🔥@SenatorCantwell, asked Trump 3X for Russian threat assessment to US electrical grid: NO RESPONSE

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3X!!!


Dr. Dena Grayson
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2h2 hours ago

🔥@SenatorCantwell, top Democrat on Senate Energy & Natural Resources Cmte, asked the Trump administration THREE TIMES to provide a threat assessment of #Russian🇷🇺capabilities to breach the US electric grid.

The administration has not yet responded.🙄

Link to tweet

March 15, 2018 / 11:26 AM / Updated 14 hours ago
In a first, U.S. blames Russia for cyber attacks on energy grid


https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-sanctions-energygrid/in-a-first-u-s-blames-russia-for-cyber-attacks-on-energy-grid-idUSKCN1GR2G3
Dustin Volz, Timothy Gardner

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Thursday blamed the Russian government for a campaign of cyber attacks stretching back at least two years that targeted the U.S. power grid, marking the first time the United States has publicly accused Moscow of hacking into American energy infrastructure.
Power lines are seen at the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center in McCarran, Nevada, September 16, 2014. REUTERS/Max Whittaker

Beginning in March 2016, or possibly earlier,................................





.....................Russia has shown a willingness to leverage access into energy networks for damaging effect in the past. Kremlin-linked hackers were widely blamed for two attacks on the Ukrainian energy grid in 2015 and 2016, that caused temporary blackouts for hundreds of thousands of customers and were considered first-of-their-kind assaults.
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Senator Maria Cantwell, the top Democrat on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, asked the Trump administration earlier this month to provide a threat assessment gauging Russian capabilities to breach the U.S. electric grid.

It was the third time Cantwell and other senators had asked for such a review. The administration has not yet responded, a spokesman for Cantwell’s office said on Thursday.

Last July, there were news reports that the Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corp, which operates a nuclear plant in Kansas, had been targeted by hackers from an unknown origin.

Spokeswoman Jenny Hageman declined to say at the time if the plant had been hacked but said that there had been no operational impact to the plant because operational computer systems were separate from the corporate network. Hageman on Thursday said the company does not comment on security matters.

[Achilleaze]

1. KGOP is systematically weaking America

Led by Comrade Dirty Donny, the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief, the KGOP is steadily diminishing America's ability to defend against the hostile powers that all 17 of our Intelligence Agencies have warned us about repeatedly.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. It doesn't help that Rick Perry is the Secretary of Energy.

[triron]

9. He is a dumbshit.

[thucythucy]

3. This seems to me so much worse

than Bush ignoring the "Bin Laden determined to strike within the US" memo.

The possibility for a catastrophe even greater than 9-11 is not only being ignored, there may well be people in the administration--starting with the resident himself--who might even welcome such an event.

I know this sounds hysterical--but how can we pretend, after what we've seen this last year, that such a scenario is beyond the realm of possibility?

To me the time of highest danger will be the weeks leading up to the midterms. If we survive through then, we might just have a chance at saving what's left of this democracy.

[CrispyQ]

7. The midterms are critical.

If the dems don't gain control of the House, I can't imagine the condition of the country in 2020. By then, he could win the election with 97% of the popular vote. My friends laugh & scoff when I say that but not much is being done to secure our electoral process. And what if that does happen? What exactly are the People going to do? March? Once? Maybe twice?

We are on a precipice & it could go either way.

[cilla4progress]

4. My other

Democratic woman Senator.

[ismnotwasm]

5. Mine too

[cilla4progress]

11. Fabulously fortunate,

Aren’t we?

[world wide wally]

6. Let this sink in:

TRUMP

WORKS

FOR

RUSSIA.

NOT

THE

USA

[PaulX2]

8. Trump Wants Us Wide Open For Attack Just Like Bush Before 9-11

Just sayin'.....

[dchill]

10. Anything to distract.

[ffr]

12. Grounds enough to impeach a president who cannot & will not protect America

As Commander In Chief, his #1 duty it to protect U.S. citizens. We are in emanant danger.