Blumenthal : Today's classified briefing on Russia's cyberattack left me deeply alarmed

[sunonmars]

Stunning. Today’s classified briefing on Russia’s cyberattack left me deeply alarmed, in fact downright scared. Americans deserve to know what's going on. Declassify what’s known & unknown.

Link to tweet

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Blumenthal is basically letting us know this is much more serious than we are being told.

[stillcool]

1. the no news about it is a give-away.

maybe we'll get the sanitized version after it's too late.

[gohuskies]

2. Truly stunning and something that alarmed me when the news first surfaced

I think the damage from this cyberattack is incalculable and now with Sen Blumenthal speaking out, i am even more worried about what the Russians have stolen. IMO tRump is a Putin mole and his dismantling and de-capitating our national intelligence services allowed this to happen.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

13. More than allowed?

Maybe it was the point.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

3. Well shit - that's not good. If Sen Blumenthal is scared..... trump is a piece of traitorous shit.

[elleng]

4. Senator/VP-Elect Harris also in on this?

[leftieNanner]

20. I believe that they are receiving classified briefings now.

Joe will need to get ON IT on day one.

[elleng]

21. Yes

[Andy823]

5. I wonder if trump will

skip the country before all this shit hits the fan. If he was involved, wouldn't this be "treason"?

[2naSalit]

22. ...

He's not going anywhere. He might go to maga-laga but he'll probably be under house arrest with no phone service. He is a national security threat and many charges may apply such that he'll be sequestered there but ultimately be in custody soon thereafter.

[poli-junkie]

6. I think Trump opened the door to Putin to have access to anything he wants.

Timing sure as hell is suspicious.

[CentralMass]

9. This.

[hedda_foil]

10. Could this be the reason he fired the head of CISA a month or so ago?

CISA leads the effort to enhance the security, resiliency, and reliability of the Nation's cybersecurity and communications infrastructure.

This is the department that's responsible for domestic cybersecurity.

[Fiendish Thingy]

14. The hack was months ago, while Krebs was in charge. Nt

[Cha]

27. Thanks.

[lostnfound]

25. If you were Krebs and you knew, maybe you'd ASK to get fired?

The commission that produced a report on what CISA should do differently has a Russian-born woman who admires krebs and she has koalas (“cozy bears?”) on her Twitter header.

[bdamomma]

23. tRump

has been just a mole for Putin, to decimate our country. You wonder what that POS Putin knows, everything.

tRump is a CRIMINAL.

[mahina]

28. Word

[spanone]

7. Has trump mentioned this? ever?

[Disaffected]

8. I'm still wondering why, under these extreme circumstances and,

likely to get worse if nothing is done, the western world (at least) does not simply cut Russia (and it's allies) off from the internet.

I don't know if that's at all a practical possibility but to start with why not just send folks to the borders with cable cutters??

It's time to play hardball with those a-holes.

[BadgerMom]

16. Jan. 20. That's when the US will be able to respond.

[bronxiteforever]

15. Kick and recommend.

Absolutely agree with the Senator. There needs to be an investigation and a report for POTUS Biden so he can chart a cyber national defense.
As bad as this is, I really enjoyed writing “POTUS Biden”.

[Boogiemack]

17. Isn't that the same thing they said when they left b Intel bruefubg re 2016 Russia

interference?

[mahina]

29. Are there some tables in there or is that what you meant to say? I don't quite follow

[Hekate]

19. Obama and Biden were on to them in 2016. Then something something Mitch McConnnell...

Then Trump got in.

I am eternally grateful that Joe Biden is coming in soon, albeit with a federal government in rubble. All hands on deck! Rehire people with experience!

[bdamomma]

24. The Pentagon

was hacked correct, would this have to do with those 3 unqualified tRump loyalists that were put there?

[Grasswire2]

26. Blumenthal could disclose this tomorrow by reading it into Congressional Record.

He keeps going hair on fire about classified info that he claims the American people deserve to know. He's been doing this for nearly a year. And yet that info is still tightly held.

WHY won't he just tell us?

There's no penalty for reading classified info into the Record on the floor of the Chamber.

JUST DO IT!

[KY_EnviroGuy]

30. Sen. Blumenthal knows Russia could bring the USA to its knees....

with flood attacks on our power grid, banking, industry and healthcare.

Total catastrophe at any time, but 10X worse during a pandemic in the winter.....

[Pacifist Patriot]

31. I know a very teeny tiny sliver that impacted a small aspect of my company's fed contract...

and I'm terrified.

[BComplex]

32. Evidently started in March or April. I'm wondering about the furor over the election.

I'm wondering if this is why trump and many republicans felt so friggin' certain that there was election interference.