US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Mike Pompeo arrives at a Senate Select Intelligence Committee closed hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, March 15, 2017. (Photo by AFP)
Lee Ferran, RCL: CIA Chief Hints at Covert Retaliation for Cyberattacks
Senator invokes "Dr. Strangelove" in criticism of secret responses to hacks.
In all fairness, Sen. Angus King warned them out front he was steaming mad.
“The first statement I want to make is more in sorrow than in anger. I’ll get to the anger part in a minute,” the independent senator from Maine said.
King was addressing some of the most powerful men in the country, from the Director of National Intelligence to the chiefs of the CIA, NSA, FBI, Defense Intelligence Agency and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency at Tuesday’s Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Worldwide Threats – an annual face-to-face discussion about what keeps the top U.S. national security officials up at night.
The row of stern-faced men waited patiently as King made a brief aside about Russian influence operations and the denials thereof by President Donald Trump, and then King got to “the anger part” – the part that “involves cyberattacks.”
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WNU Editor: This type of warfare has actually been going on for a very long time .... The History of Cyber Warfare (Lewis University).
