were starting to happen: reports emerged that the U.S. authorities had met amongst 8 leading engineering companies to hash out how to safeguard the upcoming midterm elections. It was an encouraging sign that the direction seemed to travel taking the threat to the United States seriously in addition to recognizing the critical utilisation of the person sector inwards protecting the integrity of the electoral process.
Unfortunately, a closer await revealed a serious flaw inwards this otherwise promising engagement. The New York Times reported“a tense atmosphere inwards which the tech companies repeatedly pressed federal officials for information, alone to travel told—repeatedly—that no specific intelligence would travel shared.” This tight-lipped approach was evidently one-sided. Although the tech companies were opened upward nigh what kinds of disinformation they were monitoring on their platforms, “neither the F.B.I. nor the Department of Homeland Security was willing or able to portion specific data nigh threats the tech companies should anticipate.”
Sadly, this type of impasse sounds all also familiar. Both authors served inwards the White House; i focused on counterterrorism, the other on engineering policy. In our experience, getting the
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