Ironic that the 2016 election featured Trump and his campaign team welcoming Russian help, and as his administration is winding down, silence on the part of a president that could not care less for anything other than not being a loser. The latest, and most serious attack by geopolitical adversary Russia, and nada from Trump. Dereliction of duty on front after front.
‘At the worst possible time, when the United States is at its most vulnerable … the networks of the federal government and much of corporate America are compromised by a foreign nation’
www.independent.co.uk
Thomas Bossert, who served as a top homeland security adviser to both Mr Trump and former President George W Bush, detailed the attack in an article published on Thursday in the
New York Times that said “the magnitude of this national security breach is hard to overstate.”
“At the worst possible time, when the United States is at its most vulnerable — during a presidential transition and a devastating public health crisis — the networks of the federal government and much of corporate America are compromised by a foreign nation,” the career security adviser wrote.
“The logical conclusion is that we must act as if the Russian government has control of all the networks it has penetrated,” he added. “But it is unclear what the Russians intend to do next. The access the Russians now enjoy could be used for far more than simply spying.”
Mr Bossert said resolving the cyberattack would required “the segregated replacement of entire enclaves of computers, network hardware and servers across vast federal and corporate networks” while remaining in operation. How the nation’s computer systems remain active amid Russian intrusion while rooting out the hackers would be “difficult” but ultimately necessary, the security adviser wrote.
“President Trump is on the verge of leaving behind a federal government, and perhaps a large number of major industries, compromised by the Russian government,” he concluded. “President-elect Joe Biden must begin his planning to take charge of this crisis.”